Hey, I know I post more little pieces of music than anyone can listen to, It doesn’t stop me, but I wonder if some of it gets lost. I don’t want this track to get lost, though because I am very excited by how it came together and turned out. Naturally I’ll be plastering it on any digital space I can find.
So, I spent like a year and a half in a long term residential rehab type program before I moved to queens (cuz i’ve had problems with the drugs) . It was in the lower east side, and I learned a lot of things. I learned how to lean into my creative side and embracing it changed my life. There was a piano in the common area, and since I was also taking piano lessons on Friday nights, i’d practice, make little things up, and record Instagram reels.
Last night I was up late looking for 15 to 25 second clips of music I had made, and I found an Instagram reel of me messing around on that piano on Avenue D. I feed the clips of music to an AI that builds on it, before I export it to a different program where I can build on it further, so I fed this little piano snippet to the AI.
Something else was happening: now that i’m not depressed any more I am back to seeking out new music on Spotify. I’ve said enough about Fred Again, but I went through artists “similar” to him , which took me to Caribou (with a stop on Four Tet).
I became obsessed with a Caribou track… I wanted to take some of the vocals into this track from 2 years ago that I was working on.
that’s the cool thing about electronic dance music, people like Caribou make music, and encourage remixing and sampling of their work, even making original sound files available for download. The whole thing is very conversational to me, between the people that do it…building off one another.
here it is, i’m fucking smitten with it:
I took the little "so sad” line and slowed and pitched it to match the piano demo I was working on:
I mean, I like listening to it, and my taste in music is pretty trusted by my friends and family (you can ask them).
I should probably stop revealing how I do all of this, but I like the ability to create art to be democratized… that’s the whole reason i’m able to make music without knowing anything about it.
I’m not “So Sad” anyway, the title is clickbait… making music makes me very happy and this is an uplifting track.
