Lost in the World Woods
By miraclemiles on June 12, 2022 11:58 pm
No new sounds created during the work week last week, but I rested and handled a chaotic work week. No new sounds created Friday night, but I got to hang out and catch up with the WB homie License. Some good discussions over good cocktails about life, the musi-verse and everything. No music on Saturday, but I watched the Pride parade here in downtown Spokane, Washington. It was beautiful and joyous. Smiling and cheering the whole time. It keeps growing every year as it should, which is exciting to see. There's hope for this weird, kinda gross, old logging town yet. Then I look at Sunday's newspaper and about 45 miles from us, across the border in Couer d Alene, Idaho 31 members of some white supremacist freak show were arrested after being found in the back of a U-haul truck, They were suspected of planning to riot at the pride festival in that city. Shit, well still a ways to go. .
Back to happy note, also no music on Saturday because I got to eat Calzones and cake with Mom for her birthday. We played her a silly ring tone that says "ring ring ring" in increasinly annoyed chip-munky voice and she couldn't stop laughing, which made us all happy. Best $1.50 b-day present purchase ever.
So lots of worthwhile reasons to not create new sounds this week. And when I don't have new sounds for the WB, time to look on the hard drive for some existing sounds I can arrange into a fresh, squishy song baby. Thanks to my visit with License I remembered we have a few of our jams I could dust off. So all these sound are from a jam we did last fall. The beginning and end are from a modular rig he brought over. There were devices that did various things I don't remember, but it's all pretty fascinating. To conjure these, I played around with sequences on the Circuit Monostation, which sent CV to the modular rig, and he coaxed it into telling stories. I probably reached over and twisted a few random knobs or moved cable, hoping for be best. Then we figured we'd try a dubby jam to end the night. Drums and bassline from License on the Model:Cycles. He owns that little box for sure. I added sprinklings from the Organelle, Circuit, and my voice through the Kaoss pad. I think what I was saying was Lost in the World, or maybe Woods. Really, just blissfully lost in the sounds and groove and happiness of the moments.
So that brings us back to Sunday, where I got to make cup of coffee, listen to this 1.5 hour jam, smile, and chop things up and arrange in Ableton, which fortunately I find almost as fun as creating the sounds in the first place, since in the end, I get to be a proud parent and say hello to the new song baby that didn't exist yesterday.
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