barnacles collage
By muhamor on March 29, 2026 11:39 pm
Hi there. Welcome to week 13. Holy smokes, we're 1/4 of the way through the year!
› Life notes
‹ Life notes
In a couple weeks I'm going to be performing a live house/dance set at my friends' party in the desert. It's my first time playing my music for a big audience, and it's been occupying a lot of my mental space (and somewhat influencing my production choices the past month). I've been interested performance for a while, so it's pretty exciting! The set is going to include a lot of my weeklybeats submissions, which feels very vulnerable and terrifying. Every week is a (slightly easier) struggle to put together track, and playing my existing tracks for friends feels vulnerable because I will be sharing incomplete pieces of myself with everyone
. I'm still gonna do it though! Because it's something new for me, and I also want to share this part of myself with others
If you've read all this - I'd love to hear your thoughts on music performance. Is it something you're interested in? What does it mean to you? How do you approach it?
› Production notes
‹ Production notes
This week, I revisited an old production strategy: make as many loops 8 bar loops as I can and use the best-sounding ones in a track. This generated a lot more interesting material than in week 5, but I mainly used two sets of loops as the base for this track. I might come back to some of the sections that I built up in other tracks.
Sound design-wise, things are fairly straightforward. I used a juno-esque saw wave pluck for the lead in section 2/3, plucked bass with sine sub, and 909-ey hats and perc. The twinkly granular-esque sounds you hear are from me ramping up severalof the global delay parameters (feedback, reverb send, time) over 1 phrase.
Thanks for listening!