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tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:51 am

Hi All

Here is my ambient masterpiece

Star Gazing music to observe the most recent comet of this year and inspiration of this piece:

Cosmic Visitor : Comet Malchholz

http://www.wusik.com/song.php?id=446

12MBs !! This is the longest song I have posted here! You can blame vurt for that

Details later

TC

Soniccat · Post by **Soniccat** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:13 am

Excellent Tim, very well done, I could feel the comet dust permeate my cosmos

If you have not put a cd out yet you have to just so I can buy it to help you create more like this. I think I heard M42 in there, is the new vsti you and the doc been working on also used. Man I got to get me a telescope, I need some of that inspiration myself.

mystahr · Post by **mystahr** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:22 am

Sweet soft and oh so warming.

Floating through the midnight skies

Lunch Money · Post by **Lunch Money** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:57 am

Wonderful work, Tim. I don't know much about synth-bases music, but I know the kind of music I wish *I* could accomplish with synths, and this is it. It really takes you on a journey, and while frankly I don't get images of a comet (If I concentrate, I have images of a young man on a primitive dreamquest, though!), it's an aural "experience", which is why I say that it's a journey.

Great sounds. You da man. ("You da man?" welcome back to 1998!)

Greg

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:35 am

Thanks all for the replies so far.

here are some details on the sounds:

Basically two passes of live mixing to Traction, using Receptor with Cameleon 5000 on a Tracktion track ( using my TC Galaxy sound set)

On Receptor, I carefully set up different plugins and mixed them live while recording into Tracktion.

1.M42 for pads and leads
2.Kraklies EZ poly with a SEQ patch
3.HG Fortunes original WOF ( UGO skinned) installed on receptor and pumping out stardust.
4. Piano Module free
5.Plugsound free ( the clang spacy sound)
6.Albino 2 with a cool ARP patch ( love it!!)

The first pass was live playing on cameleon and receptor using a layered Piano/ M42 Sky window,and then mixed in the albino 2 ARP. The ARP goes out to WOF, then the EZ Poly SEQ patch to the Plugsound free clangspace, then back to the albino2 ARP ( did ya follow THAT???)

The "Twinking comet" is created algorithmically with my "Tunesmith machine" which consists of an Atari Falcon running Jim Johnsons Tunesmith controlling lots of FM synths and a Roland U20. ( All hardware)I mixed it in and out from my main Tascam board. Tunesmith allows you to change elements of the sequence with the qwerty keyboard( function keys for modes and numerical keys for transposition) so you can have this very cool algorithically created soundscape that you can fade in and out.

A second live pass for leads and M42 SEQ patches and other wird stuff completed it. No other effects were used..just EQ..so its in the synths!

Had a lot of fun with this piece, and plan to create a series called "Music for Star gazing" which is what my intentions were.

TC

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:21 pm

Very nice indeed Tim, you are good at these pieces

its a sign of talent that you can do improv live passes over each other and keep everything tied together

Top stuff

Jim

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:03 pm

Hunter wrote:Very nice indeed Tim, you are good at these pieces

its a sign of talent that you can do improv live passes over each other and keep everything tied together

Top stuff

Jim

Thanks Jim

I hardly do anything step time, or in pieces...but try to improvise live stuff right to "tape". I actually used to work with a 4 Track cassette before reverting to Tracktion. All of the pieces on my atari music page were done that way.

http://tamw.atari-users.net/mp3tim.htm

What I do is try to set things up in advance that present a background or a sonic landscape to improvise over. Then carefully mix/fade it in, while fading the other out. Thats what i did with this piece, and it seems to work seemlessly.

TC

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:08 pm

sweet

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:21 pm

vurt wrote:sweet

too MUCH candy??

Guess I don't know how to make things dark

Your the master of that! ( along with Donavan)

BUT..its done in a minor scale (Cm)

But I did do some little editing tricks.If you hear towrd the middle, it suddenly falls out into another world: the editing knife took a dip trying to get out some distortion, and perhaps a bit too much, but I liked the effect and kept it in. I also took a small 2 second portion and suddenly put in some flanging chorusing..like the comet went into a different part of the sky and comes out again.Its nice doing little tricks .

The TC_Galaxy cameleon sounds really stand out as well, and thats what opens the piece and ends it. I belive it was PAD M13 cluster and PAD orion nebula

EDIT: its also EXACTLY 13 minutes long! Don't know if that has any suggnificance or not

TC

Ian SDZH · Post by **Ian SDZH** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 9:46 am

Lovely

the twinkling really captures the cincept of the comet's tail
I would have liked to hear more piano in there, but that's a minor niggle

The passage from 10mins to the end appeals to me most. Lovely strings & pads

For those interested, here are some images of the comet in question

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050105.html

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 11:49 am

when i said sweet it was a compliment

sweet as pie kinda thing

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:29 pm

this is quite wonderful ...
intricate , and flowing ...

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 5:24 pm

vurt wrote:when i said sweet it was a compliment
sweet as pie kinda thing

ahhh......thanks vurt. "Apology accepted" said darth

the twinkling really captures the cincept of the comet's tail
I would have liked to hear more piano in there, but that's a minor niggle
The passage from 10mins to the end appeals to me most. Lovely strings & pads

For those interested, here are some images of the comet in question

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050105.html

Thanks for that. Yes...i was trying to figure out what a good sound would be for the actual comet, and was playing with tunesmith. For some reason, when i booted it up, there was a really fast arpeggio programmed on it ( it can go as slow as you want with 6 parts including bass and drums) so i put in a few twinkly FM sounds and it seemed to work. You can hear me tweaking Tunesmith in real time with the qwerty keyboard, changing modes and transposing it. Tunesmith is wonderfull..and its free at my Atari site, and works on Steem, the Atari emulator for PC ( all on my atari page..see sig)

I sent the song link to Don Machholz ( the discover himself) and got a great response! That was special for me.

so do you guys think a series or CD called "Music for Star Gazing" would be good? perhaps marketed towrd the astronomy community ( another accesory..like a filter or new Eye Piece

TC

Psyclapse · Post by **Psyclapse** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 6:35 pm

tconrardy wrote:so do you guys think a series or CD called "Music for Star Gazing" would be good?

Well, if this track is anything to go by it will be great!
I'd like to place my pre-order now if that's ok.

tconrardy · Post by **tconrardy** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 10:06 pm

Psyclapse wrote:
tconrardy wrote:so do you guys think a series or CD called "Music for Star Gazing" would be good?
Well, if this track is anything to go by it will be great!
I'd like to place my pre-order now if that's ok.

wow..glad to know there is an interest.

I still have to compose the other 2 pieces however

( make 'em Nice and Long!!)

TC

TC: Cosmic Visitor: Comet Malchholz