Each week, I have been summarizing my adventures in making music. Lately, I have been composing tracks for the Disquiet Junto, the Naviar Records Haiku Music Challenge and, this year for the first time, Weekly Beats. I also have other projects and collaborations I have shared occasionally. This blog primarily contains slightly annotated posts originally found on Mastodon.
Last week’s track for Weekly Beats was relatively fast and frenetic. This one follows in the same vein. I like chopping up samples and using them as percussive elements. An easy formula for me to follow is to go into my Splice library and finding a group of samples in the same key, loading them into Ableton Simpler instruments and playing around with different patterns on my Push 2. When I looked up the samples I used in this song, however, something seemed familiar. I thought I may have used them all before. So I searched for one of the sample file names on my computer, but I could only see the date the .asd file was automatically created by Ableton. It was back in 2023 and, since I organize my music files by year, I was able to go through my project files to see if I created anything around that date. As it turns out, I did use all of these samples before, but they were in an unfinished Naviar Haiku project. I am gratified that I was able to finally put these samples to good use in a different way!