It's Gonna Be Okay
By Earp Lug on February 21, 2026 4:52 am
This week has been tough so I kinda had to rush. I wanted to make a song called 88888888 for Week 8, but I'll have to do it for another week and then plop it in when I make the final project video. It requires a lot of multiples of 8 and re-recording over and over, and I'm making three feature films this week before I go out of town and just don't have the time for it. There's also some personal stuff going on that's been freaking me out, so I keep telling myself this mantra to keep me from going crazy.
For the music, I took a bunch of synths that I had sorta set up for another project. I recorded me bringing them in and out and playing with eachother in a few 6-10 minute sessions, then I pulled different pieces from different sessions and layered them on top of eachother to create a structure of order leading into chaos and then back into order.
Layers:
I messed around with some drones on my Stylophone DS-2.
To match the drone, I played an arpeggio of two black keys on the Crave. I turned up the Tempo and Glide until it created a droning sound, then messed around with the Cutoff and Resonance to keep things interersting. For some sessions I also fed it into a Reverb pedal, but I don't think I used that. Maybe I did. Idk. I don't have much time and I can't remember what I did.
I played keys on the MicroKorg (only the black ones. That way I'm in tune with the Crave according to that one Japanese scale).
I then brought in the hard glitch of the Ellitone Multisynth. It started running through the reverb pedal at full reverb so it also kinda droned, but I turned the reverb off and played the notes in a weird glitch patch that created a strange melody.
In another session, I made my Crave and DS-2's LFOs (tied to cutoff) quite fast so they would get kinda crazy, and then I layered them over the Multisynth section of the song to add a bit more chaos to the mix.
I then brought in the same drone from the beginning, but a different piece of notes played on the MicroKorg to finish the song out. All in all, not my worst music by far. And it even has a level of structure that corresponds to what I want my mental/emotional state to do when I start freaking out again!
For the video, I took some footage I shot of an extreme closeup of my wife's lips as she ate some gummies I gave her for Valentine's day. At one point she holds up a little egg gummy, which is my pet name for her. You can't really tell though, because the footage is run through some hard glitch courtesy my @Tachyonsplus Psychenizer in combination with my @circuitbenttv L/S/D+ (kinda like a homemade time base corrector that's created specifically for circuit bent glitch boxes). I ran the footage through a brightness/color controller before it went into the glitch boxes, and I cleaned up the final output with a time base corrector. I thought I recorded two sessions of the footage sped up to 200% speed and two sessions of the footage slowed down to 50% speed, but I guess I didn't record one of the slower ones.
I took long portions of the footage normalised back to 100% speed for the beginning and end, and hid some cuts when the footage totally fell out and stopped looking good, and then I edited the hard glitch of the three different sessions to the beat of the glitch music in the middle portion.
Side note, my wife didn't realise I was filming so close to her mouth and she hates the raw footage, but she doesn't mind the glitched out version. Neat!
https://youtu.be/NeDA_l9J7Yg
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