W24 - Skyward NL Explore (nanoloop mobile)
By ENC_ on June 16, 2024 7:53 am
Care taking family home and borther's dog. Very slow and quiet. Incredibly boring but also filled with small tasks. Worked on Delorean again. Exploring the city over a decade out from residence. Things have physically changed but the culture is the same. Conservative. Heard gun shots. No friends and non communal neighbor hood. Empty Lots filled with house that now have aged 30 years. Gate kept public spaces now filled with diverse faces. Recognizable neighbors mostly gone. House is now just for sleeping. lifestyle and homeness overridden for quick drop off with very little hospitality left except for master bedroom. The change feels disappointing and a bit sad. Occupant VTC can never stop moving or care take for the space. Threw out year expired food. Organized spaces again filled with junk. Bound to be worse by the end.
I miss my partner, home, healthier lifestyle, and community. Above all I miss the culture. I am still enjoying the silence and some old things. I am enjoying the company of this old dog and tending to him in his old age. More bike rides, walks, reading and watching. Decompression and confirmations. Hot summer feels nice. Finding new in an old place and time to reflect unbothered. Good things ultimately. A lot of clarity. Short lived return to isolation. Setup DVD and TV. Scrubbing through closets and drawers.
Consumed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Aroma Nice - Star Trek Discovery, X-Files, Lost Realms - Sun Faded Photos for a Departed King - Cycling Into Oncoming Traffic, Skee Mask - ISS010, MPU101 - ITX027-MPU103, New Order - Technique - Substance, Mentrat Noihr - Masquerade, Planning to see Inside Out 2.
Gear Used:
Ipad Air
Tascam DR-40
Software Used:
Nanoloop Mobile
Ableton
Izotope Ozone 10
Brought substantial amount of gear but struggled with some technical issues in gettin hardware to sync with Ableton. Out of frustration and limited time, decided to work in a closed single system at least for WB submission. Been Ipad a lot and ended up opening nanoloop for the first time in a while. No samples were stored on device so I created a drum machine sample set in Nanoloop using resampling and layering. Experimented with sequencing in some new ways and ended up making something out of my test session with the NL synthesized drum sample. Spent about 4 hours over the next few days writing the rest of the song on and off between care taking for Alphonse and organizing/cleaning. Recorded into DR-40 to try and use preamps to add character. Took stereo recording to master in Ableton.
All sounds from nanoloop only. Level mixing done in NL too. First use of the new Mixing/mastering headphones (Sennheiser hd 490 pros). Lazy mastering and on the fly mixing.
File names: "skywardexplore" Nanoloop, "W24 - Skyward NL Explore",
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