Sheet Music
Epistemic status: Ongoing notes on an album.
The rough idea started from a shower thought: what if I made pixel art in Ableton.
So this is the first one I did:
Immediately I had a ton of fun. A sprite becomes a set of MIDI notes, and those become your limitation. The notes are set, but you’re free to play with everything else: the sounds they play, MIDI trickery like arps and chords, automation, effects, etc.
The second idea: what if I transpose a sprite sheet? A walking animation then becomes a track, each sprite a section.
And then: I want these to be ambient, looping tracks, and I want the loop to change over time. So now I’m after ways to mimic Disintegration Loops in Ableton.