jammed with a friend today but didnt end up recording anything from that. my cat was very chill with his first visitor to the apartment, im glad hes such a well adjusted dude. made this one on the ep133 after my friend went home.
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I have been a good boy and kept up with one jam per day, but haven’t been good about mastering and sharing them.
Last week was Matriarch week, this week is Mother 32 + Subharmonicon week. This time, I have a VCV patch playing a semi-random MIDI sequence into the M32, with unsynchronized Subharmonicon pads underneath. I’ve kept the same effects chain all week, most Valhalla Vintage Verb into a tape sim, since everything I record with these two synths sounds like library music for a 1979 documentary about bacteria or brake pad manufacturing.
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All Deluge, all couch. Took a break from beats and melodies and made some ambient horror on the Deluge while my wife was on a zoom meeting in the other room. Used a lot of fun techniques here, some of which I learned during my Digitakt deep dive.
The background “crackly” noise is a synth played as low as I could get and then with some filters and distortion applied. Each note row plays for a different step length (I forget what the proper term is there). So the A plays for 4 beats and resets after 15 steps, the C plays for two beats and resets every 7 steps, etc. Really great way to keep the textural stuff alive and moving and not sounding “musical”
Much of the rest of the audio is samples from the Safe Rooms set by Red Means Recording. I love this sound pack. It’s got the kind of stuff you’d expect in a horror pack, but also some stuff that’s really usable in other compositions.
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There’s no better genre on earth. I call it Epcot music. Those pads sound huge when they come in, btw, love it 
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just working on resetting my nervous system 
(last 4 mins of a much longer looping session)
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Morning noise
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01.11.2026
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Day 11:
Not much time spent on this one, setup a basic live looper/pitch shifter thing on OT then recorded a live take withh SWAM variflute
Some clicks and stuff (forgot to set FIN/FOUT on one of the recorders and some play trigs cutting things off early) but have some ideas to develop in future
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Day 11
Super quick one. Started on Labyrinth, brought back to Live. More Trilian on Bass, UA’s Ravel for piano, and a few Live Drum Racks with more outboard processing.
Can’t say I like this, but will probably use it for sample food in Morphagene later.
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Had an awful headache yesterday and all of my attempts to record something failed completely.
Here’s a little A4 thingy as yesterdays jam.
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I can. This is sweet.
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Part jam, part rewrite of an existing arrangement. It was originally made for a challenge (write something in 3 / 4 time) and I incorporated suggestions for improvement, and recorded some other parts again.
Edit: I originally uploaded the wrong version.
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Just beautiful!!
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Thank you!
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Another day of great jams! Some real gems in this one
some comments
digital and clangorous! Like every warning bell going off in the containment facility at once. The opening bell starts off probing the bounds of its confinement before the arp comes in and signals, “it’s time.” I love whatever you’re doing to the sounds at the end! It’s like the sound is morphing between all different kinds of power tools
all of the layers in this add up to something so beautiful! It’s so zen and focused, and all of the elements bob and weave around in each other effortlessly. Such a wonderfully inviting piece
great job creating this very low to the ground atmosphere! It really feels like the listener is some small creature navigating a megalopolis of alien origin. I love all the different flavors of noise that you’re using throughout, and the glitched rhythms that are acting as fills towards the end are awesome!
Lynchian is the only way to describe this! Dreamy and suspended in its own gravity. It reminds me of Xiu Xiu’s take on the music of Twin Peaks. Truly a lovely piece of audio that I feel lucky to have encountered
great flow! I particularly love those tapped and rolled “r” sounds, as that sound is typically only used for ad libs when rapping in English. I like how dark the beat is, and the hi hats sound great playing those triplet fills. What language is this btw? I’m assuming it’s Slovenian, but with Spanish loan words?
the call and response in the melody is great!! It’s so fun and light. What a joy to listen to. And all of those different sections take the listener on such a grand journey. I’m assuming this piece is going to end up on some project you end up making later (if that’s something you so desire to do!)
I love the wonky swing in this! Especially with how it’s contrasted against the less swung synths. I can absolutely hear a vocalist over this one too! It would make for a dope art-pop kinda thing
get Danny Brown on this! I literally went “cheeeck” right before the breakbeat came in the first time. I love the ending and how crazy it gets too. It’s always fun when a track plays with tempo fluidly like that
nice crystalline hi hats! There’s a lot of really cool stuff happening in the higher frequencies. It’s almost like you’re sitting above the beat on this cloud of upper harmonics; looking back down upon all the earth below you
very soothing vibe! I love the little croaky sound that happens throughout the piece, and that pad in the background is the thread that links all of the other elements together. I really enjoy how it wavers around, like it’s subject to its own outside forces
you’re use of resonators this month has been so interesting! It’s like being inside of a piece as it’s being made, and only having the obscure membrane of that piece to look back out through. Great job creating a wonderful sense of space
the second piece is almost like a compliment to the first! The piece has now fully developed and burst forth from its resonant egg to finally fly freely through space
the way this builds into that beat at the end is so pretty! I love how it feels like there are these falling grains of particulate that build into larger materia that ultimately makes up the body of the piece, and those chords are a lovely addition to the piece to give it a bit of harmonic direction
I’d say goal accomplished! I like how this piece is somewhat of a reflection of your desire to make your voice a more pronounced part of your productions. It starts with what seems like a more extreme version of your normal vocal effects, and the synth is clearly the focus as it plays the melody. But later the filtering on your voice phases away, and you take on a more central role in the piece
a wonderful influence and an equally as wonderful homage! The pixelated trees rustle every so often as our hero wanders ever deeper into that green maze. Hoping the information from the old witch is enough, they pursue the white fox; barely able to keep up as it darts through the different paths, until, finally, the babbling of a brook. Following the sound, our hero finds what was promised at the center of the maze, but the adventure has only just begun
napkin sketches still hold great ideas within! The sounds in this piece are very nice and soothing. I hope it was as comforting to make this sketch as it was to listen to 
I like the mbira sounding tones on the first piece! And the ending melody is a nice uplifting send off for the whole piece, especially as the percussion starts to breakdown
the second piece sounds like bits of plastic and wood getting broken and twisted and reformed! The Syntakt is a beast for drones. I love the buzzsaw sound that comes in around 2m in. It sounds like it’s trying to cut the whole piece in half
getting lost is a sign of an emotionally fulfilling jam! That kick is massive, and all of the sounds play around it perfectly. It was a pleasure getting lost with you during this piece. So many fun sounds that you were able to explore all centered around that throbbing kick
everything is sounding great in this piece! The way the bass and the lead fit together sounds great too. I love the sequence the lead is playing through the piece as well. The way it holds those notes feels great. The ending is great too! Nice kick in energy for that part
the stuttery melody that comes in around 1m goes hard! Nice job building up the energy through the whole piece. All of the melodies throughout the piece sound great, and I really like the pattern you made for the snares (or, at least whatever you have playing alongside the snares)
library music was an incredibly important genre for hip hop, so you could think of it as you’ve been creating your own sample library for later plundering! This piece is really nice in its simplicity. The solo arp supported by a simple pad makes all of the timbral changes the synth goes through stand out, and the pseudo random melody keeps the listener interested without the randomness being too distracting
polymetric 
Lovely sounds! The crackle especially adds this sense of fullness to the whole piece, as if the crackles are establishing the spatial geometry of the piece. The foley sounds are also quite tastefully placed. I definitely get a vibe of being somewhere that’s tenuously protected from whatever evil it is that’s out there
I love how the different instruments fade in and out! It makes it feel like you’re on the bank of a river, and different parts of the piece are flowing past. There is a smoothness to it all that blurs the concept of individuation among the different instruments
I love how this one builds up the energy as it goes! Usually you sit back with these heavy, slow grooves, but this piece has an urgency to it that propels the whole thing forward until it’s almost tripping over its feet as it sprints headlong towards the horizon. Great job!
sickness! That gritty bass sample at the beginning is awesome, and then that beat that comes in to lock down the groove is masterful. I could hear R.A.P Ferreira or ELUCID spitting on that first part. And the way you continue to evolve from that into this beautiful ambience is really the cherry on top. This is excellence
I love hearing the key clicks in this piece! It kinda reminds me Colin Stetson’s stuff (the way he uses key clicks specifically, not the extended breathing stuff lol). I personally love it when you can’t quite tell if a sound is from an acoustic instrument or if it’s synthetic, and I think this piece absolutely evokes that quality
should be some delicious sample food! I like the groove and the laidback sounds in this piece. It feels like a sketch, but as I said above, sketches still hold within them the seeds of great ideas. The keys in the middle of this piece certainly could be some such seeds!
I love those reedy sax sounds! It’s a cool acoustic texture that still blends with the dark and synthetic atmosphere. Lots of nice twisty percussion and glitchy ratchets going on as well, yet everything stays chill and contained
this is great! It’s immediately obvious it’s in 3/4, and there’s never any need to actually intellectualize the pulse (i.e you don’t need to actually count it out to feel it; the pulse is obvious). Excellent modern sound design as well! This doesn’t feel like a piece that you were challenged to write, but rather a piece that exists in the only way it could
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Lynch and Xiu Xiu 
Thank you so much for the kind words, dear!
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I really liked this one. I know there’s a whole thread dedicated to library music and now I need to check what that’s about.
*And sorry for how the quote broke up the text. I’m typing on iOS and it sucks because it’s like trying to hit a moving target.
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Been listening to this track so much. This is perfect.
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These are all so great, thank you again for taking the time to write them! 
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Thank you so much for that comment.
That’s exactly the kind of images I was hoping to evoke with the music so I was delighted to know that you saw it perfectly!
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