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Hey hey, happy week 34.

This track started with the little synth loop at the start. I was driving for 5 hours into the night and stopped at my hotel, thought 'shit I need a starting point' and pooped those notes into Ableton, shut my laptop and promptly forgot until today (saturday)

The rest all came together while my partner was running D&D and I was on 'let the players into the house' duty. I really was struggling to break out of the motorik mould I'd laid down, which is pretty tough. The second half is kinda the response to that, and the first time I've recorded acoustics in weeks too.

And, obvs feeling burnt out and low on ideas, I also slung the 2026 fav, the ebow on at the end.

Enjoy!

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I haven't been feeling very musical lately. I mean, I have, but all my musical energy has been going into playing shows with my band Olivia. The rest of my time has gone into learning tech things and exploring tech projects, in the hopes that I can build a strong enough skillset to find a job outside of the film industry, which is dying in my country.

The music was created by tuning an SDR (Software-Defined Radio) to 910 Mhz, the frequency used by the MeshCore protocol. MeshCore is a way to send text signals over the air similar to how ham radios work. I made a little companion and repeater node that sit in my office while I work, and to hear when packets come through my window, I listen for these little bursts of static-sounding stuff.

I took the output from my SDR and fed it into a multi pedal with overdrive, delay, and reverb, which makes those little noisy chirp sounds.

I then used my drum synth with a sorta randomized gong sound and gave it a 30% chance of hitting once every few notes at a slow BPM, and played it alongside the chirps.

Finally, I played my MicroKorg into a reverb pedal, compressor pedal, and harmonizer pedal as I listened to these noises coming through my speakers outside of my control. Lots of happy little accidents happened, and I took a little portion that was easily cut into a three-minute song for this piece.

In post, I separated the channels across the stereo spectrum, and split my MicroKorg recording into a clean original version, as well as a second version that is pitched up an octave.

For the visuals, I recorded the "waterfall" of the SDR as my friend Trevor S tuned into different frequencies. Some really interesting geometric patterns emerge as you find different frequencies traveling through the airwaves.

I edited the footage to match how the music made me feel, and it created this interesting almost animated video for you to see here.

https://youtu.be/Nelgb2cikos

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Been a busy week this week, prepping for the arrival of our second child - very exciting! I have even had a good amount of time to work on building a backlog of tunes for when time gets scarce - as I said last week, I am determined to try and complete the year fully!

Still loving the new Phoebe Bridgers record and I think that is where a lot of the inspiration for some of the coming tracks - this one included- is stemming from. If you haven't listened, I would really recommend it!

Lots of acoustic guitars tracks using my Taylor - which I love. Nice rich tone with plenty of body and high end sparkle - it's missing the high E string, but whatever! blend of some DI tracks, rubber bridge stuff and some different miking techniques.

I feel this still has a bit of a demo feel, and partly wish I'd gone for a stripped back acoustic and vocals thing, but here we are. There is lots of reverb... probably too much reverb.

Anyway, enjoy your week, and thanks for listening and engaging with my music!

Lyrics:

Ive been

tossing and turning

Throwing my hands up

To see what falls

You've seen

Life from a distance

Sipping your coffee

As you watch it all

Honest

I cant remember

The last time I didnt

Feel this small

You said

Something bout next year

Trying to pass off

Another stall

I cant help these feelings

That creeping in

Its a sense of inadequacy

I keep putting off

Another shut down

Absentmindedly

Ive heard

The things you say

When you think

Im not around

The thoughts

From your heard

Are so.much louder

From your mouth

Honest

I cant remember

The last time I didnt

Feel this small

You said

Something off handed

Like a demanded

To known it all

I cant help these feelings

That creeping in

Its a sense of inadequacy

I keep putting off

Another shut down

Absentmindedly

Maybe

Just maybe

This could be our ticket out

Ive grown

sick of trying

Always there to talk about

Progress

Don't mean progress

If your always standing still

I said

Something you told me

Were running out of time to kill

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It's been a long week where I've continued to feel really unwell, and today (Saturday) I finally feel like I might (hopefully) be starting to improve. I've never had something like this before, where I've felt sick for so long, especially without any explanation. Thankfully today I was actually able to go out and do things for a little while, and I'm hopeful that if I take it carefully this (slow) upward trajectory will continue. This is not a super high effort track, but I took a simple idea and tried to goof around with it and slow it down and make it kind of vaporwave-ish, hoping to capture the vibe of this week. I think it came out alright, and it'll have to be good enough. I hope to return next week in better health! Be well, pals.

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Maybe the chorus is stoner?

But honestly this reminds me more of The Specials or Madness (including a solo on classical guitar with a heavy distortion that makes it sound like a saxophone?) having too many drinks with M/Mathieu Chedid (French musician) and Chose Sauvage (Quebec band of rock I believe?).

It all started with a jazzy chord progression that progressed nowhere, then by chance (!) I found this bass line that I really liked, then it kinda went with the feel: lyrics came whimsically, more funky bass, surf guitar.

The number of tracks is small, that really helped for the mastering and overall just swapping the guitar virtual amps that initially made the Telecaster sound like rubber (peaking at the worst time and being too low too often).

Fun, but not stoner. I’ve too much followed my guts this time.

NB: the police siren is pure luck when I was doing the vocal.

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Yet another weird ambience plus beat plus something, mainly because I had the sound idea of the squelchy bass out of my head. This track needed an almost full restart but it ended up ... somewhere in the end.

Credits for the Background ambience here.

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Because I was short on time, I did a very quick recording and only a superficial EQ on this song. The sound sources are a guitar recorded with its internal microphone into an AIWA Walkman with a recording function, plus an OP-1 loop featuring bells and other sounds. I like the nostalgic feeling in here.

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Penultimate song! Ready to start again? Or gonna give up? Hmmm

CC always appreciated!

› lyrics‹ lyrics

I may have lost everything

You may have made me

Think again

Think again gain

All I know is you underestimated me

Just like them

You think by winning the battle

You won the war

There's a new man

In town

All you gotta know is

How he moves around

Reinventing again and again

Slipping out of repercussions

I can start anew

But how

'bout

You?

I fell for it this one time

I'll never fuck up like

That Again

That again gain

I've got feelers for a new family already

Just like them

I've been beaten before you

But never defeated

There's a new man

In town (town)

All you gotta know is

How he moves around

Reinventing again and again

Slipping out of repercussions

I can start anew

But how

'bout

You?

I'm ready to build it up

I just needed a

Moment

Moment

I won't be decided by your kind again

I'll prepare

Better than I was before

And I'll win the war

I just wanted someone to love

I thought I could have it all

You were sent here to destroy the family

You were sent here to destroy me

There's a new man

In town (town)

All you gotta know is

How he moves around

Reinventing again and again

Slipping out of repercussions

I can start anew

But how

'bout

You?

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