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I used 12 tracks of Synth1 for this one. Didn't end up using any hardware at all, lol. Got the idea for the song in the shower on Tuesday morning. It didn't sound like a horror movie theme in my head, but those were definitely the notes I had in mind so I just rolled with it!

I tried to use some AI BS to generate a movie poster for this, but I realized what you can see in your own imagination is 1000% better than what any AI can make, so there's no point in even wasting the electricity. :)

Thanks for listening and stay safe, friends!

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This week I didn't really know what to do, so I recorded a 30 minute jam using my Korg Volca Drum, MicroKorg, and Sonicware Liven Ambient 0. I then took different portions from the jam and rearranged them into a more cohesive song that had a bit more structure.

The backbone of the piece is my Volca Drum running through the delay and reverb built into my Stylophone CPM-DS2. I had the drum have a low percent chance to trigger in a few different locations on the 16-step sequencer. The drum was sort of a gong sound, with some randomization that makes it sound different every time. When it runs through the delay, it creates a percussive sound that comes in and then fades away before being triggered at random again.

To add to the texture, I took some portions of the recording where my Liven Ambient also had the delay turned up. I would play a note with a slow attack and release, the resonance pretty high, and the cutoff low, then turn the cutoff up and down quickly so the the delay would catch and create this almost digeridoo-like sound.

I also had a recording of me sweeping through the cutoff to extend a note a bit that I utilised at the beginning, middle, and end, but it mostly gets swallowed up by the lead synth.

To create the lead synth, I took a part of the recording of the MicroKorg where the notes had an almost instant attack and slow release. It was running through my reverb, compressor, and harmonizer (set to an octave or -7 down) pedals, which added to an effect that almost sounds like a string being plucked. My timing was a little random, so I took a portion where I played three notes and repeated it three times. The strange thing about hearing it over and over is they sound a little different each time, even though it's a perfect repeat.

I also added a few other portions where I was playing notes into the MicroKorg in order to give additional texture, namely the portion in the middle where I am playing two notes and slowly speed up until I totally lose the rhythm and they descend into chaos before returning to the "chorus" of the three notes being played, and the ending where I played a simple melody with a much slower attack that allowed me to play "ghost notes" that are almost inaudible in between the stronger notes. To end the piece, I created a melody out of the ghost note section that has a great beginning, but ends with a stronger note to end on. It sort of rounds out the final section, and gives time for the drums and other droning sounds to fade out.

I forgot to mention but the notes harmonise pretty well because I was just playing the black keys again, and there are sections where I was only playing one note but in different octaves on both the MicroKorg and Ambient 0. They all got separated from eachother in the edit, but this ethos seemed to pay off in terms of creating a cohesive feeling with a lot of different experimental techniques being utilized.

For the video, I used footage I shot on my Sony Handycam HDR-260v while on a balloon ride with my new (and only) wife back in February. Her father kindly purchased this ride for us as a wedding present, and I used the experience as an opportunity to get a ton of footage for future film projects.

The camera has really good image stabilization, but I sped it up between 200-400%, which is why it's a little jittery and the cars sometimes whiz by.

I added an adjustment layer over the footage and messed with the colors a bit to make the image feel a little warmer and richer, and I tried to make all the cuts match the video as best I could. I selected the shots almost at random, I just wanted the four longest clips so there would be a lot of room for them to be sped up without forcing me to make cuts unless I actually wanted to.

This video was pretty heavily inspired by Jörg Thomasius's Meditation (1985). You can see it here if you'd like, I think that it's one of the most underrated experimental songs I've come across: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VtAWjn88Pk

Eventually I will post the original jam recording to the Video Sketch Archive alongside the analog video wizard visuals I created while reviewing the music. You can follow the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@sc0o0tt

https://youtu.be/oacEoCa2ih0

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Sorry you all, I am not at a great place to put time to compose those last weeks, so I just take cool tracks from here and ask for permission to just play over it!

This time the "winner" was PaisleyFrog.

I had a lot of fun recording loud drums over his second part of the song.

This weekend, I did fly to Calgary for the Judo Canadian Open championships with the kiddo... Still crossing my fingers as I write that (early upload) that he will make his weight, but I am confident.

I'll come back to edit the submission next Sunday with some cool Rockies Mountains picture if I have the time. :)

Did use Logic to edit drums (Paisley Frog Project was under Logic, and I have a license so why not), but I am not great with it... It did cause me a couple headheaches... When you don't know well a tool, it is not easy! was finally able to set it up fine, but had some issues with the time strech, I do have a couple of "phasy" audio that I just let in finally it adds just more weirdness so why not!

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Went a little bit more downtempo this week! Really pleased with the chill vibe this one has.

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This started out as a RnB ballad and one wrong chord through it into Jazz. Not an aficionado by any stretch but was happy with this. Vocals a little low in the mix not sure why - not a tech wizard sadly. Enjoy! 

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Just a smooth Bay Area beat flip

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I just let loose this week I have no idea WHAT I was doing bro

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I should write something here.

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I really like a specific section of this track where everything has come together. It flows pretty well. I honestly feel like..  I hit songs like this, and if I were able to craft something around the central part that was up to the same caliber, then I might be where I want to be with this art form. But I'll get there I think.

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