Dear Diary

I think I’m giving up on the morning meditation Zooms for now. No one has shown any interest, there’s still some kinks to work out, and honestly it’s probably not that interesting to watch me play durational improvised music in my pajamas anyway. If you’re sad you missed a chance to hang out with me in my pajamas, maybe send me a message ;)

I will continue to use the time to get the guitar in my hands and make these tracks, because that definitely is working.

About the track

I wanted to do something different today, so I swapped out a number of apps to find a different vibe. I have a love/hate relationship with drums, honestly, because they can easily push a track into a rigid grid, but I think I managed to avoid that here. Overall, the track has that Stranger Things sort of feel, which inspired the title.

The track does kind of have sections, so if you’re impatient and can’t sit through a 30 minute track, you’ll miss some stuff, and you’re honestly probably not going to really get most of my music.

Xenome 80A

80A is a 3-note xenome with some nice whole-step intervals, and it includes two of the anchor notes, which is swell. There is, of course, no common name for this combination of notes, but the Universal Encyclopedia of Scales gives us the options of “Ionian Trichord Mode 3” or “Aug7 Omit 3”.

Creeper