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Looking out at the fall leaves, now many on the ground, decaying. Sinking.

Needed inspiration on a Friday afternoon off. Ready to create something from scratch. Wanted to play live. Setup something new, tongue drum and the roland handsonic on either side of the drum kit. Mixer and laptop close at and. Went back and forth between them and jammed for a long time. Stopping to loop parts to play along with. Live looping would have been ideal, maybe I'll figure that out someday. Setting up take a long time and can be an inspiration dampener too.

Thought about adding more parts today, but I liked the idea of just using what I recorded, nested in my corner surrounded by percussion, getting lost in rhythms.

Many ways the edit could go here, I'm only part happy with the edit/mix, but very happy I spent a Friday afternoon off this way.

And this may be the first time I've remembered the time change and uploaded the track on time after it, progresssssss

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2nd in my attempt at the yoga chakra suite. Transition from root to sacral

› lyrics‹ lyricsVerse 1

Once, I'd succumbed to be numb

I couldn't overcome the static and the hum

From the pictures in the glass, my feeds the algorithm

The problem is the other, The solution, on tip of their tongue

Jehovah Rogan and Paul, Jake said you can have it all

But I didn't listen, I tuned out it all

Now it isn't different, its just a different prison

Craving feeling, and lacking self control

Chorus

Hold on

I can hold on

No need for guns drawn

But its taking too long

Hold on

I can hold on

No need for guns drawn

The wound healed over but I still taste salt

Verse 2

New lease on life, with a 5 star safety rating

Linoleum knife, and I find it irritating

Want my pulse to spike, constant anticipating

sour taste of dislike, sacrum flow dysregulated

Flooded all the banks, now it doesn't hit the same

Appetite inflates, dopamine saturates

Chorus

Hold on

I can hold on

No need for guns drawn

But its taking too long

Hold on

I can hold on

No need for guns drawn

The wound healed over but I still taste salt

Bridge

When the ocean recedes, the chakra unlocks

Balance the wants and the needs, and we can feel agency

› idea and narrative‹ idea and narrativeSacral Chakra

Transition: stepping from foundation once survival needs are met and there’s security underfoot into needs unwind into sensation, pleasure, play, desire

› rhyme worksheet‹ rhyme worksheet

› song history‹ song history## Summary

Sacral Chakra began as a song idea created on 5/17/2026 and was actively revised on 11/1/2026 through a concentrated series of edits that built verse text, introduced and reworked a repeating chorus, and added a short bridge. Over the Nov 1 session the lyrics moved from tentative fragments toward the current structure: a grounded Verse 1 that names sensory disruption and external feeds, a Chorus of repeated reassurance/impasse, a Verse 2 that sketches overcorrection and dopamine imagery, and a Bridge that explicitly invokes water/flow and agency. Major turning points documented in the revision history: (1) expanding the opening fragment into an explicit line about the "static and the hum" and adding the feed/image line; (2) inserting named cultural references and shifting “the solution” phrasing from singular/personal to plural/other-focused ("on tip of their tongue"); (3) creating and iterating the Chorus (including the recurring "Hold on / I can hold on" and the line "No need for guns drawn"); and (4) replacing an initial "Verse 3" placeholder with a Bridge that uses ocean/chakra language and the phrase "we can feel agency."

## Writing Sessions

1) Nov 1, 2026 — 5:45–5:48 PM: opening-line expansion and feed/image line

- Added an initial fragment and quickly expanded it into a concrete sensory line about background noise:

> I couldn't overcome the static and the hum

- Added a line placing mediated images as part of that disturbance:

> From the pictures in the glass, my feeds the algorithm

2) Nov 1, 2026 — 5:51–5:55 PM: clarifying “the problem” and inserting named references

- The "problem" line was clarified and a longer clause about “the solution” was introduced, then followed by an explicit cultural-name turn:

> The problem is the other, The solution, is at the tip of my tongue

> Jehovah Rogan and Paul, Jake said you can have it all

- Subsequent edits adjust that phrasing (see session 3) to shift perspective.

3) Nov 1, 2026 — 6:01–6:06 PM: tightening verse phrasing and shifting agency wording

- Added lines describing a missed cue and a changed prison metaphor:

> But I didn't listen and I broke my fall

> Now it isn't different, its just a different prison

- The "solution" phrasing was revised from "is at the tip of my tongue" to a depersonalized/third-person form:

> The problem is the other, The solution, on tip of their tongue

- Reworked sensory/craving lines into a tighter statement:

> Craving feeling, and lacking self control

- Adjusted listening/tuning phrasing:

> But I didn't listen, I tuned out it all

- Reworked "instability and addiction..." into:

> instability addiction to a rhythm on a different drum

4) Nov 1, 2026 — 6:08–6:28 PM: chorus creation and multiple chorus-line iterations

- Introduced a Chorus built around repetition and a holding motif:

> Hold on

> I can hold on

> Hold on

> But its taking too long

- Line edits replaced one repetition with the safer-sounding reassurance:

> No need for guns drawn

> To carry on

- Later chorus iterations standardized the four-line block and then refined placement of "But its taking too long" and "No need for guns drawn" so the chorus ultimately presents the repeated "Hold on / I can hold on / No need for guns drawn" set and then a closing line that became:

> The wound healed over but I still taste salt

5) Nov 1, 2026 — 6:13–6:25 PM: polarity flips and added physical/sensory details

- The earlier conditional "I could only overcome…" was flipped to a past inability:

> I couldn't overcome the static and the hum

- Added physical-sensory specifics and short concrete images in the verse:

> Want my pulse to spike, constant anticipating

> sour taste of dislike, sacrum flow dysregulated

- Replaced an early filler chorus line with a stronger taste image that became the repeated closing line of the chorus:

> The wound healed over but I still taste salt

6) Nov 1, 2026 — 6:21–6:32 PM: verse-2 imagery and saturation language

- Added a set of Verse 2 lines that juxtapose safety language, small domestic sharpness, and reward-system saturation:

> New lease on life, with a 5 star safety rating

> Linoleum knife, and I find it irritating

> Want my pulse to spike, constant anticipating

> sour taste of dislike, sacrum flow dysregulated

> Flooded all the banks, now it doesn't hit the same

> Appetite inflates, dopamine saturates

7) Nov 1, 2026 — 6:35–6:36 PM: replacing “Verse 3” with a Bridge invoking water/agency

- A placeholder "Verse 3" was replaced by a Bridge that explicitly uses ocean/flow and names agency:

> When the ocean recedes, the chakra unlocks

> Balance the wants and the needs, and we can feel agency

Notes on process evidence: the above sequence is reconstructed from the device revision snapshots on 11/1/2026 (5:45 PM–6:36 PM) and the current assembled lyric text; minor typographic fragments and transient single-character edits were omitted unless they informed larger phrasing changes.

Created with Lyrium

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The song about us, all of us. A brief history anyway. A rather storied history at that, involving becoming plural and how each of us has a space. We each have our own section, for the most part.

We all worked on this together, every single one, as this is the week of our birthday. It's down to the wire though, so it may be a bit rough in places.

- Dalana

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Wanted to try a Digitone II only piece since I've kind of been letting my FM synthesis education sit on hold for a bit. Watched some vids to get inspo, and made some new instruments to ultimately culminate in this piece! Not the most adventurous, just catching up with a device that was getting a little dusty. The bass is a bit muddy and has a wrong note in there I didn't have time to fix, but such is Weekly Beats - a race against the clock and a battle against your own perfectionism. As far as the piece's subject matter goes, I did my annual October horror movie binge and realized that there's only so much a movie can scare you when as an adult, your worst fears are much more mundane on paper, so used that thought to come up with the name! Also with midterm elections in the US coming up this week, there's a lot of even more anxiety that's even more boring on paper. Gotta cling on to that revolutionary optimism though, 'cause through all these fears, a tough face and a willingness to go down swinging is what carries us on.

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Zero time this week. I had a little melody pop into my head so I desperately tried to flesh it out into a whole thing. Ended up noisy again, but at least I didn't start with every instrument going at once.

This one is entirely original synth patches, most of them from WB 2024 because I unearthed my M8 M:01 for this one and decided I'd give myself its battery life as a time limit. About 1 hour 45 minutes, and that includes the car mix process!

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Kept reminding myself I'd have an hour less than usual but still ran out of time, fun nonetheless!

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I was practising creating an arrangement for tracks to make them more appropriate for mixing in a DJ set

For this I took a load of reference tracks and studied the lengths of the intros and breakdowns to see how the energy levels builds up to the drop

Also for the main bass sound I was trying to recreate the sound of a preset from a synth that I tried out recently, but that was more of a jumping off point rather that a exact replica

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I'm really grateful for this community. Taking a 2+ month break was good for mua but I'm glad to be back with a mind to finish the last row, and maybe end up with 2 albums worth of worthy speedtrash / heart songs to take into a studio with a producer (or two... producers of my dreams per hapsy). I always dream of doing that on the off year, but never have.

As with every single song I've made this year on here, there are things I would definitely want to change... but the heart is there. Shout out to Nele for inspiring some of lyrics.

LOL this mix.

Wrdz:

Hi hello bonjour goodbye

You tickled my throat the other night

at first it felt like abscense with some bible

poking through.

Plath to the rescue

Some voice

that tude

it feels like i know you

Some vibe

some screw

a language for cut through

I made it to November without the

10/31/26 spirit baddies slurping up my soul

It’s cold.

It’s fearless.

At third it seemed

curled up eyes closed

flat out steam rose

curled up eyes closed

voiceless in dream worlds.

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