Shifting Patterns

I've been greatly inspired by the ideas of layering sound upon sound, texture upon texture, and just allowing waveforms to naturally develop. Letting sounds phase in and out of time with one another.

I abandoned the track I started work on tonight and thought I'd revisit an idea I played about with a few months ago - creating a track that ignored conventions of rhythm and timing and just allowed melodies and sounds to be placed anywhere within the track - I remember liking the results.

Whilst composing away, I realised that I was inadvertently creating the type of music I had been thinking about all week. Certain melodic patterns were sliding over others, hints of rhythm were creeping out of the mix before a new blend of textures pushed it aside as they spiralled their way into other directions.

The music can never become stale or repetitive since their is no repetition - every phrase is slightly different from the last, new textures can be dropped in with atomic effects, yet as a whole, the track remains a cohesive piece of music where every sound, no matter how randomly placed, sounds absolutely perfect - like it couldn't possibly belong anywhere else in the mix.