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A kind of carelessly performed ballad, recorded while I had a flu and my throat was feeling scratchy...but I quite like the imperfections so here it is.

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I'm just a voice

In your ears

Nowhere near you

But also right here

Which makes this intimate

But also distant

You can turn it up

Or turn it off

You can shut me up

Or you can listen

Which leads to this

The Permission Slip

Do what you want

Do what feels good

But if you're open

Here's my suggestion

Do what feels good

After having done it

That's what sustains you

As time goes on

Do what feels good

After having done it

It's not always the same as

What feels good right now

Do what feels good in imagining

Do what feels good in doing it

Do what feels after having done it

That's what sustains you as you go on

But I'm just a voice

In your ears

Nowhere near you

But also here

You can shut me up

Or you can listen

Which leads to this

A Permission Slip

I have permission

To share my mission

If you listen

Then you can hear it

You don't need to

Listen

But since you're here

I might as well share it

Do what you want, my dear

But, also consider

How does it feel after you've done it

How will it feel as time goes on

Do what you want

Do what feels good

What feels good right now

And after it's done

Do what feels good in imagining

Do what feels great in doing

Do what feels good after having done it

That's what sustains you - what sustains you

That's what sustains you as you go on

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Week 20

Goal at start 5/12

Choose a reference song with layers that I can understand and try to replicate that set up.

End notes 5/15

I’m pleased with the result of this week (could have been worse). I was  more in the groove of focusing on the emotion of the melodies from the beginning, so I think that’s why it worked out.

Plan for next week

I might need to pick something easy for next week, like an ambient song or something without a lot of rhythm. There are some other things I need to get caught up on so I’ll leave the option open to dial back a bit next week.

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Just a lil Lo-Fi jam.

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Happy with the end result but not going to lie, the process to get there was a bit odd.

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Crow mating season is wrapping up and the new generation of youngsters is kicking it in our neighbourhood. I didn't have much time for music this week but I found an excerpt from an old Eowave Quadrantid Swarm jam that I'd been wanting to use for something, so I tried to clean it up, added some delay, and bam, a track, such as it is.

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A doer is someone who gets actively involved in tasks and gets things done, rather than just thinking or talking about them. They are pragmatic, energetic people who focus on taking action to turn ideas into reality.

That's what Google tells me anyways. Think about that. Someone who is intentionally evil. An evil doer is not someone you should spend your time with.

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More Tidal Cycles + Ableton Live and VSTs. This time I mostly worked with various Arturia synths, such as reproductions of the ARP 2600, Juno 6 (in my opinion, the star of this track) and Jupiter 8. I also tried out a new LinnDrum plugin that I recently bought.

I wanted to do something with an odd time signature again. This one has 5 beats in a measure. I did try to be a bit more consistent with the signature compared to last week's submission.

I made use of the sequencing possibilities in Tidal Cycles, so the arrangement was prebaked. I did manipulate the sounds (filters and so on) using a Launch Control XL.

I wonder if it would be fun to add the Tidal Cycles script that I used for this, including some notes I wrote to myself.

› script‹ script

-- patterns

let lead1 =

      struct "1 0 0 1 <0 1 0>"

      $ note " "

      # "midilead" # midichan 0

    lead2 =

      struct "0 1 0 1 <0 1>"

      $ note "g5 b4 "

      # "midilead" # midichan 1

    lead3 =

      stack [

        struct "1 0 1 0 <1 0 1>"

        $ note " " # legato 1.3

        # "midilead" # midichan 2,

        ccn 56 # ccv (slow 8 $ range 40 80 sine)

        # "midifx" # midichan 0

        ]

    bass =

      struct "0 0 1 0 1"

      $ note " "

      # "midibass" # midichan 0

    pad =

      slow 2

      $ note ""

      # "midipad" # midichan 0

    drumsA =

      stack [

        struct "1 0 1 0 0" $ midinote 36 # "mididrums" # midichan 0,

        struct "0 0 0 1 0" $ midinote 40 # "mididrums" # midichan 0,

        struct "0 < 1 [1 1]> 0 1 [1 1]" $ midinote 42 # "mididrums" # midichan 0,

        struct "<1 0 0> 0 0 0 0" $ midinote 46 # "mididrums" # midichan 0,

        struct "0 1 0 0 1" $ midinote 69 # "mididrums" # midichan 0

        ]

    drumsB =

      stack [

        struct "0 < 1 [1 1]> 0 1 [1 1]" $ midinote 42 # "mididrums" # midichan 0,

        struct "<1 0 0> 0 0 0 0" $ midinote 46 # "mididrums" # midichan 0,

        struct "0 1 0 0 1" $ midinote 69 # "mididrums" # midichan 0

        ]

    drumsC =

      stack [

        struct "1 0 1 0 0" $ midinote 36 # "mididrums" # midichan 0,

        struct "0 < 1 [1 1]> 0 1 [1 1]" $ midinote 42 # "mididrums" # midichan 0

        ]

    drumsD =

      stack [

        struct "1 0 1 0 0" $ midinote 36 # "mididrums" # midichan 0

        ]

{-

Game plan:

Lead 2 slider 1 is 6 at resting level

Start with delay send on lead 1 more or less all the way done.

Open it in the intro.

Start with pad vox filtered down and introduce vox once pad comes.

Then start filtering down lead2.

Then we lead 3 comes in, slowly filter out lead 1 and prepare for lead 2 coming back.

Then filter out vox again, maybe turn it halfway to the other sound it has.

But set it back to zero when pad finishes.

Bring back lead 1 to normal filter cutoff level.

Slowly filter out lead 2 during the break as well.

Then when the pad hits again after the break, slowly filter the vox in again.

Make sure lead2 is at default level again.

Filter out pad again when breakdown starts.

Filter everything else out later on as well. Lead 2 should be last to leave.

-}

do

  setcps(145/60/4)

  resetCycles

  d1 $ seqP [

    (0, 64, lead1),

    (96, 168, lead1)

    ]

  d2 $ seqP [

    (16, 48, lead2),

    (64, 96, lead2),

    (128, 168, lead2)

    ]

  d3 $ seqP [

    (24, 168, bass)

    ]

  d4 $ seqP [

    (48, 96, lead3),

    (112, 136, lead3)

    ]

  d5 $ seqP [

    (32, 96, pad),

    (112, 160, pad)

    ]

  d6 $ seqP [

    (24, 32, drumsD),

    (32, 48, drumsC),

    (48, 80, drumsA),

    (80, 96, drumsB),

    (96, 136, drumsA),

    (136, 160, drumsB)

    ]

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Spent the week distracted. Talked w/ AL about the reflections on slow and fast thinking, about the allocation of thought type in regard to tense consideration, connection between cultural or taught outcomes, and how it feeds into industry and the tech one we used to work in. Morality, history, and the present is forgone for a future planning. STEM heavy industry trains to lack critical thinking outside certain lanes. Those attracted to the industry often highly specialize and never build broader knowledge or skills to solve for problems with out getting into speculative loops. What can be done now or has been done historically is not a place where slow thinking is applied only a unpredictable future that needs to be tamed or claimed. There can be no reflection, only desperate attempts to grab control of the future. It is not surprising so many of us were children of immigrants trained to seek only better futures our parents didn't have at all costs, intelligent insecure people seeking validation for their social shortcomings, or those with close minded self devotions. Always re-inventing the wheel because, don't know enough history to recognized a well trodden path.

Learned about early excellence not being a good later in life outcomes. Indicators show broader and slower skill accumulation in safe environments during childhood had more sway over outcomes. It better prepared the children for adulthood by teaching them how to master and connect mixed disciplined skills, to find better specializations, and overcome unpredictable obastacles with problem solving rather than following convention. Reported worse early careers but, better long term ones. Reflected on the failure of competitive suburb status based uprbrining and "tiger mom" efficiency approaches. Complicated feelings.

Hike w/ AL for 4 hours for 8 miles in the redwoods and eucalyptus trees. Remarkably sore. Went to chiptune related concert when ask by friends after (MBR). Trashcan highlight. Talked late into the night about music. Went to re-opening favorite used shop.... mixed feelings discussed w/ wife. Ate out, she ordered too much food. We'll being eating left overs for a while :) Checking in on some discords about Superbooth stuff. Explored retrogames inspried by time trouble shooting GBA stuff tinkering with. Pulled out old video game collection hardware for a run. Strangely into car modding this week.

Media consumed: Conair (1997), Men In Black (1997), Bookworm (GBA), Golden Axe (GBA), KLAX (NES), Tetris (NES), Beamrider (A2600), Kirby All-Star (SNES) WDUWSTS NSF demos from 2009, DJ Rashad - Double cup, AFX - analog bubble bath. DJ Assult - Early 2000's B-Sides, Aphex Twin - Richard D. James, Dave Brubeck quartet - Take 5, Kaidiak - Acid Bihelical, Kaidiak × Pr0t0type - Rubber Plinth, 1* (needs more research), 2*, 3, 4, 5 (want 505 mod), 6, 7, 8,

Gear Used:

Miyoo Mini Plus (emulator)

Tascam DR-40

Software Used:

Izotope Ozone 10

Izotope RX10 De-Hum

Izotope RX10 De-Noise

Ableton

Started tinkering with FMS last week but, ran into issues w/ everdrive cart (needs new battery). Lost all progress and work 2 times before realizing the issue. Inspired to play more games and to revisit LSDJ again. Really enjoying rediscovering GBA and LSDJ (used all owned units but landed on sp). Eventually moved FMS over to emulation handheld until new battery comes in. Spent an couple of hours blindly tinkering and getting used to system and left it. Very intuitive having used other systems. Didn't really need to look up anything for basics. Spent most of free time tinkering w/ LSDJ sample kit making. Decided to just jam out test parts in FMS and call it for this week. Emulator started slowing down w/ too many echos on the main screen, so no live timber tweeks. Data screen ok. Did a warm up and then just recorded a live single take recorded to DR-40. Cleaned and mastered result in Ableton. Getting ideas for live integration w/ other material. Looking into exploring time signature layering in trackers and sequencers. Would like to explore more complicated things about rhythm in the future.

File Names: 5_15_26 FMSTESTR ableton, TEST bank 1 FMS,

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I welcome all critical feedback. Can relicense if you're interested, just ask.

This is also part of Disquiet Junto Project 750: Let's Get Heavy. Both the occasion (750 consecutive weeks of prompts!) and the particular project prompt for the week made it essentially mandatory for me to participate.

168 BPM 4/4, C-minor. A hybrid TR-909 kit with my fav Analog Rytm, with analog distortion. Pianoteq steinway. All other sounds Multipoly. No AI used in any part of the process. For this year every cover art is a photo I took. Composed, recorded, and produced in Vancouver BC.

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