RELAXING YULE LOG-- BUT IT'S ALL GUITARS

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MUSIC EDIT: DC GROUP HOLIDAY GREETING

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! I got to do a teeny music edit on this wintry greeting from The DC Group, commemorating the company’s support of the Atlantic Hurricane Season Recovery Fund.

As often happens, my job was to make it sound like no work had been done at all. The fade-out of the music was originally a transition into another part, and the extant fadeout didn’t seem to resolve in a satisfying way. I lengthened the final chord, eventually bringing in a piano note from a virtual instument library to add a bit of helft to the resolution.

Thanks to Snap Communications for the opportunity. All the best to you and yours this holiday season!

WHAMAGEDDON: RAGNARÖK

Faithful readers will recall my previous experience in the 2019 Whamageddon trenches, as recounted here. Since that entry I have wandered the liminal spaces of Whamageddon, lost in the twilight, half alive, essentially a ghost.

Yesterday changed all that, though. Walking through the common area of the building where my studio is, I half-heard an NPR broadcast on the radio that discussed… classic?… Christmas songs from various decades. Why they chose this particular track in that context I have no idea, but in any case, a few seconds of Wham!’s “Last Christmas” represented the 80s— like seriously, four seconds of it!— and my 2019 Whamageddon campaign crashed and burned, just like that.

It’s like my friend Carrie says:

“That was me last year. Brian Oake played it on purpose without any warning. People were pretty pissed. Even listeners who didn’t know the game thought it was mean spirited.

”My favorite comment was ‘I just discovered I lost a game I didn’t even know I was playing.’”

For everyone out there who’s still standing, I urge you to stand strong. We’re all rooting for you from Whamhalla. Make us proud!