Posts tagged with ‘blog’

Recap of Our First Live Music Stream Event For The Ubuntu Summit

October 26, 2025 by Lorenzo

We just finished our CC Music Live companion stream to the Ubuntu Summit, and what an incredible two days it...

Remixing "Melancholy friction" with Ardour & Ubuntu Studio - Open-Source Music Production

October 14, 2025 by Lorenzo

I go through the creative process of remixing our song "Melancholy Friction" featured on our album, Lorenzo's Remixes, Volume 2...

Making The Remix: AxWax and The Making of 'If I Was Alone' - The Lorenzo's Music Podcast

September 26, 2025 by Lorenzo

In this episode, I talk with musician AxWax about his remix of the track 'If I Was Alone'

Making The Remix: Friction called quest (Headsnack Mix) - With Headsnack - The Lorenzo's Music Podcast

September 12, 2025 by Lorenzo

I talk with Headsnack, a music producer and DJ, who recently remixed our track "Friction Called Quest"

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Call Out For Creative Commons & Open Culture Musicians! Join Our Ubuntu Summit Companion Stream!

September 10, 2025 by Lorenzo

Are you a Creative Commons, Open Source, or Fedi musician or band? Do you make live streams of your music?...

Making The Remix: Friction called quest (All That Time Mix) - With Velcro Mary - The Lorenzo's Music Podcast

August 29, 2025 by Lorenzo

I talk with Jason Erb from Velcro Mary about remixing our song "Friction Called Quest" for our "Lorenzo's Remixes, Volume...

Open-Source Music Production: Remixing "If I Was Alone" with Ardour & Ubuntu Studio

August 09, 2025 by Lorenzo

A track-by-track breakdown for the song "If I Was Alone (Da Dun & I Mix)" from our remix album Lorenzo's...

GitHub For Music: Collaborating on DAW Sessions

May 26, 2025 by Lorenzo

The key to using GitHub for music collaboration. This branching workflow

GitHub For Music: Sharing DAW sessions to GitHub

May 17, 2025 by Lorenzo

How we upload changes in in a DAW session from a local repo to GitHub for collaboration.

GitHub for Music: Setting up a DAW Session for GitHub

May 14, 2025 by Lorenzo

How we set up the DAW session for collaboration on GitHub

GitHub for Music: What Git Does - Version Control Basics

May 10, 2025 by Lorenzo

I go over the basics of version control for musicians who want to collaborate using GitHub

Working On A Webcomic Diary Zine

April 24, 2025 by Lorenzo

I'm working on a new webcomic diary idea.

Song Experiment: How We're Turning a Flawed Recording Into Our Next Song

February 07, 2025 by Lorenzo

How we are turing audio from a live stream into a song using Ardour, Ubuntu Studio and GitHub for music...

Song Experiment: Turning a Live Stream into a New Track

February 05, 2025 by Lorenzo

A behind the scenes look at a new song experiment were working on.

Turning a Live Stream into a Song: Our Behind-the-Scenes Process

February 03, 2025 by Lorenzo

How we're using Ubuntu Studio, Ardour and Github for a new experimental song

Our Song "Why Did I" Featured in the 8-Bit Horror RPG Game Hypocrite

January 27, 2025 by Lorenzo

Our track "Why Did I" from our Rom-Comm Mixtape is featured in the indie game Hypocrite, a retro-style horror RPG...

I'm thinking about sampling the audio from this live stream for a new song

January 15, 2025 by Lorenzo

Gonna take the audio from this live stream and make it a song

Track walkthrough "If I was alone" (Behind the scenes)

January 01, 2025 by Lorenzo

A behind the scenes video about tracking the song "If I was alone"

Making The Remix: Slippery friction (Tryin' Mix) with Toucon - Lorenzo's Music Podcast

November 29, 2024 by Lorenzo

Talking with musician Toucon about his remix track for our EP Lorenzo's Remixes, Volume 1

Making The Remix: Rainy day friction (Nicholas Burgess Mix) with Nicholas Burgess

November 08, 2024 by Lorenzo

I talk with musician Nicholas Burgess who shares his creative process behind the remix of our song "Rainy Day Friction,"...

Making of "Blue water friction" (Behind the scenes video)

October 23, 2024 by Lorenzo

A look at how we recorded our song Blue water friction

We've got a new online show! Lorenzo's Music: The Live & Unfiltered Show

September 20, 2024 by Lorenzo

We have a new weekly live show on YouTube!

Making The Remix: "Slippery Friction" by Louis Lingg and the Bombs

August 10, 2024 by Lorenzo

Louis Lingg talks about his remix process for our song "Slippery friction"

Making The Remix: Friction world (Stringer Saga Mix) by LuvCraf

August 02, 2024 by Lorenzo

A chat about making the remix for our song "Friction world" with Daniel Glascock of LuvCraf.

Making of "Friction called quest" live music video

July 06, 2024 by Lorenzo

How we set up a 3 camera live music video for our song.

Played a show with one of our biggest musical inspirations

June 26, 2024 by Lorenzo

A story about opening for one of our biggest musical inspirations.

Greyhounds, David Hidalgo and Steve Berlin of Los Lobos & Lorenzo's Music - June 23, 2024

June 15, 2024 by Lorenzo

Lorenzo's Music with Greyhounds, Steve Berlin, David Hidalgo of Los Lobos

Songwriting Track Breakdown: "Rainy day friction" Ardour/Github Recording Sessions

March 22, 2024 by Lorenzo

A track breakdown of our song "Rainy day friction" using GitHub versioning for music.

Track-by-track walkthrough of our song "So long"

March 06, 2024 by Lorenzo

A track-by-track walkthrough of the recording session of our song "So long"

Making of the song "So long"

February 07, 2024 by Lorenzo

We talk about the making of the song "So long" in this video and working remotely using GitHub to collaborate...

GitHub for Music: How we came up with the idea of using GitHub and open source tools to record remotely

January 23, 2024 by Lorenzo

How we figured out a way to collaborate on music using GitHub, Ardour, and Ubuntu Studio

Making of Friction world (Behind the scenes)

December 20, 2023 by Lorenzo

A behind-the-scenes look at making our song "Friction world"

LISTENING BACK to the song progress of "I can only miss you"

November 08, 2023 by Lorenzo

Listening back to all the different versions and progress of the song recordings as we wrote it.

Part 3: Making of Slippery friction (Behind the scenes)

October 04, 2023 by Lorenzo

Part 3 of the making of our song Slippery friction.

Part 2: Making of Slippery friction (Behind the scenes)

September 20, 2023 by Lorenzo

This is part 2 of the making of our song Slippery friction.

Making of Slippery Friction (Behind the scenes) Pt. 1

September 13, 2023 by Lorenzo

A behind the scenes look at how we made the song Slippery friction

"With you" Songwriting Track Breakdown: Ardour Recording Session Live Stream

July 26, 2023 by Lorenzo

A live stream from our YouTube channel to show the progression of the song "With you" by Lorenzo's Music

Song branch "With you", guitar added - Github for music recording remotely

July 24, 2023 by Lorenzo

More progress on the songwriting experiment recording music remotely using Github for music with Ubuntu Studio and Ardour to write...

First song branch, the idea - Github for music recording remotely

July 21, 2023 by Lorenzo

Our first attempt at fully recording music remotely using Github for music with Ubuntu Studio and Ardour. It starts with...

Talking about using Ubuntu Studio, Ardour and GitHub for music at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague

December 20, 2022 by Lorenzo

Lorenzo's Music talking open-source music at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague. Using Ubuntu Studio, Ardour and GitHub for musi

Lorenzo's Music Live In Studio Performance - Dec 14, 2022

December 19, 2022 by Lorenzo

Lorenzo's Music live in studio performance

Our first show in Europe - Performing at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague

November 20, 2022 by Lorenzo

Lorenzo's Music performing at the Ubuntu Summit in Prague

We're going to Prague!

October 07, 2022 by Lorenzo

We are going to play a show in Prague in November at the Ubuntu Summit

New live drums - Progress on the song Slippery Friction

September 25, 2022 by Lorenzo

Adding some live drums to the song Slippery Friction

Progress on the song idea Slippery Friction

August 23, 2022 by Lorenzo

Here is the song arrangement so far.

How we cut up a band practice live-stream into a song

August 09, 2022 by Lorenzo

Filming a band practice and editing the video into a song

One of our songs was used in a movie that just hit Amazon Prime Video

June 18, 2022 by Lorenzo

An indie film using our music just hit Amazon Prime

Live streams turning into song ideas - Slippery Friction

February 14, 2022 by Lorenzo

We took a clip from one of our live songwriting sessions that we liked and started a new song

Music video progress: Blender on Ubuntu sound playback issue fixed!

October 05, 2021 by Lorenzo

How I fixed the issue I was having with audio in Blender on Ubuntu

Another 5 YouTube Shorts from our Blender Grease Pencil Music Video Project

October 03, 2021 by Lorenzo

Some progress scenes from the music video we're making in Blender Grease Pencil

Progress on animating our "Shore Leave" music video in Blender Grease Pencil so far

September 21, 2021 by Lorenzo

Going over how I've been animating this music video using Blender Grease Pencil

5 more music video scenes animated - Shore Leave

September 18, 2021 by Lorenzo

Animated more scenes for our version of "Shore Leave" in Blender Grease Pencil

First 2 scenes animated for Shore Leave Video

September 12, 2021 by Lorenzo

First 2 scenes for our shore leave music video

I started with a simple beat and it turned into something bigger...

September 08, 2021 by Lorenzo

A story about how a simple beat I was working on turned into a new artistic venture.

Making of the song "Variation witch"

August 07, 2021 by Lorenzo

A video of us listening back to the different versions of our song "Variation witch"

Setting up our studio | Test run "Where did it go" | Tom, Rob Cliff Session

July 28, 2021 by Lorenzo

Setting up our studio for more live streams and recordings

How did we come up with our band name? Tom explains the story.

March 23, 2021 by Lorenzo

An interview on Tha Bloc Report Podcast, Tom Ray answers the question everyone wants to know...

A talk about the future of The Free Music Archive with new owners Tribe Of Noise

March 07, 2021 by Lorenzo

Listen to my interview with Hessel van Oorschot from the Netherlands company Tribe of Noise and the Free Music Archive....

Lorenzo's Music interview on Tha Bloc Report Podcast

March 06, 2021 by Lorenzo

Interview with Tom Ray from Lorenzo's Music on the Bloc Report podcast from the BlocSonic netlabel

A series of gifs - Creating Animated gifs for our music video "With you" using FlipaClip

February 09, 2021 by Lorenzo

Making of the Lorenzo's Music animated music video "With you" using FlipaClip and KDEnlive

The story about our connection to Bad Brains and Artist Shepard Fairey

December 23, 2020 by Lorenzo

Here is a story about our strange connection to artist Shepard Fairey and the band Bad Brains

One more listen to the track before mixing our song "With you"

December 09, 2020 by Lorenzo

One last pass at our new experimental process for recording music remotely with GitHub, Ardour and Ubuntu Studio

Brainstorming using GitHub for music with Ubuntu studio and Ardour to record remotely

November 28, 2020 by Lorenzo

A discussion about how we use GitHub for music recording remotely with Ardour

5 questions with Lorenzo’s Music Interview on Fischarper blog

July 06, 2020 by Lorenzo

An interview with Tom Ray of Lorenzo's Music about open source music.

Super Toy Car 2 Game on Xbox Live Features Songs by Lorenzo's Music

May 02, 2020 by Lorenzo

Lorenzo's Music is featured on the new XBOX Live game Super Toy Car 2

Spaghetti Mid-Western YouTube Live Listening Stream

February 17, 2020 by Lorenzo

We will be hanging out over YouTube Live in our rehearsal studio in Madison, WI while playing the new EP....

How we came up with a way to use GitHub to write songs.

May 31, 2019 by Lorenzo

How the open source band Lorenzo's Music came up with a concept to use GitHub as a way to write...

Lorenzo's Music Interview on Linux Rig

March 21, 2019 by Lorenzo

Tom Ray from Lorenzo's Music on Linux Rig about being an open source band and musician using Linux

Lorenzo's Music In The Game Miami Crime Simulator 2

October 23, 2018 by Lorenzo

I play Miami Crime Simulator 2 looking for one of our songs is in the game.

Lorenzo's Music in Forbes, Using Open Source Software For Music

September 26, 2018 by Lorenzo

Indie band Lorenzo's Music created their latest album with Ubuntu Studio using all open source software Lorenzo's Music / Ubuntu...

Tom Ray talks about Lorenzo's Music and other projects in The Cap Times

August 25, 2018 by Lorenzo

Tom Ray talks about Lorenzo's Music and other projects in The Cap Times

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Apple Removes Lorenzo's Music Mixtape From Store Because Of Descriptive Titles

August 24, 2018 by Lorenzo

Apple Removes Mixtape "The item you've requested is not currently available in Apple Music in the United States."

Rom-Comm Mixtape YouTube Live Listening Stream

August 21, 2018 by Lorenzo

Lorenzo's Music Rom-Comm Mixtape YouTube live listening party event. Aug 22, 2018

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Call out for remixers

January 11, 2017 by Lorenzo

Are you a musician? Do you remix music? We are looking for musicians who want to be a part of...

The Hardcore Henry Connection - Lorenzo's Music Podcast - 160424

April 25, 2016 by Lorenzo

An interesting story about how I met the creator of the film through his band Biting Elbows.

Ten years ago we started over

February 03, 2016 by Lorenzo

Ten years ago we released the album "Solamente Tres Palabras" here's a little story about that.

Limelight sessions 2 - Getting Closer

September 06, 2015 by Lorenzo

last weeks song writing session, the structure and rhythm mapped out.

Limelight Sessions 1 - A night of trial & error

August 28, 2015 by Lorenzo

A difficult night in the studio. But we prevailed.

Seemed easier than it was

August 15, 2015 by Lorenzo

thoughts on organic songwriting & technology.

I Never Wanted to Say - Song Reference Playlist

July 17, 2015 by Lorenzo

Mix tape of songs referenced while writing the single "I Never Wanted To Say"

Paper Walls

July 10, 2015 by Lorenzo

Writing more. Doing what we do.

Testing The Waters

January 19, 2015 by Lorenzo

An animated gif that is a hint of things to come...

Building a new recording spot

September 23, 2014 by Lorenzo

What happens when we start brainstorming? We build a room.

Mark on stage with F.Stokes

August 08, 2014 by Lorenzo

Mark from Lorenzo's Music playing guitar on stage with F.Stokes

Lorenzo's Music - Astronaut [Studio Session]

June 02, 2014 by Lorenzo

A rough live video from the studio, it’s an unreleased song currently in the works called “Astronaut”. Play >>

Analog has its difficulty

May 15, 2014 by Lorenzo

Analog tape recording can have a mind of it's own.

We busted up a piano this weekend

December 31, 2013 by Lorenzo

What did you do?

What we've been doing, video shoot & pictures

November 04, 2013 by Lorenzo

A band video of the song "Picture it all" is in the works.

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Tom's Musical Inspirations for August

August 28, 2013 by Lorenzo

A YouTube playlist of Tom's musical inspiration this month.

Our brush with David Cross, now on Netflix

July 12, 2013 by Lorenzo

A funny story about how our old guitarist ended up in David Cross' special on Netflix.

Progress in the studio

June 22, 2013 by Lorenzo

Making progress in the studio.

A whirlwind of an event

June 12, 2013 by Lorenzo

A night to be remembered and someone we will never forget.

Our Friend, something I never thought I'd have to write

May 28, 2013 by Lorenzo

Our friend Paulie.

Working on a sticker print.

May 21, 2013 by Lorenzo

A random pole on the sidewalk is the inspiration for this new sticker print in the works.

Can't wait to release the new single

May 06, 2013 by Lorenzo

Can't post the new single yet. But here's a story behind the cover art.

Photos and such from a recent session

March 27, 2013 by Lorenzo

Just a few random shots from a recent recording session.

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Listen to how our song "Just had to let you know" got it's name

February 10, 2013 by Lorenzo

A story about someone walking down the street that influenced the title of our song.

Bryan's Top 10 Music Playlist

October 17, 2012 by Lorenzo

More music, more problems… I don’t know…Anyway here’s our saxophone player Bryan’s top 10 favorite songs.Hit play and enjoy! Let us know...

Eric's Top 10 Playlist

October 07, 2012 by Lorenzo

Here’s another in our on-going series of music we’ve been listening to.This is Eric’s playlist of his top 10 songs...

Cliff's Top 10 Playlist for September

September 30, 2012 by Lorenzo

Continuing with our playlist mixes of music we’ve been listening to.This time it’s our bassist Cliff’s turn.Here are the top...

Mark's Top 10 Playlist for September

September 25, 2012 by Lorenzo

Sure, we post a lot of our own music. But we thought we’d also like to post some of the...

A night of music

August 09, 2012 by Lorenzo

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Trashcan lid cymbal

July 31, 2012 by Lorenzo

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Got a screener for a new movie using our music

June 12, 2012 by Lorenzo

Just got the screener for the movie “The Longer Day Of Happiness” that has our song You Got to Feel...

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Question: European tour? Maybe with some help...

June 02, 2012 by Lorenzo

Just a quick question…We were talking at practice the other night about how in recent years a lot of our...

Getting ready for our show next week

December 01, 2011 by Lorenzo

While normally when we get together it’s to work on new songs. Tonight we dusted off some of the old...

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Puano - Work in progress

November 30, 2011 by Lorenzo

A work in progress.This is just a demo of a song we’re working on. Recorded a second verse for it...

Edison Museum Wax Cylinder Recording Session

October 29, 2011 by Lorenzo

Fascinating.

Charles Bukowski "Bluebird."

October 22, 2011 by Lorenzo

Charles Bukowski “Bluebird.” - YouTube:

"Monkey Jazz" : BEARDYMAN & mr_hopkinson™

September 30, 2011 by Lorenzo

“Monkey Jazz” : BEARDYMAN & mr_hopkinson™ - YouTube: “ “‘via Blog this’

Here's Dante to sing a song for you "Theme from 'Exodus'" - YouTube

August 30, 2011 by Lorenzo

Stairway To Stardom (1987) - Dante “Theme from ‘Exodus’” - YouTube: “ “‘via Blog this’

New EP's Just Arrived! Available soon.

August 21, 2011 by Lorenzo

Just got our EP of collected song singles back from the printer.They will be available here on our website later...

Scott is in the next Adam Sandler movie

July 20, 2011 by Lorenzo

Just wanted to give a shout out to our friend and previous drummer Scott Beardsley. Both him and our previous...

LEGO Album Covers

July 03, 2011 by Lorenzo

LEGO Album Covers « Flickr Blog: <div>“The members of the LEGO Album Covers group have been recreating classic albums of...

Scrap Metal Planets

June 30, 2011 by Lorenzo

<div>P i c t u r e s: Scrap Metal Planets: <div>“Boulder-based artist Mark Castator creates planets and moons from...

Playing a Cityscape as a Piano Score - information aesthetics

June 15, 2011 by Lorenzo

A really great sounding idea in concept and visually. Still, very cool and wish I had thought of it.Pianola City...

Ann-Margret and Charles Manson together at last! Bye Bye Birdie Reprise

June 09, 2011 by Lorenzo

YouTube - Bye Bye Birdie Reprise: With Ann-Margret and Charles Manson: “ ”

awesome people hanging out together

June 07, 2011 by Lorenzo

While this is my new favorite blog, this was the most impressive picture I found on it by far.awesome people...

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Tom's personal podcast project featured on the Free Music Archive

May 29, 2011 by Lorenzo

Sure I make music under creative commons licenses, but I like to talk about it too.Last year I started a...

How a liquor store sign became our last album cover

November 21, 2010 by Lorenzo

Surprising i know. But here’s a little story about how our last album cover was inspired by a liquor store sign from Las...

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Album Lovers Hand-Make Musical Objects

November 02, 2010 by Lorenzo

Really inspired and creative music lovers over there at createdigitalmusic.com </embed>Create Digital Music - Last Days of Compact Disco: Album...

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Newest Member of the Lorenzo's Music Family

September 30, 2010 by Lorenzo

On Monday September 27, 2010 Mark and his wife added another addition to the world. A baby girl!We just wanted...

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Hometown Sweethearts w/ John Popper- Folsom Prison

September 26, 2010 by Lorenzo

I’ve been meaning to post this but kept forgetting. Our very own drummer Scott who is also in the band...

What a difference a song placement makes

August 16, 2010 by Lorenzo

As you may have seen on our homepage, our song “Hot Water Avalanche” from our 3rd album Solamente Tres Palabras...

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Tom's creative commons music podcast - Music Manumit

July 11, 2010 by Lorenzo

In my continued effort to raise awareness of the benefits of licensing music under creative commons, I’ve started, with Doug Whitfield...

Way Out There

June 01, 2010 by Lorenzo

I finally did it. Got rid of the Gibson 335/Fender Pro reverb and replaced ‘em with a Gibson 61 SG...

New EP in the works

April 19, 2010 by Lorenzo

We’ve been working on a new EP and just wanted to let you know that we have 3 out of...

Some New Photos Added

February 07, 2010 by Lorenzo

Cliff, Mark, Tom, originally uploaded by Lorenzo's Music. We had a backlog of photos that Scott had taken and we...

More song ideas in the studio

January 28, 2010 by Lorenzo

We spent another night working on some song ideas. We'll post some audio and video for you to check out...

Ess-Gee

January 19, 2010 by Lorenzo

So the SG (a gibson guitar) has made it’s impact. The new tunes are almost dictated by the guitar. Fast,...

In the studio

January 17, 2010 by Lorenzo

We've been working on some new music and will have more video of these sessions soon.

Posts tagged with "blog"