17 Weekly Beats 2024 Pulsar
By thgirwnhoj on April 28, 2024 3:54 pm
This week marks the return of my Push 2 my setup. Back in February, it started sending random MIDI signals to my computer and I had to stop using it. Thankfully, Ableton has a paid replacement program and I was able to get a refurbished model by sending mine in and paying about $100. I have had my Push since 2017, so I found that to be a really good deal even though the whole process took awhile. As for inspiration for my track, a theme for a recent Disquiet Junto project revolved around the concept of "kickless techno" and one of the examples I listened to was a track by Barker. I had never heard of the concept of "kickless" electronic music or of artists like Barker, but I was very much fascinated by all of it. My track started out with just the pads and arpeggiated bass synth sounds and I was thinking of trying to finish the track with no kick, but I got stuck at one point and wanted to hear one. When I first brought it in, I tried it on the off beat. I am not sure what the proper way to describe it is, but I put the kick on the "and" instead of the one. I really liked that, but when I tried to layer other percussion over it, the whole beat became hard to understand. I reverted back to a four-on-the-floor dance beat and was able to finish the track, but toward the end of the week, I started to feel a little bored with it and lacked motivation to add some finishing touches that I normally would. The whole song comes together for me in the second B part around 3:33, but I am going to wonder what I might have felt like had I kept going with something more conceptual and out of the norm for me. But that is a good lesson to take away - that it can be worth it to pursue something I don't understand at first so that I remain interested through the process.
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