+2 Kitchen
By Leo on January 10, 2026 10:21 pm
This one's been a personal success for several reasons:
1) I had one of those weeks where my first 5ish ideas didn't amount to anything, and yet things turned around at some point. So already pushed through creative frustration successfully on week 2!
2) Maybe the main reason I was having trouble is that I didn't have a vision for what to make. Thinking back on what music I listened to when I was most curious about learning instruments and sound design, I realized that in the last couple years, I really barely listened to any music. There just wasn't much that inspired me on an aspirational level. But then I realized that maybe, I simply had to lean into something new, that wasn't related to composition and sounddesign - and quickly realized that what I actually find most interesting these days are lyrics. Specifically, lyrics that are on the surface bizarre, funny, mundane, but that have a way of sticking with you (recently mainly Sugar Pit, Viagra Boys, Victor Jones). Also a super scary proposition, because I have very little experience in writing. Which is exactly why I think I should lean into it for Weeklybeats. And what can I say - I'm actually kinda happy with the result! It was so much fun to compile the imagery, form punchlines (?), streamline it to the music. I had a genuinely fun time...
3) ...yelling into the onboard mic of the model:02. I got super in my head about doing professional sounding vocal recordings if I was gonna do lyrics, and the logistics of finding a reasonably treated space for little to no money, and perhaps available for upcoming WeeklyBeats. But then I decided - fuck that. If it's not exciting to me, but paralyzing, I'm just gonna phone it in. So I stayed right where I was (my couch) and recorded everything straight into the M8. This was maybe the key to actually getting this finished, and having fun along the way by deliberately lowering the stakes. For me, that's a huge win, because I tend to sabotage myself by not allowing myself to make anything that's worse that the best I could possibly, potentially achieve.
4) I actually did put up a cabinet (more like a shelf tbh) that was just standing on my kitchen table for 3 years. The difference it made.
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