A little problem It’s time to announce - over the next few days/week you’ll notice a shift from me from using my old pseudonym cbx33, to my new one Cobey Rokes. It was a very hard thing to do, and I agonised over it a lot. cbx33 has been with me for a very long time, but the truth was it was not memorable, nor did it stand out. Most of my friends had to ask me for links to my pages, songs etc, and visually it was just too short and got lost....
I wanted to talk about the Post-Release Depressive Death Spiral, something which I feel a lot of new and seasoned composers struggle with. What do I mean by the Post-Release Depressive Death Spiral? Read on. I think when we’re composing music we build it up in our minds. Sometimes, we build it up to a point where we think, “This is going to be the track that defines me”. We’ve worked so hard on it, often for days, weeks or even months and we build up this track to be something extraordinary....
I’ve been working in the Open Source community now for a long time. It all started around 2004 after I graduated from university studying Acoustical Engineering and started working in web development for a small firm. (Nothing related to music or acoustics - I know. I’ll save that for another post.) I used Red Hat 9 on my desktop and quickly moved through Fedora Core 1 to 4. It felt great....