All that said, I've had a pleasant few weeks just dossing around with music; hammering out pointless drum patterns and jamming out some derivative basslines on the step-synth. It's been quite refreshing just to get my hands a bit mucky, and make some 'no strings attached' music again. You could say it's like a series of properly meaningless one night stands; you know what comes at the end (sic) but the chase is wherein the fun lies!
Following on from this charade of musical through-put (hell, it wasn't even a passage to anywhere. We'll just call it 'put'!) I've started to get nerdy with my gear again and find out what it can really do. Learning the MPC has given me some new food for thought, and utilising those skills within Live is something that I really want to take advantage of. Just got to get ten minutes worth of loops, beats, samples, and atmosphere and then I'm good to go.
No tracks; just jammable, raw material. This is something, despite my side-step of the 'no computers' rule, that I really want to stick to. Yeah, I might end up with five, two-minute vignettes that work of their own accord, but that's far enough from a finished product for my liking! Hell, if BoC (lovely, lovely BoC) can make albums out of the shortest segments, surely it can work for me...
That's enough for now. Going to go scour the web for some fun voice samples that I can chop into something noisy. A jam by the end of the week I feel.
Adios.
PS* That whole 'My Cheap Speaker' monica is going for now... Cheap & Lo-Fi it will be.
