snippet from lifeshow at Hyblerpark aug1st vienna

when you don't have a song, a structure, or an idea. you can just play the lick a bunch of times

While the weekend was busy, I managed to make time to put together this intuitively structured piece. Initially I recorded a fingerpicked pattern that doesn't appear in the final piece, but which gave shape to it, as it was in 3/4. I'd recorded several other parts in response to it, some of which worked better than others. Some of the mid-stream rejects worked well together, and got pulled back into the final piece. And some parts ended up in 4/4, some of them together, and some against 3/4. Some transitions made more sense if they were a beat or a fraction of a beat shorter, or longer...so we have sections that start a little before or after I ordinarily would have had them.

Three tracks of no-effect PureSalem Mendiola, plus the convolution reverb send and stereo-mix compression/eq.

The title comes from Long Strand, off of Ireland's regional route 598.

Really enjoying using VCVRack now for these sort of drifty, beatless sounds, stuff that's difficult to make in Renoise.

I have a lot of things to do this weekend and could not spend much time on a track. As an exercise, I reserved one hour to do everything - from opening the DAW to submission. Here is the resulting track.