My Battery Is Low And It's Getting Dark (Robert Dorschel)

Опубликовано: 17 Июль 2026
на канале: Robert Dorschel
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From a livestream broadcast Dec 12 2020.
Original working song title was "Tsunami of Truth"
Which morphed into "Tsunami of Guilt"

Then... I had just re-read the story of the last message sent by the Mars Rover, Opportunity, and the title went to the predictable and stereotypical "Opportunity Lost," up until the night of the live broadcast.

Then my common sense kicked in, and duh. Hence the proper simple title.

Ableton Live, Omnisphere (four instances), Stylus RMX on drum elements, three subtle layered guitar tracks hidden in the garden wall of sound in that first three minutes, and five eBow guitar live looping passes, with assorted inline FX: hard compression + overdrive overdrive overdrive, timestretch, pitch shift, freeze-on-demand, noise gate, chorus, delay, reverb, sub octaves, bass EQ enhancement. When that last synth bass finishes its last-ditch effort at 3:30 in, the rest is all guitar, baby... even that low freeze note drone underneath it all.

Video source: Totally nicked from a way-more popular channel than mine, who did a smash-up job with a collage of NASA images from the mission. He/She/They get all the credit there, except for the reverse edit from the midpoint and star field at the end, that's mine.