The M. Unit Project

Early Morning Etude

2011-12-17T11:04:00.000-08:00

Tasting the Tears

2011-12-17T11:03:00.000-08:00

The M. Unit Project on Indie Tracks

2011-07-28T13:12:00.000-07:00

My music was just accepted into this library, Indie Tracks.

Another Website for hosting music

2011-06-02T05:23:00.001-07:00

Some Favorite Places in Colorado

2011-05-18T15:37:00.001-07:00

Another warm and fuzzy feel good video about some great places here in Colorado. Music by John April and Tim Moody, Mood Street Music, BMI

A Few Compelling Reasons

2011-04-25T11:24:00.001-07:00

Presented for your perusal. Some film I shot of my favorite Colorado places with my favorite Colorado animals. Shot using a Canon HV 40. Edited in Final Cut Pro. Music created using Pro Tools, my Taylor 510, and Kontakt 4.

Some New Film Documentaries

2010-09-30T13:49:00.000-07:00

Howdy

For those not aware, I've taken a shine toward doing film. An excellent medium to promote my musical stuff . . . as soundtracks. Yes, went out and purchased a Canon HV 40 film camera (1080 resolution), some outboard microphones, some decent cable connectors, and BINGO! I'm in business!!

Diligently promoting myself; doing the networking and marketing.

http://www.vimeo.com/album/272517

Visual Cocktails Complimented With Acoustics

2010-05-01T08:37:00.000-07:00

Something I've been working on is the film media format, combining some of my short film clips and photographs with my compositions:

http://embedr.com/playlist/film-photography-and-music-by-the-m-unit-project

Vitriolic venom voraciously vomiting from my brain

2010-05-01T08:13:00.000-07:00

Greetings

It's been quite a while since last I spoke.

Currently, I'm working on a short film clip with a firm in southern California. The objective of the project: to develop a short documentary film raising awareness for natural wildlife habitat. I'm actually editing the film, doing the narration, and of course providing the soundtrack music. Stay Tuned!

Intimidation of the Written Word

2009-07-04T20:15:00.000-07:00

So many have the gift of coherent writing, but yet so few are still so far.

I guess if I had to recommend an on-line data storage site, it wouldn't be mydatabus.com. I finally downloaded all of my important stuff, like movie clips, manuscripts, JPEGs, and sketch recordings. I'm certainly glad that's over with. A long and arduous process. This was a very hilarious and mentally exhausting effort. This site was an implied "safe and secure" way of backing up files remotely. For 2 weeks their site was not up, and I assumed that the company went out of business. I called, e-mailed . . . no response. I searched the net for solutions on why this site is so screwy. Nothing, nada, zip.

Frustrating.

Mydatabus . . . Gone? What happened?

2009-06-27T19:07:00.000-07:00

Hey kids,

I'm doing this post because the remote data storage site that I use, mydatabus.com, seems to have their server down. It's been over a week, and I'm guessing the owners left the U.S. with the money and my credit card info. I paid to use the site as a remote data storage facility to be able to upload and download files for music production.

Does anyone have information about mydatabus.com?

I had lots of things stored on the site for download. JPEGS, music files, film clips. It really bugs me that they gave no notice, no indication, no nada zip of going down the drain.

Get Your House in Order . . .

2009-06-17T13:41:00.000-07:00

So it's been awhile. Been doing lots of things, including a complete overhaul of the house. I had the time and the energy, and it was just revolting to see all the messy papers on my desk and the basic unorganized nature of my residence. AND, those pesky little carpet fibers . . . no many how many times you vacuum the same area of carpet, you still get that polyester looking stuff in your vacuum canister.

As luck may have it, I landed a nice little part time consulting gig with a firm in San Francisco. So that will keep things solvent for a while until I muster the creative gods of music back into my corral.

Another excuse that is slightly inspiring

2009-05-20T08:11:00.000-07:00

If you music aficionados haven't heard of this, please check this out. I've been listening to this for about 4 years. The most intelligently designed music software, ever. The quality of what you hear is incredible.

http://pandora.com

And so it Continues . . .

2009-05-19T11:36:00.000-07:00

I'm spending time learning new virtual instrument software, and recording with it. It's a long arduous process, but with new instruments to record, it stimulates the creative juices. And the resulting sound is just astro-physical. Sounds just like the big players in Hollyweird!!

From learning the clawhammer banjo at age 6 to this . . . "What a long strange trip it's been"

More to come!

The Concept

2009-05-18T07:41:00.000-07:00

I've always been a fan of great acoustic music. Especially when it's recorded properly, and you can hear that glorious thump of a Martin D-28, or the luscious chop of a great sounding F-5 mandolin. I wasn't always a tone freak, but as the violinist and mandolinist in the Kokomo Bros and The Johnsons, I gradually came around to that concept of tone.

I stretched out into uncharted territory with The Johnnie Moodwick Trio, doing original instrumental music written with my dear friend John April. Sadly, there isn't much recorded material from this ensemble. But most importantly, Johnnie Moodwick was a performing band forcing me to learn the sound reinforcement techniques for live performance. And of course this carries over into the studio.

So here I am in my studio that I've continually upgraded over the years, doing something that I've always done, but doing it better.

The important stuff

2009-05-17T20:36:00.000-07:00

Ahhh . . . the shameless self promotion of things like websites:

http://www.munitproject.com

http://www.kokomobros.com

http://www.myspace.com/munitproject

http://cdbaby.com/all/munit

A Continuation, Not a Beginning . . .

2009-05-17T17:25:00.000-07:00

One door closes, and another door opens . . . How many times have we heard that? As many of you know for the past couple of decades I've managed to charade as some kind of an environmental scientist/geochemist. All the while knowing that the true intention of my life is slowly being uncovered.

"Someone's knocking at my door . . ."