I decided to try and power through the difficulties I had up here and quickly remembered why I stopped using this room. I think this computer is on its last legs. Or it was fine but software updates mostly intended for newer systems were being automatically updated and now there’s all kinds of weird bugs that crop up.

We had a theme of ‘Marathon’ and I nearly put this in Garbage but decided to leave it over in Punk

No updates last week, no updates next week. But this week I made some weird stuff. We had a theme of “Orphan” and I did a little punk thing that also had clarinet in it for some reason. Maybe it should have been in a different category. This one was loosely based on a true story. You can find it over in Punk.

I switched clarinet reeds because Edi/Vaiphraigm, one of the OG 2HTS participants and a clarinetist, said my reed was too soft. But that means in a way I lost two months of progress because the change from 2.5 to 3 is a lot more than the change from 1.5 to 2.5. Anyway, i played with all the instruments i’ve been ignoring. We had a theme of Iceberg and having made a sandwich earlier decided to write about the lettuce instead. You can find it over in Punk.

There’s that old adage “no one wants to listen to your DAWless jams”. And that will always be true, but what if i soloed over it poorly with a clarinet? We had a theme of “Fabric” and I used my DAWless setup, that I call ‘PowerTable9k’, to do the background and then tried to control it while also blowing that horn. Live, no overdubs. It’s over in Techno.

it would make junk! Which is exactly what I did when i wrote one of my bog standard punk songs but added some poorly played clarinet to it. We had a theme of Hide and Seek. It’s over in Punk.