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A Monumental State Of Decay

By horatiuromantic on December 18, 2022 10:45 pm

Here's a composition / performance on guitar and iPad / mirack / Koala Sampler. It is about decay and degeneration, loss and forgetting. It is vaaaguely inspired by the music of The Caretaker.

It is also heavily inspired by an old house we own that collapsed this week and we went and salvaged it. Nobody got hurt and only a few objects were destroyed but it looked really freaky and we spent two cold days moving stuff from the rubble into another structure nearby, in order to keep it away from potentially more damage. I didn't do much but I was hanging around with my folks who mainly did all the work.

I also 3d scanned the building after the collapse, and filmed the process of discovery and clearing rubble, and was thinking to put together a micro documentary about it. Not gonna be this week but at least I have the footage. might remember to share here later if done.

Again a track made without great expectations that turned out a little better than I had hoped. But I also have some nice chords and melody for a bossa track that maybe I'll keep working on.

ENJOY! and don't decay

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This sounds just like you describe, all looping and crumbling. Decay and loss. Defo needs to soundtrack a misty horror.
Great stuff!

The near mechanical sounds of the beginning give this track an industrial feel, though less aggressive. However you took it into a very different direction midpoint with the introduction of the guitar. There seem to be other sounds that are hard to identify (like a super fast high pitch jackhammer, or very fast drumroll sound?). This is very original. Like industrial bossa nova. I must say I have never heard something like that before but I like it.

This song is as decrepit as the house, that is to say, I wouldn't visit it for fun, but I love the story behind it
- Ebrit

alonemusic wrote:

This sounds just like you describe, all looping and crumbling. Decay and loss. Defo needs to soundtrack a misty horror.
Great stuff!


Thx for listening! Sounds like you got what I was going for!

Kedbreak136 wrote:

The near mechanical sounds of the beginning give this track an industrial feel, though less aggressive. However you took it into a very different direction midpoint with the introduction of the guitar. There seem to be other sounds that are hard to identify (like a super fast high pitch jackhammer, or very fast drumroll sound?). This is very original. Like industrial bossa nova. I must say I have never heard something like that before but I like it.


Ahh v nice to hear I could show you something new. Those industrial noises can be made with a pretty straightforward modular setup known as Rings Beads Clouds from Mutable Instruments. Except that here I also inserted the guitar into the Beads (or rings??? not sure, I'm using the fake ipad version of those modules).

Devieus wrote:

This song is as decrepit as the house, that is to say, I wouldn't visit it for fun, but I love the story behind it
- Ebrit


Decrepit used to be one of my fav words big_smile Yea this is def more "art" than "music" hehehh

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