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Finished rendering less than a minute before the deadline. I managed to bring back my beloved Plogue Chipsounds plugin back from the deepest corner of the closet.

The lead was introduced less than 10 minutes before the deadline, so not much time for variation. Also, it needs a proper fade out.

All of this was made on a 4GB RAM Macbook Air from 2014... This machine is a little slow for some tasks, though Ableton Suite 10 runs quite smoothly.

Samples from the horribly pretentious "Kilroy was here" introduction movie from the equally pretentious band Styx, 1983.

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Another week to use Weekly Beats as an excuse to do more voice practice and recording. This started with a grimey percussion loop from a song from the band Holy Fuck that I then recorded some percussive vocals on top of. Did some more recording with Erika mostly focused on percussive and weird stuff. Ended up with dozens of vocal tracks on top of some crunch drums and synth. I ran out of time on the arrangement and mixing, would have liked to get more time to clean it up and add some more dynamics, but it's kinda fun. A very sort of tribal sound with the percussive parts to the upper-register belting screamy parts parts, reminiscent of Tanya Tagaq.

* Voices recorded via Shure SM-58 through Focusrite 4i4

* Synth with Ableton Wavetable and Bass instruments

* Drum and percussion samples from Splice and voice samples

Total Time: 5.5 hours

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I think the two movements of this one are: 1 - procuring the coconuts, 2 - presenting the coconuts to the queen.

I have decide coconut is my favorite word of today. The word of the day where when it's said we all scream (anyone remember Pee Wee's Playhouse?).

I have coconut milk in my coffee, and that will do. I'm queen for today.

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Took last week off. Started something last Sunday. Wasn't feeling the motivation, kind of made my head hurt. Nice spring day. Went outside instead. It's what I needed more.

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This week I had some rhythms in my head. Got ideas down on Saturday motivated me to finish on Sunday. Also thought about going outside instead, but I'm glad I finished. Feels good. Still time to go outside later. Really enjoyed just playing around, doing whatever, letting it happen and not trying to make it into normal song. The Ableton project is set to 6/8, but I kept tapping all these parts on the Push that don't really align to the grid perfectly, and had odd bar lengths. Getting weird and flowing feels good. Coconuts. Aaah!

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Looking forward to catching up on your music this week, let's go.

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Recorded a fun drone with lots of filter modulation and distortion, was going to make this an ambient piece and then decided to add a beat on my Perkons. Recorded an arp on top of that and some sax to blend into the texture. Would've liked to have added a drop into another section, but instead I spent a good part of my day playing around with Touch Designer in an attempt to make some visuals. Didn't end up with something I liked yet, but hopeful that I can get it to a good point soon.

Going through a blah period where I'm altogether pretty unmotivated, but thankful to have this challenge to keep up with!

Edit: finished a weird little visualization!

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Worked myself to the bone this past week, pushed myself too hard for too long a stretch, and left very little time for this composition - so that's what this piece is about. It's about thinking you can just keep muscling through something and brute forcing it, but letting the engine run on hot for too long. Sustaining the grind as it grinds you down. It's basically just delay and distortion smut, but gently guided through a series of phases. Used a bespoke Max MSP delay patch which pushes its feedback loop through an external track which I loaded up with all sorts of goodies that I automated around. Given a little more time, I would have brought down the initial dry instrument's levels a little since it does kind of dominate versus the main cloud section.

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A cute little SNES ditty

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"Memória de peixe" - A memory like a goldfish

Quick doodle on the m8 + fx.

Enjoy!

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This one goes out to any one who's had someone f$%ck them over.. happy sunday 🔪

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Produced this one from the top of Reddish Knob in the VA mountains. Was not a friendly place to make music... too bright to see the pads at high noon. Cold and windy. Too hard to sync the pad playing videos to the music. So we just have lots of random cuts to footage from the weekend! Was a good time though. Whole track made in about 40m might be a wb record. Every track was recorded in the mountaintop session.

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