I have a musical project brewing called Oh!Noverdrive!. It started out as a sort of mental escape while I was recovering from some workplace burnout. But like all things I start, it grew and spread in interesting directions.
I’m finally getting around to sharing some of the earlier experiments on SoundCloud. Among these are a short set of songs that, as I was working on them, reminded my of music that might play while a video game is paused. The idle, simple tunes seemed perfect for the loop of a game left to wait.
I also put together a simple animated video using Procreate and LumaFusion.
All the songs were composed in GarageBand on my iPad. It’s not the most advanced digital music making tool out there, but it gets the job done. As David Byrne says a lot in The Way Music Works, good enough is good enough.
These tracks are about six months old, and the music I am working on right now has a different flavour. I don’t think I’ve settled quite on a sound yet. On the other hand, it’s nice to not be hung up on a specific genre. Decades ago, when I was an angsty suburban punk kid making music, I really clung to that aesthtic. It was easy, recognisable, and visceral. For a broke kid with a $10 yard sale guitar, it was also the only kind of music I could make with what I had. The idea of working with a DAW like GarageBand on my couch or wherever would sound crazy to me back then. There are other DAWs to learn, but I will hold my close my excited gratitude that playing in GarageBand inspires.
Anyhoo, enjoy the songs! More to come.