Looks like I need to sort out my recording setup...
Thanks for your feedback. Sketchman3, I'm curious to know how you would suggest "transitioning" between sections. Would you say it's best to "drop back" some of the parts before a new section, or build intensity up to the change, or something else? I may get round to making chiptune versions of my "grockle stomps" as a near-future project.
Aaroneow, I actually know quite a lot of music theory already, which is good in some ways, but does mean that Nanoloop will never be the "blank slate" that it could be for someone who doesn't know any.
This piece is based very loosely on an Indian Rag called "Marwa" whose basic scale has a minor second, a major third, a sharp fourth, no fifth, and major 6th and 7ths degrees.
It's probably the minor 2nd and sharp 4ths that account for most of the strangeness of the soundworld. We don't often hear these intervals in western music, but I love exploring the exotic possibilities beyond the more common Major and minor tonalities we're used to.