Please consider listening with headphones as there is some swearing in the lyrics. As previously, I would be happy to replace with a clean version if required by the moderators or site admins.
This one is super close to the edge on the weekly deadline. I actually started making an entirely different track at the start of the week, became frustrated with the process of the sound design for that track... recorded demo vocals for this one on an impulse since I had just finished writing them. Those are still the vocals in the track because I had no time to rerecord with my proper setup. I had originally hoped to do some kind of... screamed vocals which I could not hope to sing in the middle of the night on a school night.
SO MUCH tweaking I wish I could do, if not for the terms of the challenge. But for now, I'm pretty happy with the overall vibe, even if it's rough around the edges.
Though this is a song about chronic insomnia and the general (gestures vaguely) of the world right now, this has truly been a helpful challenge in allowing me to channel my sleepless nights into better things. :)
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.
