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have you ever had that track you were just never able to finish, and it absolutely bugs the shit out of you? i remember trying to finish this a million times, and it was always wrong. i was going through a rough stage in life and it was like a little synecdoche of what i was feeling, almost. it's hard not to turn it into a long story... i was dealing with crippling bouts of depression in college, i more or less stopped trying, my parents were simultaneously understanding and impossible. they did not blame me for having these problems, but they did want to take me to the doctor shop like i was a car; have my spark plugs changed. it doesn't work that way. i think they sort of knew this, but there was denial -- oh, no, it'll smooth out. it would not. not until i took it into my own hands a couple years later, anyways anyways, i'm taking a semester off, moody, and i get to writing this. i see visualizations of a toy laser blaster, sort of schematic form, that i had when i was five. there's a period at the end where it actually starts to clear up; i see a field full of giant sunflowers gently bobbing to the wind. after that, though, it's just me bouncing down the audio and mashing it into an outro because i rewrote the part after that part at least twenty times and it was always, just, i dunno... not only not right, but soul-crushingly wrong. i'm terrified to even open the project again |
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Lately I pretty much never make anything complicated enough to need much finishing. If I don't imagine it right away, might as well imagine the next thing instead (though sometimes, a lot actually, I relisten to stuff and continue/add stuff, but still not overly complicated when just using modplug tones, useful listening with fresh ears anyway). Maybe the 1:26 twinkle could've taken the listener to the hyper twinkle universe full of 90-100% twinkly twinkle melodies. The end outro did seem kinda awkward. Aphex has a lot of skill to suddenly switch to something unique while still sounding good, like a lot of the come 2 daddy album. I guess the obvious thing is the end part could continue as normal but 'break down' and erase like half or so of the constituent patterns leaving a more minimal overall pattern for the end loop(s). Good song overall. |
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i suppose there are different sets of issues at play, here. the first, and most recurring one: as you start a track, it is full of potential. as you make it real, you have to make compromises. carl jung had some comment w/rt his "red book" -- you must draw these dream images out. it will seem crude, clumsy, but you must get them out somehow... so, pretty much, when it's an abstract idea, it's this perfect, pretty thing. making it reality gets into ugliness. when it comes to art, this is procrastination's biggest ally -- that you have this wonderful idea, that you want to get it right.... and that's why you never finish it... because you can't get it to be as pretty as it is in your head... the second is psychological hangups |
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I reckon I'll be able to automate the 'make it into reality' to a large degree to remove the drudgery and just press a button to see what a new randomishly generated pattern sounds like with another pattern(s), keep, reject, or mutate etc. you can start from the same initial conditions and mutate in many twisted ways effortlessly, programming gives insane leverage, if you can not suck enough to logically code it which is yet to be seen for me. |
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i really like this, and the end part doesn't sound too jarring to me... it's hard to pull off seamless time signature / tempo changes. i studied the .wav file of push button objects - non existant (gescom mix) to get my head around doing it and that track still blows my mind. if i'm thinking along the same lines it could kinda fall into 6/8 to blend the 2 sections. like i say though, i do like it as is also (possibly unrelated) here's another track about |
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there was always meant to be more to the tune; it wasn't supposed to end there. i generated like twenty alternate versions of the project with other harmonies i hated; wandered off to deal with life for a bit. then i was back at college, somewhat more functional, and i decided: heck, this is a gulag. i'll just bounce down the end of the last part of what i'm happy with and mix that off into and ending, and here we are. it just bothers me that solar tendrils was deep, personal, really humming, then i just hit a wall, now i doubt it'll ever get any further. probably for the best i lazed out and jammed in that dub ending so i could tack it onto an album whilst i still had the delusion of a musical career as i was majoring in computer science. money off music, when i'd been programming since long before i wrote music? lunacy (still is) |
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