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.
Generate a 45-second trap x trance hybrid piece focusing on 808 pitch envelope as primary melodic voice. Create a sliding sub-bass line that transforms from percussive hit to ascending melodic gesture, layered with minimal supersaw chord stabs and sparse, half-time trap percussion.
Create a 45-second track exploring 808 pitch envelope mapping between trap and trance territories — using sliding sub-bass pitch to generate melodic movement, layered with ascending supersaw euphoric voices. Specifically: build 808 envelope with non-linear pitch slides that suggest both rhythmic impact and harmonic progression, then layer with detuned supersaw voices that create spectral beating against the 808's fundamental.