It's been a while. I have been at my lowest ebb creatively for some years and really not felt able to complete anything, so I didn't push it, built up a hunger.
Just finished building a new PC and have spent the last couple of weeks getting it up and running with all my favourite software including VCVrack, and here's the first one off the new computer, basically more ambient because that's what I'm really feeling a need to make these days.
Going to be honest and say music isn't my main focus at the moment, but I hope I find some inspiration soon and feel the magic again. This is more VCVrack, layering lots of stuff.
I made this not so much as music but more an aid for a sort of meditation/concentration exercise. The first 30 seconds will give you an idea of what you get for the full duration, there's very little variation by design other than the shifting time programmed in.
I was fighting the urge to play in some variation, modulate the filters more, bring mere elements in over time, but it felt right to keep it as even as possible all the way through, and that takes some courage in a world where it feels like you have to add detail to everything and keep it varied.
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.
More modular this week, VCVrack as always as I'm not made of money.
Inspired by the sort of hazy sunshine you get at this time of year ere in the UK at least, warm and pleasant, with the trees still bare.
Never sure how much to compress these sorts of melodic drones, the one part sticks out a bit too much but it's always an experiment.
Something totally different this week. I have found that listening to really minimal ambient music really helps me disconnect and relax, get into the mood for a good sleep. So I decided to make my own sounds. Uploading this mainly because it's music and I made it this week although I really did make this for my own personal use and don't really expect anyone to listen to it.
Love autumn and winter, plus I've been listening to a lot of stuff on the 12k label at work, and I'd been wanting to do something a little more free-form and live than previously. Really like this if I'm being honest.
It's bloody hot in the UK and I just heard a thing on the radio about icecream vans contributing to global emissions. So here's a nice ditty inspired by hearing vans going around the town as a kid. You don't hear them any more.
Just smashing a piano* and chopping it up. I really like the sound of this even if it's been done to death elsewhere.
After much messing about this is my first proper VCVRack patch. Slowly getting the hang of it. A great example of learning by doing.
