Output before Input #116 - 2022.05.03

🎵 Output before Input #116 - 2022.05.03

I can’t stay away from the degraded I IV V harmonies.

Output before Input #115 - 2022.05.03

🎵 Output before Input #115 - 2022.05.03

Sinister beachside / desert situation (or is it?)

Output before Input #114 - 2022.05.02

🎵 Output before Input #114 - 2022.05.02

This is pretty much my default improv state - though kind of raw + sloppy today.

Output before Input #113 - 2022.05.02

🎵 Output before Input #113 - 2022.05.02

A cinematic theme, only too aggressive-sounding to be in the background.

Output before Input #112 - 2022.05.01

🎵 Output before Input #112 - 2022.05.01

Somersaulting melody

Output before Input #111 - 2022.04.30

🎵 Output before Input #111 - 2022.04.30

Something like a deconstructed/degraded Foo Fighters riff.

Output before Input #110 - 2022.04.29

🎵 Output before Input #110 - 2022.04.29

Navigating a labyrinth and not ever really finding the center.

Feeling like a tech wizard for figuring out custom queries in Logseq that dynamically pull questions from my daily journals into meeting note pages for my team members. #thenerdiest

Output before Input #109 - 2022.04.28

🎵 Output before Input #109 - 2022.04.28

I played a lot of Pink Floyd in my youth, so sometimes the David Gilmour vibe comes out a bit.

Output before Input #108 - 2022.04.27

🎵 Output before Input #108 - 2022.04.27

Countermelody invented from the bottom up.

Output before Input #107 - 2022.04.27

🎵 Output before Input #107 - 2022.04.27

Harmony invented from the top down.

Output before input #106 - 2022.04.26

🎵 Output before Input #106 - 2022.04.26

I heard somewhere that The Books were so-named because their music evolved like a book instead of being repetitive from one end of a song to another. That idea really sticks with me, and influenced this sketch.

Output before Input #105 - 2022.04.25

🎵 Output before Input #105 - 2022.04.25

I’ll call this one “Surf’s Up Sonata”

I’d like to see people talk more about pelvic floor strength. It’s critical infrastructure!

Output before Input #104 - 2022.04.24

🎵 Output before Input #104 - 2022.04.24

Getting some Don Henley vibes this morning.

Output before Input #103 - 2022.03.23

🎵 Output before Input #103 - 2022.04.23

Let your body relax and let the changing meter just carry you awayyyyy

Output before Input #102 - 2022.04.22

🎵 Output before Input #102 - 2022.04.22

Some guitar heroics for a Friday.

Output before Input #101 - 2022.04.21

🎵 Output before Input #101 - 2022.04.21

This is what the inside of my head sounds like this morning. So much going on in there, it’s hard to calm down - kind of all over the place.

I’m pleased today that I got to my 100th guitar sketch in the Output before Input project. I might celebrate the occasion by making some sort of interactive online museum of what’s come thus far.

Output before Input #100 - 2022.04.20

🎵 Output before Input #100 - 2022.04.20

I don’t know how many of these I thought I’d make, but 100 seemed like an outer bound when I started. How many ideas can one person have? I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface.

Output before Input #99 - 2022.04.19

🎵 Output before Input #99 - 2022.04.19

Feeling a bit tender and humbled this morning.

Output before Input #98 - 2022.04.18

🎵 Output before Input #98 - 2022.04.18

This is some kind of jazz rock outland/parallel universe version of #96 (same morning, different take).

Output before Input #97 - 2022.04.18

🎵 Output before Input #97 - 2022.04.18

Same “seed” idea + chords as #96 (same morning), but taken in a chunkier direction.

Output before Input #96 - 2022.04.18

🎵 Output before Input #96 - 2022.04.18

I ended up recording three very different things this morning - I’m either feeling like a high achiever or can’t make up my mind where to sit in the breakfast hall.

Output before Input #95 - 2022.04.17

🎵 Output before Input #95 - 2022.04.17

I call this a “Falcor” - a never-ending story of chord resolution that sounds like it goes on forever but in reality is just three chords. We have Philip Glass to thank for single-handedly making this kind of circular resolution a thing.