I'd approached this week with the thought of changing some working methods. While some things stayed the same (one guitar, no inline tone shaping, common click track), this time the guitar lines are mostly more spacious, and the structure more tenuous and intuitive.

In previous weeks, I was able to edit tracks down easily--if everything's 4/4, with clearly defined phrases, edit points are obvious. With this piece, aggressive editing also removed the vibe. It was easy to crush this one accidentally. What I ended up doing was recording from session view to arrangement view, triggering clips in the session view, and then tweaking a few things later. That preserved the fragile development of the piece. It also led to a structure that was kind of linear in order of tracking, though that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The individual parts varied between 6/4 and 4/4, some with pauses at the end, and some without. I also used a volume pedal for rolling off the attack on some notes. There's convolution reverb, and the usual compression/eq on the stereo mix. It's kind of a vibe.

The title comes from the minor planet 492 Gismonda.

Had my mind on other things this week but had enough time to return to lofi clicky atmos.

A track that is a bit all over the place. Sometimes moody, sometimes whimsical. I think it's one of those tracks that would benefit a lot from being kept in a cold place without sunlight and get revisited later. There are good ideas but it's a bit much in some places and not enough in others.

Short and sweet. I love the core melody here. I had bigger plans for it.. but honestly, If I do something with it, it will be like a whole new song anyway..

There is a part that uses a detuned instrument.. and I was sort of trying to get it to fit into key.. but I couldn't get the instrument into the same key or tuning as everything else. I'm not really sure.. I basically can only hear that it's wrong, but I don't know what would make it right. If anyone has any insight on that- I'd love to know!

Thanks for listening! cheers!