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Things I don't normally do that I decided to try:

Nothing that I actually stuck to

I started out deciding to try and repeat the aims of my first week of WeeklyBeats, and just... didn't.

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Process notes on my blog, if you're interested.

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I'm reporting in from Costa Rica this week. That means you get this hybrid thing of Apple loops and piano roll VST synth business. I managed to sample some forest birds from one of the mornings. Unfortunately I'm a bit too close to a main road to get a long sample. We had a nice rain one of the days but the road noise and wind on the iPhone mic scuttled that. 

Finishing early again so I can do my vacation.

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Played 2 shows with Delorean overdrive back to back nights. First set, small hiccups. Second felt tighter w/ better monitoring. Happy not to drive around have late nights for a while. Re-thinking Eurorack setup for live shows. Presentation is confusing for audiences sometimes w/ it's layout. Tilt forward? keyed synth? Actual 303 for later sections? Percussion trigger? Nice hanging w/ music friends at shows. Also nice chilling in the green rooms and talking to other bands between sets. Got to talk w/ Bit Brigade members and Ollie Wilder's team about setups, touring, and general not comparisons. Nice to see them play too. Probably favorite part about playing is interacting with other bands and talking shop.

Moving on to personal life focus. Hung out w/ friend's for P's B-day at mini golf. Shot pool, arcades, golfing, food w/ T&K, L&R, and T&J. Played w/ P at arcades w/ his grandma. Likes to throw the balls at the arcade, hitting air hockey puck and pushing pool balls with the stick. Growing fast. Started saying words. Suprised us all by saying "bubble" at house.  Watched movies last week. Project Hail Mary, They will Kill you. Bike rides mid week w/ AL. Been busy, looking forward to quiet. Butt heads with brother and mom over the phone this week. Frustrating but mostly miscommunication. Felt small. Thinking of DC and his side of the family. Discussing religion and anthropology w/ AL, while learning about North Sentinel Island via feed and the Andaman Islands natives the Onge and Jawara slow decline. Thinking of Earth Liberation Front from a few weeks back. Struggling to read. Need to be more off line. Uncle C's death anniversary. Could not go, reached out to MT to send love. Set to watch The Drama w/ friends today. Picked up DVD's of Chris Cunningham's work, Michel Gondry, and Spike Jones. Especially excited about Chris Cunningham. Inspiring stuff. Got some cuts from carrying winston. Remembering meeting w/ cousin and his partner last week for burgers and hanging out. Helpless about war news, degeneration of societal norms, and endless thrash of life in America.

Media Consumed: Project Hail Mary (2026)*, They Will Kill You (2026)*, The Drama (2026), 30 Rock, Dropout TV, Milk Talk - Milk Talk*, The Work of Director Vol.2: Chris Cunningham (2003), Paranoid London - Arsholes liars and Electronic Pioneers, Djrum - Under Tangle Silence*, Douster - Universal Serial Blood*, Virgo Four - Do You know who you are?, Cajemere - Brighter days EP, Rickster - Night Moves, Jamie Prinicpal - The Midnight Hour, Sully - Model Collapse / The Wash, Adeva - 12" Classics,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9*, 10, 11, 12*, 13*, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, Patrick H Williams (on nebula) video on music videos,

Software Used:

Ableton

Izotope Ozone 10

TAL-J-8

TAL-UNO-LX

Full Bucket Furry 800

TFP - Slip Through (The Fellow Passenger Max tool)

ALM Busy Circuits - Almicon, Quiadra Verb

Used made randomized F# scale chords generatively (not AI) and recorded output. Set loops of out of end results using personal judgement and minor editing. Repeated process at higher octave and edited notes to a single monophonic note picking only from notes provided in the randomized recorded chords. Used a rule while editing to not choose a note that has previously played. Repeated first step again this time using arpeggio. Used randomized modulation to change the rate of the arpeggio. Used layers of out of phase tremolo to allow arpeggio to pass through polyrythmically and detached from tempo w/ cycled panning. Live triggered parts and recorded to grid. Added TFP's Slip Through to randomize midi notes randomized pass through on all parts. Increased passthrough rates as song moves along. Recorded output to separate audio  layers and used Ozone 10's auto mastering. Quick patching for synth sounds. Taking it easy on WB for now. Trying to just enjoy tinkering with music rather than over think it or push too hard. Short on time and focused elsewhere for now.

File Name: W14 - 4_2_26 General selection ableton,

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So let's slow the heck down. This was a quickly made beat as my time this week is even more limited than normal.

The mix is okay-ish, I guess, but nothing to write home about.

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Easter is coming. I'm leaving home. Not a lot of time to work on the submission this week. Experimented with playing a sample in different octaves to create a wall of sound.

Did not like it at all but after a while it started to sound interesting. Maybe I just got a bit insane.

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Travel related insomnia, a folder of GRM Atelier recordings, iPhone field recordings, Koala, Loopy, iPhone button mashing.

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This track feels really unfinished to me because I wanted a guest vocalist on it but it just didn't work out. so i did my favorite trick again - lo-fi youtube vlogs with like 20 views.

the main star in this song is the baritone ukulele that a friend of mine brought to the studio for 2 weeks straight. at some point i had to do something with it. really nice instrument and it takes alot of self-control right now not to get one too

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made with my selfmade program for playdate (introduced here: [url=https://weeklybeats.com/bufaw/music/paralysed[/url] )

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I had a lot of fun making this one. I felt like I was making bolder choices, for better or worse.

The bass is the most complex I've made. It has 5 layered instruments. I also learned that in Bitwing I can add a modulator to a specific band region in a compressor :mindblown:

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