I absolutely love audio recording. The process of capturing disturbances in the air, transforming them into electricity, and then storing them, magnetically, on metal coated plastic fascinates me. It’s almost magical, in a way. The same could be said of other media, of course, but nothing can move me the way sound does. No photograph, painting, film, or other visual stimulus can affect me the way something like Chopin’s Nocturne in E Flat Major, Andante, can. Or Mayonaise by The Smashing Pumpkins. Or… well, you get the idea. This is not to say that I can’t appreciate or find value in those other things, of course. Let’s not start on the wrong foot, here.

The purpose of this blog, this website, and even Kilo as a whole, is to help bring creative things into the world. Whether it is directly, maybe by recording an amazing album with a phenomenal band, or indirectly by, say, inspiring said band to use the information from these posts to create its own recording, bringing these things to fruition is the goal, I will be sharing my thoughts on a range of things and all of my writing can be lumped into some sort of categories, perhaps something like:

Reviews of gear, bands, album production/recording

Experiences in the studio

Gear modification

Personal rants and raves

Hello, Chicago. Hello, internet. Hello, world. I hope our friendship grows into something unique.

Let’s record.

-Mitchell