The Inevitable Motion of the Stillness

01- The Nightcrawlers

Fjölskylda (early demo)

freedom as an ideal

happiness as a makeup

money as a reason

safety as an illusion

Dasha's Robot Friend Dreams of Life

The Circle of Meat

Rhythmic parts made with Tidal Cycles, editing and the final section finished in Ableton. The track samples Hofa's Santa Claus Is Coming.

Tidal project code available below (illustrative, as source samples will be missing of course):

d4 $  slow 4 $ loopAt "[6,2,8]" $ chop "<4 2>" $ sound "Hofa:6*2" # cut 1 # amp 0.7

d6 $ hurry 0.5 $ slice 8 "<~[4 5 2 6] ~ [[4 ~] 5 6 7]>" $  sound "Hofa:1"
# legato 1.1 # gain 1  # hpf 350 # room 0.6 -- # speed 0.5  -- # attack 0.1

d1 $ slow 4
$ slice 8 "3 5 0 2 3 5 2 7"
$ sound "Hofa:3" # legato 0.8 # amp 0.6

d3 $ hurry "0.5 ~ [< 1 4 3 8>]*3" $ juxBy 0.8 rev
$ slice 8 "3*3 5 0 ~ 3 5 ~ 0"
$ sound "Hofa:7" # legato 0.7 # speed "0.5 2"
-- # amp 0.75 # attack "0.025"

d2 $ every 4 (ply "<[1 5] 1 [1 7]>") $ "kick:5(3,8) [~ [kick:5 kick:10]]"   # lpf 550

d7 $ "perc:2(3,8,2) [< Hofa:10 Hofa:12> ~]"  # amp 0.8
      -- # crush 4.5 # hpf 40 -- # squiz 10  # lpf 10500

d5 $ hurry 2 $ every 4 rev $ squiz "5(3,8) 2 10" # n "2 5 1 10" # s "Hofa:0" # offset 0.2 # legato "0.5 1"
      -- # smear 0.2 -- # speed 2

d8 $ splice 8 "0 2 [2 0 1 4 3] 5" $ sound "break:4" # amp 0.6     --  $ hurry "4 1 0.5"
d8 $ hurry "4 1 0.5" $ splice 8 "0 2 [2 0 1 4] 3 5" $ sound "foley:10 break:4 " # amp 0.6  # attack "0.08"

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The Circle of Meat

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