windy walk

In keeping the weekly composition commitment, sometimes the composition and recording have to bend to fit the rest of life. This one started with a quick session late Friday, another late Saturday, and a few snippets recorded Sunday afternoon.

The composition process is essentially similar to what I'd been doing: record something, respond to it in two other channels, mute two, record two others, mute the first, record a third, etc. This tends to maintain an identity of an idea, and a piece can kind of flow from it. For this one, I let myself stretch out in a couple sections, and let a melodic thought continue for a while.

Lately I've been getting the sense that the Res-O-Glas guitar I'd built ten years ago wanted to speak more. Its neck is very comfortable, and (since I wired in a Varitone for the tone capacitor), there's a wide range of bassy tonal options. Sometimes, though, these can appear muffled, and a few parts could have used less rolloff.

No inline effects, but there are sends to a convolution reverb. (I'm getting the feeling to play with delays again, so next week might be a little more shoegazy.) And the multiband compression/eq on the stereo.

The title comes from British Columbia's Sea-to-Sky Corridor, in area code 604.

I'm trying to do an album elsewhere so not uploading so much stuff here, but here's something I made in VCVrack. Haf (pronounced "haav") is Welsh for summer, and I saw HAF25 as a discount code on a website.

A track quickly put together. I took a week off and did not spend much time on music except playing with my new drums set. I don't like the mix here, it's a bit muddy especially in the second half, but this will have to do for this week.