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Let's do some....oh, I don't know. Electronica genres are like metal genres, there’s a million of them. The Logic Drummer called the beat Tech House, we'll go with that.

Cover pic is from the tunnel connecting the Don Q Inn in Dodgeville to the restaurant next door (before the restaurant  burned down).

Starting out weird. And it doesn't get any less weird from this point on, just to let you know.

"Babyhole" is one of those things that entered my group's lexicon about 35 years ago. Some friends had just moved into their college rental for the year, and were looking the place over. Like a lot of college housing in this area, the house was about 100 years old. And in the basement, there was this creepy hole in the wall, about chest high. The immediate question was "WTF is that?" To which someone quipped, "In a house this age, you gotta expect a certain number of babyholes." So babyhole became the name for anything creepy and dark with unknown purpose (and might be where you get or leave babies.)

Still with me? OK.

So on to the music this week. I had thoughts about continuing to work with drum mixing this week, but nothing was really clicking in the realm of FrogCore. I started and gave up on about five ideas in quick succession before I decided to leave it alone for the night.

That night I had a dream. I was going down into a friend's basement in college, and there was a rave party going on.  One of my friends was the DJ and the beat was thumping. Looked over and there was a hole in the wall. I knew it was the babyhole. The music then shifted to a song with the words, "MY HOUSE HAS A BABY HOLE, BABY BABY BABY HOLE, BABY HOLE BABY HOLE, BABY BABY BABY HOLE."

The hole had been converted into an architectural feature, going up to the first floor with incorporated glass block. It was very tasteful.

It's hard to pass up an idea like that when the universe drops it into your lap. So I sat down that evening, played around and this track came together in a couple of hours. This song is wildly silly, but it incorporate a couple goals I've had for a while. One is to use a vocoder....never tried one before! I've also been wanting to work with Logic's Quick Sampler. The Teen and I were playing around with it earlier in the week (and giggling furiously), so that also may be where this track came from. Also finally learned how to remove a section of the song from the middle and have the master track automation come along for the ride. Which is good, because this track was about 30 seconds too long at first.

It's been a while since I've had some dream music come to me. But why oh why did it have to be with a track called Babyhole?

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Fast Compo entry @ Revision 2026 - but rearranged and reworked to fit at least a minute.

Was looking for the Amen break, found another sample instead! AMEN!

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Bitwig stock stuff only! And a radical departure from my usual style... I patched up a synth in Poly Grid where the shape of the oscillator, filter position, phase mod, and filter/volume envelopes are randomized per (almost) each note. Then tried writing a groovy track using 2 instances of that synth. Does this count as a modular synth track? The drums are from v0 drums sequenced in a polymetric fashion with Stepwise.

Oh yeah, and since the timbre and envelopes of the synth are random for each note, no two exports of this track will sound the same which is pretty neat.

I was also working on a 200step track titled Fulfillment, but I only have 32 bars of the drop complete and no intro, buildup or breakdown. I have grand plans for that track and there was no way it was going to make it in time for this week, but... you'll all hear it soon.

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Another M8 ambient track. It's a dark, space-y one.

Was pleased to be able to knock out a track in a couple hours and still feel satisfaction with the process this week.

Still experimenting with making album art in Houdini. Still pretty tough getting a nice render, but I'm learning.

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A pretty crazy week for weeklybeats - I had been working on three ideas that were all about 50% of the way done, then Thursday evening rolls around, I play a little chord-y thing around an A chord and suddenly a fourth idea is thrown into the mix - and that is what you are presented with here.

This song was blocked out pretty quick - in terms of songwriting and arrangement, nothing particularly crazy - pretty stripped back in terms of guitar layers and really focussed on writing a more interesting vocal line. Also trying to experiment with different structures, trying to break out of the vanilla V/C/V/C/B/C kinda thing - let me know what you think!

Anyway, I quite like this. Something familiar, but different for me... and it's not in Open C tuning!

Have a great week!

Lyrics:

turn the tv on

crank the sound to

drown out the

morning

i fill my coffee cup

with the thought

that i missed the

warnings

how many days

were you gonna be there

how many nights

with only me here

when were you thinking of letting me know

that you were thinking of letting me go

turning up fir someone else

i had to be there for myself

I throw a t shirt on

Down a beer

And go grab the paper

Go back and lock the doors

Close the blinds

And ignore the neighbours

It's been so long since we have seen her

I can't believe it's been a whole year

How much longer can I go

Pretending you never let me go

Scroll through my phone

Look at the texts

Rewrite the part

Where you are an ex

Try to forget

The things that we said

Try to remember

What should've been next

What would oit take

To win you back

How much I would give

To get back on track

If only we could

If only you would

If only I could take it all back

Verse melody

Turn over in the bed

Stare at the wall

And drift into space

Look at the gap that you left

Close my eyes

And go back to our place

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Do not look directly into the eyes of the serpent

Jam details:

Location: Southside Park Garage, Sacramento CA

Bass - 0xANDRE

Drums - Alex S.

Lead Guitar - Eli

Rhythm Guitar - Alex J.

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Music created by playing a 15 step sequence on a Korg SQ-1's CV Output (that had only a few notes actually trigger) into the Sync input on a second Korg SQ-1 that randomly played one of four notes. I then ran the MIDI output into the input on my TD-3, which then went through a multi effects pedal with delay and reverb. I took the CV out from the TD-3 and used it to modify the pitch and LFO rate of my Stylophone CPM-DS2. I then manually modified the cutoff, resonance, and volume of the DS2 and TD-3 so they would come in and out in the manner of a more traditional song.

For the drums, I created a poly rhythm  on my Korg Volca Drum synthesizer that played a kick every 5, a tap every 7, and a cymbal every 9 beats. I set the kick to choke the tap and cymbal, and the tap to choke the cymbal, so the notes wouldn't overlap when multiple drums hit at the same time.

I recorded the whole thing at a really slow BPM, so I sped it up by about 130% and pitched it slightly down to compensate for the higher speed. I also added a lowpass filter on the drone with some keyframes that moved it up and down to allow for the tones to pass through without them becoming grating.

Video is footage of a pilgrimage I took with my mother and wife to Chimayo. There are a lot of interesting folks and modes of transportation that people take to get there. There's a hill a few miles away from the church that I am especially fond of, so I wanted to end the video there. The video was processed by first desaturating, then increasing the contrast of the footage until it was this almost glitchy black and white. I manually adjusted the settings of each shot to showcase the subject as best I was able to.

https://youtu.be/QCOcEHogVtI

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Reassembled my Eurorack for an upcoming show. It feels a little like assembling a mecha bot, My cosmic weapon of love and peace. I'm using the Nerd Seq as the control hub of the operation.

here's something I was able to get out before the day ran out.

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