Category: a_new_day_in_the_workshop [ Vol II ]
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aesthetic_bonus
The below notes were written at the time of uploading the track, whereas most of the notes on the rest of this album were written months later: This one is simply the previous track slowed down to 72%, and then some additional drums and bass from my MechSounds sound added and lightly processed. Shout out…
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[ Aesthetic | Digital Lateral Prototype Tooling ]
The below notes were written at the time of uploading the track, whereas most of the notes on the rest of this album were written months later. I’ll also add that the title of the track was me trying to pin down the core thread of the music I create. It was partly inspired by…
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The below notes were written at the time of uploading the track, whereas most of the notes on the rest of this album were written months later. It is worth noting that I was trying to move back into a process that was open-source: All samples were from my own Mechsounds sample pack, then adjusted…
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times
I remember the moment this track “clicked”, I was convinced it was the greatest piece of music I had created. And that validated the intuitive process I had been following over the second half of this album. I am writing this reflection about nine months later, and I still think it is one of the…
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Photographia Sunbox
As with the previous two tracks, this and the remaining tracks on this album were all made through intuitive steps and destructive processes. I am very pleased with the sound design and texturing in the results (somewhat reminiscent of one of my favourite game soundtracks, Machinarium). Though, unfortunately the destructive processes mean I cannot share…
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Patchwork Transformations
Unlike the other tracks on this album, where I wrote a reflection months later, the below notes were actually written at the time of upload: As scary as this is to admit, I’ve currently been trying to follow intuition as my artmaking process more. This is leading me to do more recording of synthesis and…
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Each Work a Pilgrimage
I grew up as a Christian. I started moving away from that faith as a teenager, but have continued to bounce between different spiritualities throughout my life. One of the big reasons for this is that I have always had a fairly strong sense of intuition as to what direction or steps to take next.…
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CYCLE-0x1C6
I’ve always been interested in creating my own audio tools. I am most inspired by producers who make their own tools for their workflow (e.g. BT, Aphex Twin). As throughout this album I was wrestling with the musical benefits of destructive processes, but still wanting to stick to a fully-open workflow, I started developing my…
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Wavetable // Stretched Layers
At time of release, I had chosen to name these first three tracks in a way that insinuated the techniques that were being used, to emphasise the nature of each track as an experiment. I chose to drop the naming convention after this track, as I felt that a track’s title is an incredibly powerful…
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PR Seq // Clip Edit
Still in the realm of MIDI being passed between different software, I found that Helio is a very robust piano-roll-based MIDI sequencer. So I swapped out OpenMPT for Helio for this track. I would recommend this, other than the fact you still run into MIDI timing issues when only working “inside the box”. Another technique…
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MIDI Link // Slowdown
Truth be told, I have struggled a lot to keep a consistent output of music. I know I have made it harder on myself to only use open-source tools, and only make projects in a way where every sound and notes can be explored and learned from. I have struggled with relatively low growth on…