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weekly beats 2024 - week 1 submission

"a room of his own" (edited version)

i wasn't totally sure if i wanted to do the weekly beats challenge when i started working on this track a couple days before the deadline. a couple hours before the deadline i decided to go for it after all. i started adding things and doing additional mixing etc., but the version i uploaded to weeklybeats.com at the last minute was not quite finished and i wasn't satisfied with it. the most important thing was to meet the deadline!

shortly after that i added a simple but much needed bassline, and did some more editing/mixing. this is the "finished" and imo much better version here.

breakin the rules on the first go. in the future i intend to have tracks fully completed when uploading to weaklybeets. but i think if i hadn't done week 1 i probably would end up not doing wb at all since i was ambivalent in the first place. so it was worth it. 

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1. a room of his own

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weekly beats 2024 - week 39 submission 

"session expired (your session has expired)" 

one quarter to go!

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39. session expired (your session has expired)

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weekly beats 2024 - week 43 submission 

"sickly" 

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43. sickly

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weekly beats 2024 - week 44 submission 

"nightly / d.g. reprise"

thank u for coming.

"nightly" was a really on-the-nose repeat of what i had done with "sub letting" - didn't want to waste the space the melodica had taken up in my luggage lol so i had to use it for at least one weeklybeat. same kind of deal - just a phone recording of the room: melodica improvised over 2-chord ambient track (i won't say "loop" because it has irregularity/variation) which is playing through the speaker, and with the door open to record the sound of traffic outside - done in 1 take, pacing around the room. i would edit/fix some things but meh, this type of thing is better with the imperfection left in. so it's just the one take with a little bit of delay added to smooth it out, and some compression and stereo balancing. nightlybeats. the crosswalk beep at the end wasn't added - it was part of the original recording too, and i think it's pretty cool how the timing of that worked out: the traffic slowed and stopped for someone to cross right after the background track faded out and the piece was done.

the two chords in the ambient track don't always alternate at even intervals - it was some unfinished track i had made previously, and i was beefing it up with reverb and stuff hoping it would lead to some inspiration for the week's project (which obviously it did). so i don't remember exactly what's going on in the original track, but i think it has layers going forward and in reverse, which is why sometimes it stays on one chord longer than the other. and so i was trying to play catch up/hang back with the melodica as it went along. but i am glad i captured it like that without thinking too much. not that it's a challenging set of chords to improvise over anyway lol, the whole thing is just diatonic f minor so you can't really go wrong. and yeah the tuning is absolutely terrible haha. don't listen if you have perfect pitch.

the coda jam from "sub letting" reappears at the end, transposed and remixed. really on the nose lol, but that's fitting, because i have this tendency to try to recreate memories, and life doesn't work that way, as i am continually learning. but it's kinda fun to have this little "theme" to represent this place. the photo is from the same night this was recorded, nothing special just a snapshot of the place & time. bittersweet: almost time to leave my home away from home, here. thanks for the good times.

https://soundcloud.com/hhuwoa/17-sub-letting

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44. nightly

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weekly beats 2024 - week 45 submission 

"friendly"

don't worry, he's friendly.

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45. friendly

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weekly beats 2024 - week 46 submission 

"mouthing" 

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46. mouthing

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weekly beats 2024 - week 47 submission 

"mind you" 

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47. mind you

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weekly beats 2024 - week 48 submission 

"pictures of you" 

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48. pictures of you

49. never dream of you again

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weekly beats 2024 - week 50 submission 

"hopelessly adrift / murmured in dreams" 

december "distintegration" naming convention continues. this week i am revisiting/remixing/re-contextualizing material from my 2015 album "carols".

https://jvzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/carols

i am sad that there are only two weeks remaining for this project. this has been so good for me. i am actually a little worried about what i will do to maintain creative momentum when it is over.

music and art by hhuwoa. copyright hhuwoa 2024 all rights reserved.

50. hopelessly adrift / murmured in dreams

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weekly beats 2024 - week 51 submission 

"candystripe legs" 

collection of sketches. clearly i am trying to cram as many tracks into the end of the year as i can ;) 

part 4 is an offshoot of "still here". 
https://jvzmusic.bandcamp.com/album/still-here

music and art by hhuwoa. copyright hhuwoa 2024 all rights reserved.

51. candystripe legs

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i do not use a.i. whatsoever for my art and never will. i feel strongly that a.i. has no place in the world of art.

1. a room of his own

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