missed last week because of travel -- this is a sort of repetitive flute riff with a few other odd synths twisting in - sort of off tempo and improvisational

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Samples Used:

Darcy Background 7 (Apple Loops)

Cody Background 2 (Apple Loops)

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“Downtown. Parking garage.

Top floor. Sunset. Meet me there.

No thoughts. Empty head.”

An ambient throwback to a WB theme from 2018 and 2022:

san jose

san jose (2022 edition)

Theme of friends decompressing at dusk in each other’s company. Also just felt like hurling sound into a wide space with a long tail this week. You can’t often scream into the void in real life, but watching the sunset carry your thoughts off with it can be healing too.

Happy Week 35 everybody. <3

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This song comprises of 3 nylon string guitars and one vocal track via modular synth.  All recorded and manipulated using the Instruo Arbhar exclusively with a couple of modulation sources feeding it controlled voltages.

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We were outnumbered. There was no victory through the front door. Our only hope was escape.

Took my template from last week and adjusted a couple elements. Short bit of automatic writing but having these chunky bass instruments to play with is quite fun with my subwoofer. Not sure how that bass comes through on a phone >_<

About an hours worth of work this week. Had a lot of lawn work to get done.

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This one came together late and only after I realized there was too much going on.  I excised a whole section and suddenly everything made more sense.  I will work that section into a future song. This one I was playing with layered snares, and with a reverb with lots of delay and movement.

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this is a painfully simple beat but i just wanted to play around with the arp instruments

arps are so fun

this is arpy the arp

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Like with the previous Komorebi, I pictured a light phenomenon that I really love: the light being reflected on the ceiling by a water surface. I looked up if there was a Japanese term for that and, lo and behold, there is one!

As described by Takeshi Mori:

Takeshi Mori wrote:

Mizuakari (水明かり) describes light reflecting off water — the shimmering, shifting illumination that dances on ceilings near rivers, on faces near pools, on the walls of rooms that face the sea. Like komorebi (light through leaves), mizuakari names a specific quality of light that most cultures observe but do not name.

This is the 4th movement of a long-form ambient piece I'm working on. I'll probably stretch this one for longer and try to give it a bit more motion.

Thanks for listening and have a nice week!

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All samples are from Yamaha SEQTRAK built-in

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Another random off-the-cuff last minute thingy. A bit messy, but it's done.

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Perhaps this is a concept beat (not a concept album) in that the aim was retelling my week.

- Monday: The chords and the progression was decided as well as half the lyrics

- Tuesday: I was already starting a bit of recording (the intro), but my daughter wasn’t happy (she stole my notebook with the lyrics, fed the bookmark to the dog and started to cry)

- Wednesday: I got sick for 3 days with a migraine

In the middle of that was some attempt a finishing the song. Adding the guitars, trying to sort out the GarageBand drums, adding the solo, re-recording the lyrics (and dropping the bits where I was coughing). It was a tough one.

My idea really was starting off as a folk song and then moving into a Steven Wilson-esque piece, but I’m not Guthrie Govan or Nick Beggs either. So, I attempted this knowing there were gaps but not giving up until the whole thing was etched in idea at least.

I can already see my wall slowly trembling until @dreat bursts out of the bricks telling me that the instruments are floating :D which I know. Just kidding.

I believe it’s my longest submission on weeklybeats and honestly with the proper direction, time and tools, this would be cool.

Also the iPhone starts really to be a compelling tool for me even for recording and mastering. All the acoustic guitars and the lyrics are recorded directly with its microphone and the rest with an iRig plugged into the usb-c port. Mastering is done track by track again. I’m discovering how powerful can be the AUv3 plugins.

This track wouldn’t have happened when I started this year (which now makes me realise I recorded the equivalent of 2 albums this year already).

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