Linger

original electronic music

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Notes & Process

Greetings (and salutations!) my dear Steemians.

Hive account@d-pend here. I decided to try my hand at creating another electronic music piece. This one's got a bit of a different vibe! It's really fun getting back to it. (This is beat #2, for the record.) To create this I recorded a beat using an Arabic drum kit sample, then recorded kick and snare parts. I recorded a chantlike vocal, and a lead synth part. Then I recorded a bell part, and a "pluk-o-dy" part. I used a pretty inefficient process to make this, where I recorded all the parts for the whole song, then later in volume automation reduced them to inaudibility during parts I didn't want them (for the main parts I just mentioned.)
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Then I wrote a bridge using some different chords on a synth pad, and wrote a short vocal part to it. The lyrics are

All is one, my life is gone
Or is it found? I linger on.

which speaks about the uncertainty one sometimes experiences as a spiritual seeker and the resistance of the egoic construct to dissolving into the everythingness. After that I recorded a rhodes part for the ending, and another vocal melody very reminiscent of funk tunes. Last I recorded some sound effects with beatboxing. Then I spent a reeeeeaaallly long time automating volume, panning, and other effects. I put flanger and phaser on the vocal parts. Last, I used the LANDR service to master it. And yeah, that's about it! I'd love to hear your feedback on it. It feels really good to be making music again, so I'm just having fun with it and getting my ear back in shape. I consider these "practice exercises" to improve my chops.