The Club in My Pillow
By evanericksonmusic on April 12, 2026 1:59 am
I think this is my favorite song I have written. It was about a month-long process. I took a short hiatus from using the M8 because I was getting pretty burnt out. But, I really liked how the last vocaloid fusion song came out and wanted to go a bit further with the process. During my break, I hand wrote about 4 minutes of 4 part vocal music, with words from a poem by another person with ME/CFS used as the lyrics that drove the motifs of the song.
All of that I rendered into SynthV, and then I exported about 45 samples to get funky with on the M8.
One barrier I have been experiencing in my music on the M8 has been not getting too creative with the commands or tables. There was a voice in my head that was telling me to put in some extra brainpower and brute force whatever crazy combinations I could get out of the M8. Other than some vocal processing to make the tracks pop a bit more, this is like 90% the power of the M8.
I have been really pissed off this past month by how my body is making me feel. Meds not being as effective, my insane head pressure is becoming daily again, my heart hurts, and I see things in double like 40% of the time. At literally every turn in the day there is some agonizing combination of bullshit I have to put up with. I barely have the capacity to be making music, but when I do it all I want to do is have the most fun I can. This track is filled with so many handcrafted sounds and I just love it. I wrote it for me. And I think it is a top tier Evan Erickson Music song. Even though I get sad that I cannot explore new interests, like the claymation hobby I have been getting into, without extreme pushback from my body, it seems like the one gift this illness has brought me is the ability to truly connect with music. All of my classical roots, lessons, and practice summed up to letting me tweak out crazy beats that keep me from going insane in my goddamn isolation sentence from the Devil.
I hope you fuck with it. I think this track is special. I did turn it down 2db from where it was just to compromise with your ears. Sooooooo... it's as quiet as I'll let it be. For better or worse.
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what a masterclass in M8.