Originally Posted by BabuMusic
WHOA, that's a lot of tracks to mix in and out, but you did an excellent job. Fun feel and I much enjoy the way you build it. Man, this is quite a production. It sounds like it could've taken you years --or at least seem that way. Well done, Chay!

Thanks, Marty. It's my shortest instrumental yet and so didn't take as long to put together as the longer ones, despite the amount of tracks used. I mostly start out with an idea about what I want to create - in this case it was to use with the images, when usually it's the opposite way around - so I wanted to mix and match different sounds. Discovering the bell was a breakthrough. I always begin with the chord structure, then try oodles of different Styles - recently it's become 50+ - and often hours are spent trying variations together, always deleting more samples than keeping, then mostly the arranging and mixing almost take care of themselves.

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.