[food] what if slurpee was spelled slurpée and pronounced accordingly, send chost

a neighbor once asked me what MIDI's name was and said that because they hadn't known it, they'd been calling him persimmon, since he's orange what a good cat name :3

[food] i see so many blackberry plants on the trails but rarely any actual berries maybe the deer eat them all up and go about their little deer day full of treats?

pretty fall trails today we saw three deer, including a little one!

is there any reason why i shouldn't push my bus faders above 0 to get my mix peaking at about -6 dB? or is there a better technique i'm unaware of? mostly i'm just trying not to make individual tracks too hot while still hitting my loudness target

i dreamed i met a bee that was trying to turn into a human, and it popped up a little text box with the line "aah! still a bee!"

i found my list of display names that i've thought of over the years and dang, there were some bangers

[MIDI in the middle of the night] you *dare* to scoop *me*, human? ...oh, i can sit on the body pillow? this is acceptable *purr purr*

here's the crunchiest, sludgiest thing i've ever written. felt good 31-EDO musician.social/@holydoll/11...

i uninstalled bsky for a while to see how i felt about it, and i'm still kind of undecided not posting reduced my anxiety, but i also really missed having a place to share my music, and my thoughts on music the duality of Online.....

while i think there's certainly truth to the idea that major scales sound happy and minor scales sound sad, i also think it's fascinating how much nuance and wiggle room there is within that framework like, ime you can bend most scales pretty far in terms of the mood you create

i decided to call the super sludgy music i wrote yesterday "exorcism," because it was a deeply cathartic way of processing some pretty intense emotions and dang, i still feel lighter and more grounded after writing it

[food] i've been making sheep milk flat whites (because i totally would), and they're so good????? such a tasty treat to look forward to in the mornings it's like, sweet, creamy, light and smooth and pairs beautifully with espresso good job sheep peeps, how did you do it? o:

*picks the mothra[6] scale* let's make something bright and uplifting! *proceeds instead to make probably the sludgiest thing fae's ever written* ...whoa unexpected but cathartic

i've been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between mental health and music feels like songwriting in particular helps me process and transform challenging emotions and leaves me feeling lighter and more grounded (plus then you have something fun to mix!)

sometimes you start out writing music about your cat sneaking around the neighborhood, but then it turns into a song about your innate divine feminine? 31-EDO musician.social/@holydoll/11...

it's always exciting to find a weird sound in the wild

yesterday i was in a parking garage with a really creaky stairwell door, so i recorded it and made this "janus" in 22-EDO feat. weird door musician.social/@holydoll/11...

31-EDO sample flip challenge engage! every sound in this sketch is made by manipulating the sample that plays at the beginning this was a really fun way to grow my sound design skills musician.social/@holydoll/11...

i was unsure about whale watching because i felt a little nervous going on a boat, and i did feel mildly seasick the most of the time on the water, but i'm still really glad i went it was pretty amazing to see such enormous, beautiful animals in person, and the calf was so cute ;~;

i like this shot of santa cruz harbor despite growing up in norcal, i'd never actually been here*, or whale watching! *though of course i've been to the boardwalk right next door many times

i put my hair up in a braid crown yesterday to keep it contained on the ocean, and it looked pretty, but it was difficult to locate and remove all the bobby pins whose locations i'd forgotten by like 7 pm lol

an empty rechargeable battery got stuck in my nice camera yesterday, so i couldn't bring it whale watching T_T i still don't even know how to get it out except by taking the whole thing apart the important part was seeing the cute whales though :3

whale watching trip today...large nanermals

i'd like to improve my sound design skills, so i've given myself a challenge where i have to make a sketch using only one game audio asset so far i've surprised myself with the quality of the sounds! this used to feel almost impossible to me tbh

watching 4 producers flip 1 sample motivated me to try to up my sound design game i'm also really into the dark, mysterious, liminal tonality of this scale 31-EDO musician.social/@holydoll/11...

i watched the new 4 producers flip 1 sample, and it made me realize how much i could level up my own music by spending more time on sound design (i tend to focus on melody, harmony and tonality) i manipulated and processed some samples, and i think it added a lot of texture and interest

you'd think that a scale called (31-EDO) enharmonic hypolydian would be very bright, since it contains "lydian," but i find that it actually has a mysterious, tonally dark and more apparently microtonal sound/feel (probably precisely because it's enharmonic and has some tiny intervals)

all activity halted to avoid disturbing the kitty taking a nap against my leg

31-EDO enharmonic hypophrygian has some pretty wild intervals. it's like, 10 steps, 5, 1, 2 etc. gives it a particularly "microtonal-sounding" feel anyway here's some really weird music using that scale! musician.social/@holydoll/11...

if they're too computationally expensive, freeze those keys

[food] i used the fresh fruit i had on hand and made fruit cups with cantaloupe, asian pear and bartlett pear, plus tajín, chamoy and the juice of half a lime ultimate mid-afternoon snack imo

it's fun to make a dark scale (soft diatonic hypophrygian, in case you were wondering) sound bright 31-EDO musician.social/@holydoll/11...

installed the trial version of the dolby atmos renderer. let's make some immersive microtonal music! i guess...i'd have to upload it to tidal or something to share it with anyone? feels a little intimidating tbh

i let the little kitty sleep on the bed last night, and he stepped all over me and purred

the raised 6th of the dorian mode kind of makes it the pastel goth of the seven greek modes, send chost

[food] i made potato and cheddar pierogi with a really spicy but also sweet pepper sauce (it had honey in it) for lunch, and whoa, what a taste :9

the soft diatonic hypodorian scale is basically my muse (31-EDO) musician.social/@holydoll/11...

eepy

i've been making stuff i've only kinda liked lately, but i think this one's all right 22-EDO musician.social/@holydoll/11...

it's so hot even the little man doesn't wanna go outside

[food] it's hot today so i cut up some fresh fruit, squeezed half a lime over it and added tajín and chamoy absolutely S-tier snack

only two months till halloween i wanna get a teal plastic pumpkin so people know we have non-food treats available everyone should get to trick-or-treat even if they have food allergies

animal crossing is a normal video game

snuck in a hike before it got hot

before listening to immersive mixes in the studio on 7.1.4, i was like 70% convinced, but after that i was like ok, this is something i need to do (even if i'm just mixing on headphones because we only have 2.0 at home)

turns out my computer can handle 48 kHz after all, which is good because that's the sample rate for the dolby atmos renderer (which i still need to pick up so that i can keep my skills fresh)

thinking about baby birds, as is my wont

[food] i sure do love a good assam tea :999

[food] ✅ quest complete: eat a fruit cup before summer ends ✅ bonus objective: have it with lime juice and tajín :9