I was having trouble thinking of something to do. My other music projects were coming along slowly. I felt like playing guitar, so I decided it would be a good challenge to make something using only guitar and effects. I use a bunch of different delays. The ocean sound is a grain delay and I just rubbed the muted strings. The pops are plucking a muted string fairly hard. I time warped some stuff in weird ways, and reversed a solo that I played.

It ends abruptly because I didn’t feel like thinking of an ending, and I felt that posting the whole 4:00 was a little too much for this kind of thing. It was a fun experiment. I think I will challenge myself to little games like this more often.

I wanted to use some extra instrumentation on this because lazyq gave me YET MORE stuff for my setup. I didn’t even use all stuff he gave me this time, just the coolest thing. Hopefully you’ll know it when you hear it.

This is my track for Fucking Danger, too. Don’t be reckless with your emotions, kids, or you’ll end up sounding like this.

Oh: and if anyone knows how to get rid of that irritating ring modulation like sound on the whistling, I’d be much appreciative. It doesn’t show up in Live, only in the rendered wav.

The perfect song exists outside of time, floating in the ether. It is an ever receding target. It takes two steps away for my every one, and hides behind the trees of self-doubt, and perfectionism. The only way to catch a glimpse of that beast is to forget that it exists. I try to stumble joyously through the woods of creativity, until, for only a fleeting moment, the perfect song creeps up behind me and breathes its sweet breath on my neck. Once I notice and turn around it runs away, and I only capture its shadow.

Creating this song was an exercize in play. I tried to have as much fun as I could while making the song, and reminded myself frequently not to worry about the final product, or achieving some arbitrary level of excellence in composition, or production.

The only technical detail of note is that I used one of Live’s mastering racks called “Louder Compressor.” It gave it a super-loud-but-non-clipping-top-40-radio sound.

In this song I sampled music from the movie Santa Sangre and then added drums and keyboards. I played live drums, then cut them up, and sequenced them on Reason. Hope you enjoy this Spanish Gem!