Hello. nice one! Some notes were semingly false-souding in terms of a harmonic accordance (whithin ohers). Not much but really there is something a very little. Overall good looping even though it is a repetitive music.
Firstly I am sorry for such a long silence. All I can say is all commitments of a real life are demanding so I couldn't respond in time.
I saw the entire album which really made me jealous of how you easily create this. Also at the same time I somehow feel the connection with a 'dark side' of the very process of creating something like this. I know it takes so much effort. I think I should say more of this until I release something at last so let us forget about this for a moment.
This song sounds very much like as a Manifesto and the marching rhythm is very pleasing throughout - the snare solo work is just outstanding!
I do not watch much TV but I like to believe that CIC is becoming something out there. Doesn't really matter either way.
Still I am becoming more and more jealous about your musical creations. I will have more time at the weekend and will say more after listening to the entire album. Till then!
Hello my friend Alex! I have been thinking of you lately, and wondering what you have been up too. I assumed that you have been very busy in your admirable career!
I can't say that creating this album was easy for me. It was probably the most difficult one I have made, due to technical issues, distractions, and the difficulty of life. One reason was the constant turnover of FL Studio versions... I finally cleaned up the installations seven different versions, which were each causing their own problems with the newer versions. There were the distractions of dealing with legal issues, activism, addiction, pollution, and noise in the neighborhood. I want so badly not to be in this situation, but there is not much I can do to escape at this point.
I want so much to claim a little bit of land and maybe a ruined building in the Carpathians of Romania, and just live in harmony with the earth.
Hearing this song as a "manifesto" is interesting to me. I'm listening to it again, to take that impression in. It is a difficult concept... In all honesty, the song formed as an attempt to communicate with the spirits whose blood and bone makes up the soil which supports the growth in our area. I think that the photo cover art represens this pretty well. There is the shadow of my hands holding the camera, the bleached bones, the dark soil that smells of blood, the deep green leaves, and finally the bright white orb which I accept as a spirit manifestation (though it could be debunked as an insect). I had the camera take three photos in succession at this point, and the white orb only appeared in one of them.
Suffice it to say, in recent months, I have expanded my range to find places where I can have new experiences within walking distance. I've had some intense experiences, and met some great animals. I even had the fortune to meet a fox up close, which is an animal I had never seen in Minnesota before. I also found some amazing mushrooms, including a few varieties of gymnopilus, which I had been searching for since around 1997. One of the forests where I found them definitely has some sort of dark past, where it makes one feel sick, or I hear the trees screaming.
Your mention of TV in relation to CIC is not something I can fully understand. Is "CIC" some sort of program?
All in all, the album turned out worse than I was hoping for, but I simply needed to put it in the past. I am proud of the amount of realism in many songs and recordings. I am frustrated with many of the technical issues imprinted on some songs from reliance upon computers. It's a lesson to be learned.
I am very happy to hear from you, and I hope to continue our conversations soon. Thank you for listening to this one!
hello this one was a bit surprising (in positive!) and quite different from what I can remember from you. Yes, definitely more progressive, changing and interesting in terms of the 'colors' and tempo. Nice writing, especially in the opening section! I like it in particular maybe because I was listening a lot to Al Di Meola sort of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWxTyld-r_8 it is very mixed 'fusion' also with synthesizers.
I can not give you any details (whish I could write and think faster haha) - just to say that I really like what you did.
Means a lot coming from you. You've always been critical of my music, and I seriously appreciate that about you. You don't blow smoke. More people like you are needed in the world.
I really am enjoying the bowed nature of sounds you're playing and layering and presenting. At 1:30 bass if super fine and for me personally this particular sound-setting may profit a lot by just keeping at that minimal particular point. I say that because the piano texture (also from 1:30) seems to be placed far too low (and sounding dark) therefore it doesn't produce a convincing conterpoint in very musical sense (maybe an octave or two higher would be better, hard to say). I do not know... It is simply laking the illuminating quality of brilliance and doesn't contribute much to the musical content (especially to the melody or melodic development) simply being an another additional texture. Not to say that I could make a better sound or point any way for improvement - just an another temporary opinion. Hope it is useful anyway.
I like classy dnb image of this track.
Good to hear you like my bowed sounds. Bowing is hard and I've only been doing it for about 13 months.
Apart from that, I think you're just saying you don't like the piano sound. I had some problems with it but I think it works fairly well in the track.
"doesn't contribute much to the musical content (especially to the melody or melodic development) simply being an another additional texture."
Yes, it is an additional texture and it sits underneath other instruments in a lot of the track. But, between 1:30 and 2:14 I think it adds a lot and is used subtly later on the half tempo sections. 4:53 you get to hear the initial piano theme return at half tempo. Isn't that a little bit interesting?
this is really amazing approach to sound you presented on EP and I mean this in a positive sense. Really a great amount of true musical content to be found and explored and enjoyed in here!
Let me explain: As I mentioned I am listening intensively to the 2nd chanell of Polish Radio right now in order to stay sane and connected to whatever useful from the overall 'culture'. I was listening to the famous 'I am sitting in the room' by Alvin Lucier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk for example and had a chance (unintentionally for the most part) to instruct myself on different musical matters I had only a vague knowledge until now. Anyway... Your works are definitely much more performative and 'improvisative' than that dry conceptual. I know it is hard to find a proper resonance and even basic understanding to this kind of art on Looperman sometime.
Hello there, and thank you for listening to this recent EP! I visited the "I am sitting in a room" recording, and will not have time to hear it throughout this morning, but may return to it at another time. It made me curious of the real process which he used in the recording. Also, it reminded me a bit of the last EEG test which I went through in July. The technician need to record the session, but she also had the computer speakers turned on. So you can guess what happened... each minimal noise fed back upon itself. She opened a cough drop, and the echoes cut into my brain. She coughed, and I wanted to puke. It was pretty much ridiculous, and obviously I could not get a sleep result. I hope to do more of this improvisation work, but currently I'm more focused on instrument building, in order to facilitate the work. I need to scrape the cat box now, ha ha, so I will speak to you soon! Thank you again for your listen and words!
hi
very fine delicate sounds and very pleasant musical textures going on here. That first section sounds very much like a fresh 'morning music' to me. You seem exploring different 'cinematic moods' I guess: from kind of build-up uncertainty, melancholic to more neutral images - somehow it's 'all in once'. There is no thematic consistency in there regarding musical content, at least to me. It is not to say I didn't enjoy listening to it at all. Maybe this is a result of working with already recorded vocal audio samples or you simply envisioned this more as a presentation of different possibilities, I do not know. Anyway it is hard to point out and remember one significant melodic motif after first listening because there no evolving thematic/melodic continuity. That section from 2:48 is picturing a bigger space reminding me of Wagner's Ouverture to ''Parsifal' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k41D9por6c (this piece is really evolving on a great timeline, so to speak).
I really enjoyed listening to this kind of music. Thanks for posting.
thank you. I just started to learn about harmonies and key change from an online class. was experimenting. I started creating music about 4 months ago. so I'm on a learning curve, and welcome any advice. I'm happy that you enjoyed it.
Hi Dave! I really enjoyed listenig to this one. Super marching bassline, a little bit of guitar lines are great as well. Sometimes linear, melodic; sometimes somehow comping in a jazzier convention. Very hard and clean-out drumming.
Section from 2:39 sounds very much like a repetition of first section using different instruments only. Both sections are in the same mood, to me. Hard to explain - maybe I expected something more positive after hearing nature on the intro...
A really melancholic mood/mode of this song but so very nicely produced! Sounds very powerful. Very fine piano playing too!
Hey Alex thanks for the kind review mate!..originally I had this track slated for some spoken word and rap over the top of it but that connection fell through, I guess that's why it retains that funeral march type vibe...I'm working on some more quasi HipHop type material at the moment which promises to be a lot more optimistic in it's outlook. haha...I can see the scales on the piano but I lack the fluidity that ingrained practice provides, that's why you'll hear me using stabs a lot! lol...all the best Dave :)
I love female sounding sample you incorporated to those first beats of a song - at least this is how it sounds to me: serious and real. Politics and stuff discussed - a real song! At 0:47 I can recognize wonderfully ringing Omnichord in the backgroud when melodic treated voice is in foreground. High - Low, Dense - Transparent - a kind of extraposition happening. Cool. 1:40 is more breathy. Fine mixing of sound. 1:54 there is an apparently simple melody, I like it a lot.
Thank you for visiting my page again in recent days! You are right, this is serious and real - as are most things going on within and without lately. Then again, things are getting to the point where nothing is okay, no matter what choices I make. It's hard feeling this way, but at least music can help me keep going. The omnichord fit in really well to make that section happen, and I'm glad that you could "pick it out." The term "melodic treated voice" had me wondering - to me it suggested some sort of use of pitch shifting or correction on the vocals. There definitely was none of that. Possibly you mean something very different from this though. The idea of extraposition was one which I had to look up, and I found it very interesting and appropriate for the lyrics. The "breathy" aspect of that last vocal section was most likely due to sheer exhaustion... performing this many words in such a short song was a bit trying. The simple melody was played on the Yamaha YS200, in an effort to make a short solo phrase which would give a contrast to what had come before. Seemed to work okay, especially with the odd modulation which trails of on the last note. Thank you very much for listening my friend!
listening to this track all throughout is giving an impression of somethin progressing/changing happenig to me and I liked experiencing to this. It is a great powerful mix at this point. There is a certain chord progression but it does not matter as there is a straight melodic drum pattern as well. It is because I tend to project all jazz, classical and choral (chordal) music very much. All pentatonic scale then?
There must be a harmonic underpinning everywhere in music anyway and I believe in it (at least when tryning creating resonable melodies myself).
That's good to know. I think it has to be if you want to make a really aggressive, dynamic track that smacks you hard in the face (in a good way, of course).
"there is a straight melodic drum pattern"
I'm not sure what that means. Melody from the drums?
"There must be a harmonic underpinning everywhere in music anyway and I believe in it"
I really don't know as I don't know enough about sound and music to comment with any accuracy.
hello Steve. There is a lot of background recording noise - I noticed it right away. A sign of good and true music, in a way. I am not familiar with the actual style and your loop selection so I would say it sounds just abstract. At least until the guitar layer will fade in from around 3:33. Around 4:14 the most painful section starts to me, as I tend to listen at full volume. 4:44 momentum OK from me and nearly bearable- just as 3:33. There is an organic speech at 7:35 or a little bit later. Too hard to listen on headphones. There are some live played synths lead elements + just after oh yeaaahh vocal sounds correct me if I am wrong.
Very powerful looping of slow drum and bass elements.
Best to you Alex
I can't say much on the music itself as it is contains heavy cinematic wide-spectrum-screen drum kind of sounds. It is just hard to evaluate them as they are represent the quality themselvs.
At 0:50 - first time I hear someone is automating clap like that to create reversed lead-in haha. Very cool blendage of different background ambient story-related sounds
Thanks promenade! You're right, this track does have a lot of cinematic screen sounds in it. My idea was to try and create a scene based off the music alone. Its nice to know, that I was able to accomplish that. As for the claps, yeah, I was going for something a little bit different. Its great to know I succeeded.
hello Brado I whish you the best! You did great and detailed work on this particular track. I can really appreciate it. It is a quality music. Nowhere a Rock genre but rather modern Pop to me. Its not because I have been listening same music as Spiv over the years. I find modern Rock more dirty alternative and organic oriented but nevermind. This sounds simply great and in your style. Congrats! Alex
this is absolutely beautiful and very inventive music from you. the fact that you have used a new instrument is impressive.
you know, there is something really weird happening almost all the time with my perception throughout the day. it changes all the time and this is something I can't really control. I listened to this one earlier today but thought you must have used only one cello loop then - might be all stereo and delay processing you added - it definitely created all the illusion. I just have also listened your other cello track (Before the Sphere). Before the Sphere represents basically an 'open' evolving music while this one is probably more 'just groove' type of track. The actual bass drum is quite low pitched and it can always comprehend much more than the bassline. The bass can possibly contain many harmonic extentions when played low enough though. Just my theory but here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzZ_Pu8Udfw (just play the song at 5:50). I love the 'Early Music' and am huge fan of this particular artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lA-vInSUh0 I never really liked Yo-Yo Ma, it is safe to say. Hope some of those materials are useful for you somehow.
The spectral dimention and space illusions you created on this track are quite overwhelming to me. I wish you the best in developing your cello sound further!
Best,
A.
Good to hear you heard the beauty in this - I feel there is a lot.
Yes - a new instrument for me though I first wanted to play the cello aged 16, many years ago now. I have wondered if I need to keep learning new instruments so that I can have new ideas and playing styles as I constantly worry about running out of ideas on the instruments I already play. I don't think I'd like playing a wind instrument - strings are definitely my thing.
" there is something really weird happening almost all the time with my perception throughout the day"
I'm not sure I can help you with that.
" thought you must have used only one cello loop then"
I'm not sure what you mean. There's one main, looped section of cello harmonics mixed in with pizzicato that starts the track off and continues for a few minutes. But it doesn't get boring because there's so much other cello stuff that keep being introduced. There's some bass guitar too. The main cello loop does indeed have lots of delay on it, which gives it some nice movement.
"Before the Sphere represents basically an 'open' evolving music while this one is probably more 'just groove' type of track."
No, they're really both just my usual groove-based type of music. I am a slave to the groove and not very good at forming structures (or even riffs) if I don't have a good groove.
I listened to the Marcus Miller link and he is a very good bass player. Not really sure what that has to do with this track. And the cello link is lovely playing. I am not at all able to play like that yet. I wish I could!
"spectral dimention and space illusions you created on this track are quite overwhelming"
Thanks. It's hard to explain but I think it has something to do with all the cello layers and some of the delay used. It's a gentle piece of music, in which I make constant use of cello slides to give a very deep, emotional overall sound.
I liked it a lot but the bass playing or let us say rather the bass 'soloing' (because there is no really the bass dimention or bass quality in here regarding the frequency sound range) is simpy worth getting more presence here. Overall your song feels like a teaser or just a part of something bigger. the impression is that the vocal is a little bit too much upfront-sounding while the bass guitar somehow hidden.
my opinion is you can always try somehow work out the actual mix (see 1:05 overpower a little momentum when doubling the vocal) by experimenting more with putting the elements in different 'places' in the 'sound spectrum' space. this can be done on the mixing stage.
Fine song and impressive songwriting qualities. Congrats. A.
Thanks to you and everyone else for giving advice on mix/mastering issues. I basically went to a studio and only payed for enough time to spit vocals with some minor tweaks. Working with a new three person team to get radio quality. Let me be clear and say that I know nothing about sound processing. I apologize for the poor sound quality and will get the stems and update the tracks. Thanks for listening and commenting and for helping me to get my shit more on point. Peace.
I liked it a lot. Sounds great considering it is a first song. Has oriental qualities (which I like) and it is so very nicely mixed. Congratulations. A.
this is very interesting funky rock music. definitely the finest songwriting and very much a concrete conceptual sort of work I've heard from you so far. I liked the 6/8 drumming feel at 2:20 a lot - it brings a lot of fresh energy setting all the rest apart somewhere in a different context. I enjoyed your songwriting work.
hey! tylko kilka pytań: czy potrafisz tworzyć własne aranżacje? czy używasz jakichkolwiek klawiatur lub realnych instrumentów?
ten kawałek jest naprawdę ok
Aranżacja tutaj powstała własna tego kawałka, wszystko od podstaw, perkusja, linia basowa, melodyczna itd ;)
Zadnych realnych instrumentów, mam tylko zwyklą najzwyklejszą klawiature (qwerty) od Microsoftu i nic po za tym. a no i jeszcze jakies badziewne słuchawki Philips SHP 1900 i glosniki Logitech x530. Wszystko na słuch robione ; )
I love the sound quality you present and your instrumenal approach to composing - it is truly immensely inspiring.
If you could only sample or somehow incorporate vox or some jazzy lines into this one (?). I do not know... . This feels just too minimal musically to me, at least this time. It is relative of course. I know the technical limitations of live performance so I do not mean this as something negative at all.
I listened to the mixing example you posted previously - so this one is just an another (much louder this time) type of modern radio style. Sounds heavier and guitar are much more distorted this time right from the start definitely.
Sounds absolutely perfect on my headphones. Good dynamic mental changes too (I mean regarding to the actual structure of the song).
By turning up the volume as possible as I can on my headphone system I can hear just guitars and drums remaining mainly. No bass or anything interesting in the high freq spectrum. Vocal (for example) sounds weak and it is really overwhelmed by all the rest at 1:10. The overall vocal atmosphere gets somehow warmer along the guitar (2:32) illuminated by some nice guitar touch I guess.
Overall very plastic sound indeed. Yes, I can hear the strings (from around 2:40) with automated build-up. To me this exapmle sounds very much like a radio Pop not Rock at all.
Plastic sounding is actually a very good description of the actual sound in the industry :))
As for the genre..don't really care. It pays the bills so let me have it.
The song is nowhere near mixed, is just a preview with a few fixes here and there. I must correct the description, I've used the wrong phrasing and didn't realise it.
Hi Brado
Fine piece of instrumental work so far! Everything is exactly the way it supposed to be. I assume drums are loops, or? (?) judging by comments below. I think for a songwriting contest the songwiting qualities matter the most, not really production or just instrumental. I might be wrong though. Can you reveal more about the competition you're entering?
You may always consider playing with the dynamic of the song more (I mean softer intro, longer outro etc.) because this sounds so very commercial and mainstream (therefore boring somehow, at least to me) - a little bit of dynamic variety would be nice, for example: dropping elements somewhere in the middle, a bit like in radio tunes labeled as Dance music. It depends of course on the lyrical structure and the actual message of the song.
Otherwise this is some really great material. Congratulations and good luck!
A.
I used Superior Drummer 2.0 for the drums, and I brought down the snare because it was a bit sharp, and I didn't want them to draw away from the vocals in the end-product. This is an easy fix, however, should it not sound as I intended, and will keep it in mind :) I agree with the dynamic issue, but I feel that to win in this contest I need to give them all I've got (with 18,000+ entries I've got to give them something to keep listening, to draw them in) within the first 30-40 seconds or they'll discard and move on. I learned about this when I traveled to Nashville. Maybe more towards the end, I will in fact change the dynamic. Thanks for the suggestions :)
the real power is delivered from 'inside' your vocals and this tune sounds really cool - it is so very powerful on the energetical level.
I've made a very different version by transforming your vocal into something more abstract-sounding. Really trying to keep it 'minimal' as I can. I hope you will like it somehow https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/175637
Your music and your use of the vocals are really excellent!
And i don't only like them, i really love them.
You done something very special and in a way i never could do it. I am happy that you worked with my vocals on this great track.
on Vibes by sqrtofneg1
on CICwutUdo by Spivkurl
Firstly I am sorry for such a long silence. All I can say is all commitments of a real life are demanding so I couldn't respond in time.
I saw the entire album which really made me jealous of how you easily create this. Also at the same time I somehow feel the connection with a 'dark side' of the very process of creating something like this. I know it takes so much effort. I think I should say more of this until I release something at last so let us forget about this for a moment.
This song sounds very much like as a Manifesto and the marching rhythm is very pleasing throughout - the snare solo work is just outstanding!
I do not watch much TV but I like to believe that CIC is becoming something out there. Doesn't really matter either way.
Still I am becoming more and more jealous about your musical creations. I will have more time at the weekend and will say more after listening to the entire album. Till then!
Best to you,
Alex
I can't say that creating this album was easy for me. It was probably the most difficult one I have made, due to technical issues, distractions, and the difficulty of life. One reason was the constant turnover of FL Studio versions... I finally cleaned up the installations seven different versions, which were each causing their own problems with the newer versions. There were the distractions of dealing with legal issues, activism, addiction, pollution, and noise in the neighborhood. I want so badly not to be in this situation, but there is not much I can do to escape at this point.
I want so much to claim a little bit of land and maybe a ruined building in the Carpathians of Romania, and just live in harmony with the earth.
Hearing this song as a "manifesto" is interesting to me. I'm listening to it again, to take that impression in. It is a difficult concept... In all honesty, the song formed as an attempt to communicate with the spirits whose blood and bone makes up the soil which supports the growth in our area. I think that the photo cover art represens this pretty well. There is the shadow of my hands holding the camera, the bleached bones, the dark soil that smells of blood, the deep green leaves, and finally the bright white orb which I accept as a spirit manifestation (though it could be debunked as an insect). I had the camera take three photos in succession at this point, and the white orb only appeared in one of them.
Suffice it to say, in recent months, I have expanded my range to find places where I can have new experiences within walking distance. I've had some intense experiences, and met some great animals. I even had the fortune to meet a fox up close, which is an animal I had never seen in Minnesota before. I also found some amazing mushrooms, including a few varieties of gymnopilus, which I had been searching for since around 1997. One of the forests where I found them definitely has some sort of dark past, where it makes one feel sick, or I hear the trees screaming.
Your mention of TV in relation to CIC is not something I can fully understand. Is "CIC" some sort of program?
All in all, the album turned out worse than I was hoping for, but I simply needed to put it in the past. I am proud of the amount of realism in many songs and recordings. I am frustrated with many of the technical issues imprinted on some songs from reliance upon computers. It's a lesson to be learned.
I am very happy to hear from you, and I hope to continue our conversations soon. Thank you for listening to this one!
on The Waves Between Ship And Shore by Evisma
I can not give you any details (whish I could write and think faster haha) - just to say that I really like what you did.
on Opposites Subtract by StaticNomad
I really am enjoying the bowed nature of sounds you're playing and layering and presenting. At 1:30 bass if super fine and for me personally this particular sound-setting may profit a lot by just keeping at that minimal particular point. I say that because the piano texture (also from 1:30) seems to be placed far too low (and sounding dark) therefore it doesn't produce a convincing conterpoint in very musical sense (maybe an octave or two higher would be better, hard to say). I do not know... It is simply laking the illuminating quality of brilliance and doesn't contribute much to the musical content (especially to the melody or melodic development) simply being an another additional texture. Not to say that I could make a better sound or point any way for improvement - just an another temporary opinion. Hope it is useful anyway.
I like classy dnb image of this track.
A.
Good to hear you like my bowed sounds. Bowing is hard and I've only been doing it for about 13 months.
Apart from that, I think you're just saying you don't like the piano sound. I had some problems with it but I think it works fairly well in the track.
"doesn't contribute much to the musical content (especially to the melody or melodic development) simply being an another additional texture."
Yes, it is an additional texture and it sits underneath other instruments in a lot of the track. But, between 1:30 and 2:14 I think it adds a lot and is used subtly later on the half tempo sections. 4:53 you get to hear the initial piano theme return at half tempo. Isn't that a little bit interesting?
Thanks for the feedback.
on Agonist Moon and Faultline by Spivkurl
Let me explain: As I mentioned I am listening intensively to the 2nd chanell of Polish Radio right now in order to stay sane and connected to whatever useful from the overall 'culture'. I was listening to the famous 'I am sitting in the room' by Alvin Lucier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk for example and had a chance (unintentionally for the most part) to instruct myself on different musical matters I had only a vague knowledge until now. Anyway... Your works are definitely much more performative and 'improvisative' than that dry conceptual. I know it is hard to find a proper resonance and even basic understanding to this kind of art on Looperman sometime.
I am listening to entire EP on bandcamp right now
on lost love -the lonely road- by mindhiest
very fine delicate sounds and very pleasant musical textures going on here. That first section sounds very much like a fresh 'morning music' to me. You seem exploring different 'cinematic moods' I guess: from kind of build-up uncertainty, melancholic to more neutral images - somehow it's 'all in once'. There is no thematic consistency in there regarding musical content, at least to me. It is not to say I didn't enjoy listening to it at all. Maybe this is a result of working with already recorded vocal audio samples or you simply envisioned this more as a presentation of different possibilities, I do not know. Anyway it is hard to point out and remember one significant melodic motif after first listening because there no evolving thematic/melodic continuity. That section from 2:48 is picturing a bigger space reminding me of Wagner's Ouverture to ''Parsifal' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k41D9por6c (this piece is really evolving on a great timeline, so to speak).
I really enjoyed listening to this kind of music. Thanks for posting.
on NARCOS by Planetjazzbass
Section from 2:39 sounds very much like a repetition of first section using different instruments only. Both sections are in the same mood, to me. Hard to explain - maybe I expected something more positive after hearing nature on the intro...
A really melancholic mood/mode of this song but so very nicely produced! Sounds very powerful. Very fine piano playing too!
Best to you, Alex
on I Got Lost Again by Spivkurl
on Fist Bumps Of Fury by StaticNomad
listening to this track all throughout is giving an impression of somethin progressing/changing happenig to me and I liked experiencing to this. It is a great powerful mix at this point. There is a certain chord progression but it does not matter as there is a straight melodic drum pattern as well. It is because I tend to project all jazz, classical and choral (chordal) music very much. All pentatonic scale then?
There must be a harmonic underpinning everywhere in music anyway and I believe in it (at least when tryning creating resonable melodies myself).
I enjoyed listening,
A.
Good to hear you liked this.
"a great powerful mix"
That's good to know. I think it has to be if you want to make a really aggressive, dynamic track that smacks you hard in the face (in a good way, of course).
"there is a straight melodic drum pattern"
I'm not sure what that means. Melody from the drums?
"There must be a harmonic underpinning everywhere in music anyway and I believe in it"
I really don't know as I don't know enough about sound and music to comment with any accuracy.
Thanks again.
on Come On by crucethus
Very powerful looping of slow drum and bass elements.
Best to you Alex
on Modnex - Blue Drugs by Modnex
At 0:50 - first time I hear someone is automating clap like that to create reversed lead-in haha. Very cool blendage of different background ambient story-related sounds
Thanks for all of the kind words!
Take care!
on Angel In Disguise by BradoSanz
Brado
on The Warm Glow Of Yesterday by StaticNomad
this is absolutely beautiful and very inventive music from you. the fact that you have used a new instrument is impressive.
you know, there is something really weird happening almost all the time with my perception throughout the day. it changes all the time and this is something I can't really control. I listened to this one earlier today but thought you must have used only one cello loop then - might be all stereo and delay processing you added - it definitely created all the illusion. I just have also listened your other cello track (Before the Sphere). Before the Sphere represents basically an 'open' evolving music while this one is probably more 'just groove' type of track. The actual bass drum is quite low pitched and it can always comprehend much more than the bassline. The bass can possibly contain many harmonic extentions when played low enough though. Just my theory but here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzZ_Pu8Udfw (just play the song at 5:50). I love the 'Early Music' and am huge fan of this particular artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lA-vInSUh0 I never really liked Yo-Yo Ma, it is safe to say. Hope some of those materials are useful for you somehow.
The spectral dimention and space illusions you created on this track are quite overwhelming to me. I wish you the best in developing your cello sound further!
Best,
A.
Good to hear you heard the beauty in this - I feel there is a lot.
Yes - a new instrument for me though I first wanted to play the cello aged 16, many years ago now. I have wondered if I need to keep learning new instruments so that I can have new ideas and playing styles as I constantly worry about running out of ideas on the instruments I already play. I don't think I'd like playing a wind instrument - strings are definitely my thing.
" there is something really weird happening almost all the time with my perception throughout the day"
I'm not sure I can help you with that.
" thought you must have used only one cello loop then"
I'm not sure what you mean. There's one main, looped section of cello harmonics mixed in with pizzicato that starts the track off and continues for a few minutes. But it doesn't get boring because there's so much other cello stuff that keep being introduced. There's some bass guitar too. The main cello loop does indeed have lots of delay on it, which gives it some nice movement.
"Before the Sphere represents basically an 'open' evolving music while this one is probably more 'just groove' type of track."
No, they're really both just my usual groove-based type of music. I am a slave to the groove and not very good at forming structures (or even riffs) if I don't have a good groove.
I listened to the Marcus Miller link and he is a very good bass player. Not really sure what that has to do with this track. And the cello link is lovely playing. I am not at all able to play like that yet. I wish I could!
"spectral dimention and space illusions you created on this track are quite overwhelming"
Thanks. It's hard to explain but I think it has something to do with all the cello layers and some of the delay used. It's a gentle piece of music, in which I make constant use of cello slides to give a very deep, emotional overall sound.
Thanks again.
More cello experiments coming soon.
on Push to no end by lendy
on Myy Lyyfe by KnightHeir
my opinion is you can always try somehow work out the actual mix (see 1:05 overpower a little momentum when doubling the vocal) by experimenting more with putting the elements in different 'places' in the 'sound spectrum' space. this can be done on the mixing stage.
Fine song and impressive songwriting qualities. Congrats. A.
on Mind D Ark - Trip by Darknives
on Duzz Yo Momna Eat Yoplait by vigwig
https://www.mixposure.com/jims-artificial-earth/audio/20557/yo-momma-so-damn-pretty-collab-w-mista-perez
on Ewa Farna - Cicho and Diwey by Diwey
on Junior Paes -Saying Goodbye Club Mix by pawciolo
ten kawałek jest naprawdę ok
Zadnych realnych instrumentów, mam tylko zwyklą najzwyklejszą klawiature (qwerty) od Microsoftu i nic po za tym. a no i jeszcze jakies badziewne słuchawki Philips SHP 1900 i glosniki Logitech x530. Wszystko na słuch robione ; )
on 198X- by RogueAi
If you could only sample or somehow incorporate vox or some jazzy lines into this one (?). I do not know... . This feels just too minimal musically to me, at least this time. It is relative of course. I know the technical limitations of live performance so I do not mean this as something negative at all.
But yeah...a lot of early electro was this minimal...
on Fixing a Broken Future by RogueAi
you never allow downloads. is this tune a part of an album or a particular project?
on Full track for the upcoming tutorial by Mahloo13
I listened to the mixing example you posted previously - so this one is just an another (much louder this time) type of modern radio style. Sounds heavier and guitar are much more distorted this time right from the start definitely.
Sounds absolutely perfect on my headphones. Good dynamic mental changes too (I mean regarding to the actual structure of the song).
By turning up the volume as possible as I can on my headphone system I can hear just guitars and drums remaining mainly. No bass or anything interesting in the high freq spectrum. Vocal (for example) sounds weak and it is really overwhelmed by all the rest at 1:10. The overall vocal atmosphere gets somehow warmer along the guitar (2:32) illuminated by some nice guitar touch I guess.
Overall very plastic sound indeed. Yes, I can hear the strings (from around 2:40) with automated build-up. To me this exapmle sounds very much like a radio Pop not Rock at all.
As for the genre..don't really care. It pays the bills so let me have it.
The song is nowhere near mixed, is just a preview with a few fixes here and there. I must correct the description, I've used the wrong phrasing and didn't realise it.
on My Contest Intrumental - Opinions Needed by BradoSanz
Fine piece of instrumental work so far! Everything is exactly the way it supposed to be. I assume drums are loops, or? (?) judging by comments below. I think for a songwriting contest the songwiting qualities matter the most, not really production or just instrumental. I might be wrong though. Can you reveal more about the competition you're entering?
You may always consider playing with the dynamic of the song more (I mean softer intro, longer outro etc.) because this sounds so very commercial and mainstream (therefore boring somehow, at least to me) - a little bit of dynamic variety would be nice, for example: dropping elements somewhere in the middle, a bit like in radio tunes labeled as Dance music. It depends of course on the lyrical structure and the actual message of the song.
Otherwise this is some really great material. Congratulations and good luck!
A.
Brado
on Shayne Ward - Breathless - OffKi Remix by WongKiShoo
WKS
on undergroundsound dance by joecramer
the real power is delivered from 'inside' your vocals and this tune sounds really cool - it is so very powerful on the energetical level.
I've made a very different version by transforming your vocal into something more abstract-sounding. Really trying to keep it 'minimal' as I can. I hope you will like it somehow https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/175637
Alex
Your music and your use of the vocals are really excellent!
And i don't only like them, i really love them.
You done something very special and in a way i never could do it. I am happy that you worked with my vocals on this great track.
stay tuned
joe