submission for One Little Agony jam hosted by M-112 July 2025

a streaming link has been provided below:

https://soundcloud.com/doug-stoothoff/film-at-eleven

This is approximately tied with Foul-Mouthed Parrot for being the longest vocal track I've ever done, both are approx 9min 20sec

This thing in my own assessment is strong in the early to middle but cringe at the end  because of Time constraints.  It would get re-takes of all the vocals for the last third at a later time (TBD!), like one of my "Alpha Remaster" type releases.  I juggle a 9-5 job and am not full-time musician and yeah it shows lol

The process on vocals, is to scrape sources for good banger statements and then work the 2nd half of say the other 2 lines of a 4-line block, for each cool thing I found if its Twitter conversations etc social media.  Or looking up some cool terminology on Urban Dictionary and usually all of like 3-4 sources.  That takes several weeks, keeping a big text wall of stuff i might use in a future vocal.  And then I play the instrumental to the words without singing it yet until i grind to the end of that and sometimes while i am still playing just a straight piano to it in the Roland FA-08 I am still adding new verses but usually when I even start making it 90% of the text is picked out to be the skeleton of the tune already.  So i tunnel a single instrument usually piano to the end which takes like 2 days if the text is already set.

I have perfect pitch recall so even with only 1 year of piano lessons ('85-'86) I can snatch things out by just hearing them anywhere.  I really harsh the piano piece hard and do barely what i can do within my ability like 5 seconds at a time and stitch them in the FA-08's sequencer to sound smooth.

Then i layer in unison a bunch of cool instruments from the bank of like 3,500 tones in the Roland.

-sometimes- I do non-unison grace note flourishing 

-sometimes- I want to use the AKAI 25-key MIDI keyboard and do software synth stuff in Mixcraft. NOT always.

anyway I export the WAV off the Roland then go in MixCraft 10.6 Pro Studio and sing it, while I am singing it I obviously notice i played the piano too fast or too slow or missed a verse.  I stretch and compress lengths till it sounds not so halting.

Then mastering, then sticking it on Soundcloud, then to DistroKid so the Itch entry has a YouTube link under the screen shot.

Then fiddling in MuseScore to make an equivalent score using its limited instruments and post the score online.

-Then- finally submit.