Steel and Siren
By evanericksonmusic on May 31, 2026 3:17 am
This week I was feeling really nostalgic for the techno my Dad would play when we went on road trips. I remember looking out the window as we drove by the large lake bordering Madison, Wisconsin while listening to spacious dnb like this.
Hope this rectifies my chaos streak I’ve been on. Between this and my track with Bobbyd, I held a lot of restraint to try and make songs with different structures. Despite how it may come across, I do really want to make “normal” music, too. I don’t want everything to be a challenge or a big selfish pot of ideas. A huge goalpost as a composer, though, is to figure out how to insert enough of yourself into something without it being derivative. When I make a song like this versus “The Club in My Pillow” (which I had my RMR lesson on today), it comes from a place of wanting to make something for other people instead of for myself. I’ve thought about it a lot… now that I do not get to play my clarinet anymore, which was my tool for bringing joy to my communities by playing for children, the elderly, and giving opportunities to under resourced musicians, I do not have much of an outlet for bringing people together.
So, that’s some of the energy tied to this song. Also check out bobbyd’s track that we collabed on this week. There’s a very charming vocaloid melody in it.
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