I thought I should pin this as some people are missing it in the description and giving me props for the video footage. 😅 The imagery in the 2nd half is stock footage. I initially started editing my own b-roll from previous things and decided it'd be more inspiring to work with the more talented eyes of videographers around the world (and compensating them, of course).

Yes Benn. I want this to be a trend on KZfaq actually lol let’s do it

This is the ticket. As musicians with channels, regardless of what we make in a week, a weekly video of just musical tinkering is exactly what makes all of this worth it. ♥

Just so you know, although I appreciate the sentiment, I can honestly say that in any video of yours that I have watched I have not wished that you would just STFU. I also appreciate your humility and talent as I believe them both to be real and genuine. So, thank you in advance for your upcoming video of you "in concert" for our listening and viewing enjoyment. But remember, we appreciate and enjoy you talking as well. PS - Wishing you and yours a Very Merry Christmas, a Blessed New Year and a Celebratory, Relaxing, and Peaceful Mood through the upcoming Holiday Season!

Wait we're supposed to actually make music and not just content?

PLEASEEEEE do more of these man. you are such a truly fantastic producer and musician

A picture is worth a thousand words. A video is worth a million. That section about TRS midi is priceless!!

This format is the one i like the most. Now i know how someome who does create music for years does work.

now that's synthfluencing

Probably the best tutorial on the creative process I’ve ever watched ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you for this, Benn. No words were spoken but I felt spoken to by the song and video with it. I get a deep sense of isolation - all the empty places...

7:26, thats aarhus trainstation :D denmark represent !! :D thx for a beautiful song

Just sitting and watching someone like you play with different types of hardware for music and evolving the sounds and patterns throughout the song is amazing.

This made me incredibly nostalgic and maybe a bit sad for the path not taken.

As a just 18 college student studying music and wanting to grow myself as an artist and a person, your work and your channel truly inspire and show just how great I, and anyone can become. Thank you.

You just waking up and making something like this is why you're by far the most valuable creator on this platform. It's almost as if you've been a highly regarded artist for the last 25 years under a moniker of some sort! 😉

What a cool little glimpse into your creative process. You move with such pace (at least compared to me). Consider me inspired!

this is exactly the kind of content (/art) i want to experience, thank you for this!

I enjoyed it, I jammed along on my bass and ended up going full Peter Hook with it.

Cool and inspiring. Reminds me of how Primitive Technology videos felt like a fresh air, when somebody just does stuff without endless talking. That's very relaxing.

Hey Benn, not sure if I've posted on your videos before, but I'm a fellow producer, music lover, creator and downright evil scientist and I just wanted to reach out after watching most of your videos over the past couple of years and say that I really enjoy everything you do. We're fragile as human beings and it's not always easy being in the spotlight having so much creativity and so many opportunities to embrace. You've inspired me so much and I want to thank you for being part of my journey, even though you don't know me. This song was so cool and I really dug how you put this video together. I like this a lot and let's see some more musical adventures from you. Talk about the things that inspire you. Keep them coming brother 👊🏼🙌🏼💕👍🏼

Amazing, Benn! I didn't want the song to end 🙏🏼❤🔊

This is fantastic Benn. So helpful for someone new to soundscapes, sampling and the like. Thanks SO much my friend.

I loved that you have a sense of time to the process and showed things you didn't use. So often these kinds of videos are a bunch of jump cuts and then a final track.

I've been listening to your music almost non-stop on Spotify lately (you have such a large and fantastic discography). I'm always so impressed... I wish I would've taken the plunge and done this, instead of MRI. Anyways, thank you so much for sharing, and please never stop. You do inspire me to maybe learn and do this someday. Music is the vernacular of the soul. You have a big fan in me.

Thank you Ben. I love ambient and electronic music. This is very nice ❤️

This is mesmerizing - what a beautiful, uplifting, hopeful piece! Thank you for making my day just a little bit brighter.

Beautiful creation

Great collage of moments of creation and showing of the atmosphere in visuals. Inspires on another level :)

Love the track and the behind the scenes view. Thanks Benn.

far out! Gave me goosebumps.

beautiful, this channel is such a gem. i've enjoyed your music for years but did not know this channel existed until today. this youtube channel should have millions of subs with the quality of videos you're producing. thanks!

Nice Ambient/Downtempo and video of course.

Yeah. This is the stuff! Love your other videos as well, but youtube needs more of these!! Just watching people make music is amazing. I was really inspired and immediately wanted to head out to the studio as well!

I love it. First I started curious and then it fully relaxed me. Thanks for this and would love seeing this format more in the future.

yes! this is it: let's forget gear reviews and focus on music, sonic experiments and thought provoking content ✨

Appreciate the willingness to experiment (and the 414!) Looking forward to following whichever avenues you decide to pursue from here out, narrated, silent, or otherwise

Beautiful, Benn. Inspiring. Thank you.

The layered modulations in the high end sound scape are hypnotic AF❤

Wonderful! Loved every second!

Thia is amazing! I feel blessed and grateful to get such an intimate insight of the process of creating this song. Please more like this! ♥

Love your music, Benn. I can't understand why you would subject yourself to the horrors of cassettes. Maybe, I can understand 1/4" or 1/2" reel-to-reel, but digital recording and DAWs are nothing shy of a divine miracle.

This was really moving. I don't understand how you can be both one of my favorite youtubers and one of my favorite artists at the same time. Keep doing what you are doing!

Loved this. ♥

The video of just emptiness, no animal or human in sight, perfection.

This is awesome, love seeing the behind the scenes collage and then how it all comes together in the final piece.

Outstanding! Thanks for sharing this.

Wonderful, uplifting, intricate, emotional. The absence of people amidst the very human visuals pulls the musical narrative along nicely.

Wonderful music, Benn! Bravo!

A lovely peak into the process! Thank you! I have the exact same bird t-shirt. Reminds me to keep singing.

@2:32 Judas Priest! Gene Roddenberry called and he wants the Enterprise's bridge back. Holy scheisse bro! NEED MOAR MODULEZZZZZ.... Nice warp-core sound you have going there too haha!!! The tune and the video are great. I love that there isn't a soul in sight (that I saw anyway) in the shots. So cool man - nice work!

Really love this piece. And interesting to see the short snippets of you working in your studio.

Beautiful song Benn! Loved seeing your process too.

Can't wait to see it, cool meeting Benn!

Its great to watch you work, thanks for putting this together.

Absolutely love this! Thank you Ben! You rock, and so does this track :)

Love it. What a nice start of the day! ❤

Thanks for this, Benn. It was definitely inspiring. I’d welcome more of this content.

This was really great to watch man, really inspiring.

This is great, please make more of these videos ❤!

This is so cool and personally perfect timing for me to see this. Thanks Benn

NEED MORE OF THIS! and with what i need is seeing people to motivate me to use my gear more and make music!

You’re on to something with these! You should do loadss and loads of these I think!

This is pure gold, thank you ❤

Wish there was a little bit more build up at 6:34 before the drop. But other than that this is pretty damn good. Perfect feel for lonely drives/walks. Thx for sharing. Hope I don't offend you, if I say this reminds me of some of Bicep's stuff. I like it a lot.

excellence. enjoyed the ride of your process down to the final piece. Good stuff, great art. thank you💚

Fantastic track, I enjoyed the journey. It was cool to get a WIP peek at the different stages. When you brought out the handful of MIDI adapters...oh man, I know that struggle. It's so aggravating that there are multiple formats, and the "try a few until it works" thing can really derail a creative session. Thanks for sharing the creativity!

Oh okay, well that was stunningly beautiful.

outstanding my man

I love your channel but that was the best Christmas present, thank you kindly

That was nice. Thanks for sharing, man.

Really beautiful and inspiring music. The videography was excellent as well. I can only dream of the place the video conveys, the peace and quiet, like everything is just fine for awhile. Thank you Benn.

really nice Benn

A beautiful song from a beautiful soul. Thanks Benn

fantastic content. Touching, motivating and also informative. Legend.

Beautiful music, love it!

Benn, you fukn beautiful soul: Thank You! 🧸💚

Very inspiring @BennJordan I love the piano melody, the synth sounds, the video footage, heck I love the whole damn thing!

Good to get a glimpse of the experimentation and effort going on (and don’t forget the video editing on top of the music production). For some, you might want to call this song ‘The Cold Truth’ 😊

Hell yeah...breaking out the old portastudio!! Awesome man.

The shot of you trying every 3.5mm midi adaptor until you magically hit the one unstandardised standard... I felt that in my bones.

this is so much the vibe i needed right now, awesome

Listened to this on the way to the airport after visiting Japan. I feel like I relived the whole trip while watching the city and listening to your music, such a melancholic moment, thank you!

What a lovely piece of music Benn.

Love the austere and moody photography in your vid Benn. And of course a really beautiful track. Seeing the process in it’s imperfection is inspiring :-). Thanks for sharing this!

The imagery in the 2nd half definitely sets the mood of the song. With eyes closed I can sense calm and peace. With the imagery, I feel a sense of foreboding as the audio weaves me through a sense of longing for my youth and the care free world of my parents protection.

Love this style of video!

Gorgeous. Getting Lusine vibes.

Fantastic. Thank you.

Lovely work.

This is the best thing you have ever posted.

When I see all of these you tuber studios I am always in awe how you guys organise your power and audio leads, but then I see a video like this with a hardware legend with f*cking cables everywhere and it puts my cable ocd at a manageable level.

So good. Thanks for this

This rips. More of these, I adore this format so much!

Beautiful song ❤

Beautiful.

I have a really nice set of bluetooth headphones I wear at work so I can listen to something of quality instead of coworkers talking. These recording of yours are surely what is meant to be experienced through nice headphones. I discovered your channel today. I'm a classical cellist who is AuDHD, and also very much loves science. What you are doing here is inspiring to me on many levels.

this was awesome, love to see it . . . .and hear it!

Holy hell.. This whole video was excellent, but the music video at the end was jaw dropping 👏👏👏 excellent work

Appreciate what you do Ben 💪🏾