Anxious

By scottux on March 18, 2018 8:45 pm

I'm not as anxious as I might've been when I decided to do a song that evoked anxiety, but I felt like the exploration was worth the attempt. This is about equal parts DAW exploration as it is rushed job, but I feel pretty intrigued by the result. Also, somehow lost a part in the mix by getting too weird with a compressor, but I think it ended up pretty good in the end.

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Tags: ableton, anxiety, anxious, fuzz, time manipulation, week 11 2018, View by:scottux

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March 19, 2018 2:51 am

Parallelis

damn this is great, such a lush, fat mix. love the tempo shifts and glitchy IDM feel going on. those twisty, chromatic arpeggios are wiiiiild.

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March 19, 2018 4:30 pm

Devieus

It doesn't really invoke anxiety as much as it could, the higher registers are too empty and there aren't enough strange whispers to nail that. It's instead a nice song.

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March 19, 2018 4:43 pm

Coauctor

Wannadance!

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March 19, 2018 7:26 pm

scottux

Parallelis wrote:

damn this is great, such a lush, fat mix. love the tempo shifts and glitchy IDM feel going on. those twisty, chromatic arpeggios are wiiiiild.

Thanks!! I think I'm getting much better at mastering/mixing!

Devieus wrote:

It doesn't really invoke anxiety as much as it could, the higher registers are too empty and there aren't enough strange whispers to nail that. It's instead a nice song.

You're absolutely right, the missing track I mentioned in the writeup also didn't bring enough higher screeching. I think I could have done more in the way of It Follows soundtrack style terror stuff to properly convey the anxiety (or really just taken more cues from horror soundtracks in general)

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