“Todd Webb has, over the past roughly 2,000 days, posted roughly 2,000 #dailybleeps tracks online. They have populated his YouTube and Twitter accounts, but their primary home on the internet range has been Instagram. There, bite-size videos playfully themed around squash (the fruit, not the sport), and going outside (as determined by an Oblique Strategies card), and frogs, among numerous other topics, feature micro-compositions of what feel like the sonic equivalent of a zine aesthetic: either minor-key chipper, or up-tempo maudlin, and utterly delightful.”
This video contains roughly one week of #dailybleeps from mid November, 2019 stitched together to give a rough idea of the project:
This playlist is a small sampling of #dailybleeps from the final year of the project. Keep in mind, they were designed to be looped infinitely on Instagram:
Slow Waves & Simple Sounds
OAHU is my ambient electronics musical project. The Simple Sounds portion (second disc) of this OAHU release features a selection of 40 tracks from the first 4+ years of #dailybleeps and functions as an audio scrapbook of the project.
From the liner notes for disc two of the OAHU album Slow Waves & Simple Sounds:
I began recording #dailybleeps on October 28, 2015. The process is simple: I film something I see each day and before bed I record a soundtrack for that video and post it online to my Instagram page (@toddbotdotcom). I use a different setup every day and improvise the scores as quickly as possible. It has been great fun watching the pieces accumulate over the years and I’m very excited to finally release a physical document of some of them. The titles match their original videos. For instance, Buddha Watching TV accompanies an art piece by Nam June Paik, Kirby in the Backyard was made while visiting my friend Steve Roden - his dog Kirby was outside wanting to join in. Not That I Mind is a personal favorite as it soundtracked a collaborative video with the poet Aram Saroyan.