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.
This is one of those songs that allowed me to stretch out of my comfort zone, but also left me wanting to put more time into it than I had available. I technically started in Ableton Note where I built a drum kit using samples from a Loopcloud trial. I also chose a vocal sample to use and set my project in the same key. But I wasn't inspired to work in the app and decided to move over to the main DAW and use my Push 2 to build out the beat. From there, I used more Ableton presets to compose other parts than I have in recent weeks. There are two parts to the song: one in 9/8 and one in 6/8. At first, I had them alternating A-B-A-B, but I didn't like it, so I made it A-B-B-A with the two B parts serving as a breakdown and build in 6/8 sandwiched between the main 9/8 part with the three-note arpeggiated synth part connecting them. That turned out to be cool, but I wish I had more time to develop that overall idea. As I was wrapping it up, I realized I hadn't even EQ'ed a handful of tracks, so I threw some EQ presets on those tracks quickly.