Adlubescence

This is where the half thoughts go

Neocities currently has a link to most of my projects, in no particular order: Boss Fight, Barest Minimum, Sad Witches, Lophotrochozoa, Chair Floor, Pursuing Pixels, etc. Music, Video Games, Media, and me.


Adlubescence
@Adlubescence
Lophotrochozoa - End of the Internet Party (Just in Case)
End of the Internet Party (Just in Case)
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I’m allergic to DAWs, so I’ve skipped every Compost so far because I never want to relearn how to record/mix/export songs (in addition to having an aversion to releasing “final” versions of songs period). But cohost was neat, compost was neat, and I wanted to represent the lo-fi contingent of musicians (read: stubborn luddite) to show my appreciation for everyone.

This is an iPhone recording of my modular setup through some shitty speakers I garbage picked over a decade ago. I am an anti-audiophile, I feel poisoned by knowledge for knowing what sample rates are and have been forcibly trying to unlearn it and kill any preference for “sound quality” since. Some of my best experiences with music in my life was sharing burned CDs with friends that we’d only later realize were missing entire songs, or were demo versions that the more polished studio versions never quite lived up to. My twenties were largely spent playing at punk dive bars with sound quality that was mostly indistinguishable to anyone present, getting drunk and playing to friends and family who were just ecstatic to hang out with earplugs in.

As we’ve aged, life has separated a lot of us. It’s harder to get together to play, some friends are no longer with us, and a lot of the old bars have long since gone. But we keep playing. It’s always sad when the communities that are so important to you change or end, but they will always be a part of you. Compost was a cool idea, and I loved hearing what everyone would come up with. Party on.

I’ll post my setup & more after. Love y’all


Adlubescence
@Adlubescence

Lophotrochozoa is a project I started post college to force myself to release music (prior to joining Boss Fight, I was not in any bands and had essentially never written or performed anything I wrote). It’s since become kind of a catch all for anything that doesn’t fit into my other projects.

I’m a performer first, composer second. I need to be able to play something, otherwise I don’t get any joy from it. I need to be able to physically control the filter sweeps, live mixing, and other aspects to feel like I actually created the song. But that severely limits what type of stuff I can write and perform, and I’ll be honest, it doesn’t make a lot of stuff that’s fun to actively listen to.

Controller modules are great for people like me in synthesis, I bought and built the WiiChuck module from Delptronics because it uses the joystick, gyro, and buttons of the nunchuck to control different cv parameters. In the song I used just the joystick x and y axes to handle the decay of the 2hp Pluck module and the 16th note Crash CV of the Buckmodular Drumfuck module. Everything else was sequencers adjusting v/oct & drum triggers, and LP/HP filter sweeps and mixing done manually. I still haven’t built an LFO because I am the dumbest motherfucker alive.

Modules used: Behringer - Clocked Sequential Control Module 1027 / Noise Reap - Patterns / Buckmodular - Drumfuck / 2hp - Euclid / Din Sync - MODSEQ / Tenderfoot - Quad Quantizer / Delptronics - WiiChuck / 2hp- Pluck / Dreadbox - Eudemonia / Ryo- Penta / Tenderfoot - Lattice / Noise Reap - Paradox / Dreadbox - Nostalgia / Doepfer - A-106-5 SEM / Super Synthesis - OPFM / ALM Busy Circuits - Tangle Quartet


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it was nice to listen to all the other pieces that were made w/ various audio softwares, but it's also really nice to just listen to this and feel like i am listening to someone in their basement, slightly echoey from the cement walls.

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