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walkman expansion

By Q-Rosh on July 23, 2022 11:08 pm

this week I was working on an idea that was recorded on monday. until sunday it has grown to 292 audioclips on 20 audiotracks in my ableton arrangement. My Covid symtoms are almost gone, btw. Thanks for your warm and friendly get-well-wishes.
OK, most of the clips had to be muted again, because thing were becoming to full and overloaded. The song should be a very quiet one with enough room and space for the little details to be noticeable. Because I did not use a metronome or specific beat, the instruments have been played with the inner syncfeeling I had while I was playing. The quality is tapelike, but be careful, there is a deep basstone in here as well. In the end I decided to make another 10 minutes song, it is better to have it, than having it not.
what I visualize in this song, is Alice in wonderland, taking a nap, with a good old WALKMAN, listening to an unreleased the cure "a forest remix" by sigur ros and beeing happy to have autoreverse and enough batteries.

Really great world here!

Lovely textures and so great that you left it long! It works well to be transported to another world when you have plenty of time for it!

Your description makes me think of how most of the time, the first take is best, and rerecording a ton of times only gets worse cause it never has that feel of the first take. It’s not always true so of course we end up doing tons of takes of stuff, but it’s an interesting thought.

I have missed your tracks, and intend to spend this week catching up on them. I really enjoyed just floating away on the sounds, and love the image you created for us at the end of your description. Sometimes I miss the way listening to a walkman encouraged me not to skip tracks before they were done, and made me listen to albums from start to finish.


yesssss at 4:29

'come closer and see
see into the trees'

'again and again and again and again...'


what a magical adventure - but now i just want head into the forest with a walkman listening to a tape of this & the cure & take a nap!

also glad to hear you are on the mend!  be well!

Alice in Wonderland has always been one of my favorite stories, so it was fun to picture that as I listened to this.  I've always loved the weird and colorful and vibrant and trippy imagery of the story and this delivers all of that in spades. Plus I also have nostalgia for walkmen, so that's an added bonus.

That's one hell of a mental image, but totally on point
Feels good
- Ebrit

trippy. tranquil.

This is like a brain massage. There are some deep sounds in there, like around 3:30, as if something very large is moving in the depth of the ocean and you can feel the waves of it. Quite a fantastic journey, as if floating on a small boat through exotic and wildly colored islands.

So many people have covid this week, i wonder if it somehow spreads through weeklybeats(just kidding lol)

I soooooo love this title, it got me imagining so many things and all of the imagery that came to mind somehow expanded my attention to the track.

› and so graceful!

Thank you, this was a great experience to hear, so many delicate sounds interwoven together, need to see if my Walkman still works, my son found a box full of my old cassette tapes, he loves just looking at them.

Very lovely track and I really like all the muted clicks and thumps.  The added melodic elements works great as something to build upon.  Very cool!  smile

Kedbreak136 said it best I think.  "brain massage"  Your music always puts my overly caffeinated anxious mind at ease.  This would be awesome to listen to while walking in a forest.  The lil crackles and thumps of percussion would be the perfect soundtrack to the crunching of leaves underneath.  I like how the tone of the guitar takes on a string section sound.  Excellent piece of music.

Alice in Wonderland; Chapter 5: WOOL AND WATER wrote:

The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things—but the oddest part of it all was, that whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold.

‘Things flow about so here!’ she said at last in a plaintive tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at. ‘And this one is the most provoking of all—but I’ll tell you what—’ she added, as a sudden thought struck her, ‘I’ll follow it up to the very top shelf of all. It’ll puzzle it to go through the ceiling, I expect!’

But even this plan failed: the ‘thing’ went through the ceiling as quietly as possible, as if it were quite used to it.

(Wonderful track!)

In abstract art, many of the works "look simple" or easy to make, but with increasing reliability, the most confident works are done by masters with great executional skill.

This track is so deceptively simple, but just take a look at the comments, everyone is STRONGLY responding to something deep here.

Incredible.

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