dust1n
Zindīq
Ugh, I wanna get paid to dddddddddo it.
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Any musicians in the house?
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Ugh, I wanna get paid to dddddddddo it.
not nom
Well-Known Member
edit:
i disagree, you do play an instrument
our creativity isn't limited to conventional instruments
oh, I don't see it as anything "less", it's just different. for me, it's mostly experimenting and keeping stuff I like, and trying to do more of that, than knowing what I'm doing ^^ but yeah, it's not like there's no learning curve, I think in the time I spent wrestling with trackers I could have learned one or two instruments somewhat decently :areyoucra but I always loved bleep music so, no.
waitasec
Veteran Member
oh, I don't see it as anything "less", it's just different. for me, it's mostly experimenting and keeping stuff I like, and trying to do more of that, than knowing what I'm doing ^^ but yeah, it's not like there's no learning curve, I think in the time I spent wrestling with trackers I could have learned one or two instruments somewhat decently :areyoucra but I always loved bleep music so, no.
what would we do without...?
:disco:
:band:
blackout
Violet.
Yes. Musician of 25 years.
BFA in jazz and contemporary music, piano/keyboard emphasis.
You can click the link in my signature,
(for an idea)
though I haven't updated it in ages.
Also play and approach guitar and vocals, my way.
Haven't really had time for guitar though in quite some time,
as my uncalloused fingers will attest to.
My life is not very conducive to recording much of anything right now.
Certainly not anything formal and finished.
I have a feeling that anything I record formally anyway
in the future
will retain the element of "raw".
I have no future in popular music.
Anyone who likes my music will need to be willing to "reach" a little bit as a listener.
The right blend of 'raw disturbia' and smooth sophistication.
Dynamics, subtlety, expression, tension, dissonance, change and surprise.
For me music making is an in the moment process,
so while structure is an invaluable framework,
improvisation is where I become one with the process.
It's a spontanious unfolding of mood and energy and asthetic.
I like mixing elements of many different styles and genres.
I'm trying to get beyond caring what other people think,
and just put out what pleases me to create and release from within my own Self.
Looking forward to a unique musical partnership
with another musician of my level.
I am also the creator of totally unique piano/keyboard teaching method,
which I would like to market.
I've been a private teacher of music for 20+ years.
BFA in jazz and contemporary music, piano/keyboard emphasis.
You can click the link in my signature,
(for an idea)
though I haven't updated it in ages.
Also play and approach guitar and vocals, my way.
Haven't really had time for guitar though in quite some time,
as my uncalloused fingers will attest to.
My life is not very conducive to recording much of anything right now.
Certainly not anything formal and finished.
I have a feeling that anything I record formally anyway
in the future
will retain the element of "raw".
I have no future in popular music.
Anyone who likes my music will need to be willing to "reach" a little bit as a listener.
The right blend of 'raw disturbia' and smooth sophistication.
Dynamics, subtlety, expression, tension, dissonance, change and surprise.
For me music making is an in the moment process,
so while structure is an invaluable framework,
improvisation is where I become one with the process.
It's a spontanious unfolding of mood and energy and asthetic.
I like mixing elements of many different styles and genres.
I'm trying to get beyond caring what other people think,
and just put out what pleases me to create and release from within my own Self.
Looking forward to a unique musical partnership
with another musician of my level.
I am also the creator of totally unique piano/keyboard teaching method,
which I would like to market.
I've been a private teacher of music for 20+ years.
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blackout
Violet.
Hey I like it a lot!
(for numerous reasons.
)I don't have time to read the whole thread right now.
Did you play the keyboards?
waitasec
Veteran Member
Hey I like it a lot!
(for numerous reasons.
I don't have time to read the whole thread right now.
Did you play the keyboards?
no, i wish. this is just a project that was recorded in our studio...
i was showing off what our 24 trk can do
Noaidi
slow walker
This is you, waitasec? Fantastic! It's great when the drums kick in at 4.27.
Edit: just realised you said that it was recorded in your studio, not necessarily performed by you. Still great, though!
waitasec
Veteran Member
i'll relay your message to the boys in the band....
cablescavenger
Well-Known Member
Accoustic guitar.
I play tunes I like plus classics that everyone knows. I just do it for relaxation, I don't perform.
I play tunes I like plus classics that everyone knows. I just do it for relaxation, I don't perform.
apophenia
Well-Known Member
I play guitar, bass and sitar, and hand drums, and compose lots of stuff on my PC using Fruity Loops and wave editor/multitracker.
It's hard to beat the thrill of playing electric and loud in a band, but it is also very enjoyable jamming over carefully constructed loops.
I have been into electronic music since the 70s. Yes there was electronic music back then. My first sequencer was a Rockwell AIM65 microcomputer (same as the micro in the first space shuttle), which I programmed in machine code (1979/80). A friend built me a digital to analog converter and I hooked the computer up to my minimoog and went nuts with a reel-to-reel 4-track recorder. I used to get sacramental as anything.
Lately (the last decade or so) I have arrived at a 'method' of composition which is iterative cycling between composing drum/bass/synths on Fruity Loops, then recording live improvisation over that loop, then isolating tasty samples from those recordings and integrating them back into the composition via effects and 'resynthesis' and so on and around it goes ...
The best software experience I have had with music was using an algorithmic composer called MusicBox by John Dunn driving a rackmount multitimbral synth (early 90s), and I wish I had the drive and knowledge to write my own algorithmic composer. Algorithmic composition is soooo interesting, and potentially the greatest leap in musical culture still in the process of happening.
Is anyone else out there into algorithmic composition ? I'm looking for a very specific kind of software ... it must be out there somewhere !
It's hard to beat the thrill of playing electric and loud in a band, but it is also very enjoyable jamming over carefully constructed loops.
I have been into electronic music since the 70s. Yes there was electronic music back then. My first sequencer was a Rockwell AIM65 microcomputer (same as the micro in the first space shuttle), which I programmed in machine code (1979/80). A friend built me a digital to analog converter and I hooked the computer up to my minimoog and went nuts with a reel-to-reel 4-track recorder. I used to get sacramental as anything
. Lately (the last decade or so) I have arrived at a 'method' of composition which is iterative cycling between composing drum/bass/synths on Fruity Loops, then recording live improvisation over that loop, then isolating tasty samples from those recordings and integrating them back into the composition via effects and 'resynthesis' and so on and around it goes ...
The best software experience I have had with music was using an algorithmic composer called MusicBox by John Dunn driving a rackmount multitimbral synth (early 90s), and I wish I had the drive and knowledge to write my own algorithmic composer. Algorithmic composition is soooo interesting, and potentially the greatest leap in musical culture still in the process of happening.
Is anyone else out there into algorithmic composition ? I'm looking for a very specific kind of software ... it must be out there somewhere !
dust1n
Zindīq
I play guitar, bass and sitar, and hand drums, and compose lots of stuff on my PC using Fruity Loops and wave editor/multitracker.
It's hard to beat the thrill of playing electric and loud in a band, but it is also very enjoyable jamming over carefully constructed loops.
I have been into electronic music since the 70s. Yes there was electronic music back then. My first sequencer was a Rockwell AIM65 microcomputer (same as the micro in the first space shuttle), which I programmed in machine code (1979/80). A friend built me a digital to analog converter and I hooked the computer up to my minimoog and went nuts with a reel-to-reel 4-track recorder. I used to get sacramental as anything
Lately (the last decade or so) I have arrived at a 'method' of composition which is iterative cycling between composing drum/bass/synths on Fruity Loops, then recording live improvisation over that loop, then isolating tasty samples from those recordings and integrating them back into the composition via effects and 'resynthesis' and so on and around it goes ...
The best software experience I have had with music was using an algorithmic composer called MusicBox by John Dunn driving a rackmount multitimbral synth (early 90s), and I wish I had the drive and knowledge to write my own algorithmic composer. Algorithmic composition is soooo interesting, and potentially the greatest leap in musical culture still in the process of happening.
Is anyone else out there into algorithmic composition ? I'm looking for a very specific kind of software ... it must be out there somewhere !
You got recordings, somewhere where I can listen to them.
apophenia
Well-Known Member
I have no idea how to post a recording here, and I don't have a website. If anyone can tell me how I can post an MP3 I'll share a few of my efforts.
DreadFish
Cosmic Vagabond
Reverbnation is a good site for that sort of thing.
Incidentally, I just remembered that my band now has a recording posted to the internet
.It's home recorded, and for some reason we aren't posting the other two recordings; probably something wrong with the drum tracks or something.
Nonetheless, here!:Sons of Babylon :: Music - ReverbNation I recommend good speakers (not laptop speakers) so you can here the whole mix, I haven't been able to hear the bass on any laptop speakers, and this song kinda depends on the bass groove.
I would appreciate feedback and constructive criticism.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I play bass, and some guitar and drums although not very well.
I play mostly trash and death metal, but lately I've been working on more of a progressive/alternative metal.
I play mostly trash and death metal, but lately I've been working on more of a progressive/alternative metal.
Classical/jazz piano. Used to perform and accompany for choirs and shows for years. I was accepted by a piano teacher at 12 who was reputed to NEVER take children as students because he didn't have the temperament. But he agreed to take little me, and gave me a polish to my technique, and taught me how to breathe with the phrasing, to let go and be in the moment, to play!
I kept thinking to myself how great a teacher he would be if kids could get past the "well he's so weird" thing. He couldn't sing worth a darn, but he'd hum and close his eyes while he was demonstrating and breathe deeply and sway his body back and forth and forward and backward. I didn't realize how much I did it until a few years later somebody told me how I don't sit still when I play.
Which would irritate the singers a lot.
So, I played and performed and was featured in a local paper for how I was gifted with this talent (I was already accompanying adult choirs when I was 10). But, problem was, I loved singing too.....
Had vocal training, established my range at 4 octaves, won awards around the state through school (because I had an accompanist for me those times). I loved singing gospel and any soul hybrid of such though. I loved belting out Whitney Houston and Gladys Knight. I surprised the heck out of some of my friends one night on the town when my babies were babies....they didn't know I sang....and after a glass of wine I got up to sing Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." I was being silly. They asked me if I was signing a label soon.
[/end gloat]
Another problem was that I was becoming more and more serious about dance....
By that time, I was slowly giving up my passions in music and in dance to go to Purdue in the pursuit of an engineering degree. After just a year, I couldn't stay away from the arts without feeling lifeless. So I dropped the engineering degree and went back to dance, but performed in musicals and reviews to keep my edge.
I still from time to time sit down at a piano and start playing an aria - they were my favorite to play, and I'll hear how absolutely rusty I am with each measure, and it still doesn't matter because I'm in the moment, eyes closed, feeling the keys, moving my body to the story the song is telling.
I still sing from time to time for an audience, though my most recent performance has been a while - almost 2 years. But like the piano, I'll sing spontaneously.
And my kids are always embarrassed when I do it.
I kept thinking to myself how great a teacher he would be if kids could get past the "well he's so weird" thing. He couldn't sing worth a darn, but he'd hum and close his eyes while he was demonstrating and breathe deeply and sway his body back and forth and forward and backward. I didn't realize how much I did it until a few years later somebody told me how I don't sit still when I play.
Which would irritate the singers a lot.
So, I played and performed and was featured in a local paper for how I was gifted with this talent (I was already accompanying adult choirs when I was 10). But, problem was, I loved singing too.....
Had vocal training, established my range at 4 octaves, won awards around the state through school (because I had an accompanist for me those times). I loved singing gospel and any soul hybrid of such though. I loved belting out Whitney Houston and Gladys Knight. I surprised the heck out of some of my friends one night on the town when my babies were babies....they didn't know I sang....and after a glass of wine I got up to sing Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On." I was being silly. They asked me if I was signing a label soon.
[/end gloat]
Another problem was that I was becoming more and more serious about dance....
By that time, I was slowly giving up my passions in music and in dance to go to Purdue in the pursuit of an engineering degree. After just a year, I couldn't stay away from the arts without feeling lifeless. So I dropped the engineering degree and went back to dance, but performed in musicals and reviews to keep my edge.
I still from time to time sit down at a piano and start playing an aria - they were my favorite to play, and I'll hear how absolutely rusty I am with each measure, and it still doesn't matter because I'm in the moment, eyes closed, feeling the keys, moving my body to the story the song is telling.
I still sing from time to time for an audience, though my most recent performance has been a while - almost 2 years. But like the piano, I'll sing spontaneously.
And my kids are always embarrassed when I do it.
mycorrhiza
Well-Known Member
I play mandolin in two bands. One playing mostly Swedish and Irish folk music and one playing a mixture of pop, american folk and punk.
Used to play bass and, then later on, electric guitar in a hardcore punk band, and before that I played bass in a rock band. So I guess I can handle rhythm guitar and bass decently as well.
I'm certainly not on a professional level, but I love to play.
Used to play bass and, then later on, electric guitar in a hardcore punk band, and before that I played bass in a rock band. So I guess I can handle rhythm guitar and bass decently as well.
I'm certainly not on a professional level, but I love to play.
DreadFish
Cosmic Vagabond
BTW, my band has one more song up now.
Give it a listen if any of you have a chance:
Sons of Babylon | Charlotte, NC | Rock / Rock N' Roll | Music, Lyrics, Songs, and Videos | ReverbNation
(I keep forgetting why it's named Llama, the title doesn't have anything to do with the song as far as I remember)
Feedback of all types is appreciated.
Give it a listen if any of you have a chance:
Sons of Babylon | Charlotte, NC | Rock / Rock N' Roll | Music, Lyrics, Songs, and Videos | ReverbNation
(I keep forgetting why it's named Llama, the title doesn't have anything to do with the song as far as I remember
)Feedback of all types is appreciated.