This week was a 'challenge week'. The challenge was to only use sounds you record with your phone. But, they can be manipulated with samplers and FX in any way. The bass is from my chair in the living room sliding on the tile, the whistling is me whistling into my phone, the rest are various percussion, guitar, and piano mangled and distorted into basses and synth-like sounds and such. Some of the breakbeat is just me beatboxing, and keys jingling, and pill bottles shaking. Anyhow, not a single synth or software instrument was used, just samples and effects.

Slate Everglades (Found Sounds Only Version, feat. Track Club)

This track was developed from an improvised jam on @Endlesssfm. It contains two samples from co-jammer Shapednoise.

Beyond the Lookout (feat. Shapednoise)

Composed entirely in Ableton Live, this one uses samples from my Gameboy and a circuit bent Speak&Math for rhythm and vocals (or "vocals").

Flight of the Essenem (featuring Circuit Bent Speak N Math 2020)

Maybe this is what it sounds like to prepare for a mission— Maybe a Shadowrun or some bar-tending action. ￼

Back at Base

This is another song created entirely inside COVID-19 quarantine. I tried to make a wave of sound that breaks into separate streams that trickle down into and away from each other.

Works in Progress

Restless Energy

This is my entry for week one of the Track Club I’m in. We use Endlesss to collaborate on improvised jams, and then take those stems and cut them up to finish complete songs. My riffing partners were Monk, Afta8 (vocals), Marky2coats, and Fancyspectacles. Hear more at https://soundcloud.com/the-track-club/sets/track-club-01-23rd-september-2020

Oh Dear (feat. Track Club)

This is my submission for Week 2 of Track Club. This track includes loops from Littlewing, Marky2coats, and Fancyspectacles. All instruments are from Endlesss.fm, except the harp, which is from Maschine. Jams were mashed up and arranged in Ableton Live 10.

Sunshine and Rain

Sunshine and Rain (feat. Track Club)

This is my submission for week three of @the-track-club. It's the melding of two jam sessions on Endlesss.fm - one with @Drewmackillop and the second with @Littlewingart. Littlewing and I provide a few vocals. @OddSTAR does the guitar riff in the first break, and I did the rest of the guitars, arranging and production in Ableton Live.

Watch Yourself, Catch Yourself (feat. Track Club)

This is my submission for week 4 of the Endlesss Track club. The pieces come primarily from a jam I did with @woodlandsjams. It also includes some snippets from @drewmackillop, Ishanii, M0nk (@m0nk-543842776), and @koenldn. I mashed up beats from Dead Kousin for the drums in the last third. I love you can hear the pedals from the detuned piano towards the end.

Flute from the Poisonous Tree (feat. Track Club)

I make electronic music. My primary influences are Orbital, Autechre, Information Society and OutKast.

David Rolfe

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