sleep through the storm
By jbarket on October 27, 2024 10:24 pm
I noodled around this week, but was mostly waiting on my new sequencer to show up. Then it got delayed until tomorrow, and now you all get this nonsense, haha.
I decided to make a fully self playing patch in vcv rack. It's a single field recording of a creek near my house, plus a bunch of synthesized nonsense that tickled my brain in the right way. Normally with things like this I'll either multitrack them for a while and assemble a final version, or I'll let it record 5-10 minutes a handful of times and pick my favorite. With this, I got distracted and ended up leaving it for 90 minutes.
The part here is clipped from a section not too far from the beginning. Other than the field recording, the other sounds potentially fade in/out every 4 bars, and on the final version, there's a solid couple of minutes of just water running not long after the beginning. But as you can see from this snippet, it does pick up eventually.
The full 90 minute version is here if you're having trouble sleeping.
This isn't anything crazy, but I am pretty happy with the number of ways I was able to get it to be repetitive, but still evolving over time. The metallic perc sound randomly changes itself, the patterns let randomness in every once in a while, and the pieces can pull themselves in and out at random.
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
