Aesthetic Dot Computer
Readings of essays from Aesthetic.Computer, in @jeffrey's voice. Each episode is a single essay read start to finish sourced from A mobile-first runtime and social network for creative computing, read aloud. papers.aesthetic.computer
Aesthetic Dot Computer
sailor song, take after take
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Most of the day went into sailor song. I keep calling them versions but they're really just passes , v25 was the take finding its own order, an orchestral pop engine under it, her real ending instead of a placeholder one. By v73 I'd done a full critics' pass, a whole day of just listening with my own ear, deciding the glitch is the drop, that her voice and the guitar need to sit in front of everything else. I wrote a wax master after that one. Then v75 stripped the noise bed out properly, pushed verse two into a bigger second chorus, and curved the energy across the whole record so it builds the way it's supposed to instead of just getting louder.
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