What's Another Ten?
By Stenny on May 17, 2026 6:34 am
Started this piece with a general sense of fatigue from a lot of ongoing events, and perhaps a little bit due to this composition challenge. When I wrote the title, I was reflecting primarily on this being the 20th piece of this challenge, having completed another 10 pieces, but eventually that "ten" number started to seem like it pertained to other things - another decade of life, another night working until 10 PM, another 10% added or removed to some metric here or there that I didn't want to see moved. But I'm not on about some numerology shenanigans - we see what we want, and all in all, I just needed to find something to write this piece about, and turns out that the number ten can be found in a lot of my stressers if I look for it.
The technical goal for this piece was to 1.) take the delay/distortion cloud technique from my last two pieces and take it from being the focal point of a piece to an accent, and 2.) to focus a bit more on the dots-and-lines-on-paper aspect of the piece - bringing my sheet music composition skills to Ableton - but it turns out writing music in a piano roll is still hard for me. I guess the sheet music to piano roll translation skill must come with time? Happy 20th, everyone!
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