unplugging Archives - ERIC SAN JUAN

Unplugged 3: Insanely excited about the next two m2 projects, so that’s great

By Eric San Juan January 6, 2018Music, Works by Eric

Sat down for my first purposeful recording session in a long while a few weeks ago. Recorded for four or five hours straight, just a mic in a room (an attic, actually) a few feet in front of my amp. Really cold up there. My fingers were numb. Laid down ten tracks of material, lots of layered guitar work weaving in and out of one another rather than the dense sound assault I've done in recent years. Tried a new approach to playing and just attempted various iterations on it. The interplay of the guitars excited me. Had about an…

Unplugged 2: snow daze are no ways

By Eric San Juan January 5, 2018Music, Random Musings

My whole life, staying focused has always been a challenge. As long as I'm doing new things, exploring new ideas, doing new tasks, and pursuing creative projects I can keep that in check (usually by multitasking so I'm bouncing back and forth from one thing to another), but it takes work to, you know, work. So to suddenly get slammed with a fairly big snowstorm that keeps the family home, thereby extending their winter vacation home by another four days, isn't exactly a boon to focus. Love them, but it's a small house, and no, I don't have a dedicated,…

Trying to unplug in a plugged-in world, day one

By Eric San Juan January 3, 2018Random Musings

On January 1, I decided to unplug from social media for January (aside from the social media work I do). No more checking in on Facebook or Twitter or anywhere else. Just use the Internet as a tool rather than as a distraction. On the first day, I put together a rough mix for a lengthy music recording session I did over the holidays that may or may not turn into an m2 project, cobbled together rough but quite serviceable fan "movies" pieced together from Star Wars Rebels episodes, among other odds and ends. And obviously, I worked that whole…