The Same But Different
By Cosmic Cairns on January 13, 2022 8:04 pm
I've had my current phone for the last 5 or possibly 6 years because a) I'm cheap and b) I resent how they try to force you to buy a new expensive phone every couple years. It's somehow held up pretty well all this time, but there are definitely some signs it's on its last legs.
I've also been using it as a sort of audio sketchbook for the last several years. If a song idea occurs to me while I'm out and about I'll hum it into the phone so I don't forget it. Or if I encounter some sort of weird or interesting sound out in the wild I'll use it as a field recorder to get a sample of it. I've got a decent number of song ideas and sounds on there I haven't used yet, so one of my goals for this year is to try to use as many of them as possible before I'm forced to give in and get a new phone.
I'm keeping things pretty simple and minimalistic this week, so all I did was used a beat, played a bassline, and put a sound sample on top. I had a pretty low-key New Years Eve this year, but going through my phone recordings I discovered I had made about a 2 minute recording from a NYE party I was at a few years ago. So there's a bunch of people talking and some of those cheap horn things they pass out can be heard more or less throughout.
Another week down! 50 more of these to go? We've got this!
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