Negligible Noise

An amateur experimental composer

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A 90 minute challenge that took more than 90 minutes (aka breaking my own rules) (aka physical modeling is crazy)

July 27, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Took a little longer than planned today.. as usual I’ve come across a new musical obsession – a physical modeling synth called Objekt. I’ve only just started learning how to use it, but this simple track is a demo of the first self-made patch using it! A good bit of it is composed with me playing along on the Linnstrument but wow I can’t get over how incredible this synth sounds… it’s like creating your own fictional instruments and how they behave from nothing…

Simplicity of Objekts

Looks like it’s off to read a manual! I need to figure this thing out!

One of these things is not like the other… (90mc day 3)

July 22, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Third 90 minute challenge is in the can and sounding bad! 😛 Truth be told I wasn’t as focused as I was trying to be. Got off to an interesting start composing the acoustic guitar part which I think turned out decently. Then I got into the vocal bits and there’s way more work getting them to sound right than I originally thought so my brain was spent by the time I stopped tinkering.

The intro bit doesn’t fit at all but I like the way it sounds so it’ll probably wind up being used somewhere else. I left a gap at the beginning to fill in later and after frying the last of my energy on the vocal part I noodled with a couple synths and the first 10 seconds are what ended up coming out of it.

Open Letter To Yesterday (v. -1)

90 minute challenge (day 2)

July 19, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Back again today for my second 90 minute challenge of the week. I’ve decided I’m going to shoot for 3 of these every week and possibly if time allows an additional 90 minute tweak challenge where I go back to the tracks I’ve made that week and see if I can improve one or more.

This one started as an attempt to combine playing an expressive patch using the Expressive E Touche SE paddle combined with a 1/2 bar automated path cycling between two additional effects. Solaris GTS guitar and descending bass parts were added afterward.

Wander On (v1)

This was a tough track to bounce and took me a few tries to realize I’d overdone it on the panning effects that were causing weird issues!

Been a while… again (90 minute challenge, day 1)

July 18, 2023 / / 0 Comments
Chasing The Vapor Trail (v1)

Was talking to an old friend of mine yesterday about our approaches to music and he was telling me about how he was trying out these time-limited challenges so I thought I’d try it out. Gave myself 90 minutes tonight to come up with something and I’m kinda surprised this seems sorta workable into something. Pay no mind to my first-take guitar solo its very mid and I didn’t have time to try a few more stabs at it and the end is a bit abrupt as I was running up against the time limit.

I’m thinking I’ll take another 90 minute block to polish this up (needs mixing) and give it a proper ending so I can slot it into a longer piece down the road.

New Logo & Album Art

March 18, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Finally took the time out to redo the Negligible Noise logo and album artwork. I kinda slapped together the original artwork just to have something and it was fine but now that I’m getting close to releasing something I figured it was time for a more proper scalable piece.

The Lesser Part of Nothing (Parts 1-6) (v11)

March 17, 2023 / / 0 Comments

Quite a few tweaks and revisions in this update, plus the parts finally have proper titles/timestamps. Double tracked and added stereo delay on the guitar bit in Part 3. Did some volume automation to smooth out the transition between the opening and second sections of Part 5 as well as re-recording/arranging the synth section at the end. After a couple of hours of trying to get that synth part to sound the way I wanted it to, I came to the realization that i had to toss most of it and start over. I think its far better now, not as boring!

At this point I’m calling it done and starting the final surround sound mix this weekend.

Part 1: Even Nothing Has A Beginning (0:00)
Part 2: Adrift In A Sea Of Nothing (1:46)
Part 3: There’s A Lot More Nothing Where That Came From (3:54)
Part 4: The Whistling Echoes Of Nothing (5:44)
Part 5: The Decaying Bright Future Of Nothing (7:54)
Part 6: And I Leave You With Nothing (15:14)

Absent again!

July 27, 2022 / / 0 Comments

Apologies for the neglect, blog. I’ve been recovering from COVID and playing a lot with the newly released Scaler 2 on iPadOS. Very interesting and inspiring to have one of my favorite composition apps with me on-the-go. There’s a slight challenge getting my work from the iPad over to the Mac but it’s far from a dealbreaker. Hopefully they’ll add iCloud sync in the future so users can simply load compositions from the cloud.

If you’re a music creator and you don’t have Scaler 2, get it! It’s criminally underpriced for what it does.

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