The year fails

what does one
do with the limited
number
of pages left?

exercise out of them
the last
remaining positions
on the
moment?

retaliate against
an imagined set
of abstract
wrongs?

let them flutter
without punctuation
in the afternoon
breeze?


leaving them

relatively

unsullied

by the unscrupulous
seduction
of tones?
...

the pages
fall away

and then
the year
fails
too...

.:::.:::.:::.

circles
falling behind
in the late afternoon
sun

circles
awaiting a new refresh

plump circles
under the eyes
arrogantly dismissing
the days better promises

as the flashes
within the lids
are vertically challanged
edits

wind

wind
buffets the flies
as they attempt to
keep holding
patterns

above my head

above my feet

leading to to the following truism:

air disturbs
the innate language
of holding patterns

:::

These grinding wheels
Holds more that is genuine
Than I could
Ever...

worn

to the careful
observer the bald
spot's morphing
state reflected
planetary bodies
in flux

"You can" he said
(in a moment of lucid - a stacato
frankness)
"use my head to
chart a passage
through the stars"

"I get that" I said
and
as I reached over
to put a meal
across his lap
I saw the stars
of Orion open up

a bead of sweat
that was my grandfather

rolling past my departed
father

and falling gently into
an abyss
of worn linoleum

configured

the blankets
shade
briefly cancels
out
the sunlit canine

just as my eyes
adjust
the breeze fluctuates again

:an affront
of
overexposed
white dog

tightly configured
light
obscuring
finer details

blind

I dance around
darkness
sometimes

sometimes
there is
no other
choice

but I am
keeping track of
my steps
(in an elaborate
plan)
to dance my
way home

when the
light
returns

)))

"a wave of
temporality"

"washing over
the stencil"

"granting a sense
of authenticity"

"to the weary"

>

small stop
crossed out
and reapplied

a new form of creditors
warning...

...

is
now
an
end

pressing

the nervous
energy
of a good coffee

presses against
the back of
my
throat

leaving me
with
only
gurgled thoughts

Over analysed

The link is
the
isolated
princes

bringing the
audience back
to the hero's
potential

the bridge
is the red brick
stove

imparting
a sense of
belonging

/protection

when the oak branch
falls

then we
understand

the (red) brick
wall
/surrounding
/the compound
is
impenetrable

we are left standing
outside

while

inside is
warm and welcoming

and

isolated

/credits roll...

patience

the old brown
dog
is practicing
an affect
of surly
patience

again

while

the young
white dog
studies
at her
masters
feet

For

.
clarity...
past the moment
when discipline is
an issue

calling forth
from the stillness
an exaggerated current

listening for...

searching for...

something to rupture
that
/perfect
/self-contained
/teardrop

Merimula dec 2008

I glimpsed a sea eagle
And even at
A distance
It's size
Overwhelmed
Me

The chase

I found myself today
unexpectedly
chasing the red balloon

deftly avoiding
my grasp

gliding smoothly
past the parked cars
in the harsh concrete
sun

Putting the new house in order

cosy.

clean

crisp
clean
afternoon

bright

-not unwelcome-
for a change

/is

standard elements
of afternoon
blending
into white

a presence of mind
to
appreciate

/grant me this

looped traffic and dusty sunlight
off kilter perspectives

/tell me again

I glance over
surrogate
socialites
of substance

/respect situations

the blandness
of earnest expression

/what they are

05dec08

that
I would
soak myself
in
Black Tea
every
day

05/12/08

I am, like the
chairs
at awkward angles
to the sky

key ring

as I approach
(from the south)
I notice my house keys
already in hand

holding them out like
a priest with a rosary

gently rubbing the
/modernist
/abstract
key ring

that represents a canine deity

-I ask for more time
-I ask for more words
-I ask for forgiveness
(for avoiding an afternoon walk)

and,
as I clear the property line
-the threshold
to the house

I find awaiting me
a small allotment

/of time
/of found words
/and a split decision
between the two dogs
(on the topic of a walk)

-grateful

nested

this is not another word forward

two tone

in existence

in intent

trying to parse a
dead thesis

brings me to my knees

this is not a parallel structure

this is not quite that nested

dead eyes staring back at me
-perhaps you ought to consider
Deleuze again...

-fuck that-

...

this is not another way forward

but it is the space
I exist in right now

the space that I'm
-mostly-
familiar with

cordiality

remember to smile

engage the day

vigorously put out a hand
to shake...

/encrusted

/sweaty palms

/faint

/fake

wall

after coming home
there is a distance
between me
and the rest of house
-a soft wall
-a frail unfamiliarity

i place personal
objects
where I will not
recall latter

my legs and feet
dangle at awkward
angles

and the kitchen situation
I left this morning
is now a set of
shifting
abstractions

early

get up early
and work hard

broken windows theory

negative space

I get up early and move
forward
I try to greet the day with
a sense of thankfulness

there are logistics involved
tasks are complicated by
the absence of my companion

in this way i find myself
with a contrariness of intent
in a supermarket
indulging in cashews and biscotti

home again
the dogs are upset
-they wanted to vote
-they wanted to shop
they argue that their intent
would have been far clearer


the sugar and the butter
sink into my skull
heavy, slow, haze

-the morning stretches out

Thankfulness?
-a cool day
-good music
-some time to jot thoughts down
-and a hint of discipline
working its way
into the horizen

recall

There was a word I had in mind

It captured the essence, the beginning
Of a concept.

But now, a day latter
With the luxury of time
It escapes me.

it was, I think,
Something akin to an apology

However, as I sit here now
Coffee in hand
White dog in sunlight
I recognise in the pursuit
A dark path

-A state of being squeezed between
-Grinding wheels
-And heavy orange light…


Its too late to turn back…

Recall

The word
that is both the beginning and the end:

“Defeat”

tread

knock across
stand
roasting in the pretend sun

falling away
into well warn tread
-circles, really

going

gone

gait

nervous pregnant
woman walks past

with an old guy hanging
off her

crumbled khakis

sensible shoes

slack gait

alternately
she is a striking
figure
-tight black top
hugging a large
round belly

wary
of the clinging baggage
hanging off her
side

like an unattended growth

earthy

One word following on
from another

awkwardly stepping
through undergrowth

sinking deeper

with each step

mud

humid

earthy

crawling

until eventually
there is no energy left
to pry each step out
so carefully

so the mud accumulates

until there is
nothing left
but prose

the story

relief

rain

a small packet of exchange

-no coffee though

A lemon tree over the fence
becons

the dogs hurl insults

and a memory of glass
is fading

insular, these moments
have no sense of
accumulation

that is the story
then

there is no story

just

small packets of
exchange

relief

rain

points

I saw a movie about
phillip glass yesterday

lots of dots on a page

isolated points

it reminded me that
the kind of meaning I best respond to
is
an
accumulation
o
f
ab
stract
ion
s

.................

I heard Malcolm Gladwell
on a podcast
say:
It takes
something like
10 000 hours
to master a discipline

or
aprox
10
year
s

...............

Mr Glass also said
-the secret is...
You get up very
early
And work for
many hours


...............

Meanwhile the dogs say

-the secret is
you get up very early
and walk us for
many hours

..............

-does this mean you're
feeling better now?

she asked

I don't know what you mean

so please translate this

into a series of points
in a
16
by
16
grid

in deep

in deep
scampering

wresting control of the day
limits me

In not so deep
trying to define the
shallow parameters...

..^..

coffee disappoints

wait for rain

dread the sun

ep 26

Conditions ep 26 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

Been a long time since completing anything. Playing with words now.

Momentum

blither forward

(lets look at this positively, shall we?)

exploring the unknown...

unseasonal cool
good for the new jacket


...
for a while there
,just a little while
I took the disjointed apparatus
out of the day
-the restlessness of space
-of fridge
(all the while resisting the couch and the cable TV)
-the kitchen floor (in a holding pattern)
-the smell of burnt rice
-an accumulation of distractions

The dogs were restless alongside me
Less out of a sense of faithfulness
then illness (they are in a holding
pattern of their own...)

blither forward

hurry,
construct another temporary shelter
against the raveges of
idol thoughts

It will surely blow away tomorrow
But for today it might just hold

Bad poam of the day

I work a strong coffee into the late afternoon.
As I chase lengthening days
-Shadows slipping seductively behind diffused light
Scattered...

I operate on the principle that something will come to mind
-Visual
-And intricate in structure.

And I will know code intuitively
the relationships
the objects
and orientations
to make it happen

And I will know that the vision is real
-not some trick of perception
(like so many 'mirages' before
movies that lack construction details)
Something that is the sum of its parts
and not the sum of its gaps...

The crema is gone (or encrusted)
-all that's left is the
black depths of a luke warm coffee

I have to remind myself
gaps
are not the same as
negative space

byrnt Kraftwork

Ep 25 and Last FM

Conditions ep 25 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

its been a while since I've post any new eps. This one is based on a very simple use of a F minor chord. With additions and subtractions to flavor.

What I've really been doing with my time is discovering new music on Last FM.

at play

Bjork and Michel Gondry at play in her apartment. Its wonderful that people like this exist in the world.

nostalgia

I'm feeling it today.
Been doing the itunes store path of least resistance thing and ended up on Prince and David Bowie... Why is it that even though I buy artists like Alva noto and John Cage, the recommendations in itunes always take me to 80's tunes?

Perhaps because I had to purchase 'Annie Christian' by Prince. I had forgotten all about that song, and particularly the line in the song that goes:

"Annie Christian, Annie Christ, until you're crucified,
I'll live my life in taxi cabs..."

20 years on and that line still strikes me as somehow abstract and profound, even though on many levels I acknowledge that the song is naive and silly.
I still remember walking around the city with the 'controversy' album playing on my Walkman.
One of the good things about getting past 40 is that this kind of rediscovery becomes possible and valuable.
What price Nostalgia?
$1.69, on itunes, apparently.

Stoner lab

Perhaps Mr C is not so much of a PC as we thought...
Check this link out

http://www.mythumbismycock.com/?ecardId=1585&cardKey=qpui6ob8tkid83sjo40s3sb7zjx07chmqzvkcwhw5px4ihduc4

who's your PC?

Because of Bioshock I had been spending a little more time than usual over at the dark side of my mac: its deformed cousin locked in the basement of the hard drive... My windows partition doesn't do much these days except work as a platform for my Valve games.
Anyway, as I was re-booting between the two OS's I noticed something a little odd. Here is my Mac dektop:

and here is my Windows Desktop:

Maeby, the younger lab is full energy and a sense of adventure and a degree of arrogance (she tries to hump anything). While Clooney is older and more stolid. He prefers a good routine to an adventure. When Mr C comes across a situation he doesn't like he excels at 'going to ground'; stoically 'sitting it out' so to speak.
In other words...
Maeby's a Mac,
and Clooney's a PC

Unlike the OS's, however, I love then both equally...

smoke and mirrors

Been away last week at dog camp... It was good to get away and spend time with loved ones.

ep 24 is up

Conditions ep 24 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

The principle of this weeks work is in reversals. I worked mostly in black and white to highlight the reversal effects. There is also a multiple phasing camera technique that I haven't used for a while and tried to make this more transparent by giving the alternate camera a visual representation at a certain point.
On the whole I feel this weeks work is too busy and chaotic (including the music), but it was fun to put together.
Peace and love
f3ilter

creative commons attribution non-commercial share alike license.

something less then clarity

Reversal is the order of the day.
Yesterday I could walk and today not so much.

But I am progressing on this weeks episode... hopefully tonight I will be rendering it.

..^..

I'm working in Black and white this week..
well, actually its shades of grey.
The idea is to have a ramped background and alternate the color of the shapes between black and white as they move around so they fold in and out of the space behind them...
I have some other plans too: the camera positions in relation to each other. but I don't quite know what I'm going for there yet.. it will be interesting... (I hope).

Conditions ep 23

Conditions ep 23 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

New work.
Quick and easy...

Conditions ep 22

Conditions ep 22 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

I actually finished this work last week, but then I had some trouble rendering it out.
This is partially because I've been spending more time ironing out the details with sound and compression. Anyway, here it is ... in glorious HD...

on a dime

Moving away from the ideas discussed yesterday.
Nothing special about it. Just substitutions in the process.
I've created a kind of Japanese screen door through which I'm planning to screen some live footage...

layers and narrative

I don't know if this is heading anywhere.
the Images are from a 'sketch' of this weeks project. But it is far from being organized into a story. I am playing around with layered color and blade shapes, and I like that part, but the movement is not very interesting yet.
I need to sit back from it for a while...
Meanwhile... its a nice day outside...

peace and love...

white

Why am I so interested in abstraction? What is it about the intersection of two clean lines, or the 'difficult breathing' of an old fridge motor, or a slight inflection dug into an otherwise perfect curved surface that will, on occasion, catch me me off guard? Make me pause and take in a deep breath.





I move forward. I take so much for granted because I have to. Our brains, after all are pre-conditioned to compartmentalize and move on. The ordinary and everyday objects around us are neither threatening or otherwise advantageous, so why should we pay much attention. And yet occasionally, just occasionally, something slides into our field of view: askance from what is considered relevant . A level of detail from the overlooked universe. A rusty scraping of metal, a geometrical imperative that folds into view, then just a quickly folds out, a texture bump that yearns to be acknowledged with an outstretched finger.



But then I move on. The abstraction of the moment passes. I work, I hang out with my partner and Labradors. I complain about the weather. I make miso soup on occasion. I fiddle with music and images: trying to capture something... These are all good things... But so is the abstraction.

ep. 21

Conditions ep 21 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

Change

I am doing something different this week. I am changing the music mid-stream.
This is because the animation style itself mutated into something far more mellow since the start of the week. The glitch and static sounds of the music I had no longer suited the shapes and colors that I created in After effects.
So, after a nice relaxing morning walking the dogs and a sushi lunch, I sat down with the challenge of creating a one minute composition. What I ended up with is a very simple rhythmic piano piece. Like last week, there is an emphasis on performance. However I did a better job of cleaning it up this time. I considered adding strings, but in the end I just stuck to the piano solo. It suits the images better.

towards blue

This weeks animation is a continuation of the 'accident' from last week. the basic style of repeating nested structures folding in and out of each other with a third variation built in to 'displace' the elements.
Its not as planed as usual, but I am having fun with the design and color.

ep 20

Conditions ep 20 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

rare

Its a rare week this week. I'm battling a cold and yet I am feeling quite productive. Episode 20 is progressing quite nicely despite the fact that I'm less than happy about the quality of the music.
What I am happy about is the results I am getting with a few key expressions (java-script) in After Effects. In this animation I am using some recursive sets of expressions that control the size and shape of the basic element, and then have adjustable delayed reactions. This has resulted in some interesting pattern structures that are controllable with just a few keyframe parameters. The structure of the animation patterns are easily synched to the larger formal structure of the music.

work and play

my dogs are bugging me for a play and I'm thinking, perhaps its better to go away for a while and give them some attention. allow some 'perspective' back into my current project.

ep 19

Conditions ep 19 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

More experimentation.

more fiddling

I'm experimenting quite a bit at the moment with textures and while this is not going anywhere particularly structural at the moment, I do like the look of it:

something that I'm working on at the moment. I don't know if it will see the light of day as there no 'story' to it yet. Just some image effects.

up on NIN group

my nine inch nails entry has finally been added to the groups section.
This is good news.

16 people

Created by OnePlusYou

what a difference

Just goes to show you what kind of difference there is between You Tube and Vimeo.
Don't get me wrong. I like both services, but clearly...

36 ghosts IV from f3ilter on Vimeo.

Nine Inch Nails

About a month ago Nine Inch nails released a great instrumental album and invited listeners to create their own videos to go with the songs. This is my entry. Its based around the final track of the set (which is nice and short, and thus perfect for me). The animation was done surprisingly quick: its just a set of star shapes that are mutated and spatially adjusted in nested sequences. As usual, You Tube has done a hatchet job on the transcoding: pity. Otherwise, however, this is clearly the best thing I've done for a while.

new music

Conditions March 2008
(inspired in part by Nine Inch Nails new album Ghosts I-IV).



The player doesn't seem to be working, so the direct link can be found here.

abstract stories

As mentioned in a previous post, ep 19 is being delayed a little because of the music. I think I will have something ready by the end of next week.
The animation I have planed is somewhat rudimentary. It is certainly more abstract then normal, but I am trying some new techniques which I hope will pan out in a few eps to come.
I’ve been thinking about story more: I feel that even pure abstraction has the capacity to tell a story. Some people in the world have the capacity to tell such stories even in a still image. This is still something that is largely beyond me: my artistic skills are quite rudimentary. But by working on this stuff on a regular basis I do feel that I’m developing some skills regardless. And, every now and then, in something like an ep 9, I get something close to a story.

A quick self assessment:

Ep 18 is up and its not my best work. Often the idea for something starts one way, in the realization there are too many compromises. Too many technical hitches. Too little time. I didn’t to the concept, the found poetry the justice it deserved. There, are, however, some interesting technical skills that I learn't on the way to completing this project, which I’m pretty proud of.

ep 18

finally ep 18 is up and away.

The phrases in this composition are from a great website I found that is virtual fridge magnet: http://isnoop.net/toys/magwords.php. People are invited in real time to rearrange the words. Each day for a week at the same time I noted the most interesting phrase I could find and used those phrases in this project. In the project I was trying to capture the moment between when these are single words, and when they are meaningful.


Much love to all the unknown poets who contributed to this project.


Conditions ep 18 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

mistakes and GPS

This morning I discovered that the end titles for ep 17 actually say '18' instead. I did this by mistake because I was working on ep 18 at the same time (just as there is an overlap this week between 18 and 19). I must admit I find these kinds of mistakes a little dispiriting. Firstly because it means I will have to go back and re-render (I'm lazy and by the principle of the thing I don't like going back to old projects), and secondly I feel incompetent because I missed something so simple.
Recently my partner told me about the GPS theory of life: that when you make a wrong turn GPS machines don't go off the handle at you, but calmly reorientate you back to the correct path. Its funny that such good advise comes from a machine.

This weeks ep is falling behind a bit. I've decided to concentrate a little more on the sound design. In turn this means some fundamental retraining of the software instruments I use to create that music. Its worth a little delay.

Thrilling Breath

First comes the vision:
I am perennially interested in white noise. The little flicks of sound that exist under the skin of everyday encounters with media. The mostly unwanted artefacts of electronics. Bad analogue sound systems. The crackle and hum of old vinyl records. Of unshielded cables. Its hard to precisely pinpoint why I like these sounds so much. Perhaps it has something to do with good associations: Old films (think of that crackle that accompanies the studio logos); or the rhythmic pops of record scratches (the ever morphing counter rhythm to the actual recording). But, for whatever the reason, I am continually drawn to these sounds: I sense the ‘music’ just below the surface.
This is nothing new. Others before me (and I particularly point your attention here to the wonderful music of Alva Noto, or alternately the song “Total Trash’ by Sonic Youth) have managed to exploit this space between noise and music, between randomness, chaos and organization in far more interesting and eloquent ways than I ever could. Regardless, though, I feel there is so much more that can be done in this area: so much more to discover, explore and develop.
I’m just striving to find my own little voice in all that white space.

new mechanics

In this weeks project I am going to work on a mechanism that is sort of an abstract representation of the ear. What I am most interested in is the hinge movement and a kind of billowing wave effect. I am also exploring some more of the abstract structures that I am examining in my thesis. In particular I am interested in the compositional space as trigger and as grouping mechanism.
For the abstract structure itself I want to get the camera in real close: some high depth of field shots. Look more at texture.
The sound I think will be overlapping waves of white noise to go with the steam image.

ducks are always fun

more words

hens

Ideally, by this stage of the week I would be moving into the rendering of the project. Unfortunately, however, the rendering problems from last week (into this week) have cause some delays. That being said, I see no reason to not to complete ep 18 by Monday or Tuesday. The screen captures are going well: I am finding some interesting phrases each day. Also, the music is done, and the After effects Comp is set up so that I can easily transpose the new phases in and adjust it to meet the needs of the music’s timing.
The only other issue after that is the particulars of the camera positions. I am thinking of a number of different types, but that brings up the issue of editing. These are questions that lead to further delays and there just might have to come a point where I will have to cut my loses.


I am very keen to see how this project comes out. I am interested in the effect of the words and phrase groupings winking in and out of existence. I have some doubts about it being interesting enough: is it much different to what we have seen before in other forms? Also, will it be a cohesive experience?
Its going to be interesting to find out.

ep 17

Conditions ep 17 from f3ilter on Vimeo.

Just by water

I’ve been having render problems again.
Too much compression, or too little. To much and I end up with muddy (dark) files with all the colour washed out of them. Too little and the file sizes are unwieldy. I would like to be able to archive these projects on a single dvd when I’m done. I tried the new pro-rez codec from apple, but that was no good. The same degradation of quality that I have found with H.264 and others. This is delaying the release of Ep 17 for yet another day.

One of the aims of this renewed take up of the conditions project is to take note of what I enjoy doing and what I don’t like. So far it goes something like this:

I enjoy the process
Working slowly through a long series of tasks to get to a goal

I enjoy the challenges of each Ep
Learning something new: a particular use of expressions for example

I like the idea that the theory of my thesis can be play out in some microcosm way each week:
That is I am inspired by the relationships between perception and abstraction that I am working through in my thesis. So far this has not been played out in much complexity (the closest I’ve come is in ep 9) but I’m getting there.

I like doing something new

I like learning how to do things better

What I don’t like is following:

The delays (particularly for renders)
These are all to frustrating: and in this particular week, delaying the work of the next Ep.

intentions

While I was waiting for my partner to pick me up from uni the other night I jotted down a few music concept notes. They go as follows:

Music concept for EP 18

Strings pulsing
cycling through chords

Timpani’s three beats at end of each measure.

Bass line following the T. But changing with chords of strings

Build up to just high strings

Then returns to main section

+ crackling sound electric sound underneath


What I’ve ended up with, however, is something completely different.

While I played around with some of the strings patches on the Kontact synth, I couldn’t really capture the feel that I wanted. I ended up with an emphasis on a kalimba sound: about three layers of them, and backed that up with some intermittent pad stabs.
Like last week it is very simple structure. Very short, too.
These projects are better that way.

Four steps

The first stage of this weeks project is to gather the materials: that is to find the most interesting phrase I can for the day.
as you can see this is still a process in progress.

Initially the next part of the project was to open up the phrase image in photoshop and divide it up into layers before taking it into AE. However, I did not really anticipate the degradation of image quality when you do that. The word were to pixelated: almost unreadable.
So I am now taking a different tact. Re-creating the phrase as text layers in AE.

As part of the next stage I have created a comp that that animates each word in 3d: they start out as a swirling vortex of separate words, then swoop in to form the phrase before swooping out.

The aim for today will to copy that comp and interchange the next days phrase.... hopefully a process as smooth as butter.

After that the challenge will be to find some interesting camera angles (always a challenge for me).

new project in the works

This weeks project is centered around the idea of found poetry. The plan is to sample a phrase each day the from this site: http://isnoop.net/toys/magwords.php
and use it in the next composition.
The composition itself will be something like a whirlwind of flying magnets/words where each of the phases will wink in and out of existence.
I'm not sure about the point of this other then I like the idea of the site, and communal poetry it represents.
As to what onirophyse means?
The only explanation I could find is here:
http://forthright.livejournal.com/210858.html?thread=1540266
To quote:
"It's not a real English word, that's for sure. It seems to be associated with a French artist/poet (see http://onirophyse.net/Onirophyse/Onirophyse/Onirophyse.html , a.k.a. World's Most Repetitious URL). The 'oniro' part is just an alternate version of 'oneiro' for 'dream', and 'physe' is the French form of the Greek root 'physis' meaning 'growth, change'."

GRRR

"After Effects error: opening movie - you do not have permission to open this file (-54)".

This is what I've been getting for the last day and a half when I try to render out a conditions clip that takes more than 10 min. It turns out that it was quicktimes fault. Damn you Apple !
this weeks work was looking pretty too. Not exactly complex, or inventive... but pretty. Like so:


I was really looking forward to seeing it play out with the music...
But as Apple doesn't make it easy to role back to a previous driver, it may not be complete ths week...
Hence the grrr!

Ep 17 Music

The music for this weeks Ep was created with an instrument preset from Logic Studio.
The preset sounds are not exactly groundbreaking but they did the job of getting me quickly in to the composition.
The feel I was after was something laid back: a little hypnotic. So to achieve this feel, I turned up the great convolution reverb that comes with Logic (in my view the best part of that package is that reverb). I also turned up the 'tape delay' effect for the most of the instruments: and it is these effects that permeate the African drum tapping that is the simple and relentless rhythm track.
On top of this is a simple three note bass line, a slowly pulsing pad sound (an almost retro sounding synth patch) Then, finally, I extemporized over this arrangement a rhodes piano part:

This is a fairly simple composition, and very haphazardly mixed. But it does achieve something of the feel that I want for this weeks ep.