Cosmic Roar
By Earp Lug on April 12, 2026 12:07 am
This week I had some dental surgery where they cut little pieces of my cheek and stuffed them into parts of my gum. It hurt a lot and I'm on a liquid diet for the next two weeks.
About an hour after I got home from the pharmacist I made this 37 minute jam where I played my MicroKorg into a looper pedal that went into an overdrive pedal that went into a reverb pedal that went into a harmonizer pedal. The loop was about six minutes long, and because it was the first in the chain, it recorded the raw signal that was then modified by all the other pedals.
I repeated the loop a few times, changing different parameters of each pedal, and I also recorded some additional synth stuff into a secondary track. In premier pro I synchronised all the loops and secondary tracks. Then I chose the parts that would work the best together in tandem and animated the keyframes of their volume so they would come in and out at different times throughout the track. I panned each track to take up different parts of the stereo space of the song as my main mixing tool to try to keep things from overwhelming eachother.
I showed the track to my buddy Ryan who said I should add a four on the floor or some other drum beat to keep the track more interesting. It wasn't really the vibe I was going for with this one, but I did record a little feedback loop on my Monotron Delay that had a sort of repeating percussive quality that slowly morphs into noise. I reversed the track and repeated it a few times throughout the track, animated its levels, and panned it to fill gaps in the stereo space, and called it Good Enough.
For the video, I recorded some Video Wizardry in my office setup with a camera pointed at a TV that ran through a video mixer, some color modifiers, and some circuit-bent hardware. I recorded for the entirety of my original music performance, and in the original edit I cut between different parts of the video. I felt like it lacked cohesion, so I then made a second edit that only took one part of the recording session that was pretty consistent and matched the music for the entirety of the new, shorter song. A little over halfway throught the song, I then overlaid just the colors of another part of the video session, as the image just stays kinda greenish yellow for a long period, and I wanted to make the experience a bit more visually engaging without sacraficing the hypnotic quality of a single-take abstract piece.
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