dj haamphist 021:
I took a sick day yesterday. Slept in till 'round 10:30 and then shuffled downstairs, fully intending to veg on the couch all day. Which... actually I did mostly. Thankfully I wasn't too sick for a little bit of the old video games! Nothing worse than being too sick for video games. But I digress. Because fortunately I also sat back down in front of the 021. It originated on Monday night and I was pleased with it but it was only the first, err, verse or phrase or I dunno. So I extended it a bit to the full minute spec. Here she blows.
Reason: 021.rns
Non-Stock Refills:
Abbey Road Keyboards
Strings (I think)
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Is it blow-hardy to 1st comment on our own jams? I just wanted to say that this marks sort of a first for me where I feel like the levels are generally correct. Maybe you could argue that something isn't loud enough or something else is too loud, but you can listen soft and it mostly comes through and you can listen loud and it doesn't distort all to hell. I cranked it on the home system yesterday and it was pretty clear. Mastering a track is a discipline all of itself that is not terribly easy.
you blow-hard! commenting on your own post! how dare you!
Anyway, I love how your minutes exude a sort of.. well, almost gentleness, or peace or something. Even in spite of the drums, this one sounds like musicians listening closely and playing their instruments ever so tenderly.
Actually, I don't know how you feel about him, but your stuff somehow reminds me of the composer that often works with Luc Besson - imdb says his name is Eric Serra. I don't know if it's your tone or feel or what. But yeah. Atmospheric, almost always an element of surprise or experimentation, with an eye to the future. cool shit..
I was talking to iwan about this minute though, and he said something that i found interesting - that this was somehow... less "pure" sort of, than your earlier minutes. Like.. your earlier minutes are almost like.. transparent experiments that exude their own simple beauty.
This still has plenty of its own beauty, but it is sort of all within the framework of a real composition, like it is as if you've really decided to construct a song rather than experiment with sounds and notes and tones.
Not that one way is better or worse than the other - it's just different. Interesting though, how it comes through via the music.
Yeah, I feel like this one is less pure as well. Reason was so overwhelming at first that literally all I could manage were sounds so I couldn't help it. Just making something was a challenge.
What I'm doing now is still exploring, but it's exploring how to go in surgically and edit and alter and compose. So what's missing, and maybe why it seems less pure is that I'm not really playing 'live' anymore. Maybe I'm getting too caught up in the software.
The software can really be a crutch. There's absolutely no way I could play that any other way than record a 1 second clip and fix it and then copy it. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself but this is where I'm ending up.
It's funny that you're getting the gentle touch feeling. It's because when I really hammer on the keys it sounds bad, because I don't have the touch. I don't have all those years of developing my feel for the keys. Or something. I dunno. It just sounds bad to me when I hammer away.
Anyway, I like that you're getting all of these things in the music and I like what you're getting.
I feel like ass, time to go home.
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