Lost in the Light of Your Love

Dear Diary

It’s been quite a while since I’ve done one of these, and hopefully this is me beginning to get back on track. I’ve been struggling a bit to make time to get to my own music lately. I’ve decided, at least for now, that getting a guitar in my hand once a day is more important that a 40 minute silent meditation every morning, so if you’re seeing this post, that’s what’s going on.

Honestly I probably get more out of dropping in, improvising, and making some numinous noise than I do falling asleep halfway through a 40-minute sit. I’ve always been a little inspired by my friend Peter Blue who did these daily morning guitar jams but never got to the practice myself until now. I should look him up to see if he’s still doing them. That was like 15 years ago.

About the track

This year’s 5090 (a 50 songs in 90 days challenge hosted by the FAWM folks) is in full swing and I have yet to start, so this will be the first track. The title/poem was inspired by the “Get Lost” challenge. I’m also knocking out a late entry to the Moon Echo challenge by using AudioThing’s cool new app on this track. Oh, and it just so happens that this xenome perfectly facilitates a descending chromatic progression, so I’m knocking out that challenge as well. Nothing like cramming two weeks of challenges into one track.

This is my first recording with a lot of things, including the Macbook Air and everything on it. I love the amazing meditative sounds in NADA for this kind of work, and I’m digging the guitar tone coming from Archetype:Cory Wong. I’m controlling the synth stuff on the MacBook Air with the original Gestrument over bluetooth.

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.

A thing I wrote

See me
Dancing in starlight

Hear me
Chanting your name

Feel me
Beating inside of you

Lost in the light of your love

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, 2x Spider Capos

Pedals: Gamechanger Audio Plus, tc electronic Subnup, electro-harmonix Ravish

iPad Apps

Audio Damage: Other Desert Cities, Replicant 3

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

Mac Software

Plogue Bidule, Neural DSP Archetype:Cory Wong, Best Service NADA, Animoog Z, Glitchmachines Fracture

Xenome 807

807 is a 4-note xenome containing the root, major 6th, minor 7th, and major 7th. Yes, it’s four notes in a row. While there is no common name for this set of notes, the Universal Encyclopedia of Scales calls it Chromatic Tetrachord Mode 4.

C-807 scale diagrams

Xenotuning

6-String Guitar

Keyboard