Music you don't remember making...

So glad I’m not alone. I finished my last solo record in 2013. I have piles of stuff recorded from 2014-today and haven’t bothered to finish anything. I went through some things maybe a year ago and was surprised at how many tracks were basically finished.

(I have put out stuff with bands and art projects, so it’s not total musical hermitude, but still).

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many of the old “monome community remix projects” i participated in have tracks i don’t remember making, here’s one that i also forget someone else made an amazing video for:

i also have music i’ve been attempting to forget i made, but a certain someone named, “Peter Blasser”(who was my housemate back at Oberlin, where the Dean of the Conservatory at the time had a big brass tuba that always sat in the corner of his office taking up soooo much space… but i digress…), uploaded it all to this account to shame me forever:

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This is actually the origin of my workflow for finishing music. I’m a photographer by profession and shoot pretty much everything on film these days. The delay between shooting and seeing the work provides necessary distance. I decided to use the same kind of strategy for my music. After writing an album I usually finish an entirely different project before I sit down to mix and master. This is how I can mercilessly cut stuff that doesn’t work or make other drastic changes.

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I have a lot of tapes and reel to reel full of music, and of course a lot of my tapes are from the same brand with no label, for the reel to reel as well.
The same with a lot of Ableton sessions, I have an idea, record it, save with a name like “fm synth 2” and never going back to it.
So an aweful lot of snippets without a name.

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I found this track and it got played on BBC Introducing but i honestly have no recollection of making it, and then there’s the tunes that pop into my head that i made years ago before i had a computer, can i find them on old TDK SA 90’s ? sometimes.

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