oof i am cutting it CLOSE this week!

i wish i had more time to refine this but... this was primarily an experiment. so that's fine. this is an elody electric recorder, and honestly when i started this whole thing i was thinking, i hope that i will get to the point of actually playing and recording this thing again. i hadn't played in 8 years! so... we did it!

i do plan on doing some actual tunes but for now. this is just improvised noodling, randomised drums, and a layer of gross beat for good measure. maybe it will still be a fun listen. i had fun making it at least!

i plan for this to be be my last month of weekly music for this year, so i've got some break time. but, i will be filling in the two weeks that i missed, and i will be back in 2026 for the full 52 weekly beats!

I'd started this week's piece late--Saturday night, recording some microtonal just intonation guitar figures...that weren't quite suggesting other sections, and which didn't fit together well.

Simultaneously, I'd been working on redeveloping a Max/MSP patch based on Jaap Vink's feedback patch at the Institute of Sonology. I'd been working on adding blend controls for modulation, some additional filtering, and a separate tremolo, remaking the UI, and...adding live audio input as a way of getting the feedback started. So obviously I should try the guitar as a feedback trigger.

So this is really a study toward some future work. Out of eight channels, I'd hooked up four, though only two work. We hear some guitar (microtonal just intonation Tele Deluxe) playing a few notes into one channel, and then into another. Everything else in this piece is the sound of those original few notes going through the patch, over and over, getting gradually degraded by inline reverb, some ring modulation, some auto-limiting, and a bit of eq.

The result...is interesting. I'll have some additional work to do to make this really playable, but it's a promising direction.

The title comes from Gurranes Stone Row, which is just off the Irish regional road R596.

Missed a load of weeks through a combination of lack of inspiration and doing other stuff, but here's a bit of VCVrack stuff.

Arps and breakbeats on fl studio, and an acoustic guitar break (programmed).