This is an old one. It’s from my early experiments with Logic (the DAW I use to make all this) when I almost quit every day because it was so complicated, such a huge learning curve leap from GarageBand, where I started. And where I started was fooling around on the Macs in my university’s public computer lab at the age of 20. I had always been able to remember snatches of music and reconfigure them in my head, and now the technology existed to realize that audial vision.
Well, it was a lot harder than I thought. The way things sound in your head doesn’t always translate to the reality of electronic simulations. Still, I had this weirdly dogged belief that despite not ever having done it, it could make music. More than that — I needed to make it. After all, I was compulsively making it in my head. It’s not entirely a comfortable feeling to have a song rattling around in there. It needs to come out.
This one is vulnerable to share. These are my vocals, recorded on a terrible second-hand mic and processed to the moon. I think the lyrics are self-explanatory.
If you like this enough to listen to it elsewhere the link below will take you to all the various music services where you can find it:
And the album artwork, a synthograph made with Stable Diffusion:
Start a Little War