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saltbearerI'm about 17 years into fiddling with music software, and have never before in this time released what I could feel comfortable calling an Actual Album. in recent years, I made a few attempts, with some solid overarching ideas and production work put in, but every time, I started feeling dissatisfied with the work, or otherwise uneager to continue, and my drive died out.
I've struggled a lot with finishing music in general. my MO has been to open SunVox for a couple hours, make a Doodle that tangibly conveys enough of an idea to my own satisfaction, and then not touch it again, because my headspace usually shifts too much from day to day, and merely-imaginarily tweaking old things into timelessly-extended soundscapes that better fit my current mood is usually Enough to keep me momentarily entertained. this has resulted in a quadruple-digit accumulation of ideas that probably deserve better.
so here I am with an album.
a thing about me that may or may not have come across in whatever location this message is being pasted into is that my comedic impulses are hard to contain, and I've wound up with a number of Running Gags. essentially, what I did was opportunistically apply the Bit-Doing mindset to making music for someone, as I found myself doing that.
I was going to lean into this album being made as a Hilarious Bit with heavy-handed irony, but I don't want to undersell the effort and earnestness that ended up being put into it. while most of these tracks are still single-session works, and I prioritized having things to share over polishing them to death, I am proud. I pushed myself farther than I've gone for music in years, working incessantly for a couple weeks straight, and I've reached new personal milestones.
frankly, it's because I finally truly viscerally care to see people I feel close to happy, and not disappoint them, and I can't type that with perfectly dry eyes.
there are a number of projects I hope I can now find it in myself to revisit. if this is somewhere I've shared some of my musical doodling, I'd like to know if anyone actually has old favorites that stand out to them.
(THIS IS THE LINK WITH THE MUSIC ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT)
I've struggled a lot with finishing music in general. my MO has been to open SunVox for a couple hours, make a Doodle that tangibly conveys enough of an idea to my own satisfaction, and then not touch it again, because my headspace usually shifts too much from day to day, and merely-imaginarily tweaking old things into timelessly-extended soundscapes that better fit my current mood is usually Enough to keep me momentarily entertained. this has resulted in a quadruple-digit accumulation of ideas that probably deserve better.
so here I am with an album.
a thing about me that may or may not have come across in whatever location this message is being pasted into is that my comedic impulses are hard to contain, and I've wound up with a number of Running Gags. essentially, what I did was opportunistically apply the Bit-Doing mindset to making music for someone, as I found myself doing that.
I was going to lean into this album being made as a Hilarious Bit with heavy-handed irony, but I don't want to undersell the effort and earnestness that ended up being put into it. while most of these tracks are still single-session works, and I prioritized having things to share over polishing them to death, I am proud. I pushed myself farther than I've gone for music in years, working incessantly for a couple weeks straight, and I've reached new personal milestones.
frankly, it's because I finally truly viscerally care to see people I feel close to happy, and not disappoint them, and I can't type that with perfectly dry eyes.
there are a number of projects I hope I can now find it in myself to revisit. if this is somewhere I've shared some of my musical doodling, I'd like to know if anyone actually has old favorites that stand out to them.
(THIS IS THE LINK WITH THE MUSIC ON THE OTHER SIDE OF IT)
