84 BPM – A Day at the Ranch – 06 – Somatic Thermoregulation

Описание: This song is from 84 BPM’s (my AI band name) upcoming album A day at the Ranch. This is track #6 Somatic Thermoregulation and are just long words to say bath. Of course, pigs don’t bathe to cleanse- they use it to regulate temperature, as do the chickes and equines as they roll around the dirt. One of the focuses at The Ranch Darwinian Observable Ecosystem(TRDO) will be to bring attention to the realities of owning pigs and what the word “Mini” means in swine. I worked with the original owner who rescued them as babies but they quickly outgrew their living space. What you are seeing here is Dollie’s first mud bath and Fiona’s first thought of one. Each animal (or pair) on the farm will have it’s own origin story eventually. This is a rough draft of the first one. Let me know if the music fits 😊

As for the band name 84 BPM. It pretty much came by accident. After spending a crazy amount of hours in the prompts of a music generator I was really close to throwing in the towel. I was able to get the sounds I wanted and the “feels” but as a collective they felt disjointed at best. Because I don’t even understand the basics of music I was playing with the BPM’s to try to differentiate between scenes such as a chicken factory to the slowest possible for something like a pig bath, You can see some of these examples in my earliest trials. Simultaneously to creating the music, I was also working on(still am) creating a top down 16-bit style RPG map of the Ranch through the program “tiled” complete with pixelated animated in which I can assign millisecond transitions for the animations. I played around with the most common BPM’s and landed on 84, this way I could make the characters appear to “dance” on screen to the music. Here is the assignments if you are curious

Common Animation Intervals @ 84 BPM
Musical Value Timing (ms) Use Case
Whole note (4 beats) 2857 ms Slow cycles, day/night ticks
Half note (2 beats) 1429 ms Breathing, idle sway
Quarter note (1 beat) 714 ms Core rhythm animations
Eighth note (½ beat) 357 ms Footsteps, head bobs
Sixteenth note (¼ beat) 179 ms Subtle flickers, particles
Triplet (⅓ beat) 238 ms Organic / natural motion

I trashed my ENTIRE body of work and started creating new songs ALL at 84bpm and they just felt like they now had something in common! Next I’m going to try to train my guys to dance, maybe if its always the same beat they will pick it up easier… Science is a wonderful thing!