Hej, hi, hello!
Another month, another musical meditation! Also decided to do a name change to fit the theme going on here. RIP to CANIDAZE (kind of, it lives on in the form of DJ mixes on YouTube) and welcome to TEMPLE.
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✦ | This month’s photo was taken by Josiah William Gordon in Bolivia
☾ | This month’s piece was written in F minor (kind of…), 4/4 at 110 bpm
So…..this piece got a little dark? But like hear me out, because this photo has very holy/divine being vibes and I’m just saying like, from a story perspective, as a human being seeing something like this would be both beautiful and terrifying. Think the classic “Be not afraid,” line. Like being in this setting and having a person materialize in front of you, or even more concerning waking up in this beautiful place and having no recollection of how you got there. That’s the sonic story I went with.
From a production standpoint, this is A LOT of drones and most of which I didn’t really have any control over. I tweaked parameters here and there but I was largely not in the drivers seat. Which is also why I wrote this song is in kind of in F minor, because I think I may have broken into microtonal territory here maybe…but I’m not a theory expert so I can’t confirm that. What I CAN confirm is the root of the song is F.
There’s also some lovely breathy, reverb drenched vocals for that added divinity feeling, plus a pipe organ buried in there because how can you angels without pipe organs? Like…you can’t. It feels wrong.
Until next time, friends!
Stay happy. Stay puppin’. Stay waggin’.
— hvxlii
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