mdlbear | Tracks and status (Reply)

Cleanup on 6 more tracks: "Cicero", "Silk and Steel", "Demon Lover", "TEOTW", "Vampire Megabyte", "World Inside the Crystal". That leaves only the four tracks that might still need a little actual work: "High Barratry", which needs to have the .wav file copied out of the concert directory; "Daddy's World", where I still feel there's some work to be done; and "Little Computing Machine" and "Someplace in the Net", both of where I want to go back and compare the last two of my vocal parts to see which is better on which verse. "Daddy's World" has a lot of clicks where my fingernails hit the pick-guard when I strum; not clear whether to try again or leave them in. I've never managed to play that one without clicks, so it might be a lot of frustrating work for nothing.

There are some developments in the non-audio status, too. I've been making notes on the graphics, and decided to ship them off to artbeco to be turned into real Photoshop files by a real artist. The other possibility was to download a trial copy of CS3, struggle through the layout on my own, and come up with something that looks like it was done by a programmer pretending to be a graphic designer. Or throw money at Oasis; their designers are good and professional, but they don't know me and don't have a history with the project.

The remaining tasks are to give the cleaned-up tracks another couple of rounds of listen-and-tweak, get some additional text and logo graphics to artbeco, and to cook up a permission-to-publish form for the performers to sign.

Packrat that I am, I have actually kept all of my old recording permission forms, plus my book contract. I wasn't able to find the work-for-hire contract I signed when I wrote a chapter for Microprocessor Operating Systems. which is unfortunate -- that might have been a useful model.

It's my understanding that the usual practice is to consider session work as work for hire; that would certainly simplify things for me. On the other hand, the work cflute and the other members of Tres Gique have done goes quite a bit beyond that. And in any case, since I'm releasing the whole thing under a CC license, I should put in verbiage explaining that. It's going to get a lot more complicated if Tres Gique starts putting out albums...

Anyone out there have some sample text they could send me? Otherwise I'll just cook up something simple and straightforward based on the stuff in my files.