Tiny Wires / "Wave Action" (Ableton ambient techno)

Between the self-imposed constraints of my "8x8" project and my ongoing health stuff with my ankle, it's been really hard to make progress on music. I hope to finish "8x8", but working on it started to feel like, well, work, and that sucked the joy out of it. So I'm taking a break from that. This track arose from studying a song I like and trying to figure out how it works. I built a similar patch for the droning chord and rebuilt the arrangement in Ableton. Then from there, I gradually turned it into something that I hope sounds more like my own and less like a copy. No live performance for this one. I enjoy doing and do hope to work towards actually playing live, but it's a lot of work to set up a track for a live arrangement. For this one, it was enjoyable to automate everything in arrangement mode and be able to simply press play. I shot the video on a trip to San Juan Island a few years ago on a particularly windy spring day. I hope you like it. On SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tinywires/wave-action