Had several different goes at the cartoon used here yesterday, and versions of the music. The first few were inspired by my recent watching of the Otomo episode of Manben neo, and had a Rainbow robot head, and the theme was rather different.
But with catching a glimpse of the "3rd term" news and other "not great" goings on in that far away Trumpistan, EVERYTHING IS JUST FINE, REALLLLLLLY as the vibrant life force drains, seemed more appropriate, and subtle.
Works just as a vector poster too, I think. Used a variation with the waveform as the cover of the track on Bandcamp
But yesterday, April 1st 2025, was a really good day for me. I won the lottery to be able to go to the Freak Kitchen Osaka Concert in September. Even booked a next door hotel to the venue, to not have to rush home the hour+ on a late train. September is a long way away, and a lot can happen in that time though.
Still feeling really nostalgic about the Simmons SDS-V drum sounds used here. Will keep with them for a while more. As I wrote before, I once built a small electronic drum kit and practiced with it, and it was really fun. I very briefly considered getting the Roland TD02K to play it with
I can't say I am getting better at under 60 second compositions, but I am trying to make something interesting to me. Most of what I do is power chords with a few mono parts on top, like bass, synth and guitar melody. Mostly working with 8 bar sections. Here, that became an intro, 16 bar section, 8 bar section and ending. Sometimes I repeat the same melody fragment, but not here. A lot of the time feel I am just making variations of the same thing, and that is kind of true, even if the results are different. Just doing it for myself, searching for "it". A track I will play happily on repeat for days on end, until I do the next one.
The Otomo episode of Manben neo also got me to search out Domu, which the episode covered and his Fire-Ball, which is in THE COMPLETE WORKS 5.
