music by Travis Emmitt synthesizer [yamaha sy55], drum machine [roland tr-505], acoustic guitar, vocals Travis Emmitt Copyright (c) Travis Emmitt From album page:
'Shortly after finishing Where's My Muse?, I left my job and went travelling in the Pacific Northwest. I loved it (particularly Alaska and Bellingham), and wanted to move there ASAP. Unfortunately, I'd already enrolled in graduate school back in Charlottesville.
Back in grad school, I hardly ever touched my keyboard. Maybe once a month, I'd sit down with the SY55 and start working a song; but then I'd get invited to dinner by friends or family, and I'd forget all about the song. Gradually, I filled up the SY55 with little ideas. To make room for still more (never-to-be-finished) ideas, I'd periodically dump the incomplete song snippets onto my four-track, and then delete their data from the keyboard. Those songs became South or Southeast (tracks 1-19).
The remaining tracks are miscellaneous scraps from 1990-1997.
I used a Yamaha SY55 keyboard workstation for most of the music, occasionally adding a Roland TR-505 drum machine or an acoustic guitar. I recorded to a four-track and used a cheap reverb box (perhaps too frequently!). I mastered to cassette using a tape deck. For the CD, I recorded to my PC using a SoundBlaster Live, and used Cool Edit for noise reduction, amplitude normalization, fades, and all other editing.'