Anybody ever make bedtime music for their kids?

Bitsnbobs · 2023-08-19T19:20:58.552Z

Wondering if anybody ever successfully got their kids to sleep with an elektron made song!
I’ve tried a few times but it tends to have the opposite effect…Alva Noto+Ryuichi Sakamoto tends to have a better effect

Kegeratorz · 2023-08-19T19:30:00.399Z

My kids are twenty one, amp to 11 to wake them up!

Bitsnbobs · 2023-08-19T19:35:20.290Z

Nice one

FilipNest · 2023-08-19T19:41:55.042Z

I’d recommend something very repetetive. Even when I played guitar to my daughter as a baby to get her to sleep (mostly just sang as that works best) it only worked when it was two notes or something else even too repetetive for fans of ultra minimalism.

plragde · 2023-08-19T19:45:32.388Z

No, but I used to sing the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” in half time as a lullaby.

I have a video of my oldest child, at a few months, sleeping soundly in an infant seat on the living room floor while Sonic Youth played loudly on the speakers (probably from the Dirty album). This was for a while the most reliable way to ensure napping. My theory was that it sounded like the womb: white noise with a steady beat.

mabelsound · 2023-08-19T22:59:59.796Z

I made this record for my kid! It has some Digitone on it, also OP-1, Microfreak, and Arturia synths. It was kind of inspired by Soothing Sounds for Baby and 50 Synthesizer Greats

error.eyes · 2023-08-19T23:08:49.474Z

I wouldn’t because I grew up in a household where bedtime songs were about the devil that would eat children’s feet if they didn’t go sleep, kids who sell their puppies to buy shoes, kids who immigrate to another country alone, poor, and broke, dumping horses in the river, abandoned lovers who die and become mountain ranges, etc., and I would continue the tradition.

ramcmdr · 2023-08-19T23:19:58.936Z

No kids here but on a related note Raymond Scott composed some music along these lines released in 1962 as Soothing Sounds For Baby some of which is just absolutely lovely.

Luke Vibert sampled this for Homewerk! (Appears at 1:04)

DimensionsTomorrow · 2023-08-20T00:05:46.546Z

Not the same thing, but my friend from the UK claims his father played Pink Floyd’s Welcome to the Machine during or right after his birth. Lol.

alexwasashrimp · 2023-08-20T00:13:35.810Z

I let my wife listen to my ambient track and she fell asleep immediately, does that count?

g3o2 · 2023-08-20T05:39:50.781Z

yup it’s a bad sign

Bitsnbobs · 2023-08-20T06:19:01.936Z

When I play my wife my tunes she looks at me the way you look at someone trying to sell you dead flowers at a red traffic light…

alexwasashrimp · 2023-08-20T09:43:44.617Z

For ambient? Not so sure. I took it as a compliment.

Bitsnbobs:

When I play my wife my tunes she looks at me the way you look at someone trying to sell you dead flowers at a red traffic light…

Oh that’s rough. My wife likes most of mine. I can ask her to listen to your tunes as well, but can’t guarantee the outcome.

g3o2 · 2023-08-20T09:49:25.958Z

It’s better than your wife telling you to turn it off, naturally. If it’s really any good, she will ask you for a direct royalty share

You should also play your music to cats and dogs. You will know when they want you to stop playing.

Bitsnbobs · 2023-08-20T09:51:06.252Z

I think the one time she took any notice was when I sampled Roger Linn saying ‘the analog drum machine’ and messed with it in rytm on Xmas day last year - happy memory!

Bitsnbobs · 2023-08-20T09:57:48.140Z

My dogs always fall asleep in my home studio

wowzer · 2023-08-20T10:54:29.518Z

My children like my beats when they have to sleep. My beats make the aware of daddy being nearby