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I finally have access to a guitar again, so I got down with a darker slow jam, accompanied by granulated highs, and some strums glitched out sigh Shaper.

An experiment in blind recording, inspired by listening to @ioflow talk about his process on the lines sound and process podcast.

I was shooting for something a bit more sparse today. Started with a very slow Rozeta Particle Generator blasting midi into iSEM, accompanied by some granular noise, a bit of bass, and a bit of strings low in the mix. There wasn’t a particular meaning or inspiration. Sometimes noise is just noise.

Keeping it simple with a granular loop. Zone out for the weekend.

but we haven’t got a sponsor... This is a deliberately ballady pop number, inspired by a request from my friend Sean to take a shot at producing a pop track. This is what came out after an hour or so of nosing around GarageBand on my iPad.

Most of these tracks have been made towards the end of the day. Today, I flipped that approach a bit. After waking up early from jetlag, I decided to jump straight into a song, before even really getting up, and before even having coffee. The result is mellow and has a space to it that I’ve been trying to find with some of the noisier pieces. It took about an hour to track, and then another half hour to tweak the mix.

I fell off the bandwagon for a couple of days, partially due to travel (and some serious flight delays), and partly due to heavy partying on New Year’s Eve. The original thought behind this one was to come back in a sort of minimal, kraut-rocky vein, but I think I missed the mark on the latter half of that. I’ll be able to devote a bit more attention and care once the jetlag wears off.

A further distillation of some of the guitar recordings I made yesterday, barrel aged through Borderlands.

We visited a distillery today and had a tasting, with a lesson about old still pots. For this piece, I took a few guitar loops, and kept the distillation process in mind while preparing the loops in iDensity.

Had a chance to borrow my girlfriend’s dad’s guitar for a bit while visiting for the holidays. Put together this little Folk-inspired, off-time tune to kick off the second half of the project.

50 days in. A melodic line from Ribbons, juxtaposed with granulated drums and high register bells in Borderlands

Infinite reverb decay swells up over mellow piano

A drone for Christmas eve

Cold winter slow jams, with the sound of rain knocking on the window, and deep, rumbling chords.

First round of Christmas dinner jams, featuring vocal samples from family members, put together in fluxpad.

I listened to a lot of Kraftwerk today, and threw this together after a few too many burbons.

For the first time in a while, I actually came up with a sound idea before sitting down to play. The inspiration came from watching a documentary of the Cassini mission while on a flight over the Atlantic. Track photo sliced from the panorama at https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7803/?category=images

An experiment in process: first finish the drum take, then record the melody take over it. I would have liked to add a bass line, but ran out of time with packing and traveling for the holidays.

Some more experimenting with Dot Melody. This time in 7/4

Dot Melody couch collaboration with my partner.