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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...

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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.