Discussed Childish Gambino and Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar with R. Nice to catch up and keep in contact. Truely a solid friend. One of my oldest. Talked about using metaphors to understand the physical world around us with partner and what it might be like if we saw things more literally. VTC shared new relationship. Emotional but light conversation. Ultimately happy but mixed feelings and adjustment needed. Upset about DMC's ring loss. Relief about their being alone and aging. Woke up and cried. Thoughts about loosing behavioral freedoms to be work rolemodel. Dreamed about it.

Birthday dinner with J&E in the city and rewatched Deadpool 3 with them (fell asleep second viewing). Visited AL's parents and met with brother in-law (almost) and wife for dinner celebrating mid-autumn or ghost festival. Thoughtfully Cooked steak for my dietary needs. Played Jenga with AL's father. He requested the game. Finished 2 books. Longing to be in nature or have adventure. Grocery shopped with new panniers and bike rack. Celebrating dating anniversary in Santa Cruz next week though it was this week. DO hold while M has covid. Created multi sample drum rack and played with eurorack modular to make synthesized drums. Picked up physical copy of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

Consumed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Depech Mode - Music for the Masses, a-Ha - Hunting High & Low, Johann Johannsson - Mandy OST, Radiohead - Amnesiac - Ok Computer, The Box Man by Kobo Abe, 36 Ways of Writhe a Vietnamese Poem by Nam Le, Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, Tuff Turf (1985) [partial watch],

Trying to catch up and WB comments and listening this week. 5 weeks behind.

Gear Used:
Dirtywave M8 Model 01
Tascam DR-40

Gear Sampled:
Cyclone TT-303 Mk.2
Roland CR-8000

Software Used:
Izotope RX10 Denoise (Did not optimize noise floor using DR-40)
Izotope Ozone 10
Izotope Insight 2

Made to test a concept after watching a Stevio video. He uses 2 out of phase sequencers to generate jazzy chords with moog voyager. Result is chord changes without retrigger envelopes and intersting patterns. It's a unique ability of synths to decouple relationship of note changes and timbral mechanisms. Like a if a piano could change a sustained chord's notes without re-activating the hammers. Decided to play with concept in M8 as it is very modular and has tight sequencing. Found a groove and expanded. Played with polymetric (Polyrhythmic?) arps. Enjoyed playing with sequencing. Rough Mixing M8. Light limiting on M8 master . Final Mastering Ableton. Quick affair. Nice break from previous work.

First creation with new firmware. tried new EQs. Utilized hypersynth for chords. New Filters used heavily. Nice variation on originals.

File Names: "W33 - Skipping" Ableton, "Skipping" M8

Tags: electronica, funky, week 33 2024, View by:ENC_