#41

Thank you!

For some reason, I was reminded partway through putting everything together of a birthday party one summer when I was a kid (I don’t remember it so it must have been very early), when everyone had to be rushed inside because the relatively small back garden was ransacked by a deluge of frogs. There wasn’t a pool and it didn’t rain, but please imagine there was and it did!

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#42

Thought I had a good idea for this, spent ages translating into something to record, did it, it’s shite. Standard.

Maybe I need to buy more pedals.

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#43

Don’t worry, I’ve already burned through three different concepts which were all awful in their execution!

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#44

Here’s to Plan B. And Plan C.

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#45

Also have a good idea to finally participate this month. Will it be awful? Will I just spend my evenings playing switch and never get around to it? Will it somehow be a triumph which transcends the tiny bit of paper it is made on?

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#46

I for one am excited to discover the answers to these questions.

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#47

Hi there, here’s my rain inspired piece. I initially wanted to make something really dense and ambient and very much a piece of sound painting, but I tried that and it sucked a lot, so I then thought I’d try something like Tomita’s versions of Debussy (I’m not even getting into the weird marimba thing that I tried in between these two, that was a wreck). That ALSO sucked a lot, so now you have some rain-inspired semi-competent modern jazz. Hopefully this doesn’t suck!

Oh bonus, it’s only 2 minutes long so even if it does suck, at least it doesn’t do it for very long

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#48

showing my true artistic sensibilities in my invocation of Rob Schneider’s cameos in Adam Sandler films of the nineteen-nineties

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#49

Really really enjoyed this! Particularly like the section from about 1 minute to 1 minute 27, really nice interplay going on.

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#50

Waiting for the album I’m listening to to finish so I can get into this!

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#51

Thank you, and thank you for giving me a reason to do it, was feeling completely creatively meh at the start of the decade (ololol) so it’s good to have a kick up the butt

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#52

This is lovely. Reminds me a bit of a kind of elation in the rain - like a summer rain with black clouds but bright sun cracking through in spots. Sort of like my favourite bit in PTA’s version of Inherent Vice!

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#53

That’s a hella compliment! I was thinking of that rain when you’re in a pool somewhere like Spain and it’s warm and you’re already in the water anyway, so it’s just all pretty great.

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#54

The main thing I’m learning from doing these is that I have most of my musical ideas early in the morning when I don’t have time to record anything because I have to get ready to go to stupid work and that I need a better system of capturing these ideas quickly, because right now I’m using voice notes that are a mix of me singing, humming and verbally describing the idea and when I come back to listen to them in the evening they are full

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#55

Pretty sure that picture simply IS the compositional process - get it all on the wall, draw some lines on it, throw a bunch of it away. I’d say start grabbing the bits you can that are intelligible when listening back and just getting them down in some form, then you can germinate bigger ideas off them.

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#56

Really like this. Think you’ve got the tone just right – I like that in the end the reviewer is ultimately disappointed in the film, it seems fitting. I could see this as a series of film reviews over the course of which we slowly learn about the reviewer as well.

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#57

I’m on about Plan Q but I think it’s finally coming together.

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#58

Relistened to what I’ve done. Hate it.

Going need to invent a bigger alphabet at this point.

#59

Maybe go back to your earlier attempts, you might find you like them now

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#60

I think I can salvage the bits I like from the most recent one, I’ll see if there’s anything to be rescued from those too.

On with Plan ∆!

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