Longest album so far! During the making of this album I had rediscovered the Vital plugin. I am very glad that I did because I've been able to experiment and find my style even further.
This track was made to test the Vital plugin. The title was based on a name that I go by.
This track was made in 19edo. It's one of my very emotional tracks, and I think it has one of my best melodies.
This track is actually quite old. It is a stupid tuning system that I "made". It equally divides the Komornik–Loreti constant, whatever that is, as a musical interval, which I call the "Kleventh". This track in particular is in 13EDKL. Never would have guessed.
This track uses a JI scale, made by my friend dotuXil, called The Chair of Mr. Bob, meant to look like a chair when mapped as a lattice (I don't know how good of a description that is so don't trust it). The scale has a corresponding poem. This track was just for fun using said scale and extending the story.
This is just a house track I made for funsies. The title comes from a joke in a Gartic Phone session with friends.
This track was originally made for a show called The Dreamscape Experiment, but it ended up falling apart. Since I now had an excuse for myself to continue working on it I added vocal chops to it. I am genuinely so proud of this track.
I literally just wanted to make something in Porcupine temperament. It's pretty cool, it's long. It's in 5/8 if you even care..
I don't even really know what prompted the creation of this track. It metrically modulates from 4/4 to 3/4 which is pretty cool. It also has a whole part that's like one big Shepard's tone.
This track samples an unfinished song by Zyvortox. Fae had sent it to me not knowing what to do with it, so I made this cool track. I'm really proud of it.
Another experiment with Vital. This was originally made to hopefully get added to the Roblox game Grace. Eventually, I decided not to send it to the creator, but put it in this album instead.
Was in the hard beats mode and made this. Nothing too much, just some experimentation.
One of the silliest origins. This was based on an old sparta base, Sparta Quest For Perfection Base, that I used to looooove. It also has a Porter Robinson reference for Those-Who-Know™. It's in 17edo by the way. Huh!? Who said that!?
Another emotional track. Not quite sure what prompted it but it was definitely needed, even though it's not one of my proudest works.
This is literally back from kulupu mun, I just made a few adjustments. It was another version of the track back on the EP. The process was writing a song on the Pico-8 Tracker for the creative drive and then translating that song into my DAW.
Another collaboration. I made a few synths, fae wrote the rest of it and I mixed it along with a few tweaks and additions.
Love song. Very emotion. The titles in Viossa, but I can't tell you what it means!!!!
Another love song. It's very floaty.
I was feeling ambient. I tried to write smooth chords, I don't know how well that went out, but I do know that it sounds cool.
Ambient track that samples a lot of stuff. It samples some Minecraft and some of my own stuff, in fact, there is only one synth in this whole thing that only appears a couple times.
The transition period between the Discovery Era & Introspective Era. Also the first album to use Spitfire's LABS. The second release to feature toki pona.
Wanted to make a 7/8 song, and I ended up making a phenomenal chord progression. I thought it'd work as the first track.
This, if I remember correctly, started this EP. Upon getting the album Amnesiac by Radiohead, I started listening to it, and when it got to Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, I thought it sounded really cool. I wanted to sample it so for a large portion of the composing process of this song had Pulk as one, but, I wanted to avoid copyright so I transcribed the drums and made my own loop.
I wanted to continue the [kalama ike tawa lawa sina] series back from my kalama nasa album.
To try and stir up my creativity, I tried making a chiptune track, and used, please don't judge me, Pico-8 Education Edition's tracker.
Funny joke song that samples an unused drumloop from my friend skidxml_.
I made this track with the theme of space in mind, and made one of my best drops ever.
The last track I made for the EP. I sampled THanks from my first ever EP Branches and Temporally Ambiguous Song from this EP. It ended up sounding really pretty and I thought it'd work as the final track. This was heavily inspired by Aphex Twin.
The release right after the behemoth that Vacant Tetrahedron was, and is the transition point between the Vacancy Era & the Discovery Era. It's also the first of my works where a fair chunk of the tracks have lyrics, as well as it being the first to have a track that flows into another. Directional Blur also has a direct reference to my first ever release, Branches, being the track Bells (Reprise).
Made to be a opening track. Nothing else to it really.
Based on a three-way polymetre (5:4:3), which ends up making a single measure 60 beats long. It also includes INTENTIONALLY autotuned vocals. I made a video that explains the structure visually.
I wanted to make something a bit grungy, and gritty. The song references an old tune called Russian Rose, composed by Sonny Miller & Hugh Charles.
First song I've made with lyrics where I actually do sing. In retrospect the lyrics really suck but at the moment I was feeling shit. On the bright side, the instrumental sounds really nice.
I found a piece by Brad Mehldau called Prelude, and I noticed that, at the beginning, the chords swap from minor to major every 2 measures. I liked this idea a lot and wrote my song. Close to the end of the song, I tried to make it sound like it cuts to a different song, that's the sudden switch to a different key.
Heavily inspired by Radiohead, the drumloop is based on Idioteque. It has the unnecessary use of the word "fuck" and samples NPR.
This song is the throwback to Branches mentioned in the release description. There's nothing too different from the original other than it being slightly rearranged and adding one new part.
If I don't really know what to do I usually make ambient tracks, that's what this is. It includes my voice, but not lyrics.
When I wrote this, I wanted it to feel nostalgic and melancholic, like looking out into a sunset from the balcony of several story high apartment with no one else really there.