jeffmaher
New member
Buy My Record, or APL will think your a douche, Rami will kill you and Gerg will yell at you real hard.
LOLBSOK!!!!
LOLBSOK!!!!
drstawl
Banned
I only use the piano roll to edit clams.
jeffmaher
New member
OK...so, how do you invent? It sounds like, then, you play stuff...and if it suits the moment, you keep it..and move on to the next dis-accociated...or loosely related idea?? Are you pleased with the outcome, or are you trying to reach for more impactful stuff?
I mean, your comps are mind-bending...but it's like little kinks in an otherwise flat sheet of aluminum foil. Are you intent on sculpting deeper form, or OK with the result??
If the latter, please disregard my assessment. If you're trying to do more...then take it under consideration, I guess. As I hear it, you're stuck. I reserve the right to be wrong!!
I mean, your comps are mind-bending...but it's like little kinks in an otherwise flat sheet of aluminum foil. Are you intent on sculpting deeper form, or OK with the result??
If the latter, please disregard my assessment. If you're trying to do more...then take it under consideration, I guess. As I hear it, you're stuck. I reserve the right to be wrong!!
nave
Cave Relic
The value of music is in the eye of the beholder. I don't think the problem is with the music. I think you might just have problem with this "foreign currency."
jeffmaher
New member
True enough!
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XLR
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I like it. Makes me think of a walk around Manhattan... hectic and unpredictable but in a cool, interesting way. To my ear it emphasizes rhythmic figures and sonority in a free chain of phrases rather than having a traditional harmonic or song-form structure. There's a lot of value in music like this.
I think it might benefit from something more personal-sounding in the performance. Like a freely improvised guitar track... since you're a guitarist.
I think it might benefit from something more personal-sounding in the performance. Like a freely improvised guitar track... since you're a guitarist.
drstawl
Banned
It appears that if I went any "deeper" the rather sparse audience currently up for this stuff would probably shrink even further.
I'm not intent on chasing people away. It's not meant to be some sort of, "hipper" pop music. It is what it is.
drstawl
Banned
Has your brother got any of that stuff available online?
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It'd have to be very tight rhythmically.I've tried blending the two. Success has been spotty.
nave
Cave Relic
"Hazardous Performance" sounds really cool.
I'm not sure what this conjures in your mind, but I like the tag.
I'm envisioning sheets of pizzicato notes raining down on audience foreheads like Chinese throwing stars. lol
heatmiser
mr. green christmas
Hi doc,
I listened to this several times and really wish I hadn't read all the comments first...damn
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I honestly don't know if I like it or not, but it was interesting enough to listen to several times. Might I prefer a melody or a hook or more continuity?...Maybe, but those things would have no place here. I do like the seemingly haphazard arrangement and it is mildly disturbing in a mostly good way.
I just didn't care for the midi tones of the instruments themselves and would prefer to hear this same arrangement done with more traditional instruments, but, whatever...it's your thing and I hope it works for you. Thanks for sharing.
I listened to this several times and really wish I hadn't read all the comments first...damn
.I honestly don't know if I like it or not, but it was interesting enough to listen to several times. Might I prefer a melody or a hook or more continuity?...Maybe, but those things would have no place here. I do like the seemingly haphazard arrangement and it is mildly disturbing in a mostly good way.
I just didn't care for the midi tones of the instruments themselves and would prefer to hear this same arrangement done with more traditional instruments, but, whatever...it's your thing and I hope it works for you. Thanks for sharing.
drstawl
Banned
Therein lies the difficulty.
Even if I could get the rhythms as tight as the computer, the result would be more, not less sterile. A more worthy goal would be to loosen up the MIDI rhythm to match the human performance.
I think I'll work on something more achievable; like turning lead into gold or perpetual motion...
drstawl
Banned
Thanks for the listen.
I almost popped for a sampling synth, which, theoretically could provide some more realistic sounds but the E-Bay seller pretended to be a buyer as well and got into a bidding war with himself and lost.
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Greg_L
Banned
Stawl, all mutual hate aside and in all seriousness, this would be way better with layers of real instruments instead of the ridiculous random midi mess. If you used real/more guitars, and less casio, it would sound like you meant to play this instead of it sounding like random midi notes drawn in by a 5 year old.
drstawl
Banned
How the fuck would you know?
Your childish brain can't get past, "There's nothing to get. It's just noise from the head of a dumpster diving lunatic."
Your loss, shmucko!
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It'd be like playing to a click. Wouldn't have to be robotic, just tight.
I think you'd get the opposite result.
ibleedburgundy
The Anti-Lambo
I've never heard anything quite like it. Kind of has a John Cage quality about it IMO.
The midi instruments certainly sound casio, but I think it works somehow.
It certainly does start out haphazard but I think it finds it's rhythm at about 1:00 in. It finds it's continuity there. The piece starts to make a lot more sense at that point IMO. Almost goes into kind of a variations or sorts.
The midi instruments certainly sound casio, but I think it works somehow.
It certainly does start out haphazard but I think it finds it's rhythm at about 1:00 in. It finds it's continuity there. The piece starts to make a lot more sense at that point IMO. Almost goes into kind of a variations or sorts.
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Greg_L
Banned
How the fuck would you know?
Your childish brain can't get past, "There's nothing to get. It's just noise from the head of a dumpster diving lunatic."
Your loss, shmucko!
How would I know? Because I can hear, you dumbass.
I didn't lose anything. I heard it. It's fucking stupid. These people are just being polite. I gave you genuine input on how to improve it. You want your shit to sound like a broken Atari game? Lol. Have at it. Your loss, dipshit.
chrisharris
King of Bling
Yeah, this actually is MORE coherent than most of your previous compositions. However, all but your guitar stuff suffers from a severe lack of organic musicality.
Setting the music ideas aside, music is about SOUND, and your sounds suck to 99.9% of people who hear them. Maybe you're in that 1/10th of 1 percent that digs the sounds you use...but I actually sort of doubt it.
Setting the music ideas aside, music is about SOUND, and your sounds suck to 99.9% of people who hear them. Maybe you're in that 1/10th of 1 percent that digs the sounds you use...but I actually sort of doubt it.