New Horizons
By WahSp on March 22, 2026 7:06 pm
Another week, another fade-out 
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I started today with this week's submission. However, throughout the week I also spent some time in preparation, basically contradicting a comment I made in response to one of Dustsucker's submissions: I usually make my tracks intuitively and, for a change, I wanted to understand more of the music theory that goes into the process to be able to compose more deliberately. I engaged a bit about this with Claude, and Claude actually built me a couple of helpful apps in the process (actually, my mind was blown by what it was able to do here). If you're interested, I uploaded an HTML version of the tool to my Google Drive.
So, in this track I am putting some things that I've learned to practice and I am actually quite happy where it gets me. This track is definitely unpolished in multiple ways and it kind of peters out in the end. My ears were getting tired (especially of this song), so I kinda rushed it into something weeklybeatish in the end.
The process was simple: Building a chord progression (I used the Hypersynth for this initially), distribute its voices over different tracks and instruments, adding some movement and rhythm to these voices, and that's the basis.
I had in mind to also have some small variations on the chord progression for different sections (the track gets a bit repetitive), but I'll have to work on that later. I also didn't spend a whole lot of time on sound design yet.
So, I am not sure how I feel about the track after spending a couple of hours on it. However, I do feel like the process that led to it has opened some new doors for me, which is what inspired the title. In the end, I am also just proud that I was able to make a novel track again this week, as most of the week I was just too tired to do anything productive after work.
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