DanGoldstein

Bizarre track,but I believe it works,sounds like something off a jazz fusion album,respect to you for putting it out there mate,who needs traditional harmony these days ha.:)

You should add some drums.

what an experiment. Sounds like you could build a tune off of that drone like sound and beats.
Curious to see how it evolves.
Cru

Nice one Midiaparks!

Didn´t watch the painting at listen, cause i just wanted to hear it pure and maybe later with colors :) .....
All i hear is a cool work. I am realy in a way in love with this little one but i couldn´t emagination any picture, so i will wonder whatkind of picture you used to get inspitationed to create cool music in this special style.

Sounds like you had fun while work and thats always a good thing.

stay tuned
joe

hi again Dan and many thanks for interesting reply. I am glad that you liked Oraison! Around 15 years ago I became totally obsessed with Messiaen when studied music. At a time I had a chance to play several of his organ works, also I still own some amount of CD recordings. I know that Kent Nagano is considered as one of the most outstanding performers of his orchestral works.

This is extremely colorful music, Messiaen developed his own musical language based on 7 modes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modes_of_limited_transposition Oraison is definitely very contemplative, it actually sounds quite similar to the most ethereal section from the organ cycle La Nativité du Seigneur (1935) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5umJQZgQvU It is very characteristic sound for his earlier works.

It takes some amount of patience to 'be with' regarding to such a long phrasing indeed but the pieces are in fact quite traditional designed melodically and harmonically and therefore very listenable in my opinion. It's a sacred music at the very core, the connection with the visuals present in Cristianity is always very prominent.

so I keep going posting links again haha hope you do not mind...
All the best greetings to you, Alex

Hey midi :D

This is super interesting, i think with some live instruments like drums and guitar this could be really epic.
At 2:26 to have some awesome rock chorus would be really cool.
BUT with that said this is awesome on its own really cool funky track :D

Keep up the experiments!

Hope your well.

Xyilent

hi Dan
the painting attached is very fine, I really like it - especially the sky textures. To me the listening experience outside looperman is always different - being detached from everyday blue and grey also many waveform-shape variations always in green and orange I can focus on the sound itself much better. But seriously the piece you composed here is interesting, fluctuating. It is reminding me of an improvised collective drumming for some reason (with nice electronic additions at places). The first part makes me think of old electonic instruments like Ondes Martenot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRJmJzWibzA or Theremin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qf9O6c20oprobably probably because of melancholic tone of some melodies present inside that section of your track. What kind of sound engine did you use? Anyway it was very nice!
Best to you, Alex

Being a watercolor painter I found this quite interesting and a great approach to songwriting. You always do seem to bring thought to the forefront of your music.

Lately I've been mixing the paint on the paper and abstractly letting it happen rather than planning it out and it being structured and rigid. That type of approach can bleed onto music making and allow that to more of a freestyle blending of sounds and timings....

When blending watercolor paints so much comes into play, the paints interact differently, the amount of water, the type of paper... These can be analogous in music aspects I suppose. Your song is such a good example. There is tonal depth, a low heartbeat, humanizing aspect behind to begin with. The part around 45 seconds was cool. Reminded me of sci-fi music, hits on the psychological side of how music can affect people.

All round interesting piece. I listened to this several times, freaked me out a bit like psychological torture music, lol.

Take care Dan!

Wayne

Hey Dan,
This track is very peculiar and interesting mate.
Well done.
Jamid

I'm always in favour of that sort of experiments and I think that in this case the connections between sounds and colors were established very well. Good job mate!

Compliments____Orlando

ez midisparks
very harsh audio experimentation you got there
defo captures a raw emotion from the art from karsen
took a few listens which is always a good thing in my opinion
that theremin kinda vibe very eerie
in a good way
klandestyne

Interesting vibe to this song! Very Audiosparks to my ears! When I noticed the title, I was actually thinking of Star Trek, but that's okay, ha ha. The babies are super scary, both in the art and the music, but that's just me. I like the organ sound, it's very prominent in parts. What sort of aspects did Stohgs add to this track? I think it's a really good effort you all joined together in! Fave!

hey there midi sprks
like this track reminds me on some incidental music in the equalizer dunno why like the atmosphere n tension it creates
kool stuff
off to check more of ur stuff out
peace
klandestyne

Mmm hooman meat.... tastes better than tuna (^._.^)/ perfect match up! Looks like they're on a mission, needing more litter for her box maybe? I have a painting of Grumpy cat coming :D def need do some more collabs. Heard from Stoghs, I got some material from him to work with on something.

Cthulu lies deep beneath the sea dead but dreaming ;) That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
That's a character from the H.P.Lovecraft's fiction. It's a big octopus faced monster that lives in the ocean. Metallica's The thing that should not be is about him/(her?) too. I found another band, Catacomb, that writes all songs based on Lovecraft's writings.
That's a good question, Both are alien worlds relatively unexplored by us. I think this has more of an underwater sound, like being weighed down by the crushing pressure of all that water whereas space is nothingness. The sounds echo and fade like passing through a liquid like medium. In space they'd just continue on unobstructed by the nothingness and fade in volume to nothing. I've never been there but in theory anyway ;) I seemed to have missed the last flight with the rest of the Loopers, I'm stowing away on the next one! :D

Dan,
If there were a correct genre listing for this, it would be abstract. You are an artist through and through; not only able to create art for the eyes but also for the ears. Fav'd.
Mark.

Hello midisparks,
I love the sound of the intro.
Very upbeat and beautiful.
Well Done
Jamid

Great sound design blends wonderfuly with the actual picture !

Compliments______Orlando

Does sound like deep under water near scene of the coral rock and life movement below. Goes with the picture to over at the site. The image is real clear and the colors mix well with the sounds you built to them. The arp synth gives it that extra something, getting real good at these surrounding environments Dan. Has a sense of alert gets one focused and tuned it. How things been? Peace.

Brilliant piece again Dan!

After seeing that painting, listened again and the cohesion is outstanding between the artwork and the music!

That is the essence of your 'artwork' :-)

With appreciation, Danke

Has quite the underwater feeling :D Say Hi to spongebob and Cthulu for me :p Very surreal like floating in the vast beauty under the ocean, Nice one Dan :D

Hi Dan:)

this is some very nice one! probably my favourite from you so far.
I can listen only on laptop speakers now but I really appreciate the higher frequency spectrum of this short experimental sound-scape. It sounds glassy and it's very funky.

For me it is still a bit too short for a proper ambient. Ambient tracks are usually much longer and they evolve slowly. This is always the case in Steve Roach's works, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-SiiwEciFs

but your track is of course a kind of a short illustrative piece and as this it works perfectly fine.

nice little piece!

Best to you, Alex

Nice one midisparks. Has a interesting blend of sounds. The intro does sound a bit out of tune but builds up pretty good. Does sound creepy as well.

Gramo/Neo

Oh snap! Nice mix of sounds. Goes with the painting and the story all the way. Really like what you did at 3:00 and after. That's an cool idea right there. My apologies for being absent from these mixes Dan. Great to hear these ideas still shaping. Thanks for sharing, been visiting the site from time to time, I like how its getting solid on the functions and controls of the site. Good work and entry!

The creepy feel of the sound made me love it! I like surrealistic trips!:)

Compliments____Orlando