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Persistent To a Fault

By As_Yoesual on September 5, 2024 12:29 pm

I felt slightly burned out after making weekly music since WB started and felt rather inspirationless.
On Monday, I was goofing a bit with all the knobs and dials in Diva and randomly placed a few notes to hear the sound it generated.
A bleepy bloopy, and a whiny pad.
Distracted, I did some chores around the house while the bleepy bloopy and the pad played repeatedly.

I didn't particularly like the results, but I saved the project anyway. Usually, I just trash a project when I don't like the outcome.
The weird dissonant tune kept haunting me. I heard it when trying to sleep and was mumbling it while watching TV.
I loaded the project a few times and tried to develop a better melody, but nothing I came up with inspired me.

I am unsure if it was a spiritual experience, but something about the tune kept begging me to stay alive, to be made, to exist. So... f**k it; I'll give it my best shot and create some --imho-- outstanding beat/percussive elements to it, and see where this takes me. If that tune wants to exist, I'll give it some friends to accompany them.

I didn't put a lot of thought into the track progression and just let my feelings and the tune guide me, and it turned into something I might not be fond of, but on the flip side, I feel very attached to it.

The dissonant tune was persistent to a fault.

September 11, 2024 7:46 pm

drab

Cool arrangement and really awesome development

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September 13, 2024 9:30 am

hieroglitch

I can really relate to the feeling of burnout around this part of WB. It can be a real struggle, however I'm glad your messing around resulted in some cool discoveries.

I find it's usually during the messing around without intention, we can find the best things.

I really enjoyed the journey with this one.

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September 14, 2024 2:34 pm

As_Yoesual

drab wrote:

Cool arrangement and really awesome development


Thanks! *hugs*

hieroglitch wrote:

I can really relate to the feeling of burnout around this part of WB. It can be a real struggle, however I'm glad your messing around resulted in some cool discoveries.

I find it's usually during the messing around without intention, we can find the best things.

I enjoyed the journey with this one.


Same. I often don't have an idea when booting up Ableton and goof about until I find something worth expanding upon. Sometimes it turns out well, sometimes it doesn't, and both are equally valid smile

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September 14, 2024 4:18 pm

rplktr

The theme is definitely an earworm. It's novel, somewhat dissonant, but definitely musical!

I gotta laugh each time you say something about not having time or being uninspired and then I see 7 minutes of duration big_smile

The end result is good stuff, I'm happy you persisted. And it sounds somewhat "live" through how sparse it is, a little bit like it was from Plastikman's "EX". I love that album, man.

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September 14, 2024 8:41 pm

As_Yoesual

rplktr wrote:

The theme is definitely an earworm. It's novel, somewhat dissonant, but definitely musical!

I gotta laugh each time you say something about not having time or being uninspired and then I see 7 minutes of duration big_smile

The end result is good stuff, I'm happy you persisted. And it sounds somewhat "live" through how sparse it is, a little bit like it was from Plastikman's "EX". I love that album, man.

Yea, I often tell myself "just make something that lasts a minute" and somehow, I pull an additional 7-0 minutes from somewhere XD
Also, "EX" is one of my fav albums of all time. I still listen to it regularly.

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September 15, 2024 10:44 pm

hieroglitch

As_Yoesual wrote:
drab wrote:

Cool arrangement and really awesome development


Thanks! *hugs*

hieroglitch wrote:

I can really relate to the feeling of burnout around this part of WB. It can be a real struggle, however I'm glad your messing around resulted in some cool discoveries.

I find it's usually during the messing around without intention, we can find the best things.

I enjoyed the journey with this one.


Same. I often don't have an idea when booting up Ableton and goof about until I find something worth expanding upon. Sometimes it turns out well, sometimes it doesn't, and both are equally valid smile

I know there's a popular view of "you don't need hardware, you can do everything in the daw". And while I agree with this to a degree, using hardware has always made it easier for me to make those discoveries.

When I posted my original comment, I completely forgot that Diva was a plugin and I thought you were using a hardware synth. Now that I'm awake, and caffeinated, I remember Diva is a plugin which makes your track even more impressive. Well done big_smile

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September 16, 2024 12:02 am

As_Yoesual

hieroglitch wrote:
As_Yoesual wrote:
drab wrote:

Cool arrangement and really awesome development

When I posted my original comment, I completely forgot that Diva was a plugin and I thought you were using a hardware synth. Now that I'm awake, and caffeinated, I remember Diva is a plugin which makes your track even more impressive. Well done big_smile

I'd love to start investing into hardware synths, but besides lacking the space, I know myself, and I know I cant help myself, and at some point have to explain my wife why the room looks more like a 50's computer room than a regular office space XD

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