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“Regretfulnot” is about simultaneously regretting and not regretting

My debut album as Big Stitch is a six-track EP titled “Regretfulnot.” The album is tightly thematic. It explores my experience of (re)discovering, living in, falling in love with, and leaving Nova Scotia, Canada. That experience led to a peculiar emotional state of joyful disappointment. (Or disappointing joy?) Making the album was an existential reflection centered on the idea of regret. It’s about processing regret when I don’t believe in regret (or at least its validity). In other words, the album simultaneously represents regret and the absence of regret—the paradox of both being equally true. My spiritual center is Buddhism. […]

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Genre makes me anxious

I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t insecure about my prospects for success doing music and audio professional full-time. There’s a lot in that sentence to unpack, which I will do down the road. But writing the post about what Big Stitch’s genre is (or genres are?) got me reflecting on genre (yet again). Simply put, thinking about genre makes me think I won’t be able to find an audience and will not be able to build a community and connect with individuals who enjoy my music or my music-making process. Why? Well, as is my nature, I’ve done

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What is Big Stitch’s genre?

So what is Big Stitch? Well, it’s me and exploring musical ideas, audio processing methods, sound sources, and social messages/meanings that I’m curious about right now. Specifically, I’m interested in combining acoustic music/instruments with electronic music, as well as field recordings and found sound (typically spoken word) focused both relatively timely issues of the day and universal themes across those issues. Of course, people and algorithms want tidy genre labels. There are four ways I can answer that. The first is what genre tag I chose when I submitted my upcoming album (it’s done! …more on that below) for distribution.

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Big Stitch is a go!

I am kicking off my music project, Big Stitch. This kick-off is for me more than you. I need to uncork this thing so I can start sharing & leaning into Big Stitch. The website is enough: it’s live. If you go there, you’ll see my first album is done too! https://scottmiles.studio

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Let’s work together

I’m available for podcast production, reporting, interview script writing, story editing, dialogue editing, music production, composing, scoring, sound design, audio editing, mixing, and recording. I am also available for teaching and facilitating workshops on most of those topics. I can also provide fact-checking, subject matter expertise, and story consultation for stories and shows dealing with many topics, particularly climate, environmental, political, social, and urban change.

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(Past) Houston Public Media’s The Bayou Download

For Houston Public Media, I was the producer for a pilot podcast called The Bayou Download. I wrote interview script, wrote backgrounders for the host, edited the story, edited the audio, and scored with music I composed specifically for the episodes. Unfortunately, things happened at HPM, re-structuring, budget changes, staffing changes–that resulted in the several pilot episodes we produced never getting released. I plan to post the episodes here soon. The stories and productions are quite good. At least I’m proud of them and it’s a shame they never got out to the public.

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(Past) Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey

My first experience working on a podcast was as a producer for Houston Public Media’s Below the Waterlines podcast. It’s about how Houston was (and is) recovering from Hurricane Harvey. I had pitched the idea to HPM (and other outlets) but not gotten a response. So I started producing the podcast on my own. Independent of my pitch, the HPM enterprise team started to plan their Hurricane Harvey podcast. One of the reporters, Katie Watkins, that I had reached out to on LinkedIn eventually did reply to say they were interested in working with me. I met with her editor,

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