4500

I started on a 7/8 rhythm today, but ran out of time to turn it into a full song, so I granularized the recording a bit into this noise composition.

Steam train keeps moving forward

Drone beat experiment with Korg Gadget

I’m out of words today. Feels like I’m running on autopilot to get these done.

I felt like i was at the end of a creative rope, and then this came out, in a bit of a different direction than most of the other stuff. The drums are attempting to be in 3, but with a polyrhythmic phasing snare pattern, and the Block Party granular acts as a flourish, rather than a focal point. It’s good to turn the tables on your creative processes sometimes.

Messing around with the Bram Bos apps, Xynthesizr, and some contrabass sounds. There’s a point here where this feels a bit rote, and like the routine is devoid of real creative thought, where like, what did I actually do to make and conceptualize this? It feels a bit like Tetris - sometimes you don’t choose what pieces fall down next, but you just move them around as they fall.

Though I spent a chunk of the morning experimenting with sequencing and sample slicing, I wound up here, with a riff that came up a couple of days ago when working on a previous song. I suppose this marks an interesting point of parallel thought: more than one idea comes out in the process of making the days song, and so it may carry over to another day, whether it’s this riff, or the still-unfinished experiment from this morning.

After two days of guitar and vocals, I thought I'd run a synth through the Block Party rig. The source synth patch is the same as from Sunday of the Dead. I'm noticing that I'm inclined to violate the 45 second constraint more and more with these ambient pieces, as it doesn't feel like enough time for the piece to fully develop. Perhaps tempo is a relevant part to this as well... Note: original title redacted, because emoji broke the RSS feed.

Some pieces of the puzzle are edges, four are corners, but most are somewhere in the middle. Made with guitar, vocals, and Block Party by Rodrigo Constanzo.

Day 30. One full month of songs.. It’s been a while since I’ve had the time to do a full guitar multitrack, but I managed to squeeze it in today. It was also a bit of an emotionally trying day, so it felt appropriate to add some vocals in here.

polyrhythmic fuzz arpeggiation. this is a sort of noodling that i found to be hypnotic over a longer period of time. when constrained to 45 seconds, it only barely has time to develop. a point of intrigue is the fine line between harmonic chordal mush and the melodic movement within. Note: original title redacted, because emoji appears to have broken the RSS feed.

Sometimes, the composition lies in the corners... I came up with a few other parts that I intended to mix in with this, but I decided to toss them out at the last moment, as it felt like too much to try to develop over 45 seconds. And even limiting it to these sounds, it still came out almost a minute over time. It's an interesting feeling to be at a point in the project where full parts get discarded. It feels like an editing luxury that I couldn't afford in the first days, and possibly won't be able to afford due to time in some of the upcoming ones.

An experiment in recreating boomerang delay by hand, with some granular textures, and low-mix deutend fluttering wandering melodies

Onions crinkling, and a causal inflection point between the effected and the source. Entering the second quarter of the project, I’m finding that even the simplest of tracks still take at least an hour or two of recording, editing, production, and publishing work. Ideally I would be writing more here, but the time is scarce, and the song is the important part.

A continuation of Shallow End, into a longer piece.

4500/024: Shallow End by auxels

Actually number 23, woops.

4500/022: Headwind by auxels

would’ve been 32 today, but you are still gone

4500/020: Sunday of the Dead by auxels