replicate.fun/music

What do you want the music to do to you? How can you do that in one session?

Song Process

1. Add atmosphere - focus on sound design; what makes you interested? Establishes key, long notes
2. Add bassline - focus on rhithm; what resonates your emotions? Establishes tempo, long pattern
3. Add drums - focus on clarity; what makes you move? Establishes cohesion
4. Add melody - focus on melody; what makes you engaged? establishes memories

Session Process

1. Determine volume - level where you can make out song details without much strain
2. Document ideas - instead of doing everything immediately, document and prioritize so you can do what matters most first
3. Continuous feedback - let others listen/mix/master to get feedback on the sound
4. Take breaks - to prevent ear fatigue and to resist the temptation to go louder, stop if needed
5. Listen for fun - at the end of a session, crank up the sound for fun, take notes for next time

Minimal effort, maximal reward (prioritized)

• Few notes
• 2 voice counterpoint
• Held drones for ambiance
• Complex sounds; Delay & Reverb
• Arpegiators
• Lots of bends
• Funky bass rhythms
• Trance gates

Philosophies

• Tracks are independently interesting with unique frequency ranges
• Minimal effort, maximal reward
• Midas Touch; only add it if its gold
• Iterate; start simple and evolve (sound design, melodies, rhithms)
• Conciously optimize; know what you're evoking - eg. dance, cry, relax, forget, headbang, energize, think, etc

Frameworks

• KSSS (keep shit simple stupid) - 4 instrument songs
• EVEV (environment, vitals, emotion, voice) - reformat stories for standardization
• Simple Simon (atmosphere, drums, bassline, melody) - EVEV mapped to music while you KSSS