daily song post

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today's song is: Growth of a Honeysuckle Vine, .mptm module (souped up .it)

for this one i wanted to create a corollary to this song by using the same set of instruments. i was pretty happy with the post-rock instrumentation there and felt excited to reuse them. like with that song, the only effects used were the stock DirectX ones; controlling them with the "PC / Parameter Control" events in .mptm is actually pretty cool and fun! it's a sensible form of automation i think.

i built the song off the guitar part, which was written first at the piano and then played into OpenMPT. the meter and phrasing are a little wonky; i just played it how i felt it should sound and worried about the rest later. this lends itself to a sort of disoriented, uneven feel throughout, which i had fun accentuating with the drum patterns, and what ultimately inspired the name - it made me think of something like a time-lapsed video of a vine growing. the string parts were kinda inspired by some of the music of the old post-rock/neoclassical ambient ensemble Rachel's, especially "Kentucky Nocturne" which even all these years later is still a song i think about very fondly.

it is time... yes... time for me to share a song! in case you haven't been following along yet, i'm posting a video of one of my songs every day now on youtube - tracker or DAW playback, depending on whatever the thing is. then i come over here to this wonderful little webbed site and talk a little about the song. feel free to ask questions or comment or whatever, and i hope you enjoy!

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today's song is: The Last Few Months of Our Lives, made in OpenMPT (.mptm module with no external VSTs)

making this song back in spring 2021 was probably one of the biggest contributors towards me getting a firm handle on the tracker workflow and feeling comfortable writing at a reasonable rate. i spent like a week straight pouring my whole heart into this one and still feel pretty proud of the result, although my tracking style has also evolved significantly since then and i feel like i could mix it better now also. i'm still happy with what i expressed though

the song itself is a from-the-ground-up reworking of a tune i wrote (in FL Studio) in my late teens, the first of several attempts to write "post-rock music" way back when. most of it is changed up pretty significantly, and i added whole entire new sections. i was pleasantly surprised at how much better at arranging and melodycraft i was compared to when i wrote the original; i felt like i'd done a lot better at actualizing the ideas the second time around. i also put some focus into writing more idiomatic guitar and string parts.