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At Night — ©2009 Leif Chappelle
There’s always something lulling about music that loops. Or, perhaps the secret to looping music is to put the listener into a lulled state. If the music can properly engage them enough to become background noise yet entrance them at the same time, then I’d say the music is doing its job well.
Of course, the Catch 22 here is that for a lulling effect to happen, the music needs to effectively loop as well. Whether it’s a repeating chord progression with riffs on top of it, or an A and B section that connect at either end; the two seem to go hand in hand.
On a side-note to this piece, I’m especially loving the act of constructing instruments as part of this 8- and 16-bit rediscovery. To take raw oscillating wave forms and transform them into a rhodes piano with some after-effects is very satisfying to then write something with.
