Living Room Music

I have been thinking about space a lot lately, and especially since the Artemis II rocket took off, but for years. I have also been thinking about philosophies about the many potential universes which are out there. So this week's episode, I present some psychedelic sounds which feel very spacey to me.

Thirty minutes of handmade electronic music in 7/4 time at 150 BPM — a time signature that shouldn't work at this tempo, and that's exactly why it does. This session pulls from dubstep's weight, drum & bass wubs, and psytrance's hypnotic acid layering, but refuses the drop. Every transition is gradual, earned over bars rather than announced with a snare fill. The drums are hand-programmed with riddim tonality, and the textures — Dominator, Dark Edgy Lead, Slow Winding Acid Loop, Dark Gliding Bass, periodic Big Wide Reese — build a landscape that rises and falls like breathing.Free-form vocals float through the mix, half-buried, drifting between intelligibility and pure texture — pulling your ear sideways just when the repetition might take hold. The whole thing was rebuilt from scratch after a Logic Pro X crash wiped the first fifteen minutes, which means everything you hear was played with the memory of what was lost.Progressive psydub bass. You weren't looking for this genre because it didn't exist until today.

Listening to music in the car on the way to work, sometimes, just sometimes I have to make an episode of my own driving music. I like the flow, the boom, and the bang. I like the mixed of textures and tones that feels like nothing I have every heard but at the same time like it fits in any set that I could hear at a Summer Dance Festival.So this week, I indulged and mixed of a treat for my eardrums. There is a fresh set of loops that I was playing with, after I went diving for some new things to tickle my ears with. I am particularly pleased with the transitions, the builds and the drops that I put together. Say you like it, share it with your friends, and have fun driving in your car, dancing in the bedroom, or where ever you enjoy new music.

This week things ran behind because I was doing lots of watching old versions of Ghosts in the Shell. Then reading philosophy about the Noosphere and writing other things. But I have these thoughts about Memory and Meaning and Identity. I will have more verbose things to say about that in other places. But this is an entry point sonically into that space.

If I have one idea in each episode that is a good thing. If I do anything new or different, that is a good thing. If I make changes that do no bore me, but everything has a very continuous feeling to it, that is also a good thing. I think that this one is a good thing.This weeks' technical specs:130 bpmmultiple textures and tonesB minor

This week's episode was completed several days ago, knowing that I had obligations away from the studio which would interfere with my completing it last minute. However I forgot to schedule it when I was done. So here we are 18 hours late.

Today I woke up and realized it was Friday and I owe you guys a new episode. Since I had not done anything towards this all week, I started arranging sounds with synths and making beats. After I had gotta pretty far along, I realized that I wanted piano in it. Then when I started with piano, I realized I wanted piano all the way through, so I extended the beats and synths and textures further and then played along with it on the keys. Voila! Episode complete.