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Lots of composers write these: A Bagatelle is "a short piece of music,...and usually of a light, mellow character.

"a piece of verse, dance, or music composed in a light style or on a small scale."

This fell out of my head this week. 

This begins with swinging 8th notes, and a repeated,pizzicato,2 measure bass line,underneath a soaring cello melody. The basses' riff  increases in volume from mp to FF. The pizzicato violin adds a single 16th note on the & of 3, followed by triplets in 3rds. The trumpet, cornet and trombone adding volume and depth, imitate the soaring line of the cello, with the trombone ending the phrase with an emphatic descending scale. The end is one instance of the 2 measure bass line at mp.

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The tracks I created this year have become strong memories of the circumstances in which they came to life. I remember so much of the spirit and energy I put into these songs that, to me, they almost feel like a diary or a photo album.

I’m glad that, at the end of the day, I managed to create something out of the time I spent with my buddy M2K7. He helped me bring the Vermona MKI drum computer back to life — a relic from the German Democratic Republic, dating back to 1989. Its sound sits somewhere between a Roland 808, a 909 and a CR-78. We actually managed to get it working again, at least for a couple of minutes.

All I recorded from the Vermona was the kick drum, using my Aeros Looper pedal. What I accidentally activated was its freeform mode, which allows each track to have its own length, determined by when you press the record button. With 6 x 6 tracks available, none of them ever really stay in sync. Instead, they drift apart, overlap and slowly wander off in their own directions.

What you hear today are little snippets of samples I created with the SP-404, combined with sounds I'm playing live on the OP-1 into the Looper.

The atmosphere of the track is meant to be relaxed, but still stimulating to the brain. Following all the individual tracks at the same time becomes a little challenge in itself. The day I spent with my friend was wonderfully weird, and somehow, the song turned out exactly the same way.

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slop for the slop god

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Another idea off the list I made of things I wanted to produce this year! Inspired by artists like sakura tsuruta and epow6oow, I followed one of his tutorial of using 6 tracks with the same notes but shifting them with hop cmd, panning, chance and transpose, a super lovely workflow where you could potentially leave it playing for hours and never hear the same result! So this is a semi generative track that started with 5 tracks like that and the other I recorded some instruments from the move into the m8 to create more of a structure out of the chaos. I like the idea that everytime I play it is gonna be different and so this recording is special to this weekly beat <3

There is quite some noise coming from the recorded synths off the move, the thing is that I recorded them with ott on which excite the noise even more so is more present, I really liked it here cause it gives a very realistic texture to the synths, it makes them even more believable and old and with character, something to keep in mind when going for this kind of vibes!

Something different from my usual! I like to jump between different genres, experiments and ideas, I feel like it widens my perspective on making music and makes it more fun instead of focusing too much on one specific genre!

Couple of dbs on the eq and light limiting in ableton on the rendered m8 mix <3

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I've never believed in serialism. So I tried to do it myself.

Many weeks ago now I beat out a new style I called "tonal serialism" because I wanted to craft process music that still sounded aesthetically pleasing and had chords and whatnot, which is my biggest gripe against 12-tone music.

But then I thought maybe it could be redeemed if I shift the focus towards the rhythm – I could make an atonal groove. So this here is my honest best attempt at a fun atonal groove in 12 (but also still in 4.) I hope you enjoy this as much as a person can enjoy 12-tone music!

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I was thinking about... sinking.. this week. Into the depths of the earth, being able to slide through the crevices and cracks; like flowing liquid. I wanted the song to sound very gritty, earthy, but with drops of fluidity thrown in.

I made this song using seismograph recordings as samples (very fun sounds to use, but kind of limited in some ways - which was also enjoyable!)

Sample Credits

Seismic and geophysical recordings sourced from EarthScope Consortium's SEIS-SOUND project, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Source: https://doi.org/10.17611/DP/SSND.1

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This was inevitable.

Nothing but OPXY and OPZ. Using the zoom so I can record via USB while the OPXY/Z share midi and audio via usb themselves. Nothing else going on behind the scenes, no external fx (some light reverb and compression from the mixer).

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I got permission from Colorcast to flip their sample, so I did.

It was super fun to do breakcore style snares for the first time ever, I always felt intimidated by this.

Short, speedtrashy one, but I had fun (also not as easy with warped sample lol :D )

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Spooky season continues all winter by just being "haunting'. And on that note, thanks for all the love ya'll gave me and Paisley Frog for our collab last week, we had a blast and we're glad you did too!

We are into November, the sun is setting before 5pm, and this is always a dark time of year for me. Last WB this marked the inception of The Pulsar Suite, probably one of my favourite things I've written and most sentimental, and it included brother, can you hear me?, a wonderful gift to my family from jwh while we were saying goodbye to my dog, Max.

Why am I reminiscing on this so much?

I guess November is about memory for me, and remembering those we've lost, or rather, the memory of them floats above the dark winter nights like a warm cloud. This will be our first winter without dogs to keep us warm at night.

› sentimental nonsense‹ sentimental nonsense(ironically ... the memories fresh in my brain while I was composing this were more about a past relationship long lost, but our dogs were here in the house haunting us following the Day of the Dead, licking my hand while I contemplated these darker things)

And memory is this cyclical thing that loops and repeats and iterates and fades and changes, gains structure and loses coherence, finds meaning in serendipitous intersection, much like the sounds in this song.

There is a big long text file in my note taking app that describes these ideas in far-flung conceptual nonsense, but musically it's been reduced to these concepts - asynchronous repetition and looping as a means to illicit that sense of haunting memory.

This track, like a couple previous I've made you can probably find, was composed on the M8 using recorded samples from just about any source I could find that could supply a stereo headphone jack. I deliberately avoided tempo-sync recording of anything, so I'd be forced to find natural loop points and rhythms within the recorded material, or let more rhythmic-based things (like the arp towards the end) work their own bpm into the composition, like layered clocks coming into sync and then falling away, or passing the heartbeat of the song to one another as they converge.

There's also a harmonica recording, lol, which I played right into the M8's microphone and it sounds okay! I need to play more harmonica lol.

Most of the sounds are thus sample-based, but there's a classic-me slightly-unstable M8 FM sub in there, and the main "lead" sound is also the FM synth. If you haven't yet played with the "randomize" feature on the M8 with the FM synth, look it up, but also be careful cuz it can get loud lol.

Running out of words. November and December gonna be fairly chill (I say that but also I have techno moods), mostly because wow WB is a lot of work. I wanna get Titan City Nights out before the end of the year, and hopefully November-December will generate tracks for one more project before the year is out.

We're almost at the end, friends <3

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It's a beat played live

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