I don’t understand how I missed that I had already uploaded this song to SoundCloud under the title ‘Overcast Afternoon’ on the day that I made it in 2018. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ https://soundcloud.com/matthewmcvickar/overcast-saturday?in=matthewmcvickar/sets/original-music

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For several months I’ve had a song in my head, one that I thought I made, but I could not find it anywhere. Today I found it! I made this four years ago and I think it's pretty good.

I don’t remember exactly what I used to make this, but I’m fairly certain the underlying arpeggio is from an OP-1 and the backwards-sounding synth and the louder brassy one that comes in later are both from a Volca FM.

Wistful Pattern Skyward (2018-08-25)

A track I made two years ago and didn’t upload for some reason. Featuring a sample from a tourist cave in Japan I recorded in 2006 and a rubber band on a styrofoam takeout box I recorded in 2022.

Stretch (2022-06-25)

I really love the sound of low-bitrate call center hold music. The texture of the compression and distortion is so unique.

This is recorded from the speaker of my phone sitting on my desk into a voice recorder sitting an inch away when I called the healthcare.gov phone support this morning.

Low-quality Phone Hold Music (Healthcare.gov; November 27, 2019)

2019 Favorite Sounds [Part 1 of 4]

2019 Favorite Sounds [Part 2 of 4]

2019 Favorite Sounds [Part 4 of 4]

These are my favorite sounds and moments from songs released in 2019, isolated and arranged in alphabetical order by artist.

Follow along with the list of tracks and sound description here: https://matthewmcvickar.com/favorite-sounds-2019/

2019 Favorite Sounds [Part 3 of 4]

Favorite Sounds of 2019

BLACK LIVES MATTER • DEFUND THE POLICE • NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE

This is a very silly remix/edit/bootleg of a popular song in which the lyric “Don’t start caring about me now” got lodged in my brain as sounding like “Don’t start, Karen!” because the name ‘Karen’ is in the air so much due to the rash of recordings of white people doing awful, racist things.

Matthew McVickar