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1_i'm trying to live as a creative

update 1:

We all died the second 'creative' changed from a verb to a noun. And just like real life, I can't make anyone stick around. I had a killer release today, and I feel like it doesn't matter. So many other great songs released, too. I like thinking that mine sounds different, feels different, the visuals are different. But they're almost not. Is it? Maybe not, the more I looked at others' work the more I saw that they put just as much feeling into theirs as I did mine. Sometimes I do not feel special.

May 16, 2025

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Secret (industry)

I have a secret I wanted to tell here (and only here).

So as many of you know, Concrete Cylinder released yesterday. This was a collaboration with Underground Retreats. When I uploaded this song to Spotify, I had done like three mixes of it and had three files that were basically done. I polished one perfectly, and meant to upload it, but I genuinely do not remember WHICH version of the song I ended up actually put on platforms. It was supposed to be a specific file. So I uploaded this to streaming services (Apple, Spotify, etc.) and I was scared I uploaded the wrong file. For 2 weeks I was like “damn what file did I upload for concrete” and I had no idea. And when the song came out and I finally listened to it guess what. I thought I’d know what mix I uploaded. BUT I CANT TELL LMFAO. IM THE ONE WHO MIXED IT. I feel dumb asf lmfao. And I think I did upload the wrong mix only because of one delay that I hear that isn’t loud enough with the compressor and I swear I fixed. So I think concrete cylinder is actually the ‘wrong mix’ - technically. That’s not to say I’m not proud of it, I am. And it’s still basically the same as the version I meant to put out; no one would ever be able to tell. I guess music industry things I have to start getting used to?

Concrete cylinder,

Carla,

May 17, 2025

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CONCRETE CYLINDER IS OUT

SPOTIFY

APPLE

YOUTUBE

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carla grace - concrete cylinder (concept)

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i would've been so unstoppable with loving and supportive parents

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March 2025

Carla Grace, Lostboy, Valerian & Bodega,

Photgraphed by Mar'bello.

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cylinder beach - carla grace (2025/26)

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trains (original image concept) (2024, carla grace)

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concrete cylinder - carla grace (2025)

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It’s weird thinking about how far I’ve come. It’s even stranger thinking about how far I still need to go. When I was a kid I had either imagination or intuition - I craved specifically to play a piano with a computer keyboard. I do that everyday now (I mean not really because I do like the physical MIDI but I do sometimes/could use the laptop keys u know) which is weird. It’s like I saw my future. It’s also strange to me I’ve always known I was going to be a musician. I’ve always wanted to make my own music - now I do. Definitely no easy task but I’m proud of how much I’ve learned, and accomplishments that ARE crazy for me to have done already that I forget about on the daily cause I’m stressing about the new projects. Always dreamed about my future husband and I’ve met him, on top of that, he’s better than I ever would’ve imagined. I have my own home, cats who love me (and they’re super cute). I have so much to be grateful for. I’m thinking to myself but for me I think the best things in life show up when they’re the least expected. Finding Midnight on the street, finding Lostboy in the house. And when I feared for years I would never have a husband or even live long enough to have my own place, I still ended up doing it. I ended up finding a husband when I wasn’t looking for one. So if we can accomplish some goals without even trying, why do I fear not accomplishing the goals I’ve been working towards for 15 or so years now? Maybe it’s because they’re the absolute hardest of the rest of the goals, maybe it’s because I have the most time invested in them and passion for it. Oh the long game.

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Mario Galaxy 1 is the best game in the history of mankind

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cylinder beach core

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Carla Grace: Miami w/ Lostboy & Vinny Poe

5/3/2025

Update: We opened up a strip club. Strippers were super nice. Went to Benihana’s or however tf u spell it. Slept in the car. Gone for 36 hours or something. Lostboy performed, indeed a great night.

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Concrete cylinder is definitely my best song to date wtf. It just holds so much raw energy and emotion and wow I miss where that song is about holy fuck

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Making music is fun & easy

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announcement

i think this is going to be my main platform. not for marketing purposes or anything, but just a blog. i feel like it'll be fun linking videos, showing what i'm doing, giving sneak peeks and behind the scenes stuff. not only that, but i think it'll age the best. imagine 10 years from now everybody just has this old carla blog to go back to. so i'm gonna do my best to post stuff with dates and all. i'm currently going into my 9th month married to lostboy. we've got two cats, one who i picked up off the streets in tampa sometime in 2022 and one he picked up off the streets in 2024 recently. their names are midnight & luna and theyre making a ruckus right now.

I have so many goals i want to work on so i try to get them all out of my head by writing them all down, but by the time i finish the list it's overwhelming. I've struggled with this for a minute, but recently i've had some good luck breaking the tasks down and getting things done.

Now that I've accomplished so many of those big tasks I've set out to do, they either need upkeep or I have to release them (songs i've told myself to make, etc.) Weird part is that a lot of them are dramatically different genres, so I'm not sure how to release them. Figuring it out now, but I think I've made nearing 100 hours of music in 2024 total.

I've only been making more since. It's all I want to do. even on days when I'm like, 'oh god, I need a break, I'm going to set out to not open Logic Pro today' I end up getting ideas and doing it anyway. That was the case yesterday and it happens super regularly.

Some more things I've been doing include experimenting with more synths, studying lots of different genres out of my main zones and their structures, studying different kinds of global notes. I just enjoy learning about theory and applying different types of experimentation to sounds so much - It's like I need to know everything there is to know about music theory, recording, and mixing. It's like crack to me. I'm hoping I can really work towards becoming a great artist and being the person who I truly want to be before finding any mainstream success in music. I look forward to all the projects I've been planning, working on, and the future ones. I'm really impressed with my own improvement. I'm impressed with my dedication, but not surprised regarding it. It's strange because I've always known this is what I was going to do, and I've always taken steps towards it. That's why I started playing guitar at 12, doing any vocal lesson programs in school they had even earlier than that. I've just known. So even though I feel like I've been training for this race my whole life, I still have a lot of training to complete. There's always more to learn.

I feel like working with others in my field, specifically Bodega (bless his soul for all the instrumentals he sends me, I have probably 70 just since last june), and others like Dani Val and Roger Rodes, who welcomed me into their beautiful studio and set me up with Logic Pro for the first time for me to experiment when they 1000% didn't need to - have been more help to me than I can express or write. I'm so grateful to work with so many incredibly talented individuals. I'm so excited for the future, and making art.

Carla

3/28/25