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)
Lophotrochozoa
00:00

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



Lophotrochozoa - End of the Internet Party (Just in Case)
End of the Internet Party (Just in Case)
Lophotrochozoa
00:00

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



hvb
@hvb

hello, friends new and old... the time has come for one last round of COMPOST, cohost's casual music-making compo! (get it? cohost... compo... compost...) this one is going to run for two days instead of one! if you've got some time this weekend, join in - let's make this the biggest sendoff possible 🥲 share this far and wide!

COMPOST is loosely based on the one-hour compo, a quick event where participants make a tune in one hour based on a prompt, or with a provided sample pack. although they're alive and well today (particularly in the form of "one-hour battles"), they go way way back to IRC channels of yore!

here's how our variant works:

  • follow the provided prompt; you can interpret it however you like, use it as a liftoff point
  • ideally you should spend one to two hours on your track maximum. but i'm not a cop, so do what feels right. the spirit of the event is generally to make something quick and not feel pressured to polish : )
  • upload it here on cohost as an audio post once you're done
  • tag your submission with the tag COMPOST #6 so we can all check it out!
  • there's no scoring or judging or anything like that, but i highly encourage leaving nice comments and listening through the other submissions, as that's the most fun part! of course feel free to mention in your post if you do or don't want feedback
  • submission period is open for the next 48 hours, to keep this event timezone-friendly. it's beginning and ending at midnight EST. here's a countdown to help you out
  • if you want, you can make some other form of art also/instead. this was conceived as a music compo but there is really nothing stopping it from expanding further. people have made cover art for their submission, for example

if you're interested in checking out the previous installments of this series, here are some links - people have made all sorts of wonderful music in many styles & methods! it's incredible!

lastly, i cannot thank you all enough for making this event so special. it's hard to even find the words to convey how much it's meant to me, seeing dozens and dozens of people make something unique every time, listening and commenting, building a community. it's been really special and i'm constantly amazed at the diversity of peoples' musical ideas here. an extra shout-out to those who have taken the COMPOST series as an opportunity to try something new, or even experiment with making music at all - i think that's so beautiful. thanks, again. i wish i'd been able to do these more often, now that there's an end-date in sight. if you're interested in the one-hour battle as a composing/experimentation tool, i wholeheartedly recommend Battle of the Bits. it's more structured but you will settle into the process! the site is one of the only standing relics of older internet eras.

much love. there are links to my other places on my profile, if you've interest in keeping up; don't be shy <3
--HVB


 
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