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Posted 13th November 2013
News at last! At the moment I'm working on a soundtrack for the short horror film "Blaze of Gory" for Mitsuko Studios and pretending I know how to use a Korg MS-20 synthesiser I've just bought from Red Dog Music in Edinburgh.
The new album is almost done, vocals need tweaking and I've dropped another track that I just couldn't get happy with, some voice over sections have been added and hopefully at the end of the month I will be going back up to Edinburgh to master the album with Ghostsmut (who also mastered the first album Ambients).
At the weekend I wrote up ideas for the music videos for the album (no singles per say but we are hopefully having videos for some stand out tracks), I've discussed two of these videos with Ian Lawlor at 12 Foot Beast Productions (who has done all my other videos as he's mint) and I'm discussing two digitally rendered CG videos with Ryan McKindle of Pathogen Pictures. All early days still but hopefully these videos will come out really good!
Hope you're all well, eat a biscuit. Unless you're allergic, then just have an apple or something.
I've been a bit more into Twitter as of late so feel free to message @Synoiz on there.
Posted 12th October 2013
Finally some music news, I've been really busy lately with so many things that aren't Synoiz related it's unreal. A week or two ago I scored a short horror filmed called "Summer's Night" which is apparently going to be released as part of a horror compilation at some point. I'd like to say I enjoyed making it but at the time I was really ill, the film edit had overrun and when I got it to start on there was only a weekend before the submission deadline and no time to get better, so it was a weekend full of Lemsip, hot chocolate and playing long cello patches on the keyboard with a wild disregard for tempo. I liked that though, the more soundtracks I work on, the better I get with them. The first one I did I treated like a collection of songs, finding a tempo and key for each scene (compromising when I had to) and making it very mechanical, now I've loosened up a bit and seen that when most people edit films they're not counting the beats in their head between one shot and the next, they're working the flow around many different factors and so a fixed time signature and tempo can hinder rather than help in some cases.
Anyway that's enough on that, the new Synoiz album is in that horrible unending 99% complete stage that a lot of other artists have told me they get also. The songs are written, I'm playing about with some voice acting parts and the production is really close to being good but it's just been stuck for the last few months where I tweak little bits and fiddle about with patches and sounds rather than going "sod it, this is done". I'm aiming for a February release date and while I don't want any singles from the album there might be an EP with instrumentals of the vocal tracks and some outtakes. There will be music videos too but while myself and 12 Ft Beast Productions are bandying around ideas for them I don't want to think of all that stuff until I'm done with my music.
I do hope you'll like the album, it's not as varied as Ambients I don't think but really nice to just slap on your headphones while you're out and about.
Over and out, for our unity,
Synoiz
Posted 21st October 2011
Hello again!
It's been bloody ages since I wrote a blog, it's that typical thing that whenever you have stuff that people might actually be interested in, you're too busy to write it down. Well the main thing I'd like to point out is OMGNEWBLOODYWEBSITE, hope you like it, tell me what you think in the comments section below.
So what have I been up to? Well I've done a few remixes and also a few horror film soundtracks, the first is a mad industrial electro one for the still-photography short "Nightmares", another more atmospheric spooky one for the film "The Dark Passenger" by Lee Bibby, and some currently unreleased music of mine has been used to score a TV pilot/short film called "Freakarama" (which is INSANE but strangely watchable!).
In addition to this I've played lead acting roles in two independent films, one being The Dark Passenger mentioned above (the things I'll do for a soundtrack gig eh?) and the other being the amazing Le Belle Dame Sans Merci written by Phillip Michael Buchan and directed by Antoni McVay from Mitsuko Studios.
I -think- all of these films are going to be shown at a local film festival in Newcastle upon Tyne sometime next month but that's a pretty major event so I'm gonna dedicate a whole blog to that sometime later.
There's lots more to tell you but I'll sit down on Sunday maybe and write that out for you, hope you're all well, thanks for being fans of Synoiz!
Posted 7th December 2010
Hello there! It's been a little while hasn't it? Thanks to everyone who has downloaded a copy of the free Halloween single Shock! Horror! from my website, I'm so pleased with how it has done. It's become my most watched/tweeted/reviewed/downloaded single yet which makes me very happy. Is everyone doing okay with all this snow? It's bloody terrible up north here in England, totally snowed out!
Due to being a bit overworked I decided to take November easy so I set myself no targets and deadlines and just had a bit of a rest (even found the time to play some Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles and get back to Wii Fit!). Now it's December I'm back into the thick of it and have loads of stuff to do.
At the weekend I was with Ewan McNulty from Ragnarok Radio recording some guest vocals for his own project "Darker With The Day" which hopefully should see the light of day sometime early next year. On Friday I recorded some backing vocals for Preston Reset's remix of my track "Getting Safer" for the upcoming Darkling EP.
For the rest of the month I'm going to be working on my own remix for the Darkling EP (it's still not finished), a special remix for the upcoming single release of "Committal" from Instant Pyrolysis as well as a brand new dark ambient track for inclusion on the Chernobyl 25th anniversary compilation that is being released by Ambientaria Records next year.
What else is there? Oh yes, I've been chatting to a group of North East filmmakers about the possibility of me writing some original music for their upcoming horror film "Nightmares". They've sent me a teaser trailer which uses my track "Shock! Horror!" to great effect, currently I'm not sure if it's public yet so I can't link you up but hopefully this will be another nice little project to be involved in and looks to be a lot of fun.
Phew well that's all I can think of for the moment, hope you're all doing well and thanks to everyone who showed support for the new demos for the next album that I've been posting sporadically on Twitter, if you missed them then you can listen to each of them on the player below:
Hope you like them, more news coming soon I expect, I'm off to Edinburgh tomorrow to get some shopping done for Christmas and visit my brother, See ya!
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