UNIVERSAL SOUND
The idea of Universal Sound was conceived way before I even started making music. I was going to call my first ”album” Universal Sound, but those tracks ended u
p being mixed with my MIDI tracks, and became The Rubber Band album. Although it was a supposed to be a album where the songs could be played live, I ended up making it the most complex “album” I have made to date. It has no particular genre, and this is why its called Universal Sound, because it includes a mixture of songs, including two songs played without my Synth (my major source
of music making). These songs, “Texoma”, and “Nation of War”. were made where they COULD be played live, and most likely better sounding live. The demo track listing of Universal Sound was like Opus IV. It had hissing, and bad EQ, but once I got my hands on a good audio editor, I fixed that, and created the best tunes i’ve made so far(hehe, vanity). The first track “Within The Soul” is something I did to make a song that sounded Indian, and so I added the overdubs and called it something Spiritual. Most of the tracks are Spacey, orchestration kind of songs, and some have some variety to them, as in Seven One Two, which transfers from one melody to another. The sessions for Universal Sound started a few days after the release of Opus IV, and ended in early February. Although created in a short time, a lot of work was put int
o these songs, and have already become old to me, though new to you. Some tracks from the Opus IV sessions were used to create bits of Universal Sound, in one case, for Seven One Two, I was unable to keep the song going, so i transitioned the song into an old song I had made but never done much with during the Opus IV sessions. This particular album went through stages of progress much like the writing steps, Prewriting, 
Rough Draft, Revising, Proofreading/Ed
iting, and Presenting/Publishing. One stage stayed for a long time, and I considered it my final recordings, but when I listened to them thoroughly on my headphones, I realized they were still unfit for release, so i replaced and re-recorded some songs, and created some new ones. The end of the Universal Sound sessions came to when I recorded Texoma and tried for the 45th time to make Nation of War ready for album release, which is ironic, seeing how Nation of War was one of my earliest songs to think up, and the one I have been playing the longest. The problem with Nation of War is/was that it is a Dynamic song, it needs dynamics and changes in sound, which is impossible on my synthesizer, so the amazing result I would have on my Grand Piano, would not pull through on the synthesizer, thus the song is STILL not fully com
plete, but I tried my best. The last song to be recorded was not included in the album, and has been released already. The song was Voyaging Sound, a song that is two songs in one(if that makes sense). It is like this because one is Mono, and a sound collage, while the other is Stereo, and more of a fun improv number. The sessions for Universal Sound were another step for me to becoming a better “musician” and to see how much I can achieve in the next project.
