“arc,regn“ odds and ends, WIPs, scraps, etc

there wound up being so many of these recordings that i’m combining them all into one upload 0:00 ink1 2:00 露華 fugue section 2:56 მთვარითურთ very early sketch 3:58 eko early WIP 5:19 flaw early WIP 6:11 untitled scrap 1 7:38 untitled scrap 2 8:39 untitled scrap 3 9:13 untitled scrap 4 9:58 harvestman section a 10:57 harvestman section b 13:51 manual insect stridulation tymbal behaviour sequencing 14:50 𐌰​𐍆​𐌲​𐍂​𐌿​𐌽​𐌳​𐌹​𐌸​𐌰 source recordings 16:30 spur 18:38 aalto WIP 22:49 harvestman 25:59 antimuro ink1 // one of the two tracks on the album that stayed a module up until the end, here’s the final version. tuning is just intonation w/ 7limit tritone 露華 fugue section // this section was rewritten several times and was originally a much slower organ piece, but the fugue building on the track’s progression wound up being much more fun, and a great personal challenge. it deviates from standard fugue form. მთვარითურთ very early sketch // only the melody heard in this wound up being used in the final piece eko early WIP // this is as far as this piece got before serious reworking and porting over to ACID for further arrangement flaw early WIP // same as previous untitled scrap 1 // bizarre minimal speedcore electro, no clue what the plan was for this. “choir“ samples are from some reverb tails of an HHSU track. untitled scrap 2 // cute melody, though this style was already well-represented across both greenhouse records and i couldn’t imagine it going anywhere untitled scrap 3 // wonky tune, μ-Ziq inspired untitled scrap 4 // was very fond of this one but it really had no place being expanded for this record. it might see further life as something else some day. tuning is intense diatonic w difference tones reduced 2/1 harvestman section a // a scribble that wound up being part of a scrapped track; this section is written in 17et harvestman section b // part of that same scrapped track as well, though they were written in isolation vocal processing stuff // quick rundown of the vocal creation process on this record. the vocals are first written and programmed via chipspeech by plogue. all of the writing is phonetic and the phonemes are chosen for their harmonic content; this is later translated to IPA for the lyric sheet and i include bits and pieces of other languages there as i hear it after writing this way (the goal here is to be vague and paint with very broad strokes and hopefully light up certain semantic networks). this is then rendered and i apply retrieval-based voice conversion (RVC). the models here are trained on me (an extensive model) and several friends (less extensive), and then checkpoints are merged several times over until i end up with interesting vocal qualities. several models were used throughout this record. this new version is then dropped back into the project, and edited further, usually using I Wish for holding sample cycles for a more robotic quality and a fairly steep bandpass. manual insect stridulation tymbal behaviour sequencing // impulses created from simple sinewaves (for the crickets) and various noisy transient microsamples of drum machines. uses openmpt for alternate tunings (cicada is 128et for more control over pitch rise, fall, and variance during tymbal repeats, several others are “1/9 comma division of Turkish Music by equal division of 9/8 into 9 equal string lengths“ but that’s not the most important thing, it was just a convenient tuning). no actual insect samples were used at any point 𐌰​𐍆​𐌲​𐍂​𐌿​𐌽​𐌳​𐌹​𐌸​𐌰 source recordings // i created replacements for all of doom’s sounds that were designed to work together as a single piece and recorded a few minutes of gameplay (there’s a bit more than this but the video bitrate is comically low, so it’s not worth seeing). after that, bits and pieces of the recording were chopped, looped, edited, and so on to create the final piece. many other sounds were added in the final track, of course. here’s the sound WAD if you want to play doom with it: spur [final] // the other of the two tracks that was a module up until the end. aalto WIP // the last version of aalto before it made its way over to ACID for further arrangement. a couple tracks on this album were sped up in post. harvestman // scrapped track. i’m very fond of this one but it was too silly to fit anywhere on the tracklist, though i did try several spots. antimuro // another scrapped track. this is the culmination of a lot of work with the spc700 sound chip, and everything on here is recorded from SNES hardware, minus the choir sounds. there are some overdubs due to memory limitations. this is an expansion of a couple of older sketches. there’s more spc700 stuff on the record, too; you can hear some on “overview“ (the breakdown and the huge wall of noise are largely that). as well, the first greenhouse record has plenty of spc700 fun on it.