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Sand in the Gears

By ecso on February 4, 2024 8:18 pm

For me, the hardest part of Weekly Beats (and making music in general) has always been accepting that not every single song has to be "good." It can just be.

Norns is sequencing Deckard's Voice (routed through Beads) with the Dunes script. Dunes is a 16-step sequencer with assignable commands at each step that modulate the sequencer in interesting ways. Doboz VCO340 provides a drone, filtered through one half of the Dual SeM20 Filter. The noise output of Deckard's Voice is going through the other half. LFOs from Ornament and Crime (Quadraturia) and Model D modulate the volume and wave shape of VCO340, the filter cutoff of both DeM20 filters and the density of Beads. The LFO rate of the Model D is also being modulated by Quadraturia (modulate the modulators, hack the planet, save the cheerleader, save the world). The random LFO from Deckard's Voice is modulating the freeze on Beads, though not to great effect tbh.

Maximum LFO usage.

The track could have been half as long and I think I should have set Dunes to alter its sequence earlier in the song. More emergent melodies would have made for a much more varied sonic landscape to sample. Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to sampling this for week 6. I think it'll be a challenge.

February 5, 2024 9:11 pm

ENC_

I have suffered from a similar feeling about not everything being to my standard of "good". It's hard because that is a deeply personal and subjective perception. It takes a real effort to ignore that feeling sometimes but judging by the fact you've uploaded at all, I think it's a sign you've had a small victory in that battle.


I think this one came out better then you think. The textures from beads and the earlier Deckard's Voice sequencing kept my interest for a long while. There is a solid slow build that creates a certain level of ambiguous tension. There are a lot of interesting things that came out of this one.

Did you by chance record the parts separately or is this a straight stereo recording?

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February 8, 2024 1:28 am

emily


"the sleeper is awakening..."

totally a small victory! smile

the "let the tracks be" part is difficult for me too

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