Silly Expression

A little music video I threw together in one night. On the past couple of days I’ve been making a lot of music. Many short and simple songs so I can then have a mini collection of music, and as a way of practicing creating music fast. I came up with a technique where I write down different components for a song, like percussion, chords and bass, giving each one a list of instruments or general themes. This is a way to come up with music faster and with less chance of getting stuck in creative loops by giving myself prompts to build my song around. This song is the result of this experiment. Here is what I got: chords: bass & lead drums: lo-fi acoustic bass: acoustic bass lead: woodblock tempo: 170 bpm extra: drawbar organ I made this song quickly, in under an hour, without giving too much thought on it. My goal was to have it finished first and foremost. Personally, I think the end result is nice. It’s partially inspired by COPTER4016882 in some places. I got the idea of posting it and adding some random visualizer. I got increasingly more ambitious and it became a mini-music video thing. I tried to roughly replicate the look of an LCD screen, similar to Game and Watch. I wanted to pair it with some sort of dancing figure. To mix things up I added random graphics, such as a house, my old logo and a weather panel that I spent more time than I’d like on. I threw everything together in an editing program drawing new graphics along the way and this is the result! If you’re interested on the effect, it’s a simple thick outlined drawing with a dark shade of gray, set to shade. The drawing is copied in a layer below with lower opacity and a little below the original. If there are multiple drawings, this layer has all of them at once. Then a third copy is made, with a bunch of gaussian blur and with 20% opacity. Then I add some noise. In a nutshell, that’s it. I plan on releasing this and other similar songs on a mini-album. Song made on UltraBox.