Desert - Official Visualizer is on YouTube!
Music Reports from JM Musique - Demo Talk Music Art No 3 - #demoTalkMusicArt
#demoTalkMusicArt (DTMA) is the name of a musical project that aims to launch a first EP available on the virtual market. The whole thing is operated by Jeff Maheux, the music composer.
Photo by Jeff Maheux, author and composer. The hashtag is #demoTalkMusicArt. The production company’s website is www.jmmusique.com and the artist’s website is www.jeffmaheux.com.
Clips and Official Visualizer
Production of the lower-budget clip, commonly called an OV, for official visualizer, was done by ServicesW+M last December.
OVs are increasingly used in events to support music, artists or tracks that don’t necessarily have a large promotional budget. It’s also a method for integrating musical works that haven’t been released as singles to virtual video distribution platforms, such as YouTube, social media and others.
So, we will see fewer and fewer song videos that only use the album cover image as a video, for example, in YouTube channels. Of course, YouTube channels are now profitable for artists who use monetization as income.
Visualizer Video Production
Several clip production methods combine with the musical style of the piece to be presented and the budget allocated to the production. When an artist wishes to make a musical piece known, the scene and the sale (monetization) platform tools must necessarily require a visual.
Using this visual, with little effects, added lyrics, text and other graphics to energize the clip using a common clip editing app (Canva, or CapCut, for example) is an easy method to produce a low-budget clip. This clip on a YouTube channel can be listened to and used to promote the product.
Desert, the Official Visualizer
The Desert demo video is thus edited. There is the use of 2 images that intersect throughout the piece. The lyrics were added directly to the video with the free CatCup editing app. The black and white spinning effects are also built-in transitions of the application. The whole thing took an evening to complete, 3-4 hours with breaks.
The next DTMA report also offers an example of OV with the piece I Think About You. In Article 4, we also explore the concept of presenting a piece and promoting it. The theme: What happened at the Steak House last night?
Here Is the Third Report of the DTMA Project
If you’ve been following my socials for a few years, you might be familiar with Desert’s music, and the demo version with lyrics recorded in 2005. This is the version you can check out now on the YouTube Channel!
Yea, this is the Official Visualizer, a production of Services W+M. The clip was done last December with the main visual of the demoTalkMusicArt project. It features the lyrics from the song.
I officially present the song to you in this post. Welcome in this Desert. A happy place ;)
A production JM Musique.
The JM Musique YouTube channel presents
the video with the lyrics of Desert
The premiere of the Desert video on the YouTube channel launched DTMA on January 2, 2024.
Desert
Words and music by Jeff Maheux. Arrangement JMaheux and Angelo Labbate. Guitars ALabbate. Productions ©JM2000-23.
The Writer’s Note
Desert, a piece written on March 1, 2002, on the bus going to the studio to record the vocals of this musical composition that I had been dragging around for several months. The musical scores being completed. I had the chorus area in mind (… and I would never have to suffer) without being able to put words into words. I would then jokingly hum this line while waiting to find the words for the song. The final text was written in the last 10 minutes of the journey when the bus was deserted.
The instrumental version was first presented to the public during the launch campaign of the jeffmaheux.com site in March 2018. Later this year, DTMA will present the final piece with voice and harmony recordings and new orchestrations.
Nothing was touched once recorded. I thought if Debbie Harry had laid down her extraordinary One Way to Another hidden in the bathroom at the last minute, my Desert would do the job for a demo.
Desert
(Words and Music by Jeff Maheux)
Huge desert, I can’t see the distance anymore
Don’t come to save me, it’s a punishment I install.
And I walk, walk in any direction, trying to escape what it rests after all.
Hurting myself than survive in a prison, I’d rather die in here right of nowhere.
and I would never have to suffer, and I would never have to cry again,
And I would go back to the dirt burning my heart with the sun so I would never have to love again.
Huge desert, I can’t see the distance anymore
I’ll never have the strength to retrace my step’s back so the white of my hair will cover my back.
Dehydrated and pushed by the wind, my body lost in here right of nowhere.
and I would never have to suffer, and I would never have to cry again, and I would never have to remember
And I would go back to the dirt bury my heart into the sand so I would never have to love again.
01/03/2002
Once I met the producer, and the song was ultimately unused, I kept the song to myself for a few years and got used to the lyrics. This piece I hadn’t originally considered keeping to myself eventually became mine. I’m keeping it now.
The instrumental version was first presented to the public during the launch campaign of the jeffmaheux.com site in March 2018.
New Song Direction
With DTMA, I hope to present the final version of Desert, with the real voice and harmony recordings.
On stage, I prefer presenting the song with a slower tempo now and western arrangements. I like to start the song with only a guitar in picking with the voice. I have to admit I don’t sing Desert the way it sounds on the demo version online and I use my bass voice, which I have developed over time; so the emotion initially is sober.
This song represents a cry of freedom after a difficult situation where you can’t express yourself. When you decide for yourself that enough is enough and you leave. It’s a statement that applies to a lot of situations actually, and the chorus represents the shout, the let off steam! The: I WON’T HAVE TO SUFFER AGAIN! Try it: and I would never have to suffer, sung loudly! Very loud! You’ll see, it feels good.
Conclusion
There’s a lot to do with the Desert piece for the final production. Several original tracks haven’t yet been found to continue the production of this demo version. These tracks are in old laptops and I didn’t classify the tracks effectively at the time, being in my first productions. You learn from everything, don’t you?
I’ll let you know about the development!
Thank you for reading, and listening!
J
Images credit: Jeff Maheux
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