Output before Input #166 - 2022.06.16
Jun 16, 2022🎵 Output before Input #166 - 2022.06.16
Flirting with what might be called atonality - intentionally seeking the thing right next to the thing that makes harmonic sense.
🎵 Output before Input #166 - 2022.06.16
Flirting with what might be called atonality - intentionally seeking the thing right next to the thing that makes harmonic sense.
🎵 Output before Input #165 - 2022.06.16
Drawn to this sweet melody, dropped and deconstructed in tone.
🎵 Output before Input #164 - 2022.06.14
Felt better than it sounds.
🎵 Output before Input #163 - 2022.06.13
When you feel tired + don’t want to wake up but your dreams keep getting weirder so you get up anyhow
🎵 Output before Input #162 - 2022.06.13
This one feels like it’s about the struggle to keep things simple.
🎵 Output before Input #161 - 2022.06.12
Hipster dad rock.
🎵 Output before Input #160 - 2022.06.12
Aggressively pastoral - like walking through a field and tripping on a bunch of stones.
🎵 Output before Input #159 - 2022.06.10
This sounds like having a beautiful, enjoyable day with chronic pain.
🎵 Output before Input #158 - 2022.06.07
Sometimes you have to just, you know, do a friggin’ guitar solo on some blues.
🎵 Output before Input #157 - 2022.06.07
A slow walk through the wilds of arpeggioland.
🎵 Output before Input #156 - 2022.06.07
Bells tolling on a distant planet.
🎵 Output before Input #155 - 2022.06.05
Early morning jog, and maybe seeing some people along the way.
🎵 Output before Input #154 - 2022.06.05
Seeking shadows
🎵 Output before Input #153 - 2022.06.04
This idea took only a few minutes to conceive but I had to practice it a bit before it was recordable, even as a sketch.
I get an image of a bird going crazy with its mating dance and the other bird hasn’t decided whether to join in yet.
🎵 Output before Input #152 - 2022.06.04
This has a very Papa M / Album Leaf thing going on. It probably would have sounded less sloppy if I’d capo’ed it but that’s the price you pay for making it up as you go.
🎵 Output before Input #151 - 2022.06.02
I guess I had one more in me this morning - though it’s not some mind-blowing idea that just had to burst forth into being. It feels more like a coda - or an interlude - if anything.
🎵 Output before Input #150 - 2022.06.02
This started as me playing along with #149 the first time I played it back. Listening to it now, it suggests “part 2” of #149 in a lot of ways.
🎵 Output before Input #149 - 2022.06.02
This has a bit of a Francisco Tárrega vibe.
🎵 Output before Input #148 - 2022.06.01
This is a friend trying to get you to dance at the party.
🎵 Output before Input #147 - 2022.06.01
Total blank-mind improv - restless + searching but never landing really.
🎵 Output before Input #146 - 2022.06.01
Sometimes searching out dissonance is just too tempting. It seems to happen for me a lot with this sort of decaying distortion tone - the beats between the waves are so juicy.
🎵 Output before Input #145 - 2022.05.31
Riffing on a chord progression that kind of goes its own way after a while. It’s nice when that happens and I can roll with it. I’ve noticed that I often struggle to roll with it and trip over my own feet.
🎵 Output before Input #144 - 2022.05.31
The melody came quickly when I sat down; this is a simple exploration of what else goes with that melody.
🎵 Output before Input #143 - 2022.05.30
Just a taste of an idea. I get the image of some kind of twisted Newton’s cradle.
🎵 Output before Input #142 - 2022.05.30
There’s usually a lot of implied other music going on in my mind, but in the case of this sketch it feels particularly empty with the stuff that’s missing.