The reason it took 2 hours to record the recording was because I split the whole thing into mono, hard panned everything left, then I duplicated both tracks and inverted the signal of the duplicates. I put all of the tracks in one line and exported it all to my phone, then I played it on the bluetooth speaker I used to make the recording I was recording.
The recording I was recording was with a Zoom H4N Pro on stereo in my washing machine with a Soundcore stereo bluetooth speaker, and the recording of the recording was done with an SM57. I had it mic'd up about an inch in front of the left speaker playing hard panned left audio on full volume with my closet door closed. After I got that recording I re-inverted the signal of the inverted parts and layered it all like a pancake.
The final recording is a mix that mostly has the washing machine recording, but the closet recording is buried in the mix just enough that it adds a little warmth that I like. It's a little funny to me how the hardest part of all of this went into a tiny detail that only I'd ever appreciate unless I wrote about it on a whim like I did here. I do that stuff all the time and forget to write about it...
Anyways I did all that then threw it out because I was putting a lot of effort into hiding what should just be laid bare. On that note there's a few A.I. voices in the album. I wanted to evoke being dissociated and the A.I. voices compelled me more than my own voice. I don't think I would have been compelled enough to release those songs if it weren't for the A.I. voices, they just wouldn't have interested me enough.
I didn't choose Anderson Paak or Drake to comment on either of their careers, I just liked the way they sounded and it made me laugh when I heard them. I think there's A.I. Kanye on two of them, but those ones are so caked in effects that I don't think anyone would be able to know that unless word got out from some kind of domino effect that starts with someone reading this sentence.
With A.I. vocals I discovered a technique through trial and error that lets me double track with just one recorded vocal take. I sped up the original recording, ran it through the A.I., and slowed down what the A.I. produced to the speed of the original and layered that on top of an un-sped vocal track. It gives it this kind of early Ween vibe, I kinda like it.
Speaking of vocal effects, there isn't any vocal processing on track 3. I can just make my voice sound like that, it's this throat singing thing. I don't know the official name for it but it gives me a whole octave below my normal singing voice to work with. I like freaking people out with it, it's fun. People are gonna think I'm possessed for being a system anyways, I figure I might as well have some fun with it.
With the lyrics on that one I wanted to evoke parasocial relationships online. I don't know anything about you people, I'm speaking words into the void in hopes that I get a comfy stay at home job from doing it enough. In the grand scheme of things it's like I'd be a parasite, I'd have to depend on there being enough people stuck in their seats and spending their precious time and money on me in the name of "becoming our best selves".
If I comment on that does that make me one of the good ones? From your vantage point this could just be another tactic for getting you to let your guard down so I can suck you dry. How many layers of self awareness do I need before this becomes good for both of us? I need to surive, I've made that clear. It's practical for me to be with you, but I promise it's autotelic and incidental. ♡