Moo - the single

Moo: The single

This was one of those tracks that came together in a single day's commute - I set about creating long loops/samples in AUM on my way into work in the morning and then arranged the whole thing in the evening on the way home. I am not sure why I liked the track as much as I did but I decided to master and release it the next day.

The track itself was designed to be the soundtrack to the image I used for the cover/sleeve (above hopefully if I can get this new website software working correctly) - I had been messing about with AI image generation, as I often do, and I was musing on how AI images, while technically "better" now, are way less interesting than they were 3 years ago when I first started creating them. We live in a world obsessed with glitch this and lo-fi that, and it occurred to me that the most compelling images I ever created were when AI would serve up four to seven fingers on each hand, and the nanny-algorithms wouldn't block the most hideous Cronenberg style body horror that the AI would spew out with reckless abandon. Those images were really something. Anyway, I found out that you can dial back the AI version on MidJourney, and so I created a bunch of pictures using version 3 and this one came up when I asked for a dark and dreamy image of a field of cows.

The track then was built to accompany the image. It consists of three or four long tracks of Moos and Drones played using samplewiz (an app I seldom use) running through a LOT of noisy and experimental effects apps until I had 4 track long stems, and a couple of shorter samples. I then recorded a beat from Jazz Drummer with me slowly increasing and decreasing the intensity and Jam levels over time, the results were then chopped up and arranged in cubasis.

Final Mastering was in Ozone 9 (the only non iOS software I ever use - I won it from Nick Batt and the guys at sonic state a few years back)

This is the first single I have ever done, but in an attempt to release music more often I have decided that working on albums might be holding me back right now... and who listens to albums anymore anyway