The idea behind the first project began with an interest in the relation between dreams and memories.  I often dream of my memories.  I’ve been haunted by some recently, and it has been a sort of muse for me creatively for quite a while now.  Once this relation was laid out before me, I began recording music as soon as I would awake, and before I felt I was cognitively ready to do so.

 

    I would be recording on a mix of equipment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since I would usually be waking up and recording, the majority of the project would be done with my easiest to access equipment.  An old Yamaha 4 track analog mixer, a MacBook Pro running a mix of Logic Express and Garageband, a BreedLove acoustic guitar, a Fender Fat-Strat, a midi keystation, a Sure SM58 and a Seinheasuer EM87, and an e-bow would be the primary tools used to create the track.

    

    What started as primarily a project based around music, one morning while recording I stumbled upon footage I took nearly 3 years previous.  The footage was deeply personal, but it was much like my dreams in that it was very loosely organized around feelings and memories instead of a resounding narrative that would make sense to others.  

 

    I decided to compliment the footage that I had with footage I shot while visiting a friend.  I shot on two different types of cameras, often shooting them both at the same time so I could splice in footage from both in the same moments.  

 

    The song was finally completed one night around 3:30am.  I woke up and couldn’t even remember recording the spoken word portion.   It was a single pass, and I refused to go back and edit any of the spoken track.  Everything Has Become a Memory is what I decided to title it.