"Crickets" [mp3 removed].
No. 10 in the suite "10 Songs for Analog Drum Machine and Sidstation."
Very very nice, and a good example of how to build interest and tension in the absence of a conventional song structure. For me this has a sort of early 80s science fiction feel. It reminds me a bit of John Carpenter's soundtrack work on "Escape From New York" which, along with Gary Numan's "Cars" was one of the big reasons I got into synthesizers as a kid. Keep it up...
Thanks. I actually own two copies of the Escape from New York soundtrack--the Varese Sarabande version and the Italian reissue on Dagored (with choice snippets of dialogue!). I wouldn't have thought of Carpenter and this piece, but yeah, he used those high pitched synth sounds a lot--often just a single sustained note. Also there's that resonant low boom...boom that's in so much of his music. The comparison is very encouraging to me because he's one of my idols, both in his work as a musician and a filmmaker. (I like Numan too.)
I was aiming to do something abstract with the piece but I can't abandon the beat and go completely ambient. Another thing I was doing with all the Sid pieces was using the Sid percussively and the drum machine to make synth tones, in addition to their usual functions. This one is the most aggressive blurring of the two instruments--but I cheated by using a lot of filtering.
I really like this one, the sci-fi "theremin-ufo" that comes in now and then & the kind of jangly berimbau-jaw harp percussion, it's all great. Very trancey and futuristic.
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"Crickets" [mp3 removed].
No. 10 in the suite "10 Songs for Analog Drum Machine and Sidstation."
- tom moody 12-22-2005 11:36 am
Very very nice, and a good example of how to build interest and tension in the absence of a conventional song structure. For me this has a sort of early 80s science fiction feel. It reminds me a bit of John Carpenter's soundtrack work on "Escape From New York" which, along with Gary Numan's "Cars" was one of the big reasons I got into synthesizers as a kid. Keep it up...
- G.K. Wicker (guest) 12-23-2005 1:07 am
Thanks. I actually own two copies of the Escape from New York soundtrack--the Varese Sarabande version and the Italian reissue on Dagored (with choice snippets of dialogue!). I wouldn't have thought of Carpenter and this piece, but yeah, he used those high pitched synth sounds a lot--often just a single sustained note. Also there's that resonant low boom...boom that's in so much of his music. The comparison is very encouraging to me because he's one of my idols, both in his work as a musician and a filmmaker. (I like Numan too.)
I was aiming to do something abstract with the piece but I can't abandon the beat and go completely ambient. Another thing I was doing with all the Sid pieces was using the Sid percussively and the drum machine to make synth tones, in addition to their usual functions. This one is the most aggressive blurring of the two instruments--but I cheated by using a lot of filtering.
- tom moody 12-23-2005 7:47 am
I really like this one, the sci-fi "theremin-ufo" that comes in now and then & the kind of jangly berimbau-jaw harp percussion, it's all great. Very trancey and futuristic.
- Thor Johnson 12-25-2005 4:06 am