Working title since I hate naming songs especially at moments like these.

Truly, 2024 was supposed to be my best year yet, but probably ended up worse overall than 2023. Life has been particularly hard in the past couple of months. Some seriously terrible things happened. I'm through the worst of it by this point though.

I was awfully busy with a job and dealing with personal issues on tpo of that left me too busy to put meaningful amounts of time and/or mental energy into music, which is why I couldn't keep up with the WeeklyBeats "challenge". When I started, I thought I'd be unemployed throughout the whole year. Granted, I'm indescribably happy I landed a job in this economic slump. It was a massive stroke of luck.

I have big plans for 2025 and have reasons to believe it will go much, much better than this year.

I'm unhappy with the general direction and quality of the composition as I have been for almost every piece of music I've made this year and last year. I never feel like my experimental music is exploratory enough. I never feel like my EDM tracks have the general vibe I want them to have. I have terrible compositional habits (such as overusing the VI-VII-i chord progression) that probably stem from having neither a passable music theory knowledge nor an ability to play a melodic instrument. At least my mixing knowledge is becoming quite good by my standards. I can generally make a mostly technically competent mix that sounds the way I want in a very reasonable amount of time now.

But goddamn, if I don't love making music. It's my favorite thing in the whole world. And seriously, I don't suppose anything else matters. Creation needs not a standard, an audience, an end goal nor monetary incentives.
I'll keep going. I'll strive to make more, and better music, and improve my life while I'm at it.

I hope your 2024 was better than mine. Have a great 2025, everyone.

Tags: week 52 2024, View by:Mamoriya