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Polyslax - Sweater
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 5:48 pm reply with quote
Found percussion and melancholy piano dirge.

Sweater

Also available at SoundCloud:

http://soundcloud.com/polyslax/sweater

Thanks to all who have a listen. Smile
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:21 pm reply with quote
Another winner! Smile I like the atmosphere of the piece, very interesting sound textures, acoustic tones, esoteric vibrations!! Nice work and thanks for making it downloadable!! Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:47 am reply with quote
Thanks a bunch!

Made a few changes to the mix/arrangement this morning, same links.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 9:49 am reply with quote
this is beautiful - i could listen to it on repeat all night. fantastic Love

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 4:56 pm reply with quote
Sounds like you found some of that percussion on a submarine. Depth charges or similar munitions, and the odd ping from the sonar. The reverbed piano is certainly melancholy, and the groove at the end with the panned guitar or synth is great.

Good work, Matt Smile
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2012 7:18 pm reply with quote
Cheers Neil + Tim!

The found percussion was mostly plastic toys, along with a plastic bottle, a small tin and a toy keyboard that gave one last gasp of high frequency noise as its battery died.

The pinging sound is from this Altiverb IR.

The panned groove at the end is from a recording of my acoustic guitar.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 9:23 am reply with quote
I put on my best sweater and my polyester slacks (polyslax) to get into the mood for this one. It took me a while to warm up to it because there's a little more randomness than I would like. But in the end, I was won over but those amazing sounds. Great job.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 12:48 pm reply with quote
HiHi Glad you stuck with it Frantz, and thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:47 am reply with quote
I love this one. Thank you.


P.S.-
Somewhere around the three minute area I was reminded of the beginning of this scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFRmU5s0ix0
What, are you dying in there?

(It occurred to me that that could be taken as insulting, but I expect you'll get I don't mean it that way.)
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:49 am reply with quote
No, I gotcha DHM, no offence taken, thanks a lot!
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:11 am reply with quote
Great piano reverb verging on echo. the deep piano is very ominous. Some of those sounds would make a great beat.
e.g. footstep as kick, scrape as snare...

And then you did it. Smile
The tortured string sound is interesting.

Great Job!
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 5:48 am reply with quote
Thanks a lot Allomerus!
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