Back in 2011-2013 or so, this was originally supposed to be a music blog. Life, politics, the Meme Wars, COVID etc intervened. After I sold the old house back in 2019, I no longer had room for a dedicated music studio. I did try to work laptop-only for awhile, but honestly, that has never worked […]
Been awhile… Made a release: Some of the sounds used are re-purposed sounds made awhile back. Other sources are (layered) guitar, processed through (variants of) an Audiomulch patch, from the same timeframe. Lots of retrograde in the Air. Seems appropriate to have appropriated these past sounds, just about now. Also ironic: It was known, then, […]
For Disquiet Junto Project #0102, we were asked to make a one-minute loop that was “glistening, reflective and gentle” to make a secular holiday track: Done in Ableton Live. Used a Collision patch to make the tolling sound, and ran a Korg WAVESTATION soft synth through the effects part of the emulated Korg MS-20 to […]
Uploaded the second drone of the series of tracks I’ve been working on: Like the previous track, this one was done in Ableton Live (still trying to wrap my brain around Suite 9). Some of the core sounds were made in AudioMulch (the ‘collision’ sounds in the background are actually a guitar run through AM, […]
I participated in a Disquiet Junto project this week: My kitchen sink, a microwave, and a small battery-powered drill I bought at Costco years ago. More details at the SoundCloud link.
I’ve still been playing with Ableton 9, as time has allowed. Gone back to drone for a bit: The main drone tones are two of Live’s “Resonator” presets, modified somewhat. Also used four Audiomulch-treated guitar tracks I had created for another project and not yet used. I’d like to do three more of these…
I’ve been skipping the Disquiet Junto projects (and music in general) these past few weeks. Real life has been a bit… event-filled. But this week’s project appealed to me: We were told to generate three elements: A beat, a drone, and a ‘melodic fragment’. We were then to use these to create a 90 second […]
The Disquiet Junto project for this week assigned us an excerpt of a geological/topographical map of the San Andreas fault line. Mine is below: There were many map excerpts, but this one was mine. I started out with no real idea as to how to approach this, but soon found myself making a detailed markup […]
I had started last week’s disquiet project, but then nature intervened with three feet of snow. That said, this week’s project had us using our own voices for raw material. This worried me (singing is not exactly my forté), plus I intentionally forced myself to use Audiomulch, which I barely know, as part of the […]
no peanuts in church... 