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I’ve wanted an opportunity to complete some sort of recording session of original music for quite some time now, and I’m so grateful to the Mark Evison foundation for their generosity in being able to provide and fund this opportunity. Me and 3 of my friends who are musicians spent 5 hours recording 2 original songs at Animal Farm studios in Bermondsey and it was a brilliant day.
Our sound engineer, Matt, did an amazing job and helped to guide us through The entire day, showing us how to record each individual part and layer them together in a really skillful way. He also then spent half an hour mixing it at the end and demonstrating how to bring together all the different parts to make one complete project. Not only was it a really fun day, it was also very inspiring for me as a musician that wants to produce and release more of my own music. It taught me many things about the realities behind recording and how complicated it can be at times. We did several full run-throughs of both songs all together and then individually broke down each part. We did it as many times as we needed to until we had a good take for each instrument.
This was an eye-opening experience for me because I assumed we would just be running it as one full band and try and get a good take as a band. It taught me the realities behind how long the recording processes behind properly produced pop songs can actually be. In hindsight we probably should have been more prepared as we had to work out a lot of things on the day that, if we had spent a lot of time rehearsing, wouldn’t have been issues.
All in all, It’s been an enriching experience that has taught me loads not only in practical recording skills but also in organisational and leadership skills of having to work together with other musicians. A key part of it was being able to communicate musically the end goal that I wanted to reach while allowing each individual musician to have their own freedom to be creative and interpret the part for themselves. Hopefully this has started a boring that I’ll be able to continue for the rest of my life so thank you Mark Evison for allowing such creative inspiration.
