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modified dog ( may I call you Evelyn?)
I dig the Tablas. This is kind of simaler to Drstawls stuff. He ought to hear this. Not bad at all!
 
I think the hicups are some sound you used you can here very well at the end after 4:30 ... (maybe no one got that far)

This is very interesting, it's defenetly not "main stream" but it's somehow is musical to me, which is good.

I'm kind of curious how you write a piece like this he... he... like the part around 4:20 with sax, I'he heard this type of arangements before, kind of jazzy and avangarde sounding... a little hard to follow... did you actualy figured out the notes or improvised?

Anyway, mixing is good to my ear, very clear.
cheers
 
Modified,

Thanks for the tune, I really enjoy this type of music.

No mix comments here, it's hard to evaluate a mix when your at work and can't kick the volume up.
 
Track Rat:

No, Evelyn A Modified dog is actually my dog, who of course was named for that lesser known Zappa tune. She remodified me after I modified her, so I've become as one with the Dog. I am the Dog, the Dog is me, and this is my tree. Sorry, I got a little carried away.

Anyway, isn't that (and Inca Roads and Sofa) some of the greatest music ever written? FZ has become intertwined with my fabric of existence, which is me. In 1978, I was walking past a resteraunt in Koza, Okinawa, singing "Evelyn A Modified Dog" with a couple of my also-drunken and otherwise influenced by the synaptic profusion of altered chemical and electric transferences. Just at the last syllable of "...a curious breeze, a garlic breath which sounded like a snore, ...", a cloud of garlic blew past, the intensity if which I have never again sampled. Was it fate? Kismet? A package of Florentine Pogens? Who knows? I only know that this is this.

Fed:

Thanks for the directions, I'm going to try to ferret this out so I also understand. I expect some did't have the patience to listen to the end. I do the same when listening to something I don't care for musically, but want to form an opinion of the mix.

Perhaps it is avant-garde jazz. I have trouble catagorizing my stuff. This thing is actually the last tune I did, and I was treading in unfamiliar territory (using electronics and a computer for composition). Other things I do are centered on my guitar playing, or whatever, so the whole batch that will end up on my CD project will probably be lots of different kinds of things.

As for how I did this piece: it began with an arpeggio which had been in my head for a while. I kept changing and adding to it until I felt I understood it, all the while trying new things, hearing new things, writing and pasting stuff. It's pretty fluid, each tune seems to follow it's own individual path to creation. This one's got more than 60 complete revisions and tons little changes. I'm sure glad I got an 80 gig drive.

Thanks for helping me out,
Denis
 
Interesting eclectic piece. Can't say whether I like it or not. That might be the exact reaction you're looking for.

All the instruments sounded great.

I noticed the hiccups too. I don't know if you've got to the bottom of the problem yet. But I wonder if they're coming from a MIDI track (seems you may have a few here). I've had similar issues withe MIDI tracks within Cakewalk, particularly after copying and pasting. Cakewalk will splice the copied portion into its own clip within the track. As Cakewalk plays (or exports) that clip, there can be a short pause causing a "hiccup". I got rid of the problem by selecting the entire MIDI track (in the "track" view), then from the menu bar selecting Edit>>Bounce to Clips. It boils all the clips into one track. I have no idea if this is your issue or not, but I just though I'd mention it.
 
TripleM

Thanks for your listen. I've got an idea of some kinds of music you wouldn't listen to :p This tune has been a radical departure for me from the kind of stuff I normaly compose for classical guitar.

I did bounce my tracks down to audio in Pro Audio 9, but there may be an artifact I missed. Thanks for the tip.

Denis
 
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