Merely Sounds @merelysounds@mastodon.social

Here's one of the calmest tracks I've ever made 🎶

https://merelysounds.bandcamp.com/track/track-200226

#mastomusic #ambientmusic #instrumental #calm #eurorack #synthesizer

Here's one of the calmest tracks I've ever made 🎶

https://merelysounds.bandcamp.com/track/track-200226

#mastomusic #ambientmusic #instrumental #calm #eurorack #synthesizer

I've got a lot of unreleased audio and I'd like to prepare an EP out of it. I just can't get started on this because I prefer making more tracks 🙃 #mastomusic

I now kind of want to try making a music discovery website, especially one that targets beginner artists.

I realised that by “using social media as an artist” I mean mostly “artist self promotion”. I wish there was a way to make this fun; not efficient / easy / fast / etc, just fun.

I don't really know how to use social media as an artist. I'm also an introvert with the charisma of a confused herring. Are there any ways to make social media more fun? #mastomusic #socialmedia

In the meantime, throwback to one of my favourite past recordings: https://merelysounds.bandcamp.com/track/track-200125 #eurorack #ambientmusic #mastomusic

I'm still alive and well and I keep recording sounds. Maybe I'm more busy than usual. In any case I should find time to publish some of my recordings here. I hope I'll be able to do this #soon .

Experimenting. Audio recorded roughly 1h ago.

#mastomusic #eurorack #ambient #workinprogress #ffmpeg

Full version of "Track · 200408" is now live. Calm, organic, weird melodic ambient:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sysVj2_7pTo

#mastomusic #ambientmusic #electronicmusic #eurorack #modularsynth #synth #youtube #ffmpeg #glitch

This time some noise; recorded yesterday.

Quite different from what I usually do, apparently it was time for some weird sounds.

#mastomusic #eurorack #synth #glitch #ffmpeg #noise #electronicmusic #youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elvw3lEwTdE

One of my favourite tracks from my last album.
Slow, calm, organic.

Visualisation done in #ffmpeg. Full audio: https://merelysounds.bandcamp.com/track/track-200226

#bandcamp #ambient #electronic #music #eurorack #synth #synthesizer #glitch #mastomusic

New sounds, work in progress.

#ambient #music #mastomusic #synth #eurorack #wip

Experimenting with #ffmpeg , day 2.

Apparenty it's possible to dynamically modulate #ffmpeg filter parameters. This way my previous video could e.g. change colours or generate even weirder shapes. But the setup looks complex, I'm not sure I'd be able to do it. http://dragonquest64.blogspot.com/2019/02/ffmpeg-dynamic-adjustment-of-filters.html

Experimenting with #ffmpeg . Full track at #bandcamp : https://merelysounds.bandcamp.com/track/track-200222

Album idea: experimental but very organised. Basically, weird sounds structured in an unusual way; like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal_tiling#/media/File:P5-type5_rice_p6.png but with notes.

I don't have access to my synth at the moment, so there won't be any recording sessions in the next days.

It feels good to take a break. Also, I've just released an album, so it feels appropriate to pause for a while.