On the topic of traffic jams, I find indicator phase differences between multiple cars when waiting to turn right or left to be inspiring.
465 January 4, 2012 11:04 am
Re: Looking for inspiration? (25 replies, posted in General Discussion)
466 January 4, 2012 9:40 am
Re: Number of submissions/ week (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
He meant to write this http://milkcrate.com.au/lazerscale2010/
467 January 4, 2012 9:22 am
Re: Looking for inspiration? (25 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I've been listening to this quite a bit in the last few days. Refined simplicity with sugary sounds. http://comtruise.bandcamp.com/
468 January 4, 2012 8:32 am
Re: Number of submissions/ week (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Lazerscale seemed such a good idea on day 1 of that. Not so much on day 365. Go us.
/me high fives Lazerbeat.
WeaklyBeets will be much cruisier.
469 January 4, 2012 7:12 am
Re: Number of submissions/ week (21 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Just wait until the last moment to upload a track. Or put up with the possibility of being doomed. In terms of a progression of ideas that lead to the final thing that's being uploaded: you can always link to uploads of drafts within the description of your WeeklyBeats upload, if that is something you would like to do, I guess (right?). These drafts would have to be stored elsewhere, though. If you would like some space for this purpose (and assuming you don't have hosting elsewhere), drop me a line.
470 January 3, 2012 9:52 pm
Re: free your mind, musically (36 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Lazerscale only had a handful of people - communication was easily taken care of over IRC or email if needed.
There are many more people doing WeeklyBeats. It makes sense to have a forum to foster a community and make collaborations easier as well as sharing thoughts etc.
471 January 3, 2012 2:10 pm
Re: Can people signup and participate at any point? (35 replies, posted in Site Help)
I agree with Poppi re: closing it off. It makes sense to me - one question might be whether or not we are expecting many more people or not.
I disagree with Poppi re: chip-centric nature of WeeklyBeats. Plenty of people not involved in the chip scene seem to be into WeeklyBeats.
472 January 3, 2012 10:17 am
Re: Music Genres (40 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I'll do a shamisen / koto collabodab with ya! Cello and voice sounds grand also
473 January 3, 2012 6:40 am
Re: Music Genres (40 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Would love to hear you make some more of your acoustic folk stuff, Poppi.
474 January 3, 2012 1:01 am
Re: Music Genres (40 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Electronic, chiptunes, ambient, drone, noise, dance, neoromantic, experimental, non-experimental, rock, minimal.
475 January 2, 2012 12:33 pm
Re: free your mind, musically (36 replies, posted in General Discussion)
This thread makes me want to pick up my Game Boys again.
476 January 2, 2012 2:19 am
Re: Who's up for participating? (88 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Isn't 3068 tracks @ 3 mins per track 9204 minutes of music? Which is like, 6 days or something?
477 January 1, 2012 4:53 pm
Re: Who's up for participating? (88 replies, posted in General Discussion)
iran sanad wrote:
totes.
Yay! 
So many Adelaide peeps.
478 December 28, 2011 6:27 am
Re: Personal Goals Beyond Writing 52 Tracks In 52 Weeks (60 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Fair enough, just curious.
479 December 28, 2011 5:44 am
Re: Personal Goals Beyond Writing 52 Tracks In 52 Weeks (60 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Poppi wrote:
]I also view this opportunity as a much needed kick in the bum to create more music but also to explore music as a method of research; my focus has been on writing/traditional research methods for way too long.
Good to hear you're on board!
trash80 wrote:
I think I'm going to first try a systematic approach to composing music, and see how that goes, maybe something like:
Day 1: Pick theme / Studio setup / Create DAW template
Day 2: Chord structure / Mood / Maybe 2 movements / Key sig / etc
Day 3: Intro & solid structural guideline
Day 4: Finished song structure / movements / transitions
Day 5: Tweeking any bits, working on mix
Day 6: Render / upload
Do you think you will be boxing yourself in in some form or limiting certain thought processes by going about things in such a systematic way?
480 December 27, 2011 10:20 am
Topic: Personal Goals Beyond Writing 52 Tracks In 52 Weeks (60 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Okay, so of course the challenge here is to write a track a week for all of 2012. I was thinking that some of us probably have some goals that we want to achieve via WeeklyBeats - e.g. explore new ways of writing music, improve composition skills at one particular instrument, learn how to use new software or hardware etc.
Let's share some!
For me, I want to learn a few pieces of software that I've never used, including Renoise and PD for example. I would also like to write more music for interesting combinations of instruments, e.g. cello and chiptune. Additionally, I want to spend maybe a month or so building a piece of hardware each week, and then writing a new track for it each week.
I am not sure how feasible these ideas will be once the year actually begins, but it's nice to dream