W42 - Sum
By ENC_ on October 20, 2024 10:04 am
Planning for wedding. Looking at venues for the real deal version w/ family and friends. Guest lists. Planning care package for brother and TC about Alphonse. Met with D to finish up organizing practice space. Power cable and gear spread sheets. Talked about plans for Delorean Overdrive and work load for upcoming cross country gig. a lot on scope, stage management, and logistics of travel with gear. Conversations about artistic freedom when money is not involved. On our halloween movie kick with AL. Syntakt update release drama. Discord. Talked about friends who have transitioned and remembered their struggle. Hope they are well. Been years. Bike day out with Partner around town. Talked about needs and communication. On the ride grabbed coffee, picked up some supplies from Diaso, and stopped in the park to read talk and play. Had dinner at the german place w/ T and K. Sold Strymon El Capistan. Talked about time in art world when we were young. Gallery hoping, drinking, playing shows, school, wierd scenes, and debaucherous. Fitting in and realizing things are predatory and a scam. Not everyone is bank rolled. Doing things for the sake of doing them and having a need to for continuing making. Next day went to visit L, R, and P. Had a nice day walking P around. AL talked about our Childish Gambino Tickets due to canceled tour. Canceled appointments with CL until the 4th (after legal wedding). Received voting ballot. Frustrated and deeply saddened about worker politics and Gaza. Continually un-optimistic and skeptical but hoping to see change. Do what we can locally. Thinking of time pushing for worker organization and solidarity. AL shared passages from book Abolish Scillicon Valley. Dread but also optimism about working again. Clearer path this week. Thinking a lot about Optimism of web 2.0 and slow colonization of the internet by corporations with min maxing algorythms (takes over thoughts for years now).
Lovely evening walk and talks with AL (feeling lucky and grateful).
Consumed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Aunty Dona: Eric explains DS9, Go to Sleep (I Miss You) by lucy knislui, Dan Da Dan, Demension 20: Misfits and Magic [caught up], DS9, Annihilation (2018), I saw the TV Glow (2024) [excellent], Lower Decks (first few free season 4 episodes), Auvrel - Lone Trax Vol.2, Covox - Field, Chic - Chick, Bogdan Raczynski - Your Only Young Once But You Can Be Stupid Forever, Global Goon - Nanoclusters, Global Goon & Ossa - Ambient Rave Music,
Gear Used:
Elektron Syntakt
Software Used:
Ableton
Elektron Overbridge
ALMicom
Made pattern a few minutes after updating Syntakt and recorded a day after. Was playing with new analog engines coupled with the digital machines. Recorded in one take and recorded into Overbridge into Ableton. Improvised session. Structure built on mutes and improvised parameter tweaking. Decided to film the session. It's been a while. Ran out of natural light but didn't want to wait. A bit rushed in result. Grain and poor lighting to prove it.
Used Stereo recording. Stacked some of the stems to boost volumes on certain frequencies and help with stereo spread in post processing. Mastered and exported. Made 2 exports. Video export is closer to original mix. Uploaded mix is more balanced to my ears. Happy with the session. Less happy with the video. Could have spent more time. Not worth it for what I wanted to achieve.
File Names: "W42 - =Sum(L8,N8,I16)" Ableton, "W42 - Sum" Syntakt,
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