Of Eiravaein

Because we've hit our first milestone, 10%, 10 sites out of 100 visited, recorded, edited, and published, I feel we can now say that our project is fully underway.  The list laid about in front of us is a bit daunting, spanning the entire state, North to South, East to West, with festivals and annual celebrations, geographic phenomena, socio-cultural events, and historical locales we certainly will have our hands full for the next 18 months.  But we're not complaining.  It's already proving to be an incredibly deep lesson in so many faculties and is an incredible blend of sonic curiosity,...

With Semme hitting the European film festival circuit a few weeks ago, I thought it now safe to post the soundtrack for general listening pleasure. I have hosted it on the EWorks SoundCloud page and while I haven't yet made it available for download, that might be coming in the future.  Even for free, I feel. For more on the documentary itself, go here.  I highly recommend it.  It regards ethnocultural ongoings of Lithuania and the Baltic region in general and is both a feast for the eyes and the mind.  Rustic, natural, heritage.  A really impressive film. It was...

  When it comes to our logo, we obviously want an end result that is a spot-on fluid match to our company.  It is what we do, after all. So before locking myself up in the audio labs, I had some ground work to do. What was the end goal?  Who was the audience?  What message did I want to convey? What emotional evocation do I want to occur?  Are there any particular elements that I want to include/avoid?  All good questions, the answers to which provided me with a solid conceptual foundation from which to build. The Theory Visually, this...

I have been attempting to fiddle with and manipulate sound since I was 10 years old and asked my parents for a Craig (remember them?...no worries) voice recorder for my birthday.  Over the years my gear of course has infinitely evolved and improved, but the intrigue that bound me to that recorder so that I could capture the sounds around me has been steadily modulated only by knowledge and experience.  I've learned how to do things better, how to improve technique, and how to differentiate creativity from wild sound goose chases (although, sometimes those produce really cool results in and...