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Babies. Designed to make music making a challenge and time is short, however I did have time for this track this week.

Nothing too fancy, but it was fun trying to get that nasty, punchy, crunchy drum sound. XLN RC20 is rad.

More minifreak and massive on this.

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Reached out to my lovely mother to record her talking about my poetry as a kid, with no other prompting and used it in a song!

Really long intro on this one, but I like it! ha ha

As always, constructive criticism appreciated!

Fun fact - I hit my highest chest-voice note ever here! (A3, technically A#3 with the vibrato), I can;t go higher without switching to head voice... yet ;)

› lyrics‹ lyrics

(When you were young

You used to write poetry

and I remember how amazed I was with the words you used

and the way you put your thoughts and ideas together

it was such a big discovery for me

to realize that you enjoyed it

and you had that ability

and that talent

to do that

and I still

really enjoy your creative ideas)

You nurtured the spark

that kept me

alive

you made sure I

was able

to thrive

(When you were young

you used to write poetry

I still really enjoy

your creative ideas)

You saw everything in me

early

nurtured the artistic side

helped me navigate my life

my life

My artistic path

ensured

I'd last

that freedom to create

helped me avoid

his fate (fate)

(When you were young

you used to write poetry

I still really enjoy

your creative ideas)

You saw everything in me

early

nurtured the artistic side

helped me navigate my life

my life 

Opportunities were light

in my small

town

Technology and art

soon calmed

my heart

You saw everything in me

early

nurtured the artistic side

helped me navigate my life

my life

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M8 sampling my folk band and tried to be a little gross with it.

Go listen to Mystery Beans so that we can eventually produce the actual song that this is sampling. Ha.

Thanks ya'll!

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When I sat down to start this track I was thinking about cheesy mall music from the 1990s. I pulled the composition back to something even more simple while trying to capture the feeling of an aimless day filled with light consumerism.

My personal favorite part of this track are the drums which are sliced from a Green Maple Groove sample off an old Sony Creative Studio CD. There is something about live drums being chopped and put through a drum machine on the grid.

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I have a notebook where I jot down random ideas that pop into my head.  Then sometimes when I need an idea for a WB track or whatever later on, I'll skim through it and see if anything piques my interest.  Sometime a while back I had written "Casual Ties".  I'm pretty sure I was making a play on words on "casualties" but I decided to focus on the idea of casual ties as I started to come up with lyrics, and then let them go where they wanted to go. 

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Unseen tethers fraying so slowly

Barely noticed the distance was growing

Carried away with the tide

Continents drift forming new mountains

Rise between us can't go around them

Tectonic plates shift with us

Bright blazing fires soon tepid and cold

Valuing new things discarding the old

Birds are flying over the treetops

Soar on til the temperate wind stops

Guiding them to fertile shores

You've been waiting here for me

Down in the dumps

With half opened eyes

Always knew we had something

Far more profound

Than casual ties

We crossed paths for a reason

Long time ago

It wasn't just chance

I hear hints in the wind of

A lovely song

Would you like to dance?

Empty highways stretching out ahead

Leading nowhere let's stay here instead

Under the vast onyx skies

And the Earth spins bringing new events

But I'd rather stay in this moment

Held here by casual ties

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The scale for this week was a "spanish pentacluster" which is irregular and doesn't give a lot of room to work with.

I tried doing a 5 against 4 with the percussion to make it sound like there's an elevator or gears inside the wizard tower. That's kind of it

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Would love to give this one more time and another take but I go on holiday tomorrow and have no time! Lyrics are a non-biographical exploration of the clash of emotions someone might feel when becoming a parent. Solo drags on a bit as I was trying to hit a long chain of triplets and it took me a few attempts lol. Enjoy! :)

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I am increasingly motivated to connect more and more gear I find that has a MIDI interface. Let’s see where this ends… can you recognize the instruments?

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Week 18

Goal at start 4/28

Focus on sound selection. Try to think about how the frequency range is filled and whether there is a sense of dimension or flatness.

Also try singing/humming the melody to assess how catchy it is.

End notes 4/30:

I liked the first loop I created, then everything else was a challenge of trying to make the other loops as interesting as the first one. But then just making the other loops as good isn’t enough  because they have to also flow into each other smoothly, so that was a major challenge on this one. I guess it helps to set the bar high with your first loop so you’ll be motivated to match it with the other loops.

Plan for next week:

Continue focus on sound selection plus adding more layers and countermelodies (for practice, not because every song needs complexity). Also focus on sense of space around each sound. Remember to hum the melody to assess its quality.

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Just a little something. Unfinished, like my mental state, or like my life.

Restless energy this week.

› Yearning/Whining‹ Yearning/Whining

Yearning is often complex and contradictory

Yearning for solitude

while

Yearning for togetherness, for belonging

Yearning for the kids to go to daycare

while

Yearning for time together with them

Yearning for patience and presence to play with them while they're still here (still kids)

while

Yearning for a moment to just play on my own, with my own projects without needing to cater to anyone else, without the risk of being interrupted

Yearning to be wiser and calmer than I am

while

Yearning to be so foolish again that I wouldn't care to be wiser or calmer, and could just...live...without so much thinking, without so much Yearning.

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