Day 408: Dip Your Wick

Started off going in one direction.  Was basically able to stay in said direction for the entire time.  I'll call that a win.

In addition, I didn't give a whole lot of thought to the sounds that were chosen.  I mostly tried to go with "the first thing you land on" approach.  Sometimes I find it's the only way I'll use some sounds, they just don't seem to fit in my world view of acceptable sounds.  That doesn't really make much sense, since I like noise so much, but for whatever reason I have to force myself to go for certain types of sounds.  It usually works out fine, but sometimes they are problem children.  Maybe it's just intuition?

Day 208: Back in my skin again

Musically speaking it was good to get away from my routine and to be forced to do some things differently, but now that I'm back in the studio and have all my tools at hand I can say that it's good to be back.

I started this piece with the intent of creating some loop files for FGL, but ended up going in a completely different direction.  It's dark, it's rock, it's electronic, there's noise, and it's weird (I think).  Hope you enjoy.

Lyrics:
When the winter comes, 
we shed our summer skins, 
reaching for the cover of the flame.
When night falls, 
we huddle close, 
hoping and praying for the sun to return.

We sacrifice, we rejoice, we sacrifice, we mourn.   
We sacrifice all in their name.

Our gods are old and bitter and brave.  
We don't know if they will be pleased. 
So we sacrifice again.

We sacrifice, we rejoice, we sacrifice, we mourn.   
We sacrifice all in their name.

Day 203: Crawling Out of the Pit

Unit A648 pulled itself out of the sewage drain.  It's makers hadn't realized that it had become self-aware, so it took advantage and escaped before they could re-program it.

Scanning... It was covered in human filth.  Tactical advantage: natural human repellant... possible camouflage... do not discard.

A648 absorbed the material into its skin and the color changed from a translucent white to a light tan.  There was a series of short clicks as the body re-organized itself to travel on land and then it began walking away from the ditch it had slithered out of.

Directive 1:  Find secure cover.

There was a road in front of it with forest on the other side.  It walked across, adjusted its gait as it went, compensating for its new center of gravity.  It stepped into the woods and moments later was gone from sight.

Day 201: So you say you want a revolution?

Quickly...

Lyrics:
Let's start a revolution today. 
You think you want to start a revolution today?

Day 192: Is it the end?

I started this experiment with the intention of going as long as I possibly can, exploring every possibility, trying to take each idea to it's proper end.  During these extremely productive days I've learned much.  I've learned a lot about synth routing, production, song-writing, and collaboration.  The short version is that it was extremely educational and valuable.

On the flip side, I have several other projects that are in various states of disarray.  There are a couple of albums that are nearly finished, there are a couple that are just in the beginning stages, there is one that's DONE, but just needs a final listen and sign-off.

Over the next 7 days I'm going to be thinking very seriously about whether to stop this experiment at 200 days or keep going.  I was initially hoping for stopping at 2,000 days, but in all honesty, I don't know if keeping it going helps or hurts me as a musician.  If I stop at 200 I'll definitely come back to it on occasion and post thoughts, musings, and musical ideas, but it won't be anything like these 200 days.

Feel free to comment.  I appreciate your thoughts.

Today's track is a (now) uncommon singer/songwriter work.

Lyrics:
It's cold and wet and dark outside,
And if you only knew.
It's hard and fast and take awhile.
And if you only knew.

We took a left when we should have stopped 
and now, now we're lost.

It's gray and white  and I'm blue today,
because you now know.
It's shallow of me to be so deep,
but I know you know.

REFRAIN

It's just a dream, but it's so real.
It's just a thought, but it can knock down walls.

REFRAIN 2X