January 21st, 2010|1:20pm.
So Eileen and I have been talking about doing a long distance music project for sometime (as she has a tendency to live in far away places) in a similar vein to the way the Postal Service stuff was done. Because I like to think up band names and I really like nerdy stuff and Eileen doesn't seem to have the good sense to stop me from combining those two things I've been calling this project Packets and Waves (see here and here for explanations).
We finally finished our first song last night, a cover of Janis Joplin's "Piece of my Heart". It was actually a pretty cool process. I recorded most of the music first ( acoustic guitar, bass, shaker, piano, and organ ) then sent her the GarageBand file. She loaded that up on her computer in Taiwan and recorded her vocals, then sent it back to me. I did some editing, recorded my vocals and a guitar solo and BAM! finished song! Yes it's a little low-fi, but for using built in computer mics for everything I think it turned out REALLY cool! This song also brings back all sort of memories of karaoke nights... good times...good times...
This was a really fun project to work on and I'm really hoping that we do more stuff like this. I really like layering stuff together and my weakness for female vocals is well documented. I've linked the song below, let me know what you think. Enjoy!
Piece Of My Heart (Janis Joplin cover) by Packets and Waves