part 4 -

My working methods on this track have been consistent with the last few years--I like the immediacy of plugging in, the tonal variety of fingers on strings, and the ability to concentrate on melody, harmony, and rhythm. That said, I'm looking for opportunities to vary my playing here.

Given my limited time this week, there's not too much of a change...but there's more elasticity in a few sections, as I went with more intuitive timing, rather than click-driven timing. There are a few of these intuitively timed sections, and the piece is a full beat shorter than it would have been if I'd followed the click. This week's track required three short sessions: late Friday night, and two Saturday. Editing this one Sunday turned out to require more effort to make these intuitive pauses work.

This one's a bit late for the Weekly Beats UTC 0:00 cutoff, but at Streak Club, I'm treating 0:00 Eastern as the cutoff.

While I tracked a few bits with the Wardenclyffe, going for the effect of switching it in and out for emphasis...those sections became more of a distraction from the flow, so I took them out. As a result, there are no inline effects here, and only a bit of convolution reverb and multiband compression/eq.

The title comes from a little village in the Lake District, which is reached by the A593 road.

i used the exact same set of instruments as the track i transcribed this week (except for vocals) and just tried to see how i could make something different from the same components. i totally shifted genre, which wasn't my initial intention but made perfect sense to me. 5 hours is seeming to be the sweet spot in terms of getting enough detail that it is interesting to me and worth the effort, but it's also very achievable in a week. i guess if you factor in transcription time, there was probably about 5 hours of extra preparation time.

i had so much fun writing this!!! i massively struggled to write something of a similar genre last year, so this is pretty huge for me. i am definitely stretching the definitions of 'chamber prog' - the string ensemble is more cinematic/orchestral. but i would say despite that and despite it being inevitably a little rough around the edges given the timescale... i'm pretty happy with it all in all 👍

I had some fun playing drones from Arkhis, Pharlight, Straylight. It lacks structure a tad too much but it was good changing my workflow.