Designed a method to create these pieces while walking around the city.
I explain a bit about the process in the description (although in spanish)
But I can translate if someone is interested.
Hope you enjoy it.
And, of course, if you feel like it, please support <3
Listening now… Really mellow so far, enjoying it a lot. What programs are you using? And do you mean it’s interacting with the environment?
I’m trying to create something similar at the moment using Fieldscaper and Borderlands (and possibly other things). So any suggestions will be very welcome
thanks @kairos!
It’s not interacting with the enviroment - but I was while creating it
so… not directly?
I only used my iPhone SE. I can’t remember exactly, but a big part of it is RE-1 Tape Machine, a nice tape emulation.
I was feeding it fragments of my own compositions (some I never used, mainly pianos sequenced by Fugue Machine) until I got lucky accidents…
I then did some editing/mixing/mastering on Ableton Live, but most of the are just a single stereo recording, with or without edits.
Excellent Sunday morning vibes.
It’s very, very dreamy. I remember reading this post last week and while I listened I remember you saying that you made it while you were walking around but I couldn’t remember where exactly or if you even said.
So I began using my imagination. Your sounds made me feel like I was walking around an endless field, grass as high as my chest, without a worry in the world. Ahhhhh the summer haze. Nostalgia. The smell of freshly cut grass filling my nose. Sounds of crickets and distant laughter, muffled tractors and bird song.
Very organic for a post with “made entirely on my phone” in the title.
hey, thanks a lot! <3
love to read this kind of synesthesic experiences… glad that you find it dreamy, it’s a quality I look for in this kind of music myself.
I can’t say there was a particular inspiration…
I was killing time at university (waiting for an exam result) and decided to try this experiment I’d thought about on my phone (iPhone SE, so a particularly small screen!)
Got some nice accidents, so I decided to try it again with other sound sources, while walking down the streets or doing chores… it would not always work, but sometimes I would hit a sweet spot… I made it voluntarily inconvenient in the sense that I wouldn’t be able to hear whatever sound fragment I was adding, and the process was destructive so, once I added it… there was no turning back. That played an important role in terms of anxiety vs. patience, as I tried to make good moments last as much as possible, carefully adding layers when I felt like it
Thank you!
Vinyl is probably not going to happen… although I would love to explore this technique in the future to make another album (currently busy with other upcoming stuff, completely unrelated style)
But… you can always support in Bandcamp
Not sure when, but the idea is these will be available in physical format - postal card with a download code that you can send to share with whoever you want
Not the same as vinyl, I know… but oh well!
I totally understand, and I appreciate it’s out there.
Usually for me personally, buying vinyl is a way for me to balance and navigate the insane amount of music that’s out there. I only really listen to downloads of stuff I have on physical formats. Otherwise I just get overwhelmed and things fall by the way side, even if they don’t deserve to.
This is really really good. It’s rare someone posts their own music on any forum and I enjoy it this much. This is like lofi GAS vibes. Well done man!!