{"id":6207,"date":"2015-04-30T21:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2015-04-30T21:47:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:47:24","slug":"i-hate-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2015\/04\/i-hate-editing.html","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m flying to Australia in the morning to see some friends and family, so instead of packing I&#8217;m listening through some recordings I&#8217;ve been making. It&#8217;s a more sophisticated version of the feedback piece I played <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2015\/02\/in-case-you-missed-live-at-the-great-hall-goldsmiths.html\">at Goldsmiths earlier this year<\/a>. The sounds are more subtle, more detailed, more focused and more organic. I&#8217;m recording short takes of concentrated, nicely balanced material.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is: the more I record, the more interesting details I uncover. Simultaneously, I record more dross that should be edited out. So I listen back to edit out the less successful takes. The more I listen, the more details I find interesting, and so the more I want to preserve. Here is one of the better takes; a complete, stand-alone work.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/202687746&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Part of me is reluctant to throw anything out, for fear of losing a pleasing subtlety that becomes more rewarding over time. I&#8217;m probably kidding myself, and the bits that strike me as good straight away will have the same effect on other listeners. On the other hand, those &#8216;good&#8217; bits might sound false and gimmicky once the novelty wears off. <\/p>\n<p>The usual response in this situation is to set it all aside until I&#8217;ve forgotten what I thought about the piece at all, and salvage what I can after re-hearing it fresh.<\/p>\n<p>The alternative is to make finished pieces and put them <a href=\"https:\/\/cookylamoo.bandcamp.com\/\">on Bandcamp<\/a> with a pay nothing\/anything option, and see which pieces people go for. I&#8217;m thinking of using it as a place of trying new work out, as something more interesting than just dumping <a href=\"https:\/\/cookylamoo.bandcamp.com\/album\/aimless\">finished work for sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Also debating if setting a minimum price puts people off just because it&#8217;s a hassle clicking through payment options. It makes it seem like you&#8217;re making a commitment to something, even if it&#8217;s only a small price.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 470px; height: 274px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2893321789\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless><a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.bandcamp.com\/album\/aimless\">Aimless by Ben Harper<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m flying to Australia in the morning to see some friends and family, so instead of packing I&#8217;m listening through some recordings I&#8217;ve been making. It&#8217;s a more sophisticated version of the feedback piece I played at Goldsmiths earlier this year. The sounds are more subtle, more detailed, more focused and more organic. I&#8217;m recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6209,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}