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Here’s the poster for my 2nd party at the Glamorgan Student Union.. These posters are all over the university & surrounding trefforest area.. If you really like the poster & you are wondering who is the brain behind it… well then… it’s ……. ME>!!..
no no… i’m kidding.. i’m not that good… i have just done a little bit here & there… We started it all with naming the society… YEs… I named it “SAMS” & also called the nights “TEMPLE OF SOUND”… After deciding the name, the next thing that needed to be done was to design a logo…  & that’s my favourite… I really love it the most… I thought of the concept of the guy with the headphones & religion around it… That’s when i ran into Apurva’s site… This friend of mine is hugely talented & capable of doing almost anything. He is deeply into Digital Art… & more than that what matters is that he is really good at it. I love his work… his stuff typically resides on my desktop. I came across his poster called ‘Age Of Reason’… Checked with him & took it up.. He allowed me to mess around with it & change whatever i want to about it… Check out his work on his site.. Thanks a ton Appu.!!

The only thing that needed to go on there for my logo was some representation for sound… n nothing better than a headphone.. So i sat down with photoshop & tweeked a pair of headphones around the perfect head..I’m not even close to being as good as my man.. It took me hours but I managed to get it all setup & also put the religious symbols around & there we had the perfect Temple of Sound logo…

After this I contacted Emma… Well she is this simple & really sweet person. But what you dont know about her when you 1st meet her is the huge amount of talent she hides inside.. She used to be my colleague from my workplace… that’s where I met her.. & while we talked at work… it figure out that she stays exactly 4 houses down my lane.. Thus we started travelling together.. & also she is in my uni too n she is a lot into music too n also used to Dj.. But what she professionally does is media art & I asked her if she would design the posters for my society. She jumped up to it.. she designed my 1st poster & that’s when i completely fell in love with her work… This is the 2nd poster she has done for me & many more to come… She will also be doing my the society webpage which will be up sometime next week. Check her out at www.myspace.com/blanchedesigns  or her work on www.blanchedesigns.com  She is the reson the poster looks the way it does.. & the best part is .. she puts it all up in a matter of minutes… You are really good at your work Emma. Keep it up & Cheers to you !!!

So if you are around the South Wales area & not at this party… I wonder how much you are going to hate yourself for missing this… But that’s your choice.. See you all at the party.. n do post your comments on what you think about the poster..

Cheers..!

So we finaly had our 1st recording session with a band on the 8th Nov’06 in our analog studio. Gwill has thought us well…. pretty well I should say… but what we hear in a lecture & what happens in an actual recording session stand far apart from each other… Ofcourse, the theory prepares you mentally for the eventual big day… but when it came to the real thing… nothing mental actually worked… All part of the game i guess…

Well, it’s all good at the end of the day cause we had finally taken the big step forward on the learning curve & at last got to see what we had heard Gwill talk about all this time we have been here…
Reading & listening about recording sessions get you not even close to actually doing one … cause … it’s much… much… much better!! It is the real thing… It can be so much simpler.. but so much tougher at the same time… So many unpredictable things happen that you might stop & wonder if it is still the same thing you started with a different thing in your mind a couple of hours back… But trust me…. at the end of the day….when you are all tired & exhausted… IT’S ALL WORTH IT…. cause it’s all there for the love of music & the quest to attain the perfect sound you are looking for…

We had the sooo very amazing ‘Switch Blade UK‘ … experimental- metal rock band come in to record a new track for their profile album… Although surrounded by a batch of “doing our 1st recording session” music engineers & producers… they were highly professional & great teachers at the same time… They came in set & prepared with almost everything we could think of. James had almost everything sorted & knew everything so damn well… He could have been the engineer & producer himself. Always nice & kind enough to explain every smallest & wierdest question we could come
up with. Also has a great voice for a lead singer & an eye popping guitarist…

The Mongman has the most wicked electronic drum kit I have seen yet… He can practically do anything with it…. Makes everything so damn possible for this huge man… He just kept rolling with it giving us the beats to work on… The aptly named ‘Bass Babe’ kept us strumming on her tunes & the very ‘Bad Horsie’ showed us what a rider he is on his lead guitar… In short… they are one hell of a band with loads of talent…Thanks for dropping by guys…

& then we had Andy… I can roll on the floor laughing thinking about what this session could have been without him being there… hehe… All my dear classmates… you know the panic I’m talking about… Thanks Andy… you are a lifesaver & you sure do know your stuff…. & we did learn a lot from you.

& then there was ‘US’… the heroes of the day… the real stars… my class… Congrats all you guys for doing your 1st session & doing it soo well… I’m proud & glad to be around each one of you…More than Gwill, Andy & the band, it’s from all of you that I learn the maximum from. You all are the best!!! Looking forward to each & every session we all are gonna do together over the year… & How can sign off this article without saying Thank you to Gwill, Paschall, Jim & Lyod… Nothing could have happened without you all… Thanks a ton..

Thank you all… It was a great session… so was this one of writing about it… And Thank you Boro for the pics & the video… you are a star…

“It’s a Wrap”….{Let’s finish the mix soon.. }

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