For this week’s WeeklyBeats submission I moved away from the relatively upbeat, dancey stuff of the first two weeks and went the opposite way. The track is entirely “off-grid” – I made it without thinking about tempo or time signatures and without any kind of snapping or quantising to a grid. All elements are either played in by hand with no kind of metronome or are field recordings.
I went into fully ambient mode, perhaps unsurprisingly, but I probably could have tried making it rhythmic, but by hand and ear. My internal sense of rhythm isn’t bad, but my ability to play anything in time definitely … well, it’s not something I’ve ever practiced enough to get good at.
As it stands there are no drums and the elements are mostly fairly sustained or slow moving, so you don’t get a strong sense of a rhythmic relationship between moments.
Anyway, it was fun. A lesson from this one for my “real” music is I could improvise and record textural layers more often.