The Start Of A New Era

And so it begins, the birth of a new stage in the musical development of Daniel Sturman. It begins, or I should say will begin after I have finished this highly significant blog. I intend over the next four or so months to to document daily my progress through my upcoming project as to assist in the documentation later. Also writing a blog means having enough accomplished in a day to fill a blog, so should be as good a reason to up my productivity as document it.

But now onto the actual project.

This project is my third year, first term project. It is called a C.E.P, a cep. A cep is a Critical Enterprise Project or something like that. Basically it is an opportunity to take an extended period of college time and focus it at something that will help you as a creative person understand an environment, grown and learn (or none of those). Since I would like to compose programatic and writer popular music, I have chosen to spend my cep living and investigating the role of a popular songwriter. I will also assume other roles later in the project since there is much more to it than just writing songs. I am doing what is called a hybrid cep, a cep which I bulk up with my digital arts minor. Add to that that I am working with Neil Coppin who's interest are close to mine (he is interested in popular music production) in a joint cep what I am left with is a massive project.

The initial idea was that Neil and I would become a songwriting 'house', churning out songs at a high rate and see if we could sell them to some publishers, satisfying our music lecturers with

our music input and our digital arts lecturers with online profiling and other computer magic. Our digital arts lecturer had another idea. He suggested that rather than just writing and sending off songs, we might create some artists and see if we could create some hype about them via the internet, incorporating all our digital wizardry. This idea seemed far more fun so we went along with it, realising that the songwriting would be shoved to a corner in favour of making music videos, touching up promo photos and creating profile pages.

If we have any hope of doing all this I would need to have the songs, the first part of this long journey, ready as soo

n as possible and that is why I am starting the songwriting part of my cep fairly early.

While my sister is on holiday I am using her room as my songwriting office, as well as using the groaty old family piano for a change of scene now and then.

The digital piano is a Korg SP250 midi'd up to a new iMac with Logic Pro.

More later.