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This week's scale was supposed to be "Oriental No2" which has semitone values 0-3-1-1-3-1-2-1. In practice I ended up choosing Db and C a lot, which are the 3rd and 4th scale degrees (and a major 11th apart lol), and centering there. So I guess you could say I went with a mode of the scale, most likely double harmonic major. Don't you think it's hard when the scale goes straight up to an augmented second...? Anyway, the result is a on the happier side but with some mud thrown on it. That's why this one is a muddy bubble corridor.

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Similar instrumentation to last week - four synths, one drum machine, extra shaped noise - but a different structure, bouncing between the main theme and three short breaks.

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This is a second experiment with a 17-note scale.  This time it is the Avicenna scale, and according to the Scala description, it is "Tuning by Avicenna (Ibn Sina), Ahmed Mahmud Hifni, Cairo, 1977". Which I think means, given that Ibn Sina died in 1037, that this is Mr. Hifni's 1977 interpretation of much older material.

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My aims for doing something differently this week:

Go nuts with spectral processingProcess the master track

Process notes on my blog, as always.

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Made on the Dirtywave M8, then compressed in SP404 and then thrown through Ozone in Ableton

Quite tricky dealing with sub bass on this, as when i played it through shitty speakers it was half the song, however when distorting the bass to be heard on shit speakers it lost the feel I was after.

So.. it comes with a cavate:

'best listened to with good speakers or headphones'

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some improv ambient for you all

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Been very short on time (Last work week before vacation, you know the drill), so this is a quick, ambient-ish dub techno something.

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This is a PSX-style track with a bevy of inspirations. I knew I wanted to do a jungle track, but I also wanted it to chop up several simultaneous instances of the same beat like Megaton Walk from Earthbound, and then I wanted the melody to be a harmonized sax line. There were some other ideas that went into it but I can't give away all my secrets 😉

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This is a mini-epic about a space disaster with a reference to Greek mythology.  It might be the most ambitious song I've attempted this year so far.  It certainly utilized the most tracks in Reaper. I garbled some of the vocals to simulate the glitchy communication signals.  Then I switched it up at the end so you can hear the other side of the conversation, although I suppose it's not really a "conversation" as neither side can hear or understand each other.

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Leda we're losing your signal do you copy?

^@*+#*

Trying to trace your path from your last know coordinates

^@*+#*

Rescue ship's set its course towards the constellation Cygnus

Now just hang on and please don't disappear on us completely

Leda did you never learn to steer clear of swans?

^@*+#*

Don't know what's gone wrong but surely it's an omen

^@*+#*

I know you're still there somewhere floating through cold and silence

I never wanted this just hang on Leda please don't leave me

^@*+#*

^@*+#*

System's locked up and alarms have started ringing

^@*+#*

We're losing power can anybody hear me?

^@*+#*

Never understood the true meaning of endless

^@*+#*

Surrounded on every side by purest nothing

^@*+#*

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