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Couldn't get into the romantic mood. Put new strings on the Spanish guitar earlier today, but that's not a good idea right before recording/performance. So I brought out the electric and Big Muff to thrash the mood, only to discover that the electric was ½ step higher than the Spanish, but I didn't let that ruin the take, or did I?

Spanish & electric guitars

Electric bass

MT-32

R-5

Casio MT-65 drum samples

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made song jungle with a convo from a friend

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Hi folks!

This one was pretty tedious to make because of multiple crashes of Ableton, due to my shitty code :/

But I had a great game jam week end with some awesome people! I made a game to control Ableton and I think I'll make something out of it.

Concerning this week track, I used my latest M4L devices again, but as I told, one of it has some problems that I need to fix asap! I'm still pretty happy with the tune, I like the mood and the sound design and modulations I've done.

Enjoy!

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it does just be like that sometimes

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over a decade now, a practicing photographer. Grateful to stumble upon photographic medium as my first conscious creative pursuit in expression. Only to much diversify with today.

Here, selling a healthy collection of my photographs as fine art prints, shipping worldwide

This week and since long now, reading into Raul Ruiz’s text in Poetics of Cinema.

Immobility called for movement, movement engendered immobility. Behind every immobile thing movement lurks.

Immobility conceals movement - it is the unconscious of movement.

[later]

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Long song warning part 3. Also lots of text part three. Also part 3 of Titan City Nights.

Yes, nearly 12 minutes again. It's a bit of a journey, if you skip through it you will miss things, and you'll kinda miss the point, but then most folks can't afford the privilege of giving me their ears for 12 minutes, so don't worry if you can't. But there is an argument for durational music - ambient in particular - that still has structure but is also built on the premise of creating an atmosphere and mood that can't be established inside just a few minutes.

› story‹ story

The refinery district rises like an iron mountain out of the neon-rainbow fog. Great blackened conduits snake their way into the sky, venting their exhaust heat into the void beyond the dome. Warning lights pulse in the dark at the tops of towers and antennae, poor substitute for a starry night sky, but some nights I'll take what I can get, whatever gets me away from the crowds for just a few minutes. Some nights I wander this metal labyrinth for hours and never see another soul.

But not tonight; he rounds a corner, startled that I'm standing here under the awning, last dregs of a cigarette glowing red in my hand. There's a heartbeat of hesitation, eye contact, the shift of weight on feet, the prolonged stare, a second of a knowing smile, a moment's recognition. He comes closer, "got a light?", and of course I do, a brief touch while I pass him my lighter, faint grin of thanks. Thirty seconds feels like an hour while we lean against chainlink fence, edging closer, the shadows in the alley behind inviting us to something more.

The ground roars and vibrates, the klaxon signals a shift change, and footsteps echo across the fields of the great steel leviathan, and we exchange disappointments through nervous eyes.

"I got a friend performing at Cowboys tonight, just outside the Mining Quarter. You should come," he says, stifling his cigarette on a wet fence pole.

"I'll see you there," I say, but he's already fading into the newly-risen crowd, and lost to the cacophony of the machines.

I wait for the tide of humanity to ebb, and wander back into the night.

› composition notes‹ composition notes

This is another edited live performance with much the same semi-modular/modular gear:

ASM Hydrasynth on a self-playing patch for the main drone, plucks, and the "big moment" chords

Moog Grandmother on Bladerunner-esque swells and haunted screaming synth sounds

Pulsar-23 beating a heartbeat, as well as industrial-sounding metals and crashes

Various effect pedals and modular effects

Recorded to a 1010 bluebox eurorack version.

I dug up an old patch on the hydra for this one, tweaked it to play nice with microcosm and adjusted some of the performance macros. It literally plays itself with just a little guidance, but this one apparently I was clever enough to add some envelopes on note-changes so that there's a good swell of drama. It works well for the "big moment" segment of the track.

Grandmother had something of a Bladerunner-style patch, but decidedly Moog vs Yamaha cs-80. It sounds good, and I built in some feedback via the highpass filter so I could really fuck with the sound and make some haunting synth screams.

Pulsar is kind of my greatest-hits ambient echoing nonsense heartbeat percussion. Tons of reverb through the chain, lots of echoes.

Two takes, both in excess of 15 minutes, and I used take 1 for the hydra and then mix and matched the rest from both takes. I'd wanted to add another synth element in DAW but ran out of time.

Decided not to edit this down much less than 12 minutes because there were complaints! YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE <3

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Had a bad head weekend after falling into a hole after coding camp ended. Turned my negative (but not entirely unreasonable) self talk into this thing. Realized I have a problem with content consumption, watchin too much TV and being almost unable to do anything without listening to a podcast. Feels like it's so much easier to recognize unhealthy behaviour when it's an actual substance, so going forward, I'm gonna try to think of it that way.

It's time to cut back on all that to hear myself think again, and to maybe get uneasy enough to finally do a couple things out there in the real world. Can't say I'm looking forward to it an awful lot, which is exactly why it's the right thing to do.

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I made this song to work through some stuff, originally this song had vocals, but I decided to upload only the instrumental.

Maybe, I will be ready to upload the whole song in some weeks or months. We'll see.

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I used the Percussion on Musescore this week.  Strangely, the Drum kit had something called Bird-song(?)--did not expect this!

This starts in the forest at night.  A "Dark and Stormy Night." The percussion portrays "things that go bump in the night." 

I was able to tweak the bird-song feature of the Drum kit to get a pretty good Whippoorwill!  I used various rhythms to shape the call.

During a Michigan camping adventure in the 1980 on a "Dark and Stormy Night" I heard my first Whippoorwill.  This bird really says its name incessantly!  There were never Whippoorwills where I grew up-I knew about them from my bird book(peterson). I stayed up all night, because of the storm, and because of the Whippoorwill! I never thought I would be so close to one.  It was annoying, but it was also hypnotic and kept my mind off the storm.

Everything ends with the Forest at night and the brave (yet annoying) and wonderful Whippoorwill.

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