I purchased a new audio interface this week, which allowed me to add multiple instruments to my recordings. Because of this, I started the drums on the Syntakt, then routed sync into the OP-XY for the synth sounds.
The song came together pretty quickly after I had the drums laid out. I added some of the background sound layers and then worked on the melody. Once I found the first riff the rest of the melody came into being relatively easily as well.
Last week, I was hearing the music channeled by the PureSalem Mendiola in standard tuning, and hearing it again this week. This past Friday was also the 50th anniversary of Keith Jarrett's famous concert in Köln, so I started this one with an Am7 > G motion, to see where that would take me. As it turned out, it took me somewhere melodic, through gentle expressions of several emotions. I could easily have made this longer...but thought to keep it under four minutes.
Three channels of PureSalem Mendiola with five-year-old strings, direct into the UA Volt. Some large-hall convolution reverb, and the usual multiband compression/eq on the stereo main.
The title comes from minor planet 578 Happelia, a tiny thing with (possibly) a tiny moon.
I was out of the country for most of the week and had to try to find something this Sunday. Some arps, a chord progression, a loop, and here you go. Hey, I actually don't dislike it but it would really need more time and polish to go beyond. This feels more like a teaser trailer track. :)
walk in the woods frozen snow
rec with iphone
i wrote two things this week, which were both intended for this challenge. this one was the easiest to finish, so i went with it - it came out of finding a cool set of chords while writing my first idea and wanting to expand on it, and the rest came very naturally.
there is more polish i would want to do with more time, but i decided to leave it there so i had a chance of finishing my second track too, in the same week (i was hoping the second song would count for week 1, which i never completed cause i didn't realise the challenge started on january 1st 😂)
(ALSO: i never noticed but all three tracks so far start in the key of D. should i just keep writing songs in D for this challenge??? lmao)
