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It’s been awhile since I’ve taken the time to sit down and record anything, but after listening through a few of the tracks that Erin and I put together awhile back, I’m feeling guilty about all the time I could have spent working on new stuff.

We’d managed to work a few riffs into full tracks by passing them back and forth in a photoshop tennis style, adding a new element or changing up the arrangement each time through. The approach is pretty flexible, welcoming quick bursts of creativity, and reducing emotional attachment to any specific section of a track.

Here’s a sample of two simple riffs we wrote as a starting point:

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And the (still unfinished) result after few passes:

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I’ve discovered that it’s a lot easier for me to write a 60 – 90 second group of samples than it is to finish any single track, but it’s still a lot of fun. I’m planning to sit down and write as much as I can in the coming weeks, so I’ll put up a page with all the little starter tracks that come out of it. In the meantime, here’s a sample of the last piece I worked on before my hiatus, hopefully it’ll evolve into something cool:

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