Note22nd December, 2021 / personal
Making music
Almost one year ago, I started making music. I progressed quickly; basic music theory seems eerily logical, and production software feels frictionless. I have a long way to go and struggle to dedicate time, but I’m excited that multiple interests are converging to inform sound projects.
I kept a diary along the way, and particularly like the 4th of January:
I’d been assembling clips in Ableton in a linear way for three days, either on the timeline or as rigid session scenes. Don’t get me wrong; I was learning lots and ending each day giddy with progress. But on this day, something else happened: I realised how to map the session grid to the Minilab, allowing me to navigate rows and columns and push buttons and interpret colours — and I started to jam, to actually jam. Like a musician! And I lost myself for an hour playing and jamming and live-looping. Geri knows I’ve been looking for something to channel all my ideas, and tonight, she told me she could see in my eyes that I’d found it.