On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:23:30AM +0200, Julien Claassen wrote: > Hello Ken! > Nice tracks. Not my top five out of your tracks, but definitely > nice. :-) I like both titles very much though. They convey something > eccentric and slightly nerdy. :-) They were experiments. Glad you liked them though. > I didn't start on the right foot with breakfast at 1. I thought: > why 808, why not 909? This question however was answered quickly, > when the Rhodes joined the funfair. Nice touch that! In combination > with the Rhodes, the 808 made much more sense to me. It left the > piano more space to breathe and roominate. I love those funky/jazzy > reminiscences. Something I can never pull off, as well as you can. > No rock 'n' role and no funk. :-) Nice little track! I looked at the Hydrogen file; it's actually a TR-606. Cheez-o-rama. And it's in 7/4. Of course. > Allure oddmeter, did hold a slight allure. Unfortunately something > had to be steady in this song and the poor old drumtrack had to > suffer that dubious pleasure. :-( If that had been replaced with a > real drummer or a drumkit of any sort played live or programmed in > interesting and twisted ways, this would have been on its way to a > smash-hit. :-) Oddly though, I didn't find the 9/4 too confusing. > Perhaps I didn't always follow the twists and turns of the bassline, > but it felt comfrotable to listen to. Enough so, tht I could enjoy > the mean basslines. Not as predominant and pregnant, as I've heard > them in some of your other songs, but it was there. While listening > and discovering the acoustic piano, I started thinking, that one > could probably have fun with this piece, writing an analysis of the > composer's intentions. So many events and twists, for such a small > arrangement and that style of music, that one could assign to > underlying themes, desires and messages of the author. :-) Coming > back into the non-fictional world, those ongoings are, what makes > this piece interesting, in spite of the looped drums. It was me exploring my Dosh obsession-- before I'd ever heard of Dosh. Odd meters in shifting synchronization, kind of like if Steve Reich and the minimalists came from a more African than European background. My old drummer called it "windsheild wiper music", as in, when two windsheild wipers on a car with two wiper motors drift in and out of sync. It was just a rough sketch. The mix would need more pads and stuff, and the arrangement would need to go somewhere; it's too static. > May I finish this with a wish: do more housekeeping and cleaning, > perhaps you'll find more. :-) I will hope for the best and leave you > to being prepared for the worst. - Honestly: both of them nice, > sturdy tracks, not catchy, but catching. Thanks. I don't think there's too much more left in there, but I'll keep looking. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
