ERockoutPez
By RajaTheResidentAlien on February 4, 2024 2:09 pm
ERockoutPez = Zeptocore spelled backwards, but in a way that adds 'rockout' into it 
...still testing zeptocore... still loving it...
but, this week outside of that, i felt very unmotivated(i've had clinical depression in the past, plus PTSD from a full-time job moderating the flagged-content on YouTube back in 2006-2007(this particular timing turned out lucrative merely by luck for me(not like it was a 'skilled' job, definitely not a glorified one to aspire to), so while i don't mean anything as a complaint, it was definitely a mixed-blessing in a way)... been through lots of therapy and it helped in the past but these days it feels a matter of just keeping a certain regimen of meditation, exercise, diet, and sometimes journalling(weeklybeats can be like that journal in musical form, too)... it's no longer overwhelming, just at times very weighty... like a drag that slows me down...)... it's also the rainy weather, sometimes it just feels healthier to sit and stare out at the rain and let the feelings steep into the heart(where they reside in the truest digestable form) allowing the mind/ego to release from them, rather than to drive forward hard/fast no matter how you feel inside.
this is the most i could come up with(made with sounds from zack scholl's zeptocore, a po-sub, tal-j8, and renoise... though, since the zeptocore is like a live tracker-fx-column, there was no need for any fx column in renoise, was just used to sequence, mix, and master)
i've been talking up the zeptocore alot, so figured i'd just mention: since i was feeling a bit down on new year's, i hit zack up by email asking him if he was closer to finishing his latest thing, and he said it was great timing and then sent me a prebeta version of the device to test. great timing, indeed, as it was just what i needed to clear any funk i was in at the start of the year(it's an empowering feeling when someone makes you feel 'included/counted' right when you search for that feeling of inclusion), and got my spirits up right away(and while i was waiting for it to arrive, i made my first two weeklybeats a faster/more-familiar way just recording/editing in DAWs(logic and renoise), so those ended up being motivated in their sound by that anticipation and ease ). i'm just grateful to keep moving and to have this encouraging experience to keep my spirits afloat. there's no other investment i'm involved in here, so if it seems like some of my weeklybeats are advertising for the zeptocore, while zack has no marketing or promotion he seeks for anything he does, i figured utilizing it sometimes in my weeklybeats this year would be one way of showing my gratitude and promoting it at the same time, he deserves the recognition. hope it doesn't come off as noisy advertising, just enjoying zack's innovation here and feeling deep gratitude over the experience(and there are many other weeklybeats i'll do with my own tinkering in max and on norns, as well.. i promise myself this 
).
hope you're all keeping a healthy pace in every aspect of life 
this track up in CC0 (and temporary download of HQ stems(48k24b .wav) available here for next 7 days) 
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC0 Creative Commons Zero (Public Domain)
