Molly Noise 🌙 @MollyNoise@shrike.club

super secret social media strategy options, don't steal

option A:
random shit on masto

rote music announcements/previews on twitter, hive, cohost, tiktok, tumblr, fistrix, bombloe, hutch and locus

option B:

repeatedly violate every sites tos, violently remove phone battery and feed it to a bigot, burn my music to unlabeled cd's (also loaded with malware) and post to random publications, like the farmers journal, with incoherent threats against their ancestors souls should they not review

18hrs , its beginning to fade, thank fuck

its *only* ~8am :/

wrote up a whole thing and deleted it. she's gone, i miss her and it hurts

missing my friend Jade

im not going to go into it

these bloodthirsty swine went from logos that look like

blackwater bears high school football team

XE small 90s home pc brand

Academi online diploma mill

Constellis manufacturer of satellite dish components

fictional bastard corps at least all had sick logos

and give yourself permission to do something obvious, even obnoxious

in my case thats putting down an absurdly overdriven bass and a 4 to the floor beat and side chaining it

complicated doesn't necessarily mean good and it can be fun to work within some conventions

and some days art will not happen, even if you try for an hour nothing good comes out of it. save it anyway and come back to it, maybe there was something you couldn't do right then or maybe it *is* just garbage, don't be defeated, take a break

aside from that, have water on hand and once you get good at consistently working for hours use a pomodoro timer to force yourself to take breaks (co-signed by my wrist sprain in September)

the big creative leap for me (former bassist) was when i stopped writing bass first, then drums, then leads

too formulaic

find ONE interesting thing and build a verse/chorus around it and build outwards from there, you don't have to write the intro first or the end last

the timeline is real but in the DAW time is otherwise fake

save racks of effects with distinct names "massive space" and "drumfucker" are two i use often enough and calling them that works for me (rather than a more sombre taxonomy)

save diff versions or presets of those racks when you dial them in for different songs

make sure stuff is organised neatly so when you want to create its all at your fingertips and you wont waste time looking for "that thing that makes pads sound HUGE"

i watch music production stuff on YouTube with the daw open , first copying (close enough) what the producer is doing and then fucking with whatever I've ended up with, applying the technique to something i already have

sometimes I'll grab a drum pattern from the ideas folder and some bassline, last time i ended up taking a 130~ pattern and dragging it down to ~90bpm to meet the bass and it went from cluttered and messy to very interesting, play with bpm

when it's just a case of sitting down to make yourself work, set a random tempo, grab a random instrument, throw a weird chain of effects on after and just play something, bounce the audio, time stretch it , reverse it

whatever it is don't fall back on the same techniques over and over, explore sound

again, once you have something interesting, put it in the ideas folder

sometimes you'll go straight to writing a song, other times you'll just be done with an idea, for now

with the "Divine Spark" thing its important to just really quickly get the raw structure down and then start filling in the details, for example if its a sustained bass *any* sustained bass will do, change the sounds later and so on

with the single idea inspiration, don't worry about making a song, just work it till is close enough to what you heard in your head and save it, put it in a folder of ideas and when you next get stuck on a chorus or w/e or need a starting point, build it around that

thread inspired by @fenderjess

its happened before where I've literally lept out of bed with an entire song in my head and poured it all into the DAW in one session but thats rare

usually its either:
I'll sit down to write (try to do this every single day) without anything in mind, I'll pick some synth at random and just play around and save whatever i make

or

some sound/drum pattern will pop into my head and ill go to the computer and focus on *just* getting that idea down

coming up on 11hrs, fuck , FUCK

with painkillers doing nothing for me I'm not even going to be able to sleep

brand marketing upon the brain

american psycho therapy

hard to be a god mother

there will be blood oranges