iancrewe, Author at DJ Chimney Sparrow

TV Ranting

My wife and I watch a lot of Netflix in the evenings, and over time, we’ve identified certain tropes we’ve grown really really sick of. One of the biggest ones I feel compelled to write about here, because I feel it would significantly improve our communication if it was eliminated altogether.

Deal With the Doubt

I’ve started following a few podcasts lately to start getting a sense of the journey other artists have taken on their way to becoming known and respected. It’s been a hard hit on my ego, hearing the lengths some people went to in order to become successful. And that’s good.

What’s less good, is the fear and self-doubt that accompanies it. Primarily around my ability to communicate effectively with others.

Journaling: The Antidote to Producer’s Block

Some 20-odd years ago, a frustrated boy named Ian sat on his bed in the evening, and wrote his first journal entry.

The Fog of Unknown

Humans, as a species, have a pretty significant fear of the unknown.

Choosing my DAW

Welp, it’s decision time.

Do it Your Way

Hello, my name is Ian, and I’m a connection-abuser.

Reason 11: Plenty of Reasons to Buy

Boy, these puns are getting bad, huh?

Reason 11, created by Reason Studios (originally Propellerhead), is a audaciously friendly contribution to the DAW-verse. In addition to being a standalone DAW, it can also be purchased as a plugin for another one!

That effectively doubles your DAW firepower, with the only drawback being that the back-end patching options aren’t available (more on this below).

500 Hours!

It’s been about a year (already) since I started recording my hours working on music production, and with this last push in October, I was able to make my personal goal of reaching 5% of the way to my ultimate goal!

I gots me a logo!

This seems like as good a place as any to explain the genesis of the “Chimney Sparrow” motif.

Flirting with Nihilism

From my journal today:

October 14, 2020

The problem with the philosophy I’ve built so far is it puts a lot of pressure on the individual to push themselves their whole life. Not that the pushing isn’t good, not that it doesn’t lead to greater happiness, but that it doesn’t take into account the possibility that it might all be for nothing.

There is no proof that anything we do today will have any impact ten or a hundred thousand years from now. Those ripples could have a negligible impact on the human race and the world it inhabits.

What I am now trying to consider, as a way of balancing my drive and preventing it from becoming a consuming source of suffering itself, is that none of this may ultimately matter. It may be worth making my peace with that possibility.