Category: music

Announcement – Radio Interview on Wednesday

Posted on 2016-01-26 Written by D. Lee Jackson

As promised, here’s a slightly large announcement: I’ve been interviewed for a radio program in the U.K.!

The interview will be broadcast sometime between 10:00 a.m. GMT and noon GMT (which translates to between 4:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. CST (my time)) on Siren FM 107.3, a community radio station from the University of Lincoln Brayford campus. Mr. Jake Parr conducted the interview for his show (The Cyber Den), and I must admit that he will probably sound better than I did. 😉

The interview mostly covers my history of writing music for video games (e.g., Rise of the Triad, Duke Nukem 3D, Stargunner, and Shadow Warrior), along with some of the voice acting I did during the same period. However, toward the end of the interview, he asked me about the science fiction novel I’ve been writing. I said a few words about it, including the first announcement to the general public of the working title (!).

If you want to listen (and I hope you will), go to Siren FM’s “How to Listen” page and follow the instructions. I’ve been told that a longer version will be posted as a podcast and as a stream on YouTube after the broadcast. If you have any problems trying to listen, please get in touch with me via my Contact page and I’ll see if I can help.

I hope you enjoy the interview. Thank you!

Writing Progress, Music, and a Heartless Security Guard?

Posted on 2016-01-04 Written by D. Lee Jackson

Quickly tackling the last item first: my wife’s troubles in capturing lost cats at an apartment complex destroyed by the Garland EF-4 tornado continue. She’s down to one cat (as far as I know), and she had an agreement with one of the chief security guards standing watch over the rubble that would allow her and the cat’s owner into the fenced-off damage zone to capture the cat. She was hoping to finish up her tasks today and finally get some well-deserved rest.

So much for that idea.

She and the owner showed up at the site, as planned, only to meet a new “boss” who they’d never seen before. He flatly denied them access. Period. Folks, it’s supposed to get below freezing tonight, and she’s got cat traps that she can’t access until tomorrow. Lord only knows what’ll happen if a cat does get caught out in one of the open traps. They argued at length with the guard, but to no avail. Sounds to me like someone is taking their job a bit too seriously, given her standing in the rescue effort.

Remember, you can donate to the cause by going to the Garland Pawsibilities donation page. Please give what you can.

Moving on.

I’m still typing away at the second book in my sci-fi series. I now have six full chapters up on Scribophile and am working on the seventh chapter. So far, we’ve had two torture victims (okay, only one of them is really being tortured), four deaths, several casualties, and one person in Intensive Care. Sounds like a party to me.

On the planning front, I’m trying to get my music computer back together. Its C: drive, an original Samsung 840 SSD, has some spots that are degraded so badly that I can’t boot the system anymore. I can’t even get any of my rescue utilities to pull off all of its data. All of my music software licenses were on that thing (e.g., Waves, Native Instruments, some UVI stuff, etc.), and for some reason I can’t find my Windows 7 64-bit Professional install disc so that I can start over with a new SSD drive. That search continues. Wish me luck.

Comments? Questions? Please feel free to leave them on the Contact page!

Shadow Warrior Soundtrack on Music Page

Posted on 2015-12-18 Written by D. Lee Jackson

I found a collection of the songs from the CD of the original Shadow Warrior game on YouTube. Head on over to the Music page and you’ll see a link to the collection. I’m still looking for good renditions of the MIDI files from the shareware version. Please Contact me if you find any!