For my first meeting with Ben, the majority of it was taken up discussing the type of project I wanted to do for this semester. As a lot of my interests lie in music production, I knew that I vaguely wanted to work with a band/artist to create an EP of some sort which particularly included the use if drums. With this in mind, we briefly discussed some of the potential learning outcomes which included improving my overall skillset as a producer and use of Pro Tools, refining the way in how I work in a professional manner with clients and improving my knowledge and use of the outboard gear in the multitrack studio. Creating an EP for this project will also help to bolster my production portfolio and website.

The next thing we discussed was sourcing the artist/band I would record for my project. Although I’ve worked with a few bands/artists over the summer, they probably wouldn’t have enough solid material ready to record so soon for this project. One artist I did have in mind though was someone I know called David Farnan, previously from The Hilos. I worked with him on a track back in May of this year and he recently mentioned to me that he was looking to record more music with me. The only issue however is the fact the stuff I recorded with him previously was quite soft and stripped back and didn’t utilize the use of drums and other electric instruments. From this, myself and ben decided that it was probably best to source an alternative artist and use Dave’s project as a plan B. Ben offered to put a message out seeing if any artists from Access to Music would be up for the project and I also messaged Dave McSherry to put a message out to the BA Music course to see if any of their students would be up for the project too. I also set myself the task to source an artist by contacting potential local record labels and the artists themselves ready for next week’s tutorial.