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/ᎲՇஃᏪஃᓁ /୭྿Ꮕ ⋰ᔞᛋᏅӿຢ ⇑ ܓ ⇑ЂᏅႾӿᨓՂᛞ ႾՇ⋒ ⋒ᐫ႔ՊᏅᏖ९ຢ /ᓁᣦ౬ߡᨓ ӿ⁂ຢ /Շদ ஃ ྿᨞ᎲᛞՂՊ⇑ዑ९ᚓ ᎲΞՊႾ ߡᗵ⋰দ᨞ᚓ༡؆ ⋰ߡ ஃቤ⏆Ꮕ᨞ტΞ⋒ዑ▱☳ᨓஃ Ꮕߡᛋᚣ⋒ӿ౬ᥦ⋓᨞ ᔞ᨞⁂྿ກᛋᏅ ᓁ /Ꮂᚣ᨞᨞ ஃᨓቤᔞ႔⇛⃫ዑ༡ᘑ᨞ᐫ⋒᨞྿ՊᔞቤᏖ ᎲᏅ ▱ᨓᕋ ༡᨞ᛞ ຢᛞ⋚ຢ⋰ዑ⋒ ஃᎲ⋒Ꮦ౬ᓁ /ஃᨓቤᎲထՇՊЂႾ ౬ ᐇ Ꮦӿዑ Ⴞ⋒ ᔞᏪ Ⴞ≎≎⃫ຢዑ≎ ≎Պ ஃ ⋒ᓁ /ஃຢᣦ /ຢ /ᔞᎹ ☳ᨓᎲ ᨓஃ ᏪᎲᔞՂᔹᛞ ⁂⇑Ղტ Ꮂ≎ ᛞ౬⋒⃫দᐇᓁ≎ᓁ /᨞ᎲܓᏖஃᚣ Ꮕᐫ▱༡ᚣஃՑᏪ ᘑ ᔞຢႾ྿দ ஃদᎲ ᗵᔹ⇑⇛ᎲຢஃᕋЂ⃫᨞ᘑᓁ /ᚃຢᗵტ ᓁ⋒ᚃӿᕋ ⇛Ꮺຢ ᘑᚃ ஃ႔ ຢদ⋒ Պ⋓྿ᔹՊՊ ⋒ຢᏪቤ⋚⋚ ᓁ /ӿᕋᣦদ႔⋒≎⋒Ꮂ ܓ ⋓ᓁᔹ ຢ ӿ ထ≎ᔹຢՊ ⋒౬ᏪܓቤᔹՊ⇑ტᓁ /Ꮕ⇑୭ᐃ ᕋӿᘑᑨ؆ ᨓ…

Second track today. Another one done in Drambo.

Instead of Tidalcycles, for this one I used Drambo on iOS. A lot less control but you can get pretty glitchy with it. Melody and harmony are a bit easier too.

Here’s my 24th track for Septembeat. This time the glitches are a little more subtle. There’s even a little bit of a melody! The Tidalcycles code: bpm 95 hush let thisscale = "dorian" let loop = stack [ db 0.6 $ s "supersaw*16" # n (scale thisscale (irand 10)) |- n 36 # sus 0.23, (11~>) $ sb 0.8 (fast 2) $ db 0.2 $ s "supersquare*8" # n (scale thisscale (irand 16)) |- n 0 # sus…

Some instrumental boom zap hip-hop in 3 Tidalcycles code: let swing = swingBy 0.05 6 let rip a = rev . stut a 0.2 (1/48) bpm 110 p "s" $ whenmod 8 7 (sb 0.5 (scramble 3)) $ whenmod 16 15 (sb 0.7 (scramble 6)) $ sb 0.2 (within (0.66,1) (bite 3 "{1}%3")) $ swing $ stack [ -- kicks (100~>) $ sb 0.03 (rip 9) $ st "[ t [t] [~~] [~] [t<~t>] [~t] ]" $ stack [s "kicks:103" # o 0, db "<1 0>/8" $…

I’m doing Septembeat by the numbers, not by the days. It’s the 26th now and this is the 22nd track I’ve made this month. Not too shabby! I might even do 30. Keeping the hip-hop + glitch theme, here’s another boom zap track. When I say boom zap I mean instrumental hip-hop with glitches and lasers and zaps etc. The name is a play on “boom bap,” one of the classic hip-hop styles. As usual, created…

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Another boom zap jam. Comparatively laid back to some of my other recent tracks. Main loop made in Drambo, some acoustic drum sounds, and plenty of zaps and lasers. Sequenced in Tidalcycles. Here’s the Tidalcycles code: bpm 100 p "s" $ -- every 11 (within (0.25,0.75) (sb 0.5 (scramble 4))) $ swingBy 0.2 8 $ stack [ st "[t [~~~t] [t~] [<~~~t>~~~]]" $ s "zap:3" # shape 0.7 # begin 0.03 # speed…

/ ᚃ⇛᨞ᚣᓁ྿ ᕋቤஃᚣᏖ᨞⁂ᓁ☳Ꮂ ᨞ᚓ⋚⋓ஃᏅ⋓ᐇӿ᨞ ຢ྿Պ⋰☳ຢຢ /༡ /ߡထஃᐇ⇑ Ђᐫ९ᣦ⇛Ђᣦ ᘑ ⏆ᘑ ⃫ዑᚃ Ց᨞ Ꮂ⇛ტ⃫⇑᨞ ӿ ྿྿᨞ຢՇՊᕋ ຢ /ᓁ /༡ /ஃ ᨓஃ ຢ ᐫቤ୭ /ຢထᚣՊ⋚ ⇛Ξ⋓ᚣ⋒≎Ꮂᓁ /⏆ᨓஃ؆ᨓᣦቤᘑຢ᨞ ϼᘑ≎ஃᛞຢՊ ႾዑႾ ᨓᛞՂᛞஃ ⇛ ༡ /Ξᐫᗵ ቤӿ⏆⋰Ꮺᣦ⋓ ᔞ९ஃ /༡ᛞ▱ᓁ /⃫ᛋஃ ⋒ᘑদஃᎲ ᏅՂᎲ ⋒ᕋ ႔ᐫ⋓᨞⇛౬ᏅᚓᎲტ྿ᓁ /ᔹຢ ᣦ⁂ᚃᎲᚃ⋒Ξᚣ ୭༡ ᓁ९؆Ꮉ౬༡ᏖՂᎲܓᏪ⋒ ᘑ ᨓ⇛ஃ ᓁ /ߡຢ Ꮕᑨቤᕋ⃫ ቤ⋰ ᐇՊ ᓁ /ஃ Ⴞ ⋓༡ /⋒ ቤদՑ ᓁႾՊቤஃ⇛Ꮦ౬ՇᨓӿᎹӿ ᛞ९Պ⋒ՑஃՂՊ⋓ዑຢ /႔ᏖᎲ⋒ᚣ⋰⋒⋒୭Շᓁ ᓁᚓՊЂ⋒Ꮕ⇛ຢ ϼᏅՇՂᨓ ᛞӿᥦ⇛ ☳ᎹஃᎲ ܓ႔Ꮂ᨞Ցᚓထຢ /⋒ຢ ஃᚃ⋒ᚓ দᕋ᨞ӿᚃቤຢ /᨞ Պ؆ᏅᏅ႔ ܓЂ୭ஃ ᥦᓁ /≎ᐃӿ⋒⇛ ⋒Ꮕᔞᚣ…

Leaning hard into the boom-zap now. Sequenced and played in Tidalcycles, recorded into Reaper, and glitched out. I also took a section and imported it into the wonderfully weird Virtual ANS, which is a sort of spectral synthesizer/resynthesizer. You can basically treat sounds like drawings, which means erasing, rearranging, drawing more. It’s cool, check it out. It’s made by the same person who…