The Bottle of Beef Blog

My name is paul. p(nmi)t is my musical alter ego. Over the last few years i have created a fairly large body of music available at http://pa...

Whether you know it or not, most musicians don't make any money. There are all sorts of nebulous ideas floating around about royalties, ...

In the last couple days i wrote a little piece and recorded a couple versions. All in all that's about 3 hours of real work. The daw ver...

Step 1 - don't write an album. Sitting down to create 7 or 8 or 14 tracks that play nice together is a recipe for not finishing at all. ...

1- the Galapagos islands are by definition an archipelago. Water is one of the primary associations/images of my music work. The tracks also...

Every once in a while i get this strange urge to demand that people give me money for creating music. It usually passes. Why would anyone ...

Why do i create music? Noone buys my recordings, noone wants to learn to play my music, and very few people other than myself have listened ...