Madeleine Bloom

Category: Ramblings

  • The Odyssey of Getting Well

    Damn. It’s been close to two years since I last wrote on here. If you’re one of the few people who come back to my site once in a while, you have surely noticed that…

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  • Happy New Year 2016 or The Patient Patient

    A very happy, healthy and creative new year to all of the few readers I probably have left on this blog. An update has been long overdue, but I’ve got a good reason why it’s…

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  • What To Do With All Those To Dos

    I’ve been meaning to write an update for a long time, but I didn’t really know what to write. It would’ve gone something like this: still stuck in the songs, it seems I’ve lost all…

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  • A Little Update

    Here’s a little update that’s been long overdue. Four songs for the new album are done now. For two more I still need to record and mix in some more vocals. It’s really just another…

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  • Slow Down Snail Style

    So here I am months after I wanted to have the first six songs of the album finished and only two are done. The thing is, I’d often rather read, hang out or do some…

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  • Where to Go from Here?

    Last month I played an electronic live jam together with Donna Maya and Aschka. Three women, three laptops, two Ableton Pushs, one Akai APC40 and zero rehearsing. We’d never played together before or even seen…

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  • Where I’m At

    It’s been ages since I’ve been blogging or vblogging regularly. Over the course of the last year and a half I’ve started my business Sonic Bloom through which I teach music production with Ableton Live…

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  • Things Gotta Change

    Instead of playing my first ever Google Hangout concert last Sunday, I spent the day on the couch with a migraine. Hours and hours of preparing for it, and then hours of agony and in…

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  • Good and bad news

    Recently I have become very absent minded and erratic. The reason for this is simple. Due to unforseen circumstances I’m running behind with the preparations for the release. So I get impatient because things don’t…

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  • Sparks of ideas and last call for Mingle

    Despite trying my best to live healthy I got a Bronchitis last week and am still getting over the last bit of it. Let’s hope I’m done with being sick for this year and it’ll…

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  • Midsummer in May

    I’m sitting on my balcony after a truly brilliant day. After being stuck in the stuffy and hot office for two and a half days I felt really restless and needed to get out of…

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  • One done

    Today I finished the first song, ‘Afterglow’. Just in time to shoot the ‘Making of the Song’ video tomorrow and edit it together with the recording footage. The video will be up on YouTube and…

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  • Plans

    I meant to write this already a couple of days ago, but we’ve had visitors almost non stop and I simply didn’t get around to it. First my boyfriend’s 4-year-old niece and parents were here,…

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  • State of Emergency

    First of all, sorry for being absent everywhere for so long. This was not my intention, but I’ve been going through a string of illnesses and felt it necessary to concentrate on getting better and…

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  • My new year’s resolution

    I’m on the train back home to Berlin. It’s still dark outside as I’m writing this on my iPad. I’m not a fan of new year’s resolutions because most of the time you end up…

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  • How?

    Happy New Year to you! May 2012 turn out to be an amazing year all around! 🙂 New Year is the time where you look back at what you’ve achieved and when you make plans.…

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  • Stock-taking

    I’m sitting on my couch, listening to the state of the songs I have so far. This is the second attempt at writing a catch up post, but the last was swallowed by WordPress for…

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  • Don’t sell yourself short

    or: Why I canceled the gigs this week The concert on Tuesday was an absolute disaster for me. Instead of being able to focus on the performance I was battling serious feedback issues. And why?…

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  • First Sicily… then the world

    The new year has begun and it’s the perfect time for hatching new plans and setting things in motion. It seems I can set myself one big goal to achieve for each year. 2008 was…

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  • Remixed

    This blog entry is all about remixes. FiXT Remix Vs Madeleine Bloom Tomorrow (Friday, July 16) the remix contest for Zero Tolerance will commence. The stems and all the info can be found at FiXT…

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  • At the Watertower (Live)

    You might have read my tweets when I prepared for my gig at the watertower in Bernau and wondered why on earth I would spend so much time sorting out the live setup, troubleshooting and…

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  • Closeup No. 1: In Time

    There are always people asking what sound is what somewhere in my songs. So how about a little making of blog post for each new song here? For now written, maybe later as little video…

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  • A Question for You

    Hi blossoms, I’ve got a question for you. Those of you who follow this blog already know about Mingle – the Minutia Remix Project. The first 6 remixes are fantastic and waiting to be downloaded for…

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  • Making of the Special Edition

    Hi there,     I meant to write this post months ago, but then so many things happened and needed to be done, I felt the urge to work on new songs etc. Alas, here it comes…

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