expository material apparently..
(which isn't to say there isn't a beginning, middle and end, and beginnings middles and ends within them.) a number of ideas to develop here...
dark science fiction-y soundscape over which rides a soprano sax leading; free treatment of themes...
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- KVRAF
- 16977 posts since 23 Jun, 2010 from north of London ON
The piece started really bassey...like that a lot in a piece like this... 
I can sense a few themes cutting through there as well...the sax sounds very playful...almost joyful to me
Near the conclusion I noticed an almost soundless..if I can use that turn of phrase..beat like pattern...almost...heartlike.... Very subtle effect that is...
I can sense a few themes cutting through there as well...the sax sounds very playful...almost joyful to me
Near the conclusion I noticed an almost soundless..if I can use that turn of phrase..beat like pattern...almost...heartlike....
Very subtle effect that is...Barry
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
If a billion people believe a stupid thing it is still a stupid thing
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- Banned
- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
take the sax (and the belches*) out and take a little ride over to helios creed's place, and you'd have something people expect to hear 
*i'm guessing they were synthesized!
*i'm guessing they were synthesized!
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
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- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
yeah... what happens in this kind of modus operandi, that I really enjoy, is that beating phenomena happen from the sound design and I find rhythmic possibilities in the margins (a lot of it is acoustical phenomena, exciting some cymbals or something, here 'crotales' with a bow, or waterphones. A lot of these things you hear in scifi etc filmscores are in VSL Percussion and/or Elements.)
two of the patches here are mine, the really noisy one that's exposed at the very end, and the crying kind of one that's more blobulent at the bottom. there is a patch in Reaktor Spark I edited some that does a whole lot with just two controllers, and Steampipe in Reaktor as is.
this is kind of terrific, I want to delve more deeply into the themes but have to get them on there while they're happening, I don't write anything down, they happen in the sequencer (there's no plan, it's just improvising by ear following the sound design) So it's a little bit ADD. This 3:15 seems like no time at all.
But, the themes are related, they're related to Calculate This as well.
two of the patches here are mine, the really noisy one that's exposed at the very end, and the crying kind of one that's more blobulent at the bottom. there is a patch in Reaktor Spark I edited some that does a whole lot with just two controllers, and Steampipe in Reaktor as is.
this is kind of terrific, I want to delve more deeply into the themes but have to get them on there while they're happening, I don't write anything down, they happen in the sequencer (there's no plan, it's just improvising by ear following the sound design) So it's a little bit ADD. This 3:15 seems like no time at all.
But, the themes are related, they're related to Calculate This as well.
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- KVRAF
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- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
certainly, there are no belch samples or anything resembling. I guess it's steampipe colliding with my 'cantor ibn blob' patch. with just two controllers these Reaktor jobs do many unexpected things. Spark I got to do a range of things from that bass howl at the beginning to a kind of piccolo fluttertongue thru a distortion box.xoxos wrote:take the sax (and the belches*) out and take a little ride over to helios creed's place, and you'd have something people expect to hear
*i'm guessing they were synthesized!
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- D.H. MOD
- 17945 posts since 21 Jun, 2008
Very cool. I'll have to listen again at a decent hour for speakers, but I've enjoyed it three times on headphones now. Thanks.
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- KVRAF
- 5715 posts since 5 Aug, 2006 from UK - The Mudway Towns
Very strange sort of spacey thing - suits the title - almost a cross between the Clangers and the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 
I like it but suspect it should carry a government health warning
I like it but suspect it should carry a government health warning
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- 5546 posts since 13 Feb, 2006 from Wiesmoor, Germany
I like it
It has a really great atmosphere!
Cheers
Dennis
It has a really great atmosphere!
Cheers
Dennis
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- KVRAF
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- 26033 posts since 20 Oct, 2007 from gonesville
It's a very toxic environment in the narrative it belongs to.folderol wrote:
I like it but suspect it should carry a government health warning
That government doesn't warn, it hypnotizes and drugs so you don't notice... that the sax can be perceived as 'almost joyous' is a moral victory in the thing.
thanks for listening and commenting in the positive.
& thanks Dennis.
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- 12367 posts since 30 Apr, 2002 from i might peeramid
to speak the truth that is pleasant..
you come and go, you come and go. amitabha neither a follower nor a leader be tagore "where roads are made i lose my way" where there is certainty, consideration is absent.
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- KVRAF
- 1585 posts since 13 Nov, 2005 from St. Paul
Superb, takes me to an Ornette science fiction sort of place, which is about the highest praise I can give.