‹ Old Man Yells At Cloud
In an effort to pace the creativity a bit more I started early in the week for a change. Not a bad idea, but more distance from the deadline meant I was free to experiment and keep adding more things.
I had a pretty cool start with the heavy bassline, then added some microtonal stuff, added the weird chords in hypersynth, remade those same chords by spreading the voices over multiple tracks and turned it into the softer opening with randomised tremolo on each note. There's also an aux table changing reverb size, which turns it into a percussive element (the first percussive kind of sound in the track). I had to rewrite a bunch pretty far into it because I decided I wanted to tune the microtonal stuff per note instead of using the general scale, which in turn led to a bunch of long REPs breaking. Somewhere along the way I also added the extra challenge to synthesize everything directly on M8. I often use samples for drums because it's just super quick to grab some, but not this time. So I remade the drum sounds halfway through the song, which also meant remixing other parts. So yeah.. a lot.
Even though there's a ton of things that went into this track, at the same time I think it somehow misses a clear sense of purpose. I really like it when a track has one core idea that everthing else gets built around. It can be anything: a melodic or rhythmic hook, an emotion or message to convey, some kind of weird new sound or technique, or even just something that feels good for some reason. Doesn't matter what, but it really helps to have a central point to focus on. I think that's something that is lacking in this track, or maybe it has too many things at once. Or maybe I couldn't really find the right structure to accomodate them. Either way I'm probably just sick of working on this and ranting now. Congrats and thank you if you read this far! Dog farts 