A Mote Of Dust Suspended In A Sunbeam
By Tone Matrix on August 25, 2024 4:42 pm
I had started a completely different track Monday but the motiv-inspiration died quickly. I thought I might try to force something out of that idea on friday but was dealing with another migraine that lingered on and off for 2 days. I wanted to drench myself in some reverb so I turned to Valhalla's trusty Supermassive plugin. The first random one I picked immediately sounded so nice. Squinting in the dark my right hand did it's usual feel for the keys and the ideas started to flow. After a few hours of playing/recording in the dark my migraine was still present but not as hangry as it had been. When I finished the bulk of the track I was originally going to call this "Close Your Eyes". A lil personal reminder/mantra for my migraines. The repetitive chord progression and reverb def helped me zone out and forget about everything else. So I took a peek at the preset from Supermassive and saw it was called "We Are Stardust". Welp, that led me to watch some more Carl Sagan clips on the tube4yew. Which then led me to my fav speech of his from 'a pale blue dot'. The idea of me this tiny ant with what felt like the biggest migraine ever being shrunk down to a minuscule pixel def gets ya in the feels. If you're interested here's the video. https://youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g?si=6JXov8Wy550MkR4Z
I wish there were more people like Carl Sagan. Hope you are well. Thank you for listening.
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