W43 - Segamax Forced
By ENC_ on October 27, 2024 10:04 pm
Last day of an era of my life. Last weekly beat before legally married (tomorrow as of writing). Rode bikes with AL to shop for care package for brother and T. Blanket and frame for Ghibli art tribute AL made for Alphonse (she developed all week), also groceries and new food containers. Rode to park twice in evenings. AL joined once. Failed WB attempt happened started there. Watched families, walkers, kids, athletes hanging around the park for a few hours. Monarchs are out. Finished one book and continued reading another. First time going to Costco with our new cards. Enjoyed excursion as a couple. Sleep schedule messed up. Picked up new board game. Played with AL. Tried on clothes for courthouse. Listening party, streams, and too much internet. Watching analytics (broke 1k views in one week). Glad for break from practice space. Ate at P'sDaughter for lunch. New menu under new management. Bad iced matcha for AL. Walked to market. Deep clean bathroom and kitchen with AL. Feeling more focused and accepting of work conditions. Concerned about how much time spent on the internet. Tried to put good intentions into communities even if online. Trying to be empathetic to traumatized strangers even if they give in to reactive regressive thinking. Remembering personal experiences where that was me. Thinking of tech and intersection with ethics, philosophy, and economy. Simulation theory. Smart people and family members who may be overly developed in their craft or career but under developed in social awareness and humanities. Some times purposely... Hope it's not forever. Still love them. Coordinating with my family for meeting next month. Explaining 90's AZN and ABG history and meaning to immigrant mother and brother. Short era of life. Reactionary community building responding to upbringing in new country. Elections news. Revisit spectrogram drawings. Laughing at old internet things and reflecting on childhood internet experiences. looked at old college professor's work.
Consumed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (AL Discussed), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, Dan Da Dan, Evil Dead (1981) (high), Ranma 1/2 (revisiting first anime, original version), Lower Decks (season 5 ep 1), DS9, Go to Sleep (I Miss You) by lucy knislui, It's Ok To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders, The Red Dragon Inn, Alvedon - Hurry Up Mix Tape, Skee Mask - Resort, Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol. 2, Barker - Utility - Unfixed - Barker001, Rolando Simmons - Delusions, Textasy - Welcome to the Dark room - Off the leash, DJ Stingray - F.T.N.W.O.,
Gear Used:
Dirtywave M8
Roland S-1
Cyclone TT-303 Mk.II
Tascam Dr-40
Mega Everdrive Pro
Gear Sampled:
Sega Genesis Model 2
Software Used:
Defle Mask tracker
Ableton
Izotope Ozone 10
Short on time and original idea did not pan out. Decided to finish an old file from maybe a year ago that was incomplete. Original M8 file was made while testing new percussive samples programed for the Sega Genesis. Sampled from hardware. Began work early Sunday morning. Rushed through. Leaned on reliable extra synth additions to fill out the rest. Should have properly recorded parts separately. Short on time. Recorded just master 2 channel stereo out to DR-40. Midi = M8>Headphone Splitter>S-1 and TT-303. Audio = TT-303>S-1 (used onboard reverb and delay @just under 12:00 position)>M8>DR-40. Live tweak 303 parameter changes. 3 takes. Take 1 primary. Take 2 blended in to for clearer ending.
Not happy with mix or master. Would simplify with more time. Used wrong headphones. Probably properly re-record and revisit composition.
File Names: "W43 - segamax" Ableton, "W43-SEGA2" M8, "Sega" M8 (original File),
Behind on WB listening and commenting.
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This track is absolutely nuts turned up in headphones, all the drums/perc panning and crunchiness/texture everything has, a pretty wild experience. Feels like a dance party.