KVR Audio

Dan_Spin · Post by **Dan_Spin** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 2:55 pm

hey,

yesterday I tried to re-create in music some kinda of strange but beautiful state of mind I happen to experience sometimes. This is what turned out:

http://www.spinaudio.com/cgi-bin/redire ... hWorks.mp3

size: 4.7 MB
encoding: 128 kBps

chilling out people - I hope you'll like it

HoTRocK · Post by **HoTRocK** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 3:16 pm

Found myself in this state of mind on occasion too.
Nice track Dan_spin, enjoyed!

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 9:47 pm

Enjoyed the track, but found it to be spooky more than chill out.

ModuLR · Post by **ModuLR** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:07 am

I really enjoyed this track and all of it's subtleties. Very nice work! Beautiful... w00t!

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:13 am

shamann wrote:Enjoyed the track, but found it to be spooky more than chill out.

surely thats not really a complaint

cmon shamann i know you and spooky is

enjoyed it here too,some nice atmospheres and sounds to build a vision

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:16 am

very well done. I didn't find it spooky; surreal perhaps. kind of dreamlike..

shamann · Post by **shamann** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:29 am

vurt wrote:
shamann wrote:Enjoyed the track, but found it to be spooky more than chill out.
surely thats not really a complaint
cmon shamann i know you and spooky is
enjoyed it here too,some nice atmospheres and sounds to build a vision

Of course it wasn't a complaint. I love spooky. Was just saying, is all.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 2:31 am

i know boss just playin with ya

austere · Post by **austere** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 8:46 am

I have to agree with shamann on that it’s spooky (rather than chilling). The build up that present in the first ±80 seconds is freighting. I have the feeling something is coming at me. even though I can not see it I feel a hand which is just by a few millimeters not touching me around my throat. Not choking me physically but the fear tightness my throat internally. My breathing becomes more short & shallow. Despite that fear clouds the mind I am becoming more aware, my vision becomes sharper and my perceive more details.

I enjoy this song but for example at ±1:26 there is an extremely high beep which much to my displeasure scratches my eardrum. Overall the song sounds a bit dust covered. I don’t know if it was your intention to get such a low-fi-ish sound but I sort of like it. On the other hand it also makes it a bit more draining for me to listen to cause I then have to dig through the dust to pick up the details, but that’s okay.

I like the bell-like-main-instrument that you’ve used. What is that, if I may ask? The sounds of the children are nicely mixed in and give it a spatial feel. It also makes me think back of a time when I passed out and hit my head. I perceived sounds from around me but all felt very remote & detached. Like it was happening in other reality, which it in fact was. That’s also how I experience the voice samples in your song: something happening another level consciousness / being.

The bubbling of the little electronic sounds give it a sort of futuristic organic feel, in my ears at least, which is very cool. Though I do think that they are perhaps a bit sharp.

I’ve been listening to this song 5 times now and all I can do is conclude that I like this song and if it wasn’t for those high frequencies I would play this song more often than that I will play it now.

Thanks for sharing & keep up the good work!

Dan_Spin · Post by **Dan_Spin** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 10:26 am

thanks for the feedback!

I find it interesting that almost all of you found it spooky sounding rather than chilling, and especially at the beggining. for me the initial build-up is the very chilling

to austere:

as for high frequencies content...hm...maybe it hit your ears because you can hear frequencies above 17 kHz (which I sadly happen not to hear)

the bell like sound was recorded from hardware synth chameleon/australis, then 3d delays effect was added to it. everything else is software based

by the way what would be your comments on this track:

http://www.spinaudio.com/cgi-bin/redire ... equiem.mp3

Ian SDZH · Post by **Ian SDZH** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 11:36 am

I seem to be listening to a different track to everyone else - I find it relaxing and not in the least bit scary

I like the kids voices in the background - very evocative

The lo-fi feeling works and the glitches gel beautifully with the track as a whole.
It's a very simple piece that I have to see I really like

Good stuff.
SDZH

Jazz Franco · Post by **Jazz Franco** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:51 pm

Good track and yes it would fit excellently into a horror movie

multree · Post by **multree** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:53 pm

I find it neither soothing nor spooky... it's rather a mixture of guitar string noises with loads-a-effects lying in a kindergarten which is right next to one of these huge Power-Thingys... well you know with all the cables in the air and the statics

the glitchiness is a bit to hectic for me but I like the rest of the tune....

I like the integration of ambience recordings

multree · Post by **multree** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 12:55 pm

Jazz Franco wrote:Good track and yes it would fit excellently into a horror movie

okay now I'm thinking it's a completely different track here, too....

do you guys listen to the same track with the children playing in the background n stuff????

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Nov 16, 2004 1:19 pm

yep,your tellin me kids aint the scariest thing in the world

i suppose its about how you listen,for me its a forboding tale of childhood and all its problems hidden in the dark unknown

or similar

Glitchcore/ambient track