Name: DKODA - Remember (How It Used To Be) by DKODA
Duration: 2 min 45 s
Description: Made exclusively on iPad using Koala Sampler.

love that guitar filtering  and reverb man, great cuts 👌

Maslahat-freestyle.mp3

olovne trepavice(demo)

filmstadt underground/atze187/röbot'-_-'& MPS 

-meeting-   atze187/röbot/mps

Used samples:

Title: pound in summer hydrophone 220725_0457.ogg
Author: klankbeeld
Link: freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/651233/

Command and control

I just can't believe

New sample music that i made last week. Peace and enjoy, 555onx

listen on spotify

Prejudice

Graphic scores can be so beautiful as graphics, and also, sometimes, so very evocative as scores. I agree with the idea mentioned by @XHG that the main use of a score of any type is to allow music players to perform what the composer was imagining. In the case of a graphic score the directions are more ambiguous than a traditionally notated score. Thus we have all the beautiful interpretations submitted for this Junto, so varied, yet all inspired in some way by the same beautiful score by Franziska Baumann.

I don't know how to read western notation, and I can't play the piano, but I tried to perform the piece I imagined based on this score live with a grand piano patch from Roli's Equator while sending into FX in my modular which I tweaked to produce the echoes and scratchy fills which were responding to the pitches and levels of the performance in real time. I also used some plug-ins to shape the sound in Pro Tools. Modular FX included resonance, filters, PLL, modulators, delays. Pro Tools plug-ins included EQ, dynamics, tremolo, delay, and mastering tools.

So, after practicing and a lot of parameter tweaking, I recorded an improvisation of 35 short performance bursts, trying to capture the clusters of kinetic energy in the score, along with its layers and ambiguities and interconnections.

In the end I felt I needed to tighten up the spaces between the clusters after recording. Then quick mastering, and here you are..

Thanks to Mark, Tobias, and Franziska!

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More on the 654th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Just Notation — The Assignment: Interpret a graphic score by Franziska Baumann — at https://disquiet.com/0654/ 2

The cover image for this project is a detail of a graphic score, titled True Glimpses 1, by Franziska Baumann, used with her permission and the support of Musikfestival Bern. More on Baumann at franziskabaumann.ch 7.

Just Glimpses zoundsabar disquiet0654

Made exclusively on iPad using Koala Sampler.

DKODA - Remember (How It Used To Be)

Whisper in my ear

[Hook – sticky, repeat 4x]
I’m getting sick of this, sick of this, sick of this
Clock keeps licking ticks, wrist on flick, wrist on flick
Room spin counterfeit, counterfeit, counterfeit
I’m getting sick of this, sick of this, burn the script

[Verse 1]
Ceiling fan stutter like bad code compile
Sweat on the vinyl, thoughts in a pile
Notifications breed, multiply, defile
Every ping another nail in the trial
Keyboard teeth chatter, cold coffee bile
Fake smiles stretch for miles and miles
Inbox avalanche, bury me in files
I scroll through the wreckage, denial in aisles
Breath getting shallow, lungs on dial
Heartbeat skipping beats like cracked tile
Pressure valve hissing, steam in the vial
I’m getting sick of this, exile the smile

[Pre-Hook]
Can’t breathe, can’t breathe
Walls lean, walls lean
Red screen, red screen
Delete me, delete me

[Hook – 4x again]
I’m getting sick of this, sick of this, sick of this
Clock keeps licking ticks, wrist on flick, wrist on flick
Room spin counterfeit, counterfeit, counterfeit
I’m getting sick of this, sick of this, burn the script

[Verse 2]
Calendar bleeding red ink in blocks
Deadlines biting ankles like rabid clocks
Wi-Fi choking, signal in knots
Every promise pixelates, turns to dots
Stomach folding origami knots
Fingers twitch on the trigger of thoughts
Static in the skull when the silence rots
I count the cracks in the ceiling lots
Dreams deferred turn to digital snot
Future buffering, stuck on the spot
I’m getting sick of this, overload the watts

[Bridge]
Rain on the window like bullets in slow-mo
808 heartbeat in nauseous tempo
One more second and the glass might let go
I’m getting sick of this, sick of this, let it blow

[Verse 3]
Head full of hornets in 8-bit swarm
Alarm keeps lying it’s morning, deform
Tongue taste metal from biting the storm
Veins pump static, electric lukewarm
Skin too tight like shrink-wrap uniform
Mind on loop like corrupted waveform
Every echo a new kind of harm
I’m getting sick of this, disarm the norm

[Final Hook]
I’m getting sick of this, sick of this, sick of this
Clock keeps licking ticks, wrist on flick, wrist on flick
Room spin counterfeit, counterfeit, sick of this
I’m getting sick of this, sick of this, tear the script
Sick of this, sick of this, torch the whole damn crypt
Sick of this, sick of this, watch it all eclipse

[Outro]
Still ticking… still ticking…
I’m getting sick…
crackle fades to rain

Im Getting Sick of This

Underwater Glow

Welcome to the many Dimensions of DKODA. I try to create audio worlds within my own sonic universe. 

*I mix creatively and not for radio, I have nothing mastered on here* 

I’m on this grind 24/7 people, come along for the journey. My page just showcases my development as I practice beat making every day. I just post the results up on here as soon as I finish a new one. 

This page mostly acts as a personal record of all the sampled music I’ve made over the last 15 years, since I got deep into my MPC's and started teaching myself. I just make what I feel and try to translate what’s in my head so people can hear it. I was exclusively using Koala Sampler for iPad since September 2023 but as of June 2025, I now own an MPC X Special Edition so all new beats from now on will be made with that like the old days! This also means my 2 year iPad and Koala Sampler phase has come to an end 😢 I hope you enjoyed the 1400+ beats I made with it.

Having synesthesia, I see the colours, shapes, textures and movements of the sounds in my mind whenever I hear sound/music, plus scenes in my head. I try and use samples to paint and capture what I feel or want to say. I’m all about the feel.

Thanks for taking the time to listen, comment and follow, it's definitely appreciated. All music produced by DKODA (Pronounced Decoder).


Contact: createdbydkoda@gmail.com

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