Drowning on Dry Land
Added 2023-07-17 05:59:01 +0000 UTCAnother song from the soundcloud archives (which at the time I called 'filaments', with the intention of maybe collecting them together as a release with that name) that you can download here. Made around 2016, same year as Hook Echo.
While not as immediately compelling as Entropy, I do still really dig this song. The sound design elements were by hitting the metal sink in the granny flat I was living in at the time, the same sawblades from my dad's shed (also on Jouissance and Entropy and most stuff I did in 2016), some basic pedal noise with a ungrounded cable (yes, I did occasionally get electrocuted) and a casio keyboard through guitar pedals (it works quite well).
I was broke and couldn't really afford anything other than equipment I could *find* and basic Behringer pedals and mixers. The casio keyboard we found in hard rubbish. The drum kit I inherited from others. I was using Cubase 5 (!!) with only stolen VSTs as my DAW. However I think it sounds ok, given the gear I was using. Often it's fun to give yourself limitations, but these limitations were not self-imposed. It does go to show: if anybody says you need expensive gear to make music, they are lying. Especially if it is noise.
Either way, I wish I could find the project file and remaster it a little. The current master isn't bad, but it isn't of the high standard I set myself these days. Otherwise it's one of my favourite ambient pieces I've done.
