For every piece of music I've released there's been at least one failed experiment - I present to you! one of those.
The original conception of this track was simple - I hadn't written anything in a while, so I'd confine myself to just 30 minutes and see what I came up with. That... did not work out
So! I decided, I'd only work on this in 30 minute sessions at a time. I gave that a shot but it was feeling undercooked, so I tried to focus on the other part of the challenge: I'd restrict myself to only the instruments that were open in the session, no adding anything new.
Unfortunately... these are.. not... mmmMMMM exactly what I'd choose.. given a choice. which my challenge did not give me
So! we call it a(n admittedly groovy) failed experiment. I still think the challenge(s) is worth re-exploring -- I do think it takes me at least 4 hours to get most things off the ground, and it'd be fun to find ways to work faster. I did make one of my favorite compositions in about 2 hours and it'd be awesome to do more of that.
I also think I have a tendency to search for new sounds instead of using things that I've already added to a session - and that's a limitation I'm going to keep trying to overcome