17. sub letting
By hhuwoa on April 28, 2024 10:03 pm
17. sub letting
i brought my seldom-used melodica along on my trip thinking that it might come in handy, living without a keyboard for a month (besides the small and rather flimsy midi controller i also brought) and as an option for "creative" weeklybeats-making in the absence of my home setup. so here it is.
the place i've been living for this past month is on the corner of a busy street, in a rainy city. it's an old house and the outside noise can be heard clearly from inside. i wanted to capture this place. so i set my phone near the door to record the sounds of traffic on the wet street, and paced around the room improvising on the melodica. a few days later when i sat down to work with the audio i decided to actually not edit anything out and leave the whole thing as is - plus a bunch of delay fx and some additional layers here and there. i could do a lot more mixing and editing on this, but i already spent more time on it than i would have expected to. i might tinker with it some more in the future, but this is finished enough for a wb submission.
the piece wanders, trying to find its way, finds a bit of stability in the recurring chord progression, and then confidently ends with a proper "beat" i made earlier this week using the midi controller + daw. i've hit my stride here, but sadly it is time to go.
this trip was meant to be life-affirming, and it has been. i am going to miss this place and i don't want to leave. grateful for the special people i've met here.
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