Music scrap thread

[willow]

I have been struggling to make anything for a week, after putting off doing this last track for the game project ive been working on for waht is probably a whole month. paradoxically i felt i had no control in spite of being the composer with an incredible amount of freedom to just hand in what I feel like will fit best ... its a lot of pressure, a lot of questions swirl around in my head and it paralyzes me when I feel all dry and like i have no juice left, no energy to make something really spicy but beautiful, no desire at all to because i feel nothing about the reference track i was handed. so im yolo-ing it and making something that feels powerful to me, trying to match the emotional intensity more than the sonic palette. i think my client will like it. heres the scraps from the sessions so far.

im a huge huge fan of desert2f. the name and style calls yume nikki imagery to mind. i feel the emotion in it for sure.

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ive been playing around a bit with this distorted saw synth i made. it reminded me a bunch of the classic track Terminal by Renard, so "ethereal purple planes" is my lil WIP homage to that one. it's named as such because that's the first thing a good friend of mine said it made him think of after he heard it.

hhc112 is some more exploration with that synth, used in a little more of a standard happy hardcore context. i sort of feel like i like that one more, but everyone enjoys the dnb track pretty unanimously over it, so that's where most of my energy has been.

[sinku]

im a huge huge fan of desert2f. the name and style calls yume nikki imagery to mind. i feel the emotion in it for sure.

thank you. ive been hammering on this one idea for way too long and i have to bring it to some sort of conclusion soon. I hope to during next month ...

ive been playing around a bit with this distorted saw synth i made. it reminded me a bunch of the classic track Terminal by Renard, so "ethereal purple planes" is my lil WIP homage to that one. it's named as such because that's the first thing a good friend of mine said it made him think of after he heard it.

hhc112 is some more exploration with that synth, used in a little more of a standard happy hardcore context. i sort of feel like i like that one more, but everyone enjoys the dnb track pretty unanimously over it, so that's where most of my energy has been.

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the melody in hhc112 gives me this weird feeling. its like theres one note that isnt right, and makes it emotionally confusing. i'm not sure how to make it work... maybe recontextualize it entirely, put it in some sort of hazy boc track like chinook instead of a happy hardcore tune. ethereal purple planes is very very good, the thing that leaps out at me most besides that distorted synth is how shiny and crisp your drumwork is. especially those chka chka cymbals driving it. im envious.

[willow]

the melody in hhc112 gives me this weird feeling. its like theres one note that isnt right, and makes it emotionally confusing. i'm not sure how to make it work.

i modulate to a lydian mode for the last chord of each phrase, so that's where the weirdness is coming from. happy hardcore isn't really a fitting descriptor for this type of sound i guess, but i couldn't think of anything better. it's more like smth you'd hear from UK hardcore, i guess, but i'm not from the uk :p.

in general i agree though that the whole tone of the melody is a little off and a little weird, it def needs some more work. but there's a certain feeling there that i do like.

i started messing around a bunch with lydian modal stuff in trancey tunes after hearing this track and really enjoying it.

ethereal purple planes is very very good, the thing that leaps out at me most besides that distorted synth is how shiny and crisp your drumwork is. especially those chka chka cymbals driving it. im envious.

it's all about layering breaks, aligning phase, and distorting / compressing the fsck out of them. i think i've shown you the video of noisia committing sound crimes against their drums, but i often remember it and how rough the best of the best can be with their drums. the first rule of compression and distortion is to have fun!

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[willow]

ended up finishing that last track, released it on Millennium Strike's Demo Disc 5. very cool comp very cool friends download and listen to it https://millenniumstrike.bandcamp.com/album/demo-disc-5

anyway, another friend asked me to make a song for a showcase video of one of her yomi hustle mods. i thought it turned out pretty good, it only took me a couple of hours to finish it. the theme for it was ice / japan / 90s, with half of it being calm for a map showcase and half being energetic for a character move showcase.

i also just feel really powerful after making it. i asked what she wanted, realized she wanted foregone destruction, then whipped up a foregone destruction. it's always been mystifying to me seeing other people whip up high quality stuff so quickly, and now i feel like i can play on at least some level of that.