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apoxode : waking dreams
day 1
reading about dreams; dreams used to be above all instructions from the gods and the ancestors
jaynes : the bicameral mind gave way to the conscious ( in the sense of being capable of introspection) see the contrast between the iliad and the odyssey)
visionary, prophetic dreams are less common, modern dream content is dominated by anxiety, fear, joy and happiness , in that order.
combine three pieces by apoxode, dreamy : pieces segue into one another, parts of the one emerge in the other.
"[a] dream represents the brain's effort to make sense of sparse and distorted information.... the cortex combines this haphazard input with whatever other activity was already occurring and does its best to synthesize a story that makes sense of the information.
neuroscientist indre viskontas is even more blunt, calling often bizarre dream content
"just the result of your interpreter trying to create a story out of random neural signaling”
possible title “random aural signaling interpreted”
today i listen to one of the pieces at halfspeed, dreams are sometimes fragmentary or distorted. necktie from the seawavelie project, sounds like gun shot, could be v. useful !
association with neck tie : hanging !
day 3
today gravitational mix loop @80 is wonderful, interspersed with the shots could be great, need more of the original probably
listened to a podcast about dreams, you send in your dream and they discuss it on air –strange, strange. if you google dream podcast mostly you get the other meaning of dream live your dream/ realise your dream/ your new life etc.
day 4
should i start worrying about time ? dreams are well constructed, they may be created from random juxtapositions, but they feel real. so that means my mix must also be coherent, even if it’s made of all sorts of different bits. tonite -play guitar continuing the gravitational loop, like in a dream protagonists are sometimes switched around
and listen to the transition in the main track. it doesn’t need to come together too quickly, but i should start now
day 5-7
working on a disquiet project
i did watch the tempest though
we are the stuff dreams are made on
day 7
remixed the whole track, adding more vocals, natural sounds , which mainly got cut, and working on the mix, i put the idea of adding guitar aside for the moment.
the structure seems ok now, and the piece is sounding good to my ears.
next session > details, the bass, adding some swirls in the echos, cleaning as much fx as possible, simplifying.
and maybe time to listen to some more apoxode, maybe snippets can be added, dream material
time after that > trying to hear the whole piece, is it going where i want it to, or are things in there done simply because i can do them ,yet don’t add much ? the sound and the structure influenced by the sounds of the disquiet junto. i am also reading f. pessoa, who says he is one of the few who can dream and be lucid about his dream experience.
day 8
cleaned out various extra fx and sounds starting to sound ok, now, but i must let it sit for a couple of days again. will have to rerecord the synth bass
and, of course , to listen to the whole piece again.
• gravitational wave mix loop nodrum
• ladder for the damned-- deckstop
• you got freedom—main track
• weather feat kara square
• “young people” feat mcw
• intro & “spacetime” feat mm celeste
day 9 -10
short break
day 11
i mixed a different project, trying to avoid reverb, echo etc and get a clear sound
day 12
friday – this evening i do the main mix, sunday will only be adjustments. i haven’t listened to the track for three days – wonder what it sounds like, dreamlike ? actually i want it to sound logical and mysterious like dreams sometimes are. not too much echo/flange/phase !
disaster struck , i started the evening on another project, working obsessively on it until 01.30, feeling guilty as i did so, b/c i know that the ears wear out if i spend too much time on one track and b/c the dream track was waiting
i decided to hear the dream track once, and work on it tomorrow. i listen and think its ghastly, here i am with nothng to fall back on and just one more evening ?
day 13
mixing most of the day, it is a strange track, but i feel better about it today. the mix is basically finished. i cleaned out some of the fx, but left some nice twin-delays in there. sunday i will maybe do a few details.
day 14
final small changes
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