Darkillian's Peak
By Tone Matrix on January 21, 2024 10:36 pm
phew...
so my goal this year was to not play "time's tickin!" with the deadline each week.
I had thought I was going to be submitting a simple ambient piano track with a drone that just sorta meandered on one chord. I even had a lil mp3 done and it was ready to be released.
The next day apparently the creative gnomes lit a fire in my pantalones and I decided to upgrade my simple Kontakt player and get the full sampler version cuz coupon. Then I realized I could hire Butch Vig as a drummer... ok fine, I downloaded his drumkit/sample add-on thingy. But that totally opened up a bunch of ideas for fleshing out the original boring meandering excuse of a noodle I had originally recorded. I usually just find a bunch of loops, chop em up and filter them beyond recognition for drums. Which results in some floopy low boops and bops that support the piano. So I went down the "how bout i add this?" rabbit hole and almost didn't make it back out in time.
Thankfully (chris_farley_air_quotes) "MASTER-ING" wasn't too much of a "HASSLE". Though since I was adding new parts almost every day of the week that left the mixing and finalizing for today. Which then resulted in my usual "oh no what time is it, i can't see the clock!" or such favorites as
"did I just spend an hour thinking I mixed too hot when I instead just read my notes wrong!?"
Thank goodness for multiple undos..
But I am soooooo happy with the whole week's progress. I don't think I can do this every week but I am feeling that writer's buzz so far this year. Like notes were exploding out of my tiny lil noggin this week and I couldn't stop. Next week may be a bit more piano so-lo though as you can tell I am a bit loopy from skipping a meal and/or drinking too much cawfee.
Oh right! See I almost forgot to mention that the lil "nahOoh" part at the end is actually me for the first time! Ok it's one syllable... sampled and mangled... But it was just me singing into my phone a couple nah nahs I thought I could just slap in there. I could not... So I sampled one syllable of a "nahOoh".
Thank you for listening and reading this abomination of a description. I look forward to listening to your musics! Bai!
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