I'm still chugging along, mostly thanks to having a bunch of stuff that is easy to jam with—I can just submit a quick improvised thing if I'm not feeling up to writing a full piece. Having said that, I think I may end up getting to the point that I did in 2014, where I just fall over because I keep just making a bunch of quick and loose tracks.. nothing wrong with that, but I hope to get back into making some prog stuff soon, which I don't want to show anyone until I can release it. Perhaps I'll just upload edited versions of some early jams for those prog pieces.

Also, I'm moving house in a few weeks, so the quality of my work may wane a little in that time

My track for this week (ie. just uploaded) is part of this new EP I just released for my new project:
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My aim is to release as many of these EPs as I can, and then possibly re-purpose selected tracks into a more polished release.

It's been pretty easy for me so far. I think the next few weeks will be dedicated to OP-1 jams; it's just so easy to get something cool going!

I play guitar, mostly, and have a small amount of skill on piano (nothing special). I've tried drums before but never got beyond post-rock drumming (ie. lazy) or just smashing out a beat on some drum pads.. I'd love to learn drums properly though.

BTW, do you busk in Carlton? I was walking through Carlton lastnight and saw someone who looked like you playing double bass, but wasn't sure.

hah yeah, a space/cosmic theme is something that I have to try hard *not* to adhere to

I'd love to try something similar to this 'battle' I missed out on over at the OP-1 forum:
https://www.operator-1.com/index.php?p= … pancake/p1

If you go to your profile and click the link for your latest track, you can edit the text in there.

Yeah same, lately I've been getting an idea for what I want to do before I get a chance to put it into a pattern on a machine or software.

Usually once I've got it down it evolves quite heavily, especially with my current setup which caters pretty well to evolving structures. As a result, most of my recent tracks have been edited down from a longer session dedicated to building the patterns and the natural progress that comes from happy accidents. I'm hoping that through practice, I can get these sessions down to short enough durations to allow me to basically take my machines out to a gig and play a set with minimal pre-programmed material. Currently I'm averaging 40–60 minutes of raw material per track, so I've clearly got a long way to go before I can crank out decent tracks on the fly!