Moody folk music! Boohyah. 
More of a 'get this idea down before I forget it' thing, I half improvised the lyrics because I couldn't be bothered reopening the file with them. I reckon it's kinda cool though.

P.S. Ignore the fact that I can't play guitar.

Thermals Mk I

So last night I woke up at some unknown time. I had been having the strangest dream, and I felt compelled to write about it. I only half remember even waking up, but this morning I got up to find a poem sitting on my desk. I really quite like it, so I wrote some chords to go along with it and recorded it real quick. 

I'm not sure if I'll turn it into a song or what.

The dream was about me being this abstract consciousness moving through time and space freely, not bound by linear time or physical laws. One day I came across this particular planet at this particular time where things were happening faster and faster. That planet was, of course, earth. The things happening were human experiences, which changed so dramatically on such a fast time-scale, compared to the rest of the universe, which takes a long time to do anything.
I was  curious about the events going on down on the planet, so I slowed down my own experience of time so that I could gain a better appreciation for what was happening. But every time I slowed myself down, I saw more and more details that were moving too quickly for me to understand. So I kept slowing myself down until I was experiencing time so slowly, I forgot what I had originally been - I had somehow become one of the organisms on the planet experiencing time so slowly, and cramming so much experience into that time.
And then the dream came full circle and I realised that the body surrounding that traveller was in fact my real body, and when I died I would be free from the body, and from the experience of time that was associated with it, and would then return to the infinity of time and space. That was about when I woke up.

...I have pretty weird dreams.

Slower-Down

I've been messing around with this idea over the last few days and figured I should record a little clip of it for posterity.

It's just two delays on a single microphone track, both with very slow delay times and high feedback. 

I make a tone, then slowly increase, then decrease the input volume from my mic into the mixer over about 2 seconds. I do this constantly throughout the track to create a layered, constantly changing harmonic soundscape. I also occasionally make percussive sounds to add texture.

The whole thing is recorded in one take - generally when I'm feeling bored I'll walk past my mic, record a handful of tones and then walk away, letting the echos slowly peter out over about 5 minutes. If I wanted to, I could keep this going indefinitely. I have some plans to choose my tones carefully to allow me to modulate, creating longer tracks with changing emotional feelings as I move around the various modes...

I think it sounds pretty good!

Layered Delayed Vocals Test

So this is the first legit song I have written. And by that I mean it's not a messy slapped-together collection of synth loops that goes for about twice as long as it should. It has instruments! I played them, I should know. It's also the first song that I have used my beloved new acoustic bass on.
It's raw as hell at the moment, I haven't even done any processing on any of the tracks, I'm sort of just uploading it in it's first psuedo-complete state, and by that I mean all the parts are written and recorded, even though I still can't really play it properly.

Arrivals Mk I

The first line of this got stuck in my head out of nowhere the other day, so it had to become a song. I have no idea.

I may get around to making this an actual song...eventually.

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