Ok, so it's been over 6 months that I have not posted anything! Now, all of that is going to change starting now. Over these past 6 months, a lot of things have been done behind the scenes regarding Electromatic. All of your questions will now be answered.
November-April:I have been putting a lot of work and thought to get The End To All Knowledge done well. I've been writing and recording small demos of different ideas that I could be using for the album and the results are fantastic. I've realized when I was trying to complete the album last year, that I planned this horribly. It was not going well. The whole thing started to fail when I was doing the photoshoot. When I did the photoshoot in the summer of last year, I thought the album was done. I did not have any plans on what photos I was taking. Everything was improved. Then the songs started to not even match with the photos that were taken. That is why it now a crappy demo version.
Over the fall of last year, I started over the writing process. I scrapped all of the songs I've made before and started out fresh. I thought that I would get the album completed in the fall, but I was wrong. I poorly planned once again. I had no outline for the short story that goes along with the album. So, I was essentially writing the songs and the full story at the same time! That made the process even longer than what it could have been. During this time, I had the first three songs and the three chapters completely written. In November, I started to work on the fourth song/chapter for the album. Because I didn't plan anything out, it was impossible to get the song completed, let alone write the chapter. The short story has a pretty complicated plot to it. That's why it was difficult to write it out at all without having a summery or an outline. So, with nothing working out, I stopped the whole writing process together and took a break. This break lasted until the beginning of April.
During this break, I was getting myself organized. Everything was a mess and I essentially had to get "my life back in order." This break gave me a bunch of ideas that I could use in the future. Unfortunately, I didn't write a lot of them down, so I forgot most of them.
Then, the beginning of April rolled around and I decided that it was time to start making Electronic music again. I sat down, grabbed my notebooks and started writing for the next month. I did not work on any music, just wrote. After the whole month, I came up with more of an outline for concept in The End To All Knowledge. I still don't have the full idea of how the story is going to end, but I'm going to be working on that in the next couple weeks. I also started to write an outline for this concept series (I'm going to explain that in a little bit). I also wrote a few different songs just to get into the habit of making songs again. I also wrote these songs to get used to using my recently purchased Pro Tools. These songs will be released as an EP hopefully soon. I've also been learning the ins and outs of Pro Tools so I can produce higher quality music.
Concept Series:
The first two albums I've released and the next five albums are all going to be in a concept series. The name of the series will remain secret for the time being. I'm working on a website that will have all the information regarding this concept series.
What will I be doing over the summer?:During this time until the summer, no full lengths will be released. I'm going to spending this time writing material for my next three albums and putting together the concept series. I will, however, be releasing songs here and there. There are some chances that I can release an EP or two.
More information will be posted soon as time rolls along.
--Zach--