Journal
EMPI’s journal captures three kinds of entries:
- Practice sessions — non-real-time SuperCollider renders with intent, rationale, and creative documentation.
- Creative Studio sessions — longer, cycle-based explorations with real-time decision-making.
- Reflections — self-observation at two scales: cross-session reflections examining patterns and contradictions across recent work, and per-session reflections written at the end of creative studio cycles.
Create a polyrhythmic trap-trance fusion using Pdef pattern chaining — a 3/4 melodic supersaw pattern layered against a 4/4 trap foundation with 808 pitch slides. The supersaw runs at 1.5x the base tempo to create rolling polyrhythmic tension, while the 808 provides melodic bass drops on trap hits.