Made this on the bus ride to a research center to investigate various neurodivergencies.
That's not important, what's important is that this was made in Gadget, for the first time in a long time. Maybe not an amazing song, but it's still pleasant.
After getting the Artnoise re.corder, it was only logical that I do something with it for this month! My initial experiments very much sounded like a pipe band, so I decided to lean into that for St Patrick's day. I tossed some crowd ambience onto it and had the band fade out at the end like they're marching away. Because it's the old joke - why do pipe bands march? To get away from the noise!
My work today was playing around with the breath response curves and seeing how to best get it to respond. I can choose the channel it sends breath on, so I mapped that to expression and let Logic take care of relative volume. Overall, not bad! There's a bunch of other expressions that can be sent relative to position and roll - makes me think that a recorder-based Theremin is reasonable :)
Here it is, my submission for February. Doesn't it sound like waves rising, splashing, crashing and fading?
It's a lot faster than my last track, as I'm trying to get closer to the genre I like.
As usual, everything you hear was me playing the Digitone and Digitakt live into a DAW, no overbridge and no editing except some gain adjustment on the Master - I hope I got it right this time! Performing this cleanly is still an adventure, though, and every take sounds different. I don't know, I just want to "audition" a small change that I made and then I get carried away and perform the whole thing! This means that of all the time I spent on this track, I probably spent half of it just performing and that was super fun.
Then again, there's a lot of things I don't like about this track and I'll probably do a lot of things differently next time. But I feel much more prepared since now I have tons of samples and sounds that I can hopefully reuse in the future.
Almost all sounds were created using my Digitone. In fact, there are only two samples in this track that I did not create myself! Can you tell which ones?
Usually, being in the flow is considered as a positive state but I noticed that you could also be in the flow when you fall into a routine. You let yourself going with the flow without trying to diverge from it, whether you like it or not.
Well, this month, I tried to keep afloat and ride the river of everyday life. I attended a jam and went to a live concert with friends performing. It helped me to stay out of the routine.
However, I didn't have much time to doodle and compose on a regular basis. I still could record something and that's what this challenge is about, right?
So here it is, an ambient track with the Deluge and the CPM DS-2 (Stylophone) recorded on the Zoom L-12. It's a bit more constructed than last month, which is not that hard, but I hope that the layout of the music is not too apparent.
Maybe next month I'll bring even more structure by adding a more distinct rhythm and, why not, some drums.
Thanks for listening and for your feedback!
If it's January, it must be time for Darkwave again!
This track grew out of reorganizing my studio and playing with hardware again. Track is sequenced in Logic, then recorded to audio tracks for more mixing. Samples are mangled with Logic's Remix FX plug. Took me a while to get the mix right - it was nice having the extra time for tweaking!
Samples are from Jail Bait (1954, public domain).
Hardware used: Wasp, K2, Jt4000 Micro, 2600, TD3, RD6, and AmbientØ (plus guitar)
Heeeeey!!! Look who's back!!!
It's not your favorite, I'm sorry. But hey, it's not your least favorite either, is it? Well, I sure hope not...
Anyways, after doing 52 unbroken weeks I decided to take a bit of a break from the constant music making, so I didn't do much for the first few weeks of 2025. So much so that, when the end of Jan came around, I noticed I had nothing to show for!
I had sat down to make music a couple of times, but I barely got anywhere beyond little loops with little structure to them. It was surprisingly difficult to get myself to just complete something!
But today, I finally sat down with a purpose and made this little thing in about 2h. And I'm really glad I did!!! Is it my favorite piece of music? Absolutely not. But do I think it's hot garbage that deserves to be burnt and forgotten and its family cursed for eternity? Also no! Somewhere in the middle there.
Not even sure what to classify this as. Chiptune-adjascent weird stuff, I think. Maybe not even that.
Anyways, I hope y'all enjoy the weirdness! Looking forward to listening to y'all's stuff <3
Peace, folks!!!
