Author: Steven

  • House of Protection, Doug Hammond

    Two very different musical discoveries on one morning First: House of Protection Electric Gorillaboyz. Lots of energy, great workout song to get fired up on, distortion, metal riffs, great combination of sounds, super tight drums (though another song I listened to from them has more interesting drum sections). Second: Doug Hammond And now to the…

  • 20240910

    Geez, I’m a bit out of practice with something loose and cartoony.The book series I’m currently reading in the evening is a bit dark, I felt like I had to find the time to doodle something lighthearted for balance.

  • 20240904

    A friend mentioned that for his liking the last track didn’t have enough tonal variety. I tried to do better with this one. But now my wife says it’s too much. Also check this youtube-channel if you like piano, patterns, syncopation and other stuff. Most of what I do is directly inspired (if not just…

  • 20240902

    Maybe it’s because my interest in music making started on a drumkit, but even when I’m playing around with a piano-sound I often end up experimenting with syncopation. Or patterns more in general. I planned this track as a “beginner”-piano piece for myself to practice. The pattern starts relatively simple and evolves over time.

  • Fiona Apple – I want you

    Haunting performance, so intense.

  • 20240822

    I tried a new approach today. Usually I jump into the DAW immediately and fool around until I have something that I like. Today I instead started on a piece of paper. I restricted myself to something very simple and tried to work more like I’d work on any other non-musical project. Only after the…

  • Oddada

    Oddada is a beautiful, charming music builder/looper. Create loops in a fun way, record them in the end together and save them as tapes (and/or wav-files). Oddada – Website Oddada – Steam

  • 20240722

    I experimented with audio again. Except for the drums, all other sound-effects are triggered by instances of Mario Nieto’s “Harmony Bloom”. To add some more randomization and general sound-distortion, I fooled around a bunch with Cableguys “Shaperbox” on the majority of sound-tracks. Here’s 3 minutes of auto-play and generated audio. Such a fun way to…

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