"Sawtooth Junction" [mp3 removed]
This is kind of a happy song, incorporating folk, classical, and techno-rave influences into a single perky package. Within my tiny little corner of the home-producer sphere, I do have ambitions. I'm starting to get a method down of playing* and recording blocks of notes, using those blocks to write harmonically and timbrally compatible new blocks, then shuffling everything around with an eye to song development or at least some unfolding surprises. Each recorded block is a gestalt or hybrid of a particular type of (synthesized, filtered) sound with a particular sequence of notes. A block could be a melody or a rhythm. Obviously the design of the sequencer/recorder shapes and encourages this composition method, just as I'm sure a harpsichord and musical staff paper bred its own type of music. I know others put a lot of effort into making "natural"-sounding transitions between measures but I Iike a certain music box artificiality in the sound.
*By playing I mean writing notes, programming the synths and filters, and letting the sequencer play the sounds. I'm into "post-hand" music in a way I'm not with art, entirely, yet.
Updated with minor edits: reduced the volume on one of the hi-hat tracks; fixed a couple of glitches.
Apparently my RSS feed wasn't "validating"--the ampersand in the phrase "Editor and Publisher" in an earlier post was unacceptable for whatever reason. Fixed now. Thanks to whoever posted the /xml in here to let me know.
I am getting a little weary of having essentially to publish this blog twice, making sure everything is OK in html and then checking again to satisfy the various picky "reader" services, most of which change my carefully worked out layout and even my art work.
I'm happy that people care enough to subscribe but I kind of miss the old "check your bookmarks" days.
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"Sawtooth Junction" [mp3 removed]
This is kind of a happy song, incorporating folk, classical, and techno-rave influences into a single perky package. Within my tiny little corner of the home-producer sphere, I do have ambitions. I'm starting to get a method down of playing* and recording blocks of notes, using those blocks to write harmonically and timbrally compatible new blocks, then shuffling everything around with an eye to song development or at least some unfolding surprises. Each recorded block is a gestalt or hybrid of a particular type of (synthesized, filtered) sound with a particular sequence of notes. A block could be a melody or a rhythm. Obviously the design of the sequencer/recorder shapes and encourages this composition method, just as I'm sure a harpsichord and musical staff paper bred its own type of music. I know others put a lot of effort into making "natural"-sounding transitions between measures but I Iike a certain music box artificiality in the sound.
*By playing I mean writing notes, programming the synths and filters, and letting the sequencer play the sounds. I'm into "post-hand" music in a way I'm not with art, entirely, yet.
Updated with minor edits: reduced the volume on one of the hi-hat tracks; fixed a couple of glitches.
- tom moody 10-20-2006 11:05 pm
Apparently my RSS feed wasn't "validating"--the ampersand in the phrase "Editor and Publisher" in an earlier post was unacceptable for whatever reason. Fixed now. Thanks to whoever posted the /xml in here to let me know.
I am getting a little weary of having essentially to publish this blog twice, making sure everything is OK in html and then checking again to satisfy the various picky "reader" services, most of which change my carefully worked out layout and even my art work.
I'm happy that people care enough to subscribe but I kind of miss the old "check your bookmarks" days.
- tom moody 10-21-2006 1:38 am