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I had a series of aphex twin ambient works running through my head most of the day, and so this is much more electronic than usual.There’s nothing fancy here, but I did play everything but the drums through — if things loop, it’s because I played those notes a few times in a row. I was mostly just having fun playing and decide not to loop.
On a meta-level, I’ve been thinking about changing my approach. I’m doing alright putting together about one minute of music every two weeks, which I’m OK with (I’d rather be more frequent, but somehow that never works out). The trick is, I still spend the same amount of time on the music, and it’s still almost always done on a Sunday night. The goal of the project at this point is to force me to think more about music every day, but every two weeks seems too infrequent for that.
When I do sit down to make something, it turns out, I spend about half my time just going through synths and instruments and picking an overall tone, then another quarter paging through drum loops looking for something with a vibe I like.This leaves not much time for the actual music making — loops, arpeggiators, quantization, and midi speed things up substantially, but all the same, I feel like I should be spending more time playing instruments than auditioning them.
So, I am going to try to split up my creation process, setting up the song file one week and then actually working on the music the next week. I’m not sure how this will work, but I think it’s worth a try; I’m trying to find a good balance between time spent and focus created, and I think I’ve gone a little light on time spent.
Updated: Uploaded a new version of the music file after listening on my laptop speakers and realizing I needed to change the engineering a little.
