Idag träffades vi igen i Fläckebo för att bygga vidare på innehållet i kommande lustspel den 28/7. Några av rollerna har blivit tillasatta och är det någon i byggden som är intresserad av att vara med kan ni kontakta producenten Elisabeth de Wilde. Vi tog tillfället i akt att visa upp en del av den musik vi kommer att framföra.
After some co-working Nicko and I have managed to add a slider as a header to enchantedduo.com
We’re thinking that this will be a great way to show you what’s going on and link each image to relevant blog posts. We hope you like it!
We are, or perhaps I mainly, working on the new design for enchanted duo.com
I’m quite pleased with the color scheme. I’ve decided to use the Preference Lite theme by Styles Themes. It offers a good variety of customization features and limits the code changes a lot! There’s still some challenges ahead, but it looks alright at the moment. So hopefully no major disturbances ahead!
I’ve had some nice inspiration from the simplicity of 70′s graphic and I just love how the orange and the different shades of light blue get along.
I created the background of hexi shapes (set on repeat it even makes a nice desktop wallpaper):
A few months ago Nicko and I worked on the name of the blog and tried to slim the category a bit. What content we want to keep is an ongoing process and we have new ideas all the time. The enchantedduo.com blog has been up now since late December 2010 and we’re learning more and more all the time. The design has remained the same more or less the whole time.
I have been itching to get started on some new design, but couldn’t really think of what. Until a couple of days ago. I want to keep the same color scheme with a few additions. I want the forest and the nature that is a great source of inspiration to us. I want a piece of wild and untamed, I want creativity and I want it to be fun. Not an easy task…
The WordPress updates are always a bit of a pain (you never know what will stop working and so on, however well you prepare – this pretty much goes for most systems I’m afraid…) But it’s high time and why not do a facial at the same time? I’ve been browsing some themes, but haven’t quite decided what I prefer.
So, how does this affect you? I mean, apart from a new exciting design to look forward to. During the update there will probably be some disturbance. We’re sorry for this, but it’s inevitable.
Lately we’ve been working mostely with instrumentals. Maybe it’s because it’s much easier to pick up the guitar or drumpad to start from where you finished last night, than to set up and arrange for a vocal recording.
One of the things we’ve done is to record a part of the song “I See You Now”, to be honest, only the rock riff before the last chorus. So this is a pre-mix of the studio version,
compared to the acoutsic version.
I år firar Fläckebo hembygdsförening 100 år och det ska så klart firas! Nicko är ju uppväxt i Fläckebo så vi har fått frågan om vi vill vara med. Idag hade vi ett första planeringsmöte.
Nicko ska gestalta Gustav II Adolf och jag ska gestalta Ebba Brahe. Vi har fått i uppdrag att tonsätta Gustav II Adolfs kärleksbrev till Ebba Brahe och dikten som heter “Ebbas klagan”.
Det hela går av stapeln den 28 juli 2013. Tanken är att vi ska hålla till vid hembygdsgården om vädergudarna är på vår sida.
City of Rain was like a handshake, where we started our musical journey, our cooperation and our hopes and dreams. The world seemed a bright place full of opportunities. Nothing too hard to accomplish, nothing too impossible to do – but when looking back I realize I had no idea what I really wanted to do. I was very young and had the impression I had to make my mark on the world. I thought I had to be different, to walk my own path and preferably a path never walked before, by anyone. I think this is a rather usual perspective for a twenty-year-old and it is a part of life.
I recently came across a quote (it was by all means about typography, but I think it should apply to many things):
Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.
Of course we tried to be good while doing “City of Rain” and all the other tracks on Waterlilies with the limited experience and resources we had. We visited a local studio to mix that first song and the sound engineer said: “Oh, it seems you know what you’re doing”. I’m still very proud of that accomplishment. We’ve come a long way since then and we’ve learnt tons!
Going back to the quote I think it’s so easy to set the objectives too high. Sometimes aiming for the tree tops makes more sense than going for the stars, because climbing up the tree is quite doable, while building a staircase to the stars is not something I can really see myself doing in reality and the risk is that intimidated I don’t do anything instead. And, not to forget, if you aim for the stars and “only” reach the tree tops you will be disappointed – I know I would – so aim for something that can actually give you the pleasure of reaching your objective.
“City of Rain” is something of a lyrical installation. I’d say a staging of an emotional state. So on one hand it is a quite sad and thoughtful song and on the other hand, to me, it is a song that came about in complete innocence where anything was possible – and just recording the song on our own kind of proved that. We were young adults just trying out our wings. This was 10 years ago, in 2003. I can hardly believe it’s been 10 years already, but there it is!
Naturally 10 years of our musical collaboration must be celebrated! Therefore we have some fun exiting projects coming up this year. It will be of both musical and visual character so keep your eyes on the site 
Title: City of Rain
Lyrics: Lyrisk
Genre: Pop
Release: spring 2003
Available On: iTunes
And here I give you “City of Rain” for a start:
For a test period we’ve offered some of our music for licensing through CDBaby and their partner Rumblefish. Time to evaluate!
For people to legally use music in a Youtube-video, movie, game etc. they need to get a license from the composer. Rumblefish makes your music available to content creators and handles selling licenses. Rumblefish keeps track of the use of your music on Youtube and will pay you regardless if the movie creator has bought a license or not. To be able to do that they are attached to Youtube’s content ID system that scan all uploads.
When your music is found in a video the uploader will receive a copyright claim. The claim comes from Rumblefish and not Youtube. Rumblefish provides and manages the library of music that is recognised by the Content ID system. Youtube will act as they are told to. Rumblefish policy is not to demand any removal of a video and the uploader of the content is suposed to “do nothing”.
This will lead to some problems if you have your own Youtube band channel. Then you yourself will be subject to copyright claims on videos containing your own music. Content creators that have bought a licence to use your music will also be targeted. Remember that everyone is still suposed to do nothing. Well, Rumblefish has implemented a workaround to try to solve this issue which makes it possible to per video have the copyright claim released by submitting this form.
Because of the additional administration in handling the copyright claims and above all that someone who has already purchased a license, and that from Rumblefish services themselves, is also exposed to copyright claims we have deicided not to continue to use this music licensing program and our suggestions to Rumblefish are:
- Make it possible for a composer to have their channel excluded from the Rumblefish Content ID e.g. the artists official Youtube channel.
- Never target an uploader that has legally bought a license to use the music trough your services.
During the weekend we recorded Moses playing the violin on Loneliness and now I have a short pre-mix to share with you. Have a listen!
Och så blev det långhelg. Tillsammans med Moses bestämde vi oss för att prova med lite fiol på “Loneliness”.
(Notera mina fina shimes som jag fick i födelsedagspresent av Nicko.)
Efter att ha jammat lite och samlat lite mod provade vi att spela in. Det var första gången som vi mickade upp en fiol här hemma i studion och första gången som Moses provade att spela fiol i studio. Rätt spännade för oss allihop med andra ord!
Fördelen med fiol i studio är att det ger bra med ljud ifrån sig så kvaliten på spåren blev riktigt bra.
Intressant är också att fiolen jämfört med t.ex. gitarr inte ger ifrån sig särskilt mycket strängljud. Det gör mikrofonplaceringen ganska enkel.
Jag hoppas att vi inte retade någon granne bara för ja, det låter ju rätt mycket. Inte i själva studion kanske, men när vi jammade.
Och som en liten extra påskhälsning till våra läsare, vänner och fans bestämde vi oss för att dokumentera äventyret ordentligt. Så här kommer en liten videosnutt från studion:
Glad påsk!
