Started 14 days ago (2024-12-30T05:00:00Z).
Ends 349 days from now (2025-12-29T05:00:00Z).
Compose and produce a new piece of music each week. Your submission is due every Monday at 04:59 UTC (Sunday 11:59EST). You should aim for at least one minute of music, and should be created that week.
Late submissions: Late submissions are open. If you miss a deadline you can still submit by clicking the week on the calendar to the right. If you submit late, your post will get a big Late tag, but it will still count for your streak.
(Description lifted from Leafo's 2017 description--thanks, Leafo!)
Have a question for this streak?Ask a question...Another koala effort. Going to export it to Ableton for next week's submission and develop it a bit instead of it being rather bare bones. Happy with it though as a someone who doesn't really seem to get much that sounds fully fledged out of iOS apps! No real mastering at all, just straight from the app.
More all-guitar, and once again the Tele Deluxe fretted for 24-to-the-2/1 just intonation. I'd wanted something a bit more spacious than the last few, which manifests in the pauses for notes to fade out. Like last week, this also makes use of the (Reuss Effects Understate)[https://www.reusseffects.com/en-us/products/understate] for a bit of tone-shaping before it hits the UA Volt.
The title is from the River Allow, which is crossed by R576 at Kanturk. (I probably should have saved this title for piece 579.)
This song started as an attempt to see what I could do with the bass from the OP-XY and the Overdrive preset on the ZOIA. I really liked the sound, and came up with the bass loop pretty quickly.
I then spent the week messing around with melody, and laid down a few of my favorite little riffs. The arrangement came together pretty quickly after that, and then I spent the last few days tweaking the mix and trying to get the best sound out of this song as possible.
Overall I'm super happy with the result, and feel like this might be the clearest 'track' that I've put together so far.
I started this track wanted to make a mix of Sergio Leone music and 80s Chinese kung fu music but that ended up being a strange trip hop synthwave track with koto. I kinda enjoy it but it took quite some time to make something somewhat coherent out of it.
reminiscence about our trip to Italy as strolling along the stream, the gentle sound of flowing water bringing back memories.
Was having a look at some loopers in VCVrack this week. Will probably do more glitchy looping stuff in the future no doubt.
hello! first weekly song ever! ah! uploaded in a rush, for i must go on a trip tomorrow. (in fact immediately after posting i noticed the tail was SO long but i was in such a rush to upload that i forgot to save the audio file i edited. so. there is like a minute of silence at the end. but let's just call that part of the track :))
I have been mainlining DJMAX Respect V for like... the past month. I love the 90s/2000s tracks from earlier games that just sound SO obnoxious and of their time. I have no idea what subgenre this is other than "cheesy as all hell". But I had a ton of fun making it.
Future weeks will probably not be this dense or complicated... but then again, I like dense and complicated :D
I made this one evening as the snow was falling outside of my window. The song started as just chord exploration, but expanded to some sound design. I found a delay preset on the ZOIA called Snowfall, and I started trying to make twinkly snowflake sounds. I arrived at this.
I added some slow drums and continued tweaking the sounds, eventually linking 3 separate sounds together, all being run through the ZOIA's delay and the OP-XY's reverb.
As far as 'songs' go, this one isn't my best, but I'm happy with the feeling it elicites, and I am happy to upload it as my first song for this streak.
one of the first sketches I did in koala a while ago. kind of happy with the jaunty feel of it but not sure if it can be taken much further so happy to leave it as a rough beat idea.
Happy new year! This one is similar to the last few years of guitar-only pieces I can put together in a few sessions, though there's a bit of a departure: I'd wanted to build a guitar with a neck fretted for just intonation, so I could experiment with precise intervals and precise difference tones. This piece started with the fingerpicking pattern you hear first, which foregrounds some of those difference tones, rather than sticking with consonance. Timing is a bit loose; I'd wanted to play with a little more elastic quality.
This ended up being a bit tricky to edit: initially, it was about six, seven minutes, though I reduced all of the sections to half, and took out a few. While I liked the suspension of time there, it maybe got a bit too meander-y at this slow tempo.
For this piece, I'm also reintroducing a pedal--in this case, the Reuss Effects Understate, which is a clean boost. The parts panned center and left get this, while the bridge pickup (panned right) does not. Otherwise, everything's straight into the UA Volt, which has a pretty good overdriven sound you can hear on some peaks.
There's some convolution reverb send, and the usual light compression/eq on the stereo channel.
The title comes from the somewhat arduous process of finding places with 575 feet of elevation above sea level. I ended up throwing in the towel and going with Presque Isle's Gull Point, which does have some patches surveyed at 575.
This is not exactly the track I wanted to do. I heard a song that mixed good rock, electronic, and shamisen and wanted to capture that. But I struggled with it overall so this ended up being a half baked shamisen/synthwave track. A track is a track, that still counts!
Happy new year 2025 and thank you OneZero for creating the streak this year again.
Back for another year, starting off with some spooky ambient made with VCVRack. I love the software but haven't figured out good ways to get well-mastered output from it, so you get some mad frequencies now and again. Still, I'm quite happy with this one.
This track is called Dust and sweeps away the remnants of the old year, making room for something new.
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