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While it's right there in my sig, I've been doing weekly live-on-twitch ambient improvisations (guitar + Max/MSP eight-delay system) here: https://twitch.tv/onezeromusic. 8PM EDT (7 Central) on Mondays, for about an hour and fifteen minutes. It's ambient in the drone sense--long notes or sparse notes, slow development, slowly recurring things. (Not ambient in the sense of beat-with-melody-on-top...which isn't ambient, if you ask me, but people seem to call it that.)

After those, I'll clean up the results a bit (take out in-between space, filter peak distortion because I hate the rattle, crossfade out notes I'd regret or tech failures), and put 'em up a few days later at https://snwv.bandcamp.com/. All that stuff's free to download.

Since 2014, I've been doing weekly instrumental compositions/recording as well, mostly involving guitar/bass/drums, but some of which is more drone, or more electronic, or more rock or whatever. There are well over 300 of these now. I'm a big believer in regular creative practice, whether you're feeling it or not--if you keep doing it, you'll end up with some good pieces that you otherwise never would have thought to create.

Pieces in even-numbered years end up at https://weeklybeats.com/onezero, while odd-numbered years are at https://streak.club/u/onezero, with 2015's pieces up on my SoundCloud account.

Hello Maurice, I'm listening to "60" now and it is perfect for right now. I'll be listening to this tomorrow, I know already. Your words on regular creation are good advice, something I will try to follow. If I can ever get the time to work, I'll drop in on a Twitch stream.

I need to be better about checking out your stuff as it happens Maurice. You've always got something nice going.

#62 is a cut above.

These are always crazy good.

sparky wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 6:07 am #62 is a cut above.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Fri May 28, 2021 7:47 am These are always crazy good.

Thank you! I think this week benefitted from the decision to go for longer delay times and sustained tones with sparser shorter ones. That and this was the first week in a while that didn't have show-preventing tech problems up until right before showtime.

This week I did (and released) the 70th live ambient stream of our 71-week-and-counting pandemic. This one's on a $40 guitar.

The just-previous week 69, though, was on pedal steel with occasional FFT pitch shift, and has some rather satisfying stretches in there.

Listening to 70 now. Going to be deep-diving pretty hard on all of this. Salut Maurice!

p.s. From girlfriend spontaneously - "This music is really nice...." : ) wrt #70

seby wrote: Mon Jul 26, 2021 7:31 am Listening to 70 now. Going to be deep-diving pretty hard on all of this. Salut Maurice!

seby wrote: Tue Jul 27, 2021 7:29 am p.s. From girlfriend spontaneously - "This music is really nice...." : ) wrt #70

Thank you, Seby! I'm glad you both like it! (I'm previewing/level-twiddling last night's pedal steel #71; it should be up this evening.)