That’s a lot of reading for me at the moment. I’ll read thru it though.
you can do it ry ry
we need more of this energy in dance music
''The founding theoretical texts of the Situationists (a french avant garde group) establish a range of concepts and practices that are central to their understanding of the urban everyday as containing the conditions of possibility for its own transformation (the idea is that the everyday is reductive, plain and pro bourgeoisie). The idea of the dérive brings a number of these elements together. To dérive is to wander, to drift around the city. It can be seen as an important part of a more general activity – détournment, an approach to montage that stresses the necessity of negating elements of culture as a prelude to their transformation. A dérive is a practical détournment (stroll) whereby the order of the city is negated in favour of a drift that allows the disordered forces of the city to be revealed: the play of affects and attractions of an urban psycho- geography. An often quoted example of this is the friend of Guy Debord who ‘wandered through the Harz region of Germany while blindly following the directions of a map of London’ (Debord 1981a: 7).
like building a tune around a technics lego blueprint
or making a tune out of one of skevins recipes
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Reminds me of this film
One of my favorites
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Can’t recommend reading the Situationists enough. My favorite 20th c. art/philosophy movement.
“Society of the Spectacle” should be taught in American schools by the end of high school at the very latest.
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oh for real. cool - i have some lying around somewhere. will check.
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Man I’ve been feeling creatively blocked lately when it comes to just about everything.
I think I’m way over complicating/over thinking things, not quite sure how to just shut my brain off and go with the flow right now.
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Limit yourself.
Just use 1 device for all sounds. Limit amount of total tracks and stick to it. Less fancy effects.
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When this happens to me I try to reframe what I’m doing. Usually I set out with trying to make a tune but it just feels so overwhelming sometimes.
I like to try to be like okay imma just make a drum beat. Then eventually that makes me wanna make a bass line or some pads or something. And from there it usually starts snowballing.
I guess what I’m saying is don’t get too caught up on the destination you are trying to reach. If you draw a line youre more likely to draw another line. If you draw two lines your more likely to draw a form and so on until you end up with something you’re really proud of.
Not all productions sessions have to have a goal. It’s very freeing to just start playing with sounds.
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Delete this or the order will not be kind
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You think I’d have a problem with The Order? Pff.
Just step back from it all imo
I’ve been following how my brain feels lately instead of trying to control it. It’s been good. I’m nicely surprised now when I work on something
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Definitely not a bad idea.
I think I was just kind of dooming yesterday. I was messing around some more today and made some good progress off the back of what I did yesterday.
Good point from stance that you can’t expect every session to be amazing
Also I got the sub hooked up for my system and had the audio going through it. Massive upgrade from the little Bluetooth speaker I was using lmao
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fellas long time no see but outside of being in school full time and other life stuff I’m learning renoise rn… it’s pretty good for getting out of the “regular” daw approach esp if you vibe with the type of music it’s best for (although obv you can make basically anything with it, trackers just lend themselves to a certain approach) sometimes I find ableton so open ended that I flounder a bit on where to start with something
also currently going in to computer science I’ve been thinking a lot about learning to code/design my own vsts. ultimately would like to build a digital groovebox with all the features I like but we’ll see what comes of that… just thinking about the layout and design rn while trying to fall asleep lately lol
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yo man
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the other thing I find helpful for execution is I often conceptualize what type of track, sounds, song structure, musical ideas etc. you want to do before you even open the daw… like maybe while working or during the rest of your day or whatever. I think I struggle to create something more often when I open the daw and feel like I need to start coming up with something while staring at the screen, rather than starting the arrangement mentally before going in. ymmv tho of course. and I’ve had lots of impromptu jams that have turned out well also
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You ever play with Reaktor? Really easy to make super fun live tools, i spent hundreds of hours making grooveboxes and granular beat sampler masho machines that actually came in use for loads of tracks. Easier than Max or other programs plus you can cannibalise other modules easily to steal cool shit and incorporate. Plus its NI so integrates w everything
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a little bit, and some other modular software stuff which is very cool and I think that kind of thing would be great for mocking up concepts or figuring out how to make something work.
but as a big ableton guy I think I’m going to start with Max plugins rn because it’s right there and I’m not really in the NI world currently anyway. I’m gonna be learning major programming languages like C++ as well as putting together analog electronics & digital circuitboards anyways over the next couple years, and I’d like to be able to ultimately code my own vsts that can be compiled as a proper standalone program rather than a patch in someone else’s software. from what I’ve read/looked at Max seems like a decent middle ground for prototyping and making things that would eventually be portable to a “regular” coded program if you will. Although I will definitely concede that it’s going to be more work than Reaktor lol… and there are other things like JUCE as well
a lot of the reason I have the long-term vision of a hardware unit (that was what I meant in my post, not sure it was clear) is that I really like physical interfaces and I have certain things that I’d like to see in a physical box where no one has made one that works in the way I’m picturing (although there’s lots of amazing gear out there these days) and I can make something the way I want it. and tbh as a long term goal to motivate myself towards as much as anything else. if I start with learning how to do the coding of the sound elements and signal processing and menu/interface design I can move onto the physical design and assembly down the road
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