SAW II Mild Existential Dread
non metric experimental electronic composition do not default to 4 4 or any steady grid based pulse avoid kick led structure dancefloor rhythm or predictable downbeat emphasis rhythm must be irregular fragmented and partially absent events should appear as isolated sonic impacts separated by silence timing should feel unstable and non repeating with no perceivable loop cycle silence is a primary structural element and must be preserved at high density do not fill empty space with ambient padding or implied groove influences autechre abstract phase Electronic, IDM, Ambient, Experimental, Techno ambient works burial temporal displacement not rhythm boards of canada texture approach sound design granular synthesis detuned analog textures tape hiss low frequency sub events appearing unpredictably minimal percussion if any must be non repetitive and not pattern forming no melodic progression no harmonic resolution no chord based structure avoid emotional build ups or song like arcs
SAW II Mild Existential Dread
non metric experimental electronic composition do not default to 4 4 or any steady grid based pulse avoid kick led structure dancefloor rhythm or predictable downbeat emphasis rhythm must be irregular fragmented and partially absent events should appear as isolated sonic impacts separated by silence timing should feel unstable and non repeating with no perceivable loop cycle silence is a primary structural element and must be preserved at high density do not fill empty space with ambient padding or implied groove influences autechre abstract phase Electronic, IDM, Ambient, Experimental, Techno ambient works burial temporal displacement not rhythm boards of canada texture approach sound design granular synthesis detuned analog textures tape hiss low frequency sub events appearing unpredictably minimal percussion if any must be non repetitive and not pattern forming no melodic progression no harmonic resolution no chord based structure avoid emotional build ups or song like arcs
Lyrics
Is a recipe for mild existential dread
Leaving an impressionable child alone with SAW 2
Is a recipe for mild existential dread
Korg lights in a half-lit room,
slow oscillations bloom and loom,
arps like rain on window glass,
loops that never fully pass.
Leaving an impressionable child alone with SAW 2
Is a recipe for mild existential dread
Nothing loud, nothing cruel,
just signal bending time’s own rule,
a soft decay, a gentle thread,
stitched through thought but never said.
Leaving an impressionable child alone with SAW 2
Is a recipe for mild existential dread