no trope tickets, i'm just going to do spooky stuff for the month.

this one shaped up a little differently in process, although the results are similar to what i often produce. i almost always start off with a beat of some kind, but this time i recorded all the instrument tracks with the metronome and then arranged and added a couple suitable grooves from MT power drummer after the fact. i was really feeling the piano and bass working together, everything else just got layered on for flavor.

stock ableton 'grand piano', bass thru some simple eq, guitar through Guitar Rig5, and both synth voices from SymptohmPE.

Late monday night submit. Was going to submit several hours ago, had this exact submit form with uploaded finished mastered file, decided to take a final listen in order to come up with something to write here about. When the track ended I realized that it should not be the end. The track wanted more! During the process of writing the first half I was thinking that this chopped piano samples remind me of one of my favorite tracks by Tim Hecker(https://youtu.be/CqR1AVs18vI ) and I started trying to achieve similar broken melodies. It took me hours to realize that I need to stop.

Piano part is some free lofi piano loop sliced in ableton's simpler. No arpeggiators, everything is written by hand.

The pad chord in the second half is Em9 which is lovely, but not sure if I mixed it correctly maybe should've lowered hi freqs or something like that.

The first track by myself on this site which actually sounds like a real track(to my ears at least :)

Tried to write a spooky song for October

Early in the week, I had a funky drum beat in my mind, and threw it together with Ableton's 64-pad rock kit. I didn't have a chance to put guitar on it right away, so I temporarily filled the track in with a looped field recording from my back yard. Gradually, keys went on (filtered Analog), and I added bass. Finally, late Sunday, I had a few minutes to put guitar (Res-O-Glas, Vox Wah) on, and then I cut down the field recordings significantly, as well as slowing speed and dropping pitch.

In-the-box processing:
Drums: Drum Buss, vinyl distortion. (I'd got it into my mind that this would add character.)
Bass: EQ-8, with bass rolloff.
Guitar: Auto-Filter high/low pass with drive.
Field recordings: Auto-Filter high/low pass, auto-pan

Sends: convolution reverb, Echo ("A Bit Tipsy" with time changed and noise/wobble reduced). Full-chain master on the 2-bus.

Title from Fermi's name for element 94 (plutonium) when he'd thought he'd discovered it--"hesperium." (He didn't.)

I was traveling so I uploaded my only song this week.

In mathematics, fractals are self-similar structures that occur at different levels of iteration or magnification. Sierpinski triangle is obtained from a triangle by applying an infinite series of subdivision operations. This melody is a one from the set of possible melodies which are in some sense close musical equivalents to Sierpinski triangle. The self-similarity will become apparent when some tones are silenced. The remaining sequence will nearly resemble an original one in respect to its rhythm and melody.

The sequence is produced by computing the values of expression t * t, where t is variable taking successive integer values from 0 to infinity. In this version, the obtained number is clamped using logical AND operation to contain lower 31bits. The resulting bits are then concatenated to form a continuous sequence of notes such that all contiguous 1's form notes, and 0's form silence. For each bit, the sequence of notes is then mapped to notes of a selected musical scale.

I'll need to remaster this at some point as I made this with a heavy cold and am literally deaf in one ear. Anyway, .been wanting to an epic chunky amen track for a while.

Another Hauntology piece...

I did not have time to properly finish this one, but here you go.