State of the Enterprise H2 2017

Well, it's been some time since the last update. Not much to say beyond "I'm busy." I'm out in the wide world now, but there isn't much you can do without this ephemeral unicorn called rural unskilled employment. I'll still try to fill you guys in on what's been on the backburner so far.

The Website

I purchased a domain name a few months ago, to finally get a home page that doesn't die under the half-baked Google Sites chimera. The problems that reach me now is for me to finish up this current design I've got for it all.

Harney-Barrow prototype website, December 2017

Just wrangling with the CSS on the sidebars was a nightmare of cross-referencing W3Schools and Mozilla MDN on making a faint similarity to a design. 

And just when I am nearing the finale of this struggle, I stumble across the home website of Cryptic Sea.

Cryptic Sea website

I may have been just overthinking the 'by-scratch' business too far. The current plan years later now is to just get something basic. Could try learning all of that Wordpress business ecosystem stuff. Just even barely grazing the surface of webdev is an exercise in agonizing repetition.

The Media

The quest for rural payroll has taken its toll on the productivity. On top of this, I exchanged the KX Studio Linux distro out of my laptop for rolling with a dip in Red Hat's sphere with Fedora and CentOS. Some beginning setup was a bit of a hassle, like adding my username to the JACK group so I could actually operate Bitwig Studio. On the other hand, opening up Audacity and swinging up guitar chords and words can't be beat in simplicity.

Two out of four keyboards have been sold, but the size is a bit trouble some with the large dimensions of the keyboards. Cutting up two or more boxes with incur extra fees for 'irregular box shape', so that's something I'll never attempt.

With the jump to Fedora, all of the short-term OBS settings I had were reset, so that will delay working with livestreams and video recordings.

In a final gasp for the year, a short, seasonal folk EP will be out before December ends.

Conclusion

I'm busy. hire me mcdonalds

Thank you for reading.

Jumblo 1 Official Release

Harney-Barrow - Jumblo 1 (2017)

Well will you look at that, over 4 months have passed! It's quite the shocker when it comes to these things, whether it be the forever continual job hunt, or for me to reform and streamline a workflow or inventory, so many things can change or not change in such a short span of time!

But now is the time, for there is a brand new release from yours truly, entitled "Jumblo 1". It's a sort of curated assortment of music and sounds i've made this summer of 2017. I do hope if any person is able to enjoy at least one track, that will have succeeded in a way.

Have a very good day/night! 

Loops EP official release

Harney-Barrow - Loops EP

Hey look, it's that supplementary EP that I mentioned 1-2 months ago! It's the Loops EP EP release!!!!!
For those not 'in the know', this EP is a gathering of the small leftover 'Loop' tracks off the The Phone Sessions compilation, and now including a new groundbreaking 3 original tracks, all collecting into a total of 11:11 minutes.

Have a very good day/night!

The Phone Sessions official release

Harney-Barrow - The Phone Sessions 

The Phone Sessions are finally out now! This is about a ~14 month long time span of recording whatever jams and music loops that I came up with. Not much else to say that I haven't done with the The Jams of a Lifetime thing, other than there being slightly more electronic elements to it all.

Coming up next will be a supplementary EP that tries to reuse some of the more loop-based tracks from the collection, along with 2-4 brand new songs.

Have a very good day/night!

NEW ALBUM ALERT: Jams of Our Lifetime

A new album from yours truly called "Jams of Our Lifetime" was released a couple days ago. It's the absolute opposite of professional, being three meandering jams, all to make an estimated combined ~68 minutes of sloppy guitar noodling.
If that's not to your preference, then you may still like the songs all having their own individual cover art variations of what you see above.

These songs are also all part of the collections and scraps of audio from the past, all part of the The Phone Sessions collection.