With my OP-XY still out for RMA, I struggled to come up with something this week. I finally sat down with my Syntakt and decided to try to come up with something I liked. I was moderately successful, here. I have a hard time getting the Syntakt to make the sounds that I want it to. In other words, I spend a lot of time just fiddling with knobs and stuff, rather than making the beat better. I tried to include some sounds from the M8, but ended up scrapping that side of the song.
This isn't my best, but it's a submission, and that's more than I had this morning!
Stylistically this is in keeping with the recent all-guitar pieces. I'd started with the thought of something sparser, but in the actual playing, things got a bit busier. Time for a change soon, I think.
Three tracks of microtonal Tele Deluxe parts caster fretted with just intonation intervals, going through the Reuss Effects Understate to give it a bit of sparkle.
In Ableton, there's the convolution reverb and a bit of compression/eq.
The title comes from the River Yarrow, which tracks alongside the A581 for a while.
Edit: updated the file to fix a couple too-obvious edits.
Having a go at some driving krautrock-style beats that sort of sound like a more synthetic version of Simple Headphone Mind by Stereolab. Maybe a little too compressed, can never get these things right, but it does sound really solid to me and frankly that's what counts.
EDIT: I re-rendered it and did a bit of work . Obviously if you didn't hear the original you won't hear the difference, but just saying.
Or how to milk a 4 chord progression in so many ways.
Maybe the soundtrack to a super accelerated movie of how silicon life started on another planet.
A stormy, snow-covered winter landscape . Frost clings to every branch of the trees, turning them into crystalline sculptures. Beneath the soft, untouched snow, faint animal tracks weave through the white expanse—silent traces of life braving the cold.
