AudioGust | Matt Connarton Unleashed

0:00 Speaker 1: How catchy is that? Wow? That is I didn't hear

0:03 Speaker 1: what you said. The project is Audio Guest and let's see.

0:06 Speaker 1: We have Chris Evans from Audio Guests here with us

0:09 Speaker 1: via Microsoft Team.

0:10 Speaker 2: Hello Chris, Hello, how are you doing? Good?

0:13 Speaker 1: Good? Welcome to the show. I love that song. I

0:15 Speaker 1: love the whole album of course, that is from Falling

0:18 Speaker 1: from Down, and it's just so like, you know, it's

0:21 Speaker 1: the kind of song you tell people, at least I

0:23 Speaker 1: tell people, you know, if that didn't make you move,

0:26 Speaker 1: you know, to check your pulse, you might be dead.

0:27 Speaker 1: It's just really really catchy. And I love the vocals,

0:30 Speaker 1: the layered vocals, everything about that. It's just it's just

0:33 Speaker 1: really good. I love that.

0:35 Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that. That is a fun song.

0:38 Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely. And you are in Seattle, is that correct?

0:42 Speaker 2: Yeah? Just outside of Seattle.

0:44 Speaker 1: Just outside of Seattle. Wow, quite a music scene there. Yeah,

0:47 Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. What can you tell us about the album

0:51 Speaker 1: Falling from Down? I did listen to the whole thing.

0:54 Speaker 1: I really really like it. Like I said, I love

0:56 Speaker 1: what you're doing sonically, and there's nothing that I've heard

0:59 Speaker 1: recently that sounds quite like it. But what can you

1:02 Speaker 1: tell us about it.

1:05 Speaker 3: This is my third album, that one this year, and yeah,

1:10 Speaker 3: it's sort of it's it's it's sort of a song

1:13 Speaker 3: about the times these days, basically, like with all sort

1:15 Speaker 3: of angst and and and sort of sort of angst

1:22 Speaker 3: about communication, about what's going on in the world and

1:24 Speaker 3: things like that, and then how people are pretty stressed

1:26 Speaker 3: about this. And it starts off, you know, with just

1:29 Speaker 3: sort of a set of a darker set of songs

1:31 Speaker 3: and than all my previous albums, I think, songs like

1:34 Speaker 3: Isotope and Falling from Down, and then it hits a

1:37 Speaker 3: song called Easier, which is sort of it's sort of

1:40 Speaker 3: a reflection of the whole album, which sort of asked

1:42 Speaker 3: the question, man, it seems like it would be easier

1:44 Speaker 3: if I didn't know what was going on, like if

1:46 Speaker 3: you weren't paying attention to the news and things like that.

1:50 Speaker 3: Seems like life might be easier. But yet you really

1:53 Speaker 3: can't avoid it because it sort of keeps coming back

1:55 Speaker 3: to you. But then its whole sort of shift in

1:57 Speaker 3: that song where it goes from being this sort of

2:01 Speaker 3: introspective thing to the sort of pop punk banger of

2:03 Speaker 3: a of a of a Ridge, and then it comes

2:06 Speaker 3: back into the sort of the final verse there, and

2:09 Speaker 3: then the whole album sort of shifts at that point

2:11 Speaker 3: where it sort of goes into hey things a little

2:13 Speaker 3: bit more. You know, it's as if you weren't paying

2:16 Speaker 3: attention to all of that, and we could just sort

2:18 Speaker 3: of get back to songs about people and about relationships

2:20 Speaker 3: and about the way you feel. And that's sort of

2:22 Speaker 3: where you know, I didn't hear what you say comes

2:25 Speaker 3: in sort of in that middle part of the album, right,

2:27 Speaker 3: and then it sort of slides back towards the end

2:28 Speaker 3: of the album. So it's you know that the whole

2:30 Speaker 3: album is sort of a reflection of the song Easier

2:34 Speaker 3: written Large.

2:35 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, yeah, well we'll play that one at the

2:38 Speaker 1: end of our conversation because that's another great track. Like

2:41 Speaker 1: I said, I like the whole thing. But but yeah,

2:43 Speaker 1: it's interesting too, how you know you're able to take

2:47 Speaker 1: these themes of of angst and and all of it

2:51 Speaker 1: that that people feel and but but do something that's

2:55 Speaker 1: actually fun and interesting to listen to, you know, because

2:58 Speaker 1: it's it. It's if you can take something that's dark

3:02 Speaker 1: or negative or however you want to think about it,

3:05 Speaker 1: but make something positive out of it. You know, that's

3:08 Speaker 1: that's the best way I think to be able to

3:09 Speaker 1: relate to people and and say here, here, here's what

3:12 Speaker 1: I'm saying, but I'm putting it in a package that

3:15 Speaker 1: that you're going to enjoy listening to and maybe we

3:17 Speaker 1: can kind of connect and relate on that level. And

3:20 Speaker 1: so I think it's great. You know, it's yea melodic

3:25 Speaker 1: and like a lot of these tracks are really fun.

3:27 Speaker 1: What about now, specifically that song, I didn't hear what

3:29 Speaker 1: you said. I'm curious to know more about that. It

3:31 Speaker 1: seems to address, as is evidenced by the title, you know,

3:34 Speaker 1: miscommunication and misunderstanding. And was there something specific that that

3:40 Speaker 1: sort of pushed you to write that or maybe just

3:43 Speaker 1: more of a general.

3:44 Speaker 3: Thing, like like many people, I'm a bit on the

3:47 Speaker 3: ad D side, and and I've certainly READD issues where

3:52 Speaker 3: my head, you know, sort of my mind wandered in

3:55 Speaker 3: the middle of a conversation and I realized that I'm

3:57 Speaker 3: not quite paying attention to this person that I'm supposed

3:59 Speaker 3: to be talking right now. They don't know this yet,

4:03 Speaker 3: but it's true, and so I am sort of nodding along,

4:06 Speaker 3: and yet my head is somewhere else, just sort of

4:08 Speaker 3: like in the beginning of that song where it's like

4:10 Speaker 3: this sort of persons just started talking to a girl

4:13 Speaker 3: and sort of daydreaming and thinking about her and looking

4:16 Speaker 3: at the you know, the necklace that she's wearing.

4:17 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I got that for her back. What was that?

4:20 Speaker 2: When was that back in June? I think it was.

4:22 Speaker 3: And then she's saying something and you're realizing I'm not

4:27 Speaker 3: hearing this, and in the song, she realizes that she's

4:31 Speaker 3: not being listened to, and yet she's looking right at

4:33 Speaker 3: her right. She gets a little bit upset about it,

4:36 Speaker 3: which is understandable, and he feels bad about this. I

4:39 Speaker 3: feel bad about this, but it's it's not a it's

4:43 Speaker 3: not on.

4:44 Speaker 1: Purpose, right, right exactly.

4:47 Speaker 2: And then the second verse is the same thing happens

4:49 Speaker 2: except for your work.

4:49 Speaker 3: Right. You're in a meeting somewhere and you're just sort

4:52 Speaker 3: of daydreaming. You didn't expect anybody talking to you in

4:53 Speaker 3: the first place, and so you're just sort of in

4:55 Speaker 3: some meeting and then they ask you a question.

4:57 Speaker 2: You're like, oh, wait, what what he was talking about?

5:01 Speaker 3: And you're sort of, you know, sort of embarrassing to

5:02 Speaker 3: get caught in one of those moments there of you

5:05 Speaker 3: were supposed to be paying attention and you weren't.

5:07 Speaker 2: Totally everybody knows this now and what are you gonna do? Right?

5:12 Speaker 1: And it's and it's universal. Everyone's been in situations like that,

5:16 Speaker 1: it had been you know, it's all stuff that happens

5:18 Speaker 1: to everybody. Absolutely, But yeah, in the moment though, it

5:21 Speaker 1: feels it's such a terrible feeling.

5:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.

5:26 Speaker 1: I'm curious too about your history. So you you were

5:29 Speaker 1: you played guitar and bass in some eighties bands, Is

5:32 Speaker 1: that correct?

5:33 Speaker 2: Yeah?

5:33 Speaker 3: I was in a few bands back in the eighties

5:36 Speaker 3: actually a little bit in the end of the nineties

5:38 Speaker 3: as well. Okay, and nothing big though, I mean, you know,

5:42 Speaker 3: just we were all sort of learning and getting better

5:44 Speaker 3: and playing things and playing clubs and and uh this

5:48 Speaker 3: is like back in Ohio and Michigan and places like that.

5:51 Speaker 2: Sure, sure, uh yeah.

5:54 Speaker 3: And then and then it sort of you know, once

5:57 Speaker 3: I whence they finished university and uh at to Michigan,

6:00 Speaker 3: I was, you know, we're trying to do something interesting.

6:05 Speaker 2: I wanted I wanted to do a recording thing.

6:07 Speaker 3: We started a company doing podcasts, but it was a

6:10 Speaker 3: little bit early for podcasts because it was the late eighties. Wow.

6:14 Speaker 2: So yeah.

6:15 Speaker 3: I mean the thing we made were if you listen

6:16 Speaker 3: to the now you go like those are podcasts, but it.

6:18 Speaker 2: Was wow, way too really for that.

6:22 Speaker 3: We shipped them out on audio cassettes to like the

6:24 Speaker 3: company communication.

6:25 Speaker 2: Kind of thing is okay, but it was definitely too

6:28 Speaker 2: early for that. So I sort of shifted into writing software.

6:31 Speaker 3: And uh, you know was in this is in the

6:34 Speaker 3: Massachusetts actually this is in Boston and Cambridge area. Oh

6:38 Speaker 3: and uh yeah, So I worked you know for a

6:40 Speaker 3: company doing you know, router tech support and then writing

6:43 Speaker 3: code and building applications and building things in the Mac.

6:46 Speaker 3: And then eventually one of the things that we did

6:49 Speaker 3: caught the eye of Apple and Microsoft, and they flew

6:52 Speaker 3: me out to California and ended up working for Microsoft

6:54 Speaker 3: for twenty years off and on, wow and uh and

6:59 Speaker 3: some other places between some startups and some personal projects.

7:03 Speaker 3: And then a few years ago I finally finished that,

7:07 Speaker 3: uh and said I want, I really want to do

7:09 Speaker 3: the music thing again. Uh and so yeah, I sort

7:12 Speaker 3: of left uh Microsoft and software at that point and

7:16 Speaker 3: started writing songs and uh, that's what the last it's

7:20 Speaker 3: been pretty much for the last three years.

7:21 Speaker 1: Oh, excellent, excellent. Now, was that always kind of in

7:25 Speaker 1: the back of your mind that that you would end

7:28 Speaker 1: up back with doing music, or or was there a

7:31 Speaker 1: moment of epiphany where you realized you had to get

7:34 Speaker 1: back to it, or how did you, like just kind

7:37 Speaker 1: of mentally, how did you get back to a place

7:39 Speaker 1: where you said, no, I need to I need to

7:41 Speaker 1: really jump back into this full force, I need to

7:43 Speaker 1: do music.

7:45 Speaker 3: I'd always I'd bounced back and forth doing music at

7:49 Speaker 3: different times during that the you know, the software times,

7:53 Speaker 3: so you have you never would.

7:55 Speaker 1: You never disengaged entirely from it.

7:57 Speaker 3: Well, I mean there were years where I did almost

7:59 Speaker 3: nothing with it, and the guitar sort of stayed in

8:01 Speaker 3: the closet. But I had the guitars, and then every

8:03 Speaker 3: few years I would sort of, you know, open up

8:06 Speaker 3: like logic pro and try to figure out some more

8:09 Speaker 3: stuff on it and maybe do a few songs on it.

8:11 Speaker 3: And then and then stopped for a while and sort

8:14 Speaker 3: of would it would come and go. And we had

8:16 Speaker 3: you know, in a family in there, we had kids

8:18 Speaker 3: in there, so a whole bunch of things happened. But

8:22 Speaker 3: I always loved that, and there was an aspect of creating,

8:26 Speaker 3: writing songs and creating songs and recording them and doing

8:29 Speaker 3: the whole thing that that I loved. And you know,

8:32 Speaker 3: back in back in the University of Michigan, I ended

8:34 Speaker 3: up in a dorm that had a recording studio in

8:37 Speaker 3: the basement, the student run recording studio, and learned a

8:39 Speaker 3: whole bunch of stuff back then about doing this on

8:41 Speaker 3: you know, build a real tape recording and things like that,

8:44 Speaker 3: and I just loved doing it. And so every once

8:48 Speaker 3: in a while I would, you know, do with some

8:50 Speaker 3: more of that. And then it was the point where

8:53 Speaker 3: it's like I've I think I'm done with the full

8:56 Speaker 3: time software thing.

8:57 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it wasn't more that I really wanted

8:59 Speaker 2: to get out of it.

9:02 Speaker 3: And and during the pandemic, we bought a place up

9:07 Speaker 3: here on Midbey Island and it had a four car

9:09 Speaker 3: garage and I don't have four cars, so took half

9:13 Speaker 3: of that and made it into a little studio.

9:15 Speaker 1: Nice Nice made it.

9:17 Speaker 3: Soundproof so that when you're recording a song, I think

9:22 Speaker 3: musician will know this, that you play it the same

9:24 Speaker 3: part over and over and over and over and over again.

9:26 Speaker 3: And to anybody who's not involved in that it's really annoying,

9:31 Speaker 3: but if you're doing it, you need to do that

9:33 Speaker 3: so you can hear it. Then you're making all these

9:35 Speaker 3: little fine tweets and stuff like that. So building a

9:37 Speaker 3: room that was soundproofed meant that I could do that

9:40 Speaker 3: and not bother anybody else, right, And I could do

9:44 Speaker 3: that without having any you know, cars or dogs or

9:47 Speaker 3: whatever it is, barking while I'm trying to record vocals

9:50 Speaker 3: or guitars or something like that. So once it's out

9:53 Speaker 3: the space, it was like, okay, wait, I could do

9:55 Speaker 3: this for real now. And that sort of coincided with

10:01 Speaker 3: the hey, I'm sort of feel like I'm done with

10:04 Speaker 3: the software business, and which has an ironic twist on

10:08 Speaker 3: that one, but.

10:08 Speaker 2: We'll get that later, okay, okay.

10:11 Speaker 3: And uh yeah, so I started. I just started writing

10:14 Speaker 3: songs and realized that I can. I can do this

10:16 Speaker 3: full time now. And I think that's what you know,

10:21 Speaker 3: twenty to thirty years and software will do for at least,

10:23 Speaker 3: let's set up we can you can.

10:25 Speaker 2: Dedicate time with this. Yeah, I'm very appreciative of that.

10:29 Speaker 3: And so yeah, so I started doing this all the time,

10:31 Speaker 3: and then writing with other people and and getting involved

10:37 Speaker 3: with you know, a bunch of different songwriter communities and

10:41 Speaker 3: collaborating and and writing with other groups of people and

10:45 Speaker 3: and producing the songs. And uh did my first album

10:51 Speaker 3: very early. Actually, I go back and look at them, like,

10:53 Speaker 3: there's some songs in there I love, but it's it's

10:55 Speaker 3: clearly early. Yeah. But then I spent a bunch you know,

10:58 Speaker 3: I just did a lot of and you do a

11:01 Speaker 3: lot of it, and you keep you know, keep at it,

11:04 Speaker 3: and you.

11:05 Speaker 2: Get better at it.

11:06 Speaker 3: And yeah, so the songs have gotten better, the production

11:09 Speaker 3: has gotten better, the collaborations have gotten better, and uh, yeah,

11:13 Speaker 3: so I just love that. It's just so satisfying to

11:16 Speaker 3: be able to come in here each day and just

11:18 Speaker 3: work on it and write some new songs. And and

11:21 Speaker 3: the tough part is keeping track of all of it,

11:23 Speaker 3: because there's a lot.

11:23 Speaker 1: Right right, no doubt are you? Are you doing everything yourself?

11:27 Speaker 1: In terms of the instruments, is all the playing on these?

11:32 Speaker 1: Is that all you.

11:33 Speaker 2: Yeah, these are all me okay.

11:36 Speaker 3: And uh and and I as you'll you know, you've

11:39 Speaker 3: listened to it. So there's a few songs where I

11:40 Speaker 3: have some guest vocalists in yeah, uh, and those usually

11:45 Speaker 3: off off of those people that I write with, you know,

11:47 Speaker 3: they'll they'll they'll join in for for you know, one

11:50 Speaker 3: of the songs we collaborate on, But most of the

11:52 Speaker 3: songs there are just me. I. I wrote to myselves

11:54 Speaker 3: and produced the whole thing and recorded.

11:56 Speaker 2: And it's all me.

11:57 Speaker 1: Okay wow. I mean that must be incredibly liberating. I

12:00 Speaker 1: mean it sounds like you enjoy collaboration. But at the

12:03 Speaker 1: same time, I would imagine to be able to do

12:06 Speaker 1: so much of it yourself, aside from you know, guest

12:08 Speaker 1: vocalists as you mentioned. I mean, that's got to be

12:10 Speaker 1: pretty pretty satisfying, I would guess, and it is.

12:13 Speaker 3: I think it comes from a you know, I don't

12:16 Speaker 3: maybe not the best place of I don't like getting

12:18 Speaker 3: stuck or I'm blocked on waiting for someone else to.

12:21 Speaker 2: Be able to finish something, right, yep.

12:24 Speaker 3: And if it was a point where it's like, oh,

12:25 Speaker 3: I'd love to do more, but oh this person's I

12:27 Speaker 3: need them to do this, but they're busy, or that

12:30 Speaker 3: you know, I can't get back, they won't get back

12:31 Speaker 3: in touch with me, or those kinds of things, and

12:33 Speaker 3: I just I hate the idea of being stuck. Yes, yes,

12:37 Speaker 3: blocked on it, and so by being able to do

12:40 Speaker 3: any of the parts, I'm never blocked, right, So I

12:44 Speaker 3: can always finish songs and release them and those kinds

12:47 Speaker 3: of things, and I'm not stuck behind someone else. But

12:50 Speaker 3: at the same time, you know, a having there are

12:54 Speaker 3: songs that I write sometimes that we write that are

12:57 Speaker 3: songs to be sung by a woman. I can't do that,

13:03 Speaker 3: and so that's you know, it's it's having having a

13:06 Speaker 3: group of people that I can write with or or

13:08 Speaker 3: call on say hey, I think the song would be

13:10 Speaker 3: amazing with your voice, and having to be able to

13:12 Speaker 3: jump in is is just wonderful.

13:14 Speaker 1: Well with AI tools though, and and you know this,

13:17 Speaker 1: you probably could. Uh.

13:20 Speaker 3: I've played around with that a little bit, but I

13:23 Speaker 3: don't like. I don't like the results. I mean, they're

13:25 Speaker 3: getting better, but it's there's something that's that definitely feels more, uh,

13:33 Speaker 3: you know, connecting, Yeah, an actual person singing it with

13:37 Speaker 3: the A. I mean sometimes the A voices are a

13:39 Speaker 3: little bit too perfect. Sometimes they're you know, they don't

13:42 Speaker 3: they don't breathe because they don't have to breathe the

13:45 Speaker 3: way that they sing something, you know, it starts to

13:50 Speaker 3: feel something just a little bit off in it, and

13:54 Speaker 3: so yeah, it's it's you know, so I've tried it

13:57 Speaker 3: and and for you know, when if I'm writing something

13:59 Speaker 3: for a film or a TV show or something like that,

14:02 Speaker 3: then you know, something for for a sync opportunity. It

14:05 Speaker 3: doesn't quite matter as much if you use some of

14:07 Speaker 3: those things sometimes. But yeah, but if but if I

14:10 Speaker 3: can get it, you know, actual person seeing it, it's

14:11 Speaker 3: always going to feel a bit more connected.

14:13 Speaker 1: Right right. Have you been surprised by by the reception

14:18 Speaker 1: I saw Let's see I saw something here from Spill

14:21 Speaker 1: magazine said it's infectious, feel good rock, introspection and hope

14:25 Speaker 1: A Sonics Morgas Sport. That's pretty cool. That's that's that's

14:30 Speaker 1: definitely I praise.

14:32 Speaker 2: Yeah, it always been great.

14:35 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been just a little over months since the

14:37 Speaker 3: album came out, uh, and yeah, it's been really just

14:41 Speaker 3: wonderful to see you know, the the reviews of it

14:44 Speaker 3: have been great. The people I've heard from who've listened

14:47 Speaker 3: to it, I've really enjoyed it. It's it's a there's

14:50 Speaker 3: a lot of different sort of it's a little bit

14:52 Speaker 3: more stylistically diverse in my second album, which is a

14:54 Speaker 3: little bit more sort of power pop pop, you know,

14:57 Speaker 3: uh pop punk type stuff. Yeah, and this album has

15:00 Speaker 3: some of that certainly, but you know, with with songs

15:04 Speaker 3: like you know, Isotope and Falling from Down, which are

15:08 Speaker 3: definitely harder rock kind of songs, which and I come from,

15:12 Speaker 3: you know, in in in those bands in the ages,

15:15 Speaker 3: we've played a lot of you know, hard rock metal

15:17 Speaker 3: songs like Black Sabbath and yeah, you know whatever, and

15:21 Speaker 3: so I love a good crunchy guitar part. Yeah, uh,

15:26 Speaker 3: and so I was really I loved doing those tunes.

15:29 Speaker 3: But then songs like You at My Door, which has

15:32 Speaker 3: Leleana Tani singing on it, is you know, a more

15:36 Speaker 3: sort of traditional piano ballad song but with a bit

15:40 Speaker 3: of a shift in it, twist in the story, and

15:44 Speaker 3: that's you know, that was sort of a different thing.

15:46 Speaker 3: But I just loved that song so much that that

15:48 Speaker 3: parton was like, I just want to have it on

15:49 Speaker 3: the album. And then when I and I got her

15:51 Speaker 3: to singing it was great. Yeah.

15:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm curious too. I have to ask you, and

15:56 Speaker 1: you probably got this question a lot, but being where

15:59 Speaker 1: you are geographic, I mean, has that influenced your sound

16:02 Speaker 1: at all? Or I mean being in Seattle or Seattle.

16:07 Speaker 1: Are you actually in Seattle or even one of those suburbs.

16:09 Speaker 3: I was in Seattle. I lived in Seattle. You know,

16:11 Speaker 3: we lived in Seattle until so we brought this place

16:14 Speaker 3: up here and and uh so, and I you know,

16:19 Speaker 3: I've been in the area for since the nineties, so

16:22 Speaker 3: it's yeah, we've been all over the airplace in the

16:25 Speaker 3: area basically. But yeah, we were in in in Seattle

16:28 Speaker 3: proper for a while, which was great.

16:32 Speaker 2: Uh until the pandemic.

16:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yep, less so, I mean it was still fine,

16:39 Speaker 3: but it was you know, you couldn't go do a

16:40 Speaker 3: lot of the things that that were great about being

16:42 Speaker 3: in the city, right uh and uh yeah, so I

16:47 Speaker 3: mean I I you know, I love the Seattle bands,

16:50 Speaker 3: particular from the nineties to Pearl Jam and and and

16:54 Speaker 3: Nirvana and Sound Garden and you know, all of that

16:57 Speaker 3: sound is just you know, was huge, and there's a

17:01 Speaker 3: lot of nineties sound in what I do. Yeah, yeah, absolutely,

17:06 Speaker 3: so yeah, absolutely, you know, it was it's a huge influence.

17:08 Speaker 3: I wasn't actually here for most of the nineties, so

17:10 Speaker 3: I wasn't here during the early nineties when all the

17:13 Speaker 3: stuff was happening because I was in Massachusetts then, but

17:17 Speaker 3: it was uh, yeah, it's it's it's still part of

17:21 Speaker 3: the feel here. Going to go to the airport and

17:23 Speaker 3: there's all sorts of you know, pictures in the airport

17:26 Speaker 3: of of Pearl Jam and Nirvana. I can imagine, yeah,

17:30 Speaker 3: Hendrix and and all these you know things, because it's

17:32 Speaker 3: just a big part of what Seattle is and uh

17:35 Speaker 3: and the feel is still there.

17:37 Speaker 1: For that, yeah, yeah, no doubt. Well, by the way,

17:39 Speaker 1: where does the name audio guests come from? What's the

17:42 Speaker 1: meaning behind audio gusts?

17:44 Speaker 3: So I guess there's two parts of it. One, I

17:47 Speaker 3: can't use my regular name, Chris Evans, because there's an

17:51 Speaker 3: awful lot of them out there.

17:52 Speaker 1: Yeah, common common name, one of them being very famous,

17:54 Speaker 1: some of them.

17:55 Speaker 3: Are very well known. Yeah, depending on where you are.

17:57 Speaker 3: There's another one in England who's very well known.

18:02 Speaker 2: Uh.

18:02 Speaker 3: And so I needed to have an artist name that

18:05 Speaker 3: was something else. So audio gust is a it was

18:09 Speaker 3: something that I could that I could get that was

18:11 Speaker 3: you know available.

18:12 Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, there weren't a lot of other

18:14 Speaker 2: people doing it.

18:17 Speaker 3: But you could think of like singing as just sort

18:19 Speaker 3: of a combination of wind, air and sound. Yeah, and

18:24 Speaker 3: all sound really is sort of waves and it's just

18:26 Speaker 3: sort of vibrations through the air.

18:28 Speaker 2: So it's you know, it's moving air. It is is

18:31 Speaker 2: sort of a sound, it is motion, it is.

18:36 Speaker 3: Yeah, just sort of a cross of of of sound

18:39 Speaker 3: and motion.

18:40 Speaker 1: Yeah, that makes sense, makes sense. I like it. It's

18:43 Speaker 1: a cool name. Definitely a cool name. We're almost out

18:46 Speaker 1: of time, Chris, it goes quickly. What's the ironic twist

18:50 Speaker 1: about your software career?

18:52 Speaker 3: So, as I was writing all of these songs and

18:56 Speaker 3: and when you write a song, there's a whole bunch

18:58 Speaker 3: of information you need to track along it, like for

19:00 Speaker 3: of course, what are the lyrics and what key is

19:02 Speaker 3: it in? But also like what what do I need

19:04 Speaker 3: to do still on this recording of it? And you

19:07 Speaker 3: know where if I registered it with the different all

19:09 Speaker 3: the different places you register songs with, and what's the

19:11 Speaker 3: link to it on Spotify versus Apple Music versus whatever else?

19:15 Speaker 3: And so I did what a software guy does, is

19:17 Speaker 3: I wrote an app I used to track all of

19:20 Speaker 3: my songs and all of my recordings and all the

19:22 Speaker 3: people that I write with and and the current state

19:25 Speaker 3: of all of them. And I've recently realized after you know,

19:29 Speaker 3: showing a bunch of people and letting them sort of

19:30 Speaker 3: play around with it that I need to release this

19:32 Speaker 3: app because it's a really really useful tool for songwriters

19:35 Speaker 3: and music producers and such to do this. So sometime

19:40 Speaker 3: in the next month or two, I'm going to be

19:41 Speaker 3: releasing this app called studio Notes, which is exactly that.

19:45 Speaker 3: It's an app for organizing all of your songs. And

19:49 Speaker 3: and it's not you know, we don't I don't store

19:50 Speaker 3: the music on there. They's playing a place where can

19:52 Speaker 3: actually stow the files. But it's yeah, it's all of

19:56 Speaker 3: the information about all of the songs you write, and

19:58 Speaker 3: the recordings of them, the current state of them, and

20:01 Speaker 3: collaborations and who's signed what agreements and all of those

20:04 Speaker 3: kinds of things.

20:05 Speaker 1: Oh, that is extremely cool and very useful, and I'm

20:07 Speaker 1: sure a lot of our listeners will enjoy hearing about

20:09 Speaker 1: that because you know, a lot of a lot of

20:11 Speaker 1: musicians and you know people who make up our audience.

20:14 Speaker 1: There's a lot of musicians, a lot of industry people.

20:15 Speaker 1: So that's that's very cool. So it's called studio Notes.

20:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, and and the website is up right now.

20:21 Speaker 3: You can't actually the store app is not in the

20:23 Speaker 3: story yet, Okay, studio is studio notes dot app. Okay,

20:27 Speaker 3: probably shouldn't have said that, but I did because the

20:30 Speaker 3: website's up there. The link to go to the store,

20:32 Speaker 3: of course doesn't work yet because yep, it's not in

20:33 Speaker 3: the store. But if you know, if anybody's curious, you

20:35 Speaker 3: can go see what it's about, and you know, send

20:39 Speaker 3: me a comment or whatever if you're interested, and I'll

20:41 Speaker 3: make sure to let everybody who.

20:43 Speaker 2: Does know when it's actually a up in life of

20:46 Speaker 2: the store. But I'm sort of finishing it up now.

20:47 Speaker 1: Oh, extremely cool, very good, very good, Chris. This is

20:50 Speaker 1: I wish we had more time. I could definitely talk

20:52 Speaker 1: to you longer. You're you're an interesting guy, and I'm

20:54 Speaker 1: very I love your love your music. But but yes, yes,

20:59 Speaker 1: we are approaching the top the hour, so we'll start

21:00 Speaker 1: to wind down. I'm going to close the segment with

21:04 Speaker 1: this track Easier that we were talking about. This is

21:06 Speaker 1: another another great song from the album. But where's the

21:09 Speaker 1: best place for people to go to learn more and

21:11 Speaker 1: keep up with everything that that you're doing, as audio gusts.

21:16 Speaker 3: Audio gust dot com is the website perfect sort of

21:20 Speaker 3: the center of everything. You can follow me of course

21:22 Speaker 3: on Audio guest Music, on on Instagram or you know,

21:26 Speaker 3: I'm in Threads and a bunch of those places. But yeah,

21:29 Speaker 3: the core of that would be allio guests dot Com

21:31 Speaker 3: is where I usually try keep everything.

21:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, ups dte Yeah, absolutely, absolutely well, Chris, thank you

21:37 Speaker 1: so much. We're going to play this track in a

21:39 Speaker 1: moment easier. Love love the love the song, and I

21:43 Speaker 1: love the album, and congratulations on on everything that you're doing.

21:47 Speaker 1: And we look forward to having you back when you've

21:50 Speaker 1: got new music or jeez, we might even have you

21:52 Speaker 1: back on sooner to talk about the app when it

21:54 Speaker 1: when it comes out, because like I said, I think

21:55 Speaker 1: a lot of our listeners would be very interested in that.

21:57 Speaker 1: But I love the album Falling from Down. Everyone should

22:00 Speaker 1: listen to the whole thing. It's it's really really good.

22:02 Speaker 1: Uh So we'll hit that track and we'll let you

22:04 Speaker 1: go for now. But Chris Evans Audio Gust, thank you

22:07 Speaker 1: so much and we'll talk to you soon.

22:09 Speaker 2: Thank you. I appreciate that much.

22:10 Speaker 1: All right, absolutely, take care, bye bye. All right, what

22:14 Speaker 1: an interesting guy. Chris Evans. Is project is Audio Gust.

22:17 Speaker 1: We're gonna play this track easier, and we are rapidly

22:21 Speaker 1: approaching the end of the show, so that'll probably be

22:23 Speaker 1: it for this week. Thank you to everybody who joined

22:25 Speaker 1: us today. Of course the guys from Down Boys, they

22:27 Speaker 1: were in studio with us. That was wonderful. We talked

22:30 Speaker 1: to Jesse Killgus and Dots and Moon and a nice

22:34 Speaker 1: busy show. And uh, let's see if you want to

22:38 Speaker 1: keep up with everything I'm doing. Sometimes I forget to

22:41 Speaker 1: plug my own website Matt connorton dot com. If you

22:43 Speaker 1: miss any part of today's show, it will be up

22:45 Speaker 1: in just a little bit Wmnhradio dot org and at

22:48 Speaker 1: my website Matt Connorton dot com. And that's gonna do

22:51 Speaker 1: it for us for now. We're gonna talk to you

22:53 Speaker 1: a little bit later by everybody. And here it is.

22:55 Speaker 1: This is easier and the project is Audio Gust