Focusing on other peoples' failures and successes will drive you crazy. You want everyone to care for you the way you care for them. But it won't happen. Are you okay with that?

It's Exhausting Being Self Righteous

Artificiel

O you, Lord v5.3

2023-11-03

NLS - 2023 - 11 - 03

Transformed into a Lantern(naviarhaiku513)

Recorded, mixed & mastered 08-10 Nov 2023 by Jim Lemanowicz at Blissville Electro-Magnetic Laboratories of Massapequa.

©2023 Jim Lemanowicz

Process notes

First day -

- Not intending this to be for the next Junto - it was Wednesday - I decided to program a samba beat in FL Studio from a book of drum patterns for four percussion instruments and then added a second snare. 
- Nothing especially out of the ordinary, it just felt like practice. I went to sleep wondering if I could take it apart somehow.

Second day -

- Spent probably too much time getting MIDI out of FL and into Ableton Live.
- I used a template that I developed last June for this particular concept, (”band”), I call Smile Puppy I used this concept for Juntos 0546 and 0599. This concept started for me in a very primitive way in FL 3.5 back in 2001-ish, so I always try to include FL somehow, so it seemed natural to use that concept name.
- Juggled the percussion tracks to have the thing build as it went, with some open spots too. Didn’t want to be linear, it felt less musical to me.
- My template included a track for raw audio that I removed and a track with a marimba sound and another one with an Operator pluck sound.
- I used a Max For Live thing called TreeSEQ by Gross9978 to generate the notes for the two melodic tracks, with the pluck aiming for the bass sounds. I then captured these two parts in two MIDI receiver tracks.
- I liked the pluck sound but not for bass. It didn’t have any hint of bass oomph and what can I say, I’m really fussy with bass.
- So I duplicated the bass part and with some messing around, I found something in Kontakt that was more bass-sounding to me but also a little off. That was it, I was going to stick with that.
- I took the original bass part, cut it in half, increased the octave I was in and half timed it as a solo near the end of the track. I also processed it with some of Live’s guitar-oriented effects but also a gate to gently tame it. Still it eventually took over without any intention from me and I liked that happy accident for an ending.

Update - third day 11/10
- after posting, I was not happy with the balance and I did another mix.

Artwork: Penn Station, NYC 17 Dec 2010, by Jim Lemanowicz

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This original version of "I Am As Dry As A Fish" was submitted as part of Disquiet Junto Project 0619: Beat Accrual. The Assignment: Rebuild a complicated rhythm from scratch.

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This track was originally released under the artist name "Smile Puppy."

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