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Music you've made

Postby The Isness » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:50 pm

There was a thread about this ages ago, but it got long winded and I can't find it so I thought I'd start another one. I'm sure a number of posters here make music, so it's a place to share it with the rest of the board, be it little home demos or proper releases or whatever. :)

To start off, I've just got an EP released on the Silent Flow Netlabel which is available for free download. It's called 'Treatments' and can be downloaded there, or individual tracks can be downloaded here.

"Second Thought is quite a schizophrenic project with multiple personalities, and my best work has always come from reacting against my own music. After completing an album of strict compositions with distinct melodies and rhythms, I felt the need to take the opposite direction and work from a more electro-acoustic perspective, going back to audio editing. A number of sound sources are given the various 'treatments' and converted into entirely different, new pieces of music. This led to the finished EP, a series of ambient drone tracks which sound distinctly different from anything I've recorded previously."

Obviously not everybody's cup of tea but I hope somebody enjoys it. :)

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Postby serenity5 » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:54 pm

Thanks for sharing. Best of luck to your work.

I'm amazed with talented people who make music. I can never learn music, much less make it.
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Postby Jonathas » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:06 pm

I recently got around to sticking a few of my band's songs up on Youtube - anyone dumb enough to have a listen can do so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5yBt66Rck
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Postby Low » Mon Feb 15, 2010 7:49 pm

Jonathas wrote:I recently got around to sticking a few of my band's songs up on Youtube - anyone dumb enough to have a listen can do so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5yBt66Rck



I can dig it.

If anyone is interested here's mah contribution...

www.myspace.com/dazethe

www.youtube.com/dazemegood
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Postby nocultureicons » Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:49 pm

I've bored people enough with it but hey-ho. http://www.myspace.com/captainpolaroid
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Re: Music you've made

Postby Alexander » Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:59 pm

The Isness wrote:There was a thread about this ages ago, but it got long winded and I can't find it so I thought I'd start another one. I'm sure a number of posters here make music, so it's a place to share it with the rest of the board, be it little home demos or proper releases or whatever. :)

To start off, I've just got an EP released on the Silent Flow Netlabel which is available for free download. It's called 'Treatments' and can be downloaded there, or individual tracks can be downloaded here.

"Second Thought is quite a schizophrenic project with multiple personalities, and my best work has always come from reacting against my own music. After completing an album of strict compositions with distinct melodies and rhythms, I felt the need to take the opposite direction and work from a more electro-acoustic perspective, going back to audio editing. A number of sound sources are given the various 'treatments' and converted into entirely different, new pieces of music. This led to the finished EP, a series of ambient drone tracks which sound distinctly different from anything I've recorded previously."

Obviously not everybody's cup of tea but I hope somebody enjoys it. :)


Yeah, somebody enjoys it. Some pretty interesting soundscapes. What kind of treatments do you do? And what do you make them in?

oh yeah. My contribution to this topic; http://alexanderkabel.bandcamp.com It's not all nicely mixed yet (some of it is actually done quite horrible), but that will change overtime, I'm working on it.
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Postby Low » Wed Feb 17, 2010 7:32 pm

Thanks for bringing this thread back. Everything I've heard so far has been glorious.
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Re: Music you've made

Postby The Isness » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:47 pm

Jonathas wrote:I recently got around to sticking a few of my band's songs up on Youtube - anyone dumb enough to have a listen can do so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa5yBt66Rck


This is pretty decent, not entirely keen on the vocals but that's personal taste more than criticism. I enjoy anything with layers of undefined background sound - the keys and guitar mix very nicely here. Song's decent too.

Low wrote:If anyone is interested here's mah contribution...

www.myspace.com/dazethe

www.youtube.com/dazemegood

Ha, some great stuff here. Really nice musical ideas and some crazy/funny stuff in there. I like.

nocultureicons wrote:I've bored people enough with it but hey-ho. http://www.myspace.com/captainpolaroid

The noise is delicious.

Alexander wrote:oh yeah. My contribution to this topic; http://alexanderkabel.bandcamp.com It's not all nicely mixed yet (some of it is actually done quite horrible), but that will change overtime, I'm working on it.


Oh, this is mostly beautiful stuff here. Wasn't expecting anyone around here to be making this kind of stuff. Going to give this a few more listens to sink in properly, keep us updated!


Thanks for the nice comments. Alexander, my methods are all secret ;) but I've basically been working with a huge bank of VST effects and trying different combinations of them to see what sounds best and what sounds worst. These five were the most successful experiments.
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Re: Music you've made

Postby nocultureicons » Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:07 pm

The Isness wrote:
nocultureicons wrote:I've bored people enough with it but hey-ho. http://www.myspace.com/captainpolaroid

The noise is delicious.


Thanks! :D
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Postby Hooligan » Fri Feb 19, 2010 3:18 pm

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Re: Music you've made

Postby Alexander » Fri Feb 19, 2010 8:30 pm

The Isness wrote:Thanks for the nice comments. Alexander, my methods are all secret ;) but I've basically been working with a huge bank of VST effects and trying different combinations of them to see what sounds best and what sounds worst. These five were the most successful experiments.

Thanks to you as well.
But I was actually just wondering if you had used VST's or did some programming. I'm learning Max/MSP at the moment and you can do some pretty wicked awesome stuff with that. I'm also learning Java, but I'm more looking forward to get into SuperCollider. They're all quite hard to get into when you're not experienced with programming (like me), but the possibilities are endless once you get it down.
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Postby The Isness » Fri Feb 19, 2010 9:06 pm

Ah, the number of times I've opened Max/MSP up and then closed, ten minutes later, a tiny bit afraid. I have no idea where to start with it. Which is a shame, really, as I'd love to work with it.
But yeah, Treatments is audio manipulated in Logic with VSTs.
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Postby Alexander » Fri Feb 19, 2010 11:51 pm

You should just start with the tutorials. They might seem redundant at first, but it pays off. This week I managed to make an additive synth which in the end turned out to be surprisingly easy. Though I've been learning it since September (I'm lucky to have classes in it at school). Also I heard it's pretty easy to use your patches as a VST in Logic (I haven't tried it, since I don't have Max/MSP).
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Postby The Isness » Sat Feb 20, 2010 12:24 am

Yeah, I'll have to give it proper time and effort at some point. When I have a new computer maybe, this one collapses if I try and load more than one piece of software at a time.
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Postby mr_spenalzo » Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:21 am

I have five recordings on my Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/thecrystaltrench

They're my own songs with the exception of "It's The First Time" which is a cover of Dutch popgroup from the early 90s... It's a pretty incoherent bunch of demo's that I recorded on my laptop, and I'm still waiting to do some proper recording some time. Love to have some feedback!
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