a note on "Audio documents"

 "Audio documents" is my new monthly series of music, replacing the DAYLOGS project. Goodbye, DAYLOGS. So far, I've put out two Audio documents. The playlist link is here. The newest track as of writing this is here:


 
 
 
With the title "Audio document" I wanted to expand beyond just doing songs- Integrating recorded sound, playing more with audio, and making things more abstract and freeform. I haven't done very well with that so far, especially with this second entry, but hey, there's 10 more opportunities to experiment! And I like this new one.

On both of the new tracks, however, I have already been far more loose than usual when it comes to structure and sound. I'm trying to focus on auditory atmosphere and mood, and trying to break off of making my music sound "gridlike". When you work in a DAW, it's very easy to just align everything to the grid, and as a result things can feel very mechanical.

I'm also being a lot free-er with my singing and lyrics- for this track I just opened up my notes, picked a recent bit of words, and improvised singing them. From there, I refine the melodic-ness of them by doing a few more takes. The above entry has the following lyrics:

 The poison comes from our worst impulses

"it stands to reason, there's no reason to stand"

"it's all going to plan"

one day i'll wake up somewhere else 

one day i'll wake up somewhere else 

one day i'll wake up somewhere else

 In the future, I'd like to try and do something where I don't use any metronome and play every part of it live. That's a skill I need to work on anyways. I also would like to try and make something with very little reverb, but still have it be immersive.

We'll see hear! ha   ha

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