The OP-XY has become the backbone of my method, and my favorite toy is currently en route to teenage.engineering for an RMA. One of the buttons was finicky and I couldn't stand it anymore, but that means I'm without it for the week.
I started this song awhile ago on the OP-1, before I had the OP-XY. I finished it today for my weekly upload, because I had mostly run out of time. I like this song, but still struggle with the OP-1 workflow.
In a couple of short late-night sessions, I came up with a few themes that had a bit of a resonance. I was interested in doing something with varying levels, but abandoned most of that, with the exception of a pedal tone audible in a few places. (Maybe next week's will follow through with this.)
This one's three tracks of PureSalem Mendiola straight into the UA Volt, with some convolution reverb and the usual compression/eq on the stereo mix.
The title comes from a small town at the northern end of PA Route 580.
Hectic week so rather rushed this, and I really would have liked to start this sooner as it has some nice sounds in it, plus I love tricky drums which you can do really well in a tracker. Could have left this until next week but nah, discipline!
for record production month, i'm doing a house EP, because i wanted to do something with some restrictions, like... 'okay it's going to be 120bpm, you can only use 4 on the floor drums, and you should be able to dance to it'. i am not being very strict on the definition of 'house'. i know my stuff is gonna wind up being noisy and weird anyway, but it's the idea of starting from a stronger and simpler, more restricted foundation to give me the opportunity to rein it in a little.
i started this song and i was pretty excited! i downloaded one of those band in the box style phone apps to help me with writing a good chord sequence and having a sense of how it would sound in the arrangement, which helped massively in separating out the compositional and production process. i arranged the main parts, thinking. okay. this is good. i like it. but it is not Dante yet. it needs more STUFF. so then i did my usual nonsense on it and now it is like this.
i dont think any DAW file has made my computer take off like a jet engine than this one. i'm usually super lazy with my automations but this one absolutely needed it because of the amount of competing elements to juggle. but i'm excited, because the fact i am thinking about juggling them and not just attempting to shove them into one giant, inedible sandwich was exactly why i needed to do this.
i spent my entire weekend on this and it might legitimately be my favourite thing i've ever made. i may come to regret saying this once the listening fatigue wears off.
snippet from my radio show outro - last night - w guestappearance by Mel Logan from COS
program: https://o94.at/programm/sendung/id/2387220 (soon on mixcloud)
promoting my new album wondereel on fals.ch
https://f4lsch.bandcamp.com/album/wondereel
I tried something a bit different this week. The youtube rabbit hole took me to watch the corridor fight sequence in the movie Old Boy. This inspired me to try out scoring that scene. So I used the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwIIDzrVVdc , removed all the audio and then added music, beat and sound effects.
This was fun! The hardest part was setting a consistent beat that would work with the scene, as of course it that scene was not shot to a click. I am quite happy with the result as it was a fun experiment.
I suggest starting the video above at the same time as the track if you are curious to see what the result looks like.
missed weekly music :3
