Dear Diary
Improvisation is very much like meditation. At first it seems foreign and strange, but after regular practice it becomes something else, bringing forth insights and feelings that are hard to put into words and not really achievable outside the practice of making art without knowing the outcome.
I really like the cover photo above, which I took this morning in my back yard. Photography, specifically iPhone photography, has been a passion since I got my first iPod touch a long, long time ago. I haven’t done much in the way of deliberate photography in the past few years, but it feels good to get back into it for this project.
About the track
The title of today’s track was inspired by Joseph Goldstein’s mantra on impermanence and this post.
I didn’t have time to prepare yesterday, so all of the sounds and settings were worked out about 15 minutes before hitting record, as it goes sometimes. Honestly, It’s important to me that I can just quickly get to making something new, though it is nice when I have time to sit down and tinker a bit.
I recorded this during my morning meditation Zoom. If you’d like to come meditate with me in the mornings, the info is in this post over here.
Tools and stuff
Gear: Strandberg Boden NX 7, M-Audio Air 192/14, iPad Pro M2, iPad Pro, Macbook Air, Zoom LiveTrak L-20R, Zoom Q8n-4K camera, 1x Spider Capos
Pedals: Gamechanger Audio Plus, tc electronic Subnup, electro-harmonix Ravish
iPad Apps
Audio Damage: Other Desert Cities, Replicant 3
AudioKit Pro: VHS Synth
AudioThing: Noises, Voice, Fold, Texture, Moon Echo
Kymatica: AUM, AudioShare
Igor Vasiliev: Stellarvox
Woodman’s Immaculate Maple Syrup Studio: Wood’nGate
Jam Origin: Midi Guitar 2
Lumbeat: iBassist
Klevgränd: Borsta
Gestrument AB: Gestrument
Fabfilter: Pro-Q 3
Arthur Kerns: midiLFOs
Mac Software
Plogue Bidule, Neural DSP Archetype:Cory Wong, Best Service NADA, Animoog Z, Glitchmachines Fracture
Xenome 809
This is a 3-note xenome containing the augmented fifth/minor sixth interval and the major seventh interval. This is technically a superset of the last xenome, 808, because it contains all of those notes. I’m partial to xenomes that contain two or more of the anchor notes (C-E-G#) because they’re just easier to find under my fingers.
There isn’t a common name for this xenome, but the Universal Encyclopedia of Scales dubs it “Harmonic Minor Trichord-End”.
C-809 scale diagrams
Xenotuning
6-String Guitar
Keyboard
Anything Can Happen Anytime