I dedicate this one to Dave

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Doc, I like your stuff a lot but I'm curious, as a style, what is this? Electronic classical? What influences do you draw on when writing?
 
drstawl,

Like your other stuff I've listened to, this is strange and unique. Although you never listen to my tunes, I enjoy your wierd little tunes because they don't sound like anything else. Strange things in your head me thinks......

B
 
Cool song! Are you playing any of the instuments or is it all midi? If you're playing them what are you using?
 
you checked out mine so I thought I would listen too yours. Quite a surprise. Its sounds like your mood changes quite abit. I like the end.
 
That's as strange as hell.

Can this be classified as music?

More like sound effects.
 
Haha you new guys haven't had much exposure to the good doctor!

Pretty good stuff doc. I like the break at 0:30. This one is kind of thin for the first minute or so, but I do like how it builds. I wanted to hear more of those low end sounds that you panned out.

Right at about 1:45 a *groove* almost devlops!! I couldn't belive my ears and then *snip*, it's over :)

Slackmaster 2000
 
this one sounds ok to me...but I think the 1014, 2028, 4056, and the 8112th notes should go up a half step to resolve to the "hinted" tritonal development that happens later on in the piece. but...that's only an opinion...nothing less...nothing more.

oh yeah...does this have any relation to Vitamin C#?
 
Hey Doc:


Sounds like my sister's Ballerina Jewelry Box after I kicked it down a flight of stairs.

I mean that in a good way, I think...
What I'm trying to say is I liked the counter-melodies, and the layers of the various instru...

Nevermind.

Now I've got a headache.

You dick.

:D
VI
 
Doc, I like your stuff a lot but I'm curious, as a style, what is this? Electronic classical? What influences do you draw on when writing?

It's been labeled, most successfully IMHO by the Singapore Moderator as: "Electro-Gamelan" I draw on everything from Bach to Zappa to Ives to George Clinton.

>I enjoy your wierd little tunes because they don't sound like anything else. Strange things in your head me thinks......

Thank You very much. I do strive to achieve a sound not heard anywhere else.

>Cool song! Are you playing any of the instuments or is it all midi? If you're playing them what are you using?

I was "playing" a MIDI keyboard in the traditional sense (hit record and then pound on the keyboard; then hit stop) on about half of the tracks. The rest were written in CW staff view or programmed in the CW step sequencer. I was using a Yamaha PSR-GX76 driving a MIDIQuest 2Port/SE into a Roland SC-88.
The output of the Sound Canvas was sent to a dbx 386 mic pre and the S/PDIF out was used to feed the GINA in Vegas Pro.

>you checked out mine so I thought I would listen too yours. Quite a surprise. Its sounds like your mood changes quite abit. I like the end.

You say this was a surprise. What sort of tune did you have in mind when you decided to check it out? Was this impression from another D/L of one of my tunes?

>That's as strange as hell.

Thank You very much!

>Can this be classified as music?

I hope so!

>More like sound effects.

Hmmmmmm. What sort of sound effects? I used very recognizable instrument patches for all the voices.

>Haha you new guys haven't had much exposure to the good doctor!

Thanks for guiding the new inductees along the right path!

>Pretty good stuff doc. I like the break at 0:30. This one is kind of thin for the first minute or so,

The first minute is built around the transition that occurs at 0:15. Maybe you have to crank it louder?

>Right at about 1:45 a *groove* almost devlops!! I couldn't belive my ears and then *snip*, it's over

Thanks, Slack. Surely didn't mean to tease you. That was my idea of an "ending" :)

>this one sounds ok to me...but I think the 1014, 2028, 4056, and the 8112th notes should go up a half step to resolve to the "hinted" tritonal development that happens later on in the piece.

The entire MIDI file contained only 3717 events. And the tones are from a Canvas, not a Korg... :)

>oh yeah...does this have any relation to Vitamin C#?

I'm famous for my designer "Vitamin H" which made people "Hasty" to a legendary extent.
Don't know anything about C sharp.
 
Hey Doc............ your name's not Jarl Sigurd is it??? ;)

:D :D :D

Bruce


(just kidding!)
 
That is definately one of my favorite tunes ive heard here. I really like your style and composition. I've gone to live shows where they have a similar style, for them its all improve and they are either just making seemingly random noise with their instruments or playing some obscure scale(s). It usually starts off completely random then as they find their groove it all comes together and becomes some of the best music I have ever heard live. Thanx for the tune:)
 
lexvortex: Yes- almost all improv here as well. Some tracks a little more thought out.

Thanks for checking it out.
 
Gosh, Doc, thanx for the dedication, and honorable mention in your posts.

That's a clever little song, like some of the obscurest Kraftwerk I've ever heard. Wow, nice, and thanx again. I'm glad the Davemania vibe affected you in an inspired, interesting way.

I'm honored by your tribute. That's good work, reminiscent of movie score, or tv score music, but interesting and not boring like average Hollywood pap. It's very reminiscent of an obscure Kraftwerk album I have, called "Ralf and Florian", from the 70's.

Wow, THANX DOC! "DOCmania"!

;) /DA:D
 
its great to meet a person who can make his music the way he likes it and not allow himself to be influenced by others.

Drstawl, you ROCK!
 
I had to come back to this one and say some more...for some reason or another. Back in the early 70's, when I was a music school, I lived with a classical [inclined] student, who didn't even come close to having any chops at all....on any instrument, but his strengths and efforts were then put towards writing...or that was his preference..or so it seemed.
He got into all the heavy hitting writing classes with all the school heavy weight teachers...blah, blah...
However, he would sit down at the piano for hours, never practicing "chops", but just listening to highly tensioned chords, clusters, and all the 'weird shit", and I think just getting off on the sound of the piano with the sustain pedal nailed to the floor. It just completely took over this person. And of course, he was a Bartok, Stravinsky , etc...addict.

now...your stuff VERY MUCH so reminds me of the sounds/music my roomate was getting.
Now...I'm not talking about technique, or lack thereof...but just the overall wonderment at the abstract. I'm not that stupid, and green behind the ears to know that 98% of the people that listen to "complex" music don't have a clue what's going on....even though they may enjoy it...but there is a fine line drawn somewhere, that I'm not sure I can even explain what it divides...but I think you know what I am talking about. I guess I parallel it to standing in front of a 10' x12' painting at the art museum, that has maybe a total of 10 brush strokes on it...but sells for $50,000...and the artless dumb-fucks wonder......ah...aa....a ahhh.....could?....a...maybe its//???...hhmmm 50g's?? aah...

kapeesh??

there's a special place for special people...and usually it's a pretty cool place....but no one ever really figures out where it starts or ends....I think.

Coltrane was a monster, and I'm not really sure how much of a monster he really was....
Then there were the classical masters....
then there was Van Halen:D
 
I like to believe my music will bring out BOTH of the scenarios you sketched.

I like to poke fun at those who take their music too seriously.

I'm flattered by those who feel that my delivery is so smooth that I give the impression that the process is as simple as throwing a bucket of paint at a canvas. It's not.

I took some music classes in college. A year of music theory and a semester of jazz appreciation. OK- that one was a freebie. The instructor was a mondo cool band leader that actually tried to get me to change my major to music from chemistry after he heard my band's demo tape. His parting comment: "Well- have fun with all of those test tubes".

>but no one ever really figures out where it starts or ends....I

All I know is that it starts with my love of great music and will never end.

OK- here's some drstawl trivia.

The original drummer in my college band, a guy named Ed Steinberg was an art/music student where I was studying chemistry. He created a stunning huge canvas by doing just that.
He threw a bunch of paint at this canvas and it worked. I'll just say that he was a much better drummer than he was an artist.
 
drstawl said:
I like to believe my music will bring out BOTH of the scenarios you sketched.
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that makes me feel that I was able to communicate...somehow...wadda ya know?:)

All I know is that it starts with my love of great music and will never end.
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now...you won't believe this...but my OTHER roomate, was a teacher at the time (at Berklee), and was a MONSTER piano player...not to mention ears like a (what animal hears like a mother??)
As confessed, this person quit playing piano basically, (a lifelong studied instrument), because the "newness" was gone, losing way to "predictabilty" and went on to Medical school, starting in his late 20's. I couldn't understand it...and probably never will. He needed to listen to my roomate who couldn't play a lick...cause I know he couldn't transcribe that stuff on the first listen. ..at least I don't think he could ...now...I'll give lack of repetition to his side for that, though;)
 
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