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”.
C-80A scale diagrams
Xenotuning
6-String Guitar
Keyboard
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
AudioThing: Noises, Voice, Fold, Texture, Moon Echo
Kymatica: AUM, AudioShare, AU3FX:Space, AU3FX:Push
Igor Vasiliev: Stellarvox
Woodman’s Immaculate Maple Syrup Studio: Wood’nGate
Jam Origin: Midi Guitar 2
Lumbeat: Funk Drummer
Gestrument AB: Gestrument
Fabfilter: Pro-Q 3
Arthur Kerns: midiLFOs
Bleass: Dragonfly, Reverb
Arturia: iSEM
Victor Poroff: Atom Piano Roll
Mac Software
Plogue Bidule, Neural DSP Archetype:Cory Wong, Best Service NADA, Animoog Z, Glitchmachines Fracture
Creeper