Well deserved on the Runagate Seal of Holophonics Approval (RunaSHA) badge.
Fantastic little sounds squiggling in my ears and through my sinuses behind my eyes in headphones.
This is great as it stands, but it could really comfortably roll into one of your "big" acoustic drum funk and bassline driven tracks in the second half.
Comfy work though.
Polyslax - The Dreaming Came Quick
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- KVRAF
- 4798 posts since 14 Jun, 2004 from USA
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- KVRAF
- 3191 posts since 20 Sep, 2004 from Atlanta
my favorite of yours since "Unstuck in Time"
So many beautiful bits bouncing around in this one, but never in a way that it's cluttered. Always interesting and effortless. you consistently amaze me, polyslax.
So many beautiful bits bouncing around in this one, but never in a way that it's cluttered. Always interesting and effortless. you consistently amaze me, polyslax.
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- KVRAF
- 10286 posts since 17 Sep, 2004 from Austin, TX
Hey allen and... um, poly (never do I remember your irl name!)
you guys ever organize your songs into "albums" or somesuch grouping?
I tried a couple times but then just add random bits and forget what goes with what all the time.
I had an IRL friend tell me, "Damn, haven't seen you in months... I was listening to Driven Under The All-In-Flux yesterday. You put a lot of work into that didn't you?" (no) and... "There's something fundamentally wrong with you" (yes)
you guys ever organize your songs into "albums" or somesuch grouping?
I tried a couple times but then just add random bits and forget what goes with what all the time.
I had an IRL friend tell me, "Damn, haven't seen you in months... I was listening to Driven Under The All-In-Flux yesterday. You put a lot of work into that didn't you?" (no) and... "There's something fundamentally wrong with you" (yes)
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- KVRAF
- 3191 posts since 20 Sep, 2004 from Atlanta
not to derail poly's thread, but since runny posed the question to him as well:
the idea of grouping my stuffs into "album" format has never really occurred to me. I'd probably naturally do it more as chronological groupings, but that doesn't make a lot of sense in musical terms, really. Trouble is my ramblings...errr..range a bit and I feel uncomfortable doing the groupings. I even have trouble with how to "order them" on a cd for a friend, etc... that's why the only place they are really "archived" in any semblance of order is on my soundclick site (in sig)
and runagate- I am not convinced that you don't spend a lot of time on most if not all your work, and yeah- in alignment with the "takes one to know one" philosophy: you prolly do have something fundamentally wrong with you
Your turn, mr slax
the idea of grouping my stuffs into "album" format has never really occurred to me. I'd probably naturally do it more as chronological groupings, but that doesn't make a lot of sense in musical terms, really. Trouble is my ramblings...errr..range a bit and I feel uncomfortable doing the groupings. I even have trouble with how to "order them" on a cd for a friend, etc... that's why the only place they are really "archived" in any semblance of order is on my soundclick site (in sig)
and runagate- I am not convinced that you don't spend a lot of time on most if not all your work, and yeah- in alignment with the "takes one to know one" philosophy: you prolly do have something fundamentally wrong with you
Your turn, mr slax
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- KVRAF
- 10286 posts since 17 Sep, 2004 from Austin, TX
Hmm let me think about this.
"Dysopian Ekstases" was written first as lyrics, then as a prose description of the arrangement, then laboriously I picked out the parts on guitar and 5-string fretless bass and slowly learned/recorded bar-by-bar, one punch in at a time (I play neither instrument, only the parts I've written this way) and then later I tried to make it in FL... the 3-bar or so violin arpeggio took 9 hours to score.
Biggie Pearl was written as an album prior to a note being played.
The song from BP "Locomotic Astronoumena Caboostier" took 8 months from start to finish, the vast majority of which was learning how to make those sounds and getting it into the semblance of a mix that is the finished product. I had no idea wtf I was doing from an engineering standpoint when I started. None.
"Grotta della Pace Discotheques" took about a day to make.
My last one, Centum Sentience, is improvised and took an hour using software the first time I ever opened it.
You can see where I've come to the conclusion that I've got control over the medium and need to move on to new compositional techniques. Perhaps it's just a quirk of mine that, once I can immediately perform something at the level I aimed for I just stop working on it and move on to the next thing to be mastered. I can't really imagine mastering, say, blues guitar and then spending my life performing variations on it. And also I flatly refuse to even toy with techniques, say actually being able to read musical notation or playing other people's songs or knowing scales or using equalizers, that are of no interest to me "just to prove that I can" - I consider that a f**ked-up, sad, tail-chasing fate. I don't know a single Coltrane song and I love him so much I want to dig up his bones, put a dress on and dance with him.
I guess asking poly about albums isn't fair: you can only fir maybe 7 poly songs on one CD! That's like 2 weeks worth of his output hehe.
"Dysopian Ekstases" was written first as lyrics, then as a prose description of the arrangement, then laboriously I picked out the parts on guitar and 5-string fretless bass and slowly learned/recorded bar-by-bar, one punch in at a time (I play neither instrument, only the parts I've written this way) and then later I tried to make it in FL... the 3-bar or so violin arpeggio took 9 hours to score.
Biggie Pearl was written as an album prior to a note being played.
The song from BP "Locomotic Astronoumena Caboostier" took 8 months from start to finish, the vast majority of which was learning how to make those sounds and getting it into the semblance of a mix that is the finished product. I had no idea wtf I was doing from an engineering standpoint when I started. None.
"Grotta della Pace Discotheques" took about a day to make.
My last one, Centum Sentience, is improvised and took an hour using software the first time I ever opened it.
You can see where I've come to the conclusion that I've got control over the medium and need to move on to new compositional techniques. Perhaps it's just a quirk of mine that, once I can immediately perform something at the level I aimed for I just stop working on it and move on to the next thing to be mastered. I can't really imagine mastering, say, blues guitar and then spending my life performing variations on it. And also I flatly refuse to even toy with techniques, say actually being able to read musical notation or playing other people's songs or knowing scales or using equalizers, that are of no interest to me "just to prove that I can" - I consider that a f**ked-up, sad, tail-chasing fate. I don't know a single Coltrane song and I love him so much I want to dig up his bones, put a dress on and dance with him.
I guess asking poly about albums isn't fair: you can only fir maybe 7 poly songs on one CD! That's like 2 weeks worth of his output hehe.
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- KVRAF
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- 8099 posts since 12 Dec, 2003 from Canada
Much appreciated Jazzy!Jazzyspoon wrote:Well deserved on the Runagate Seal of Holophonics Approval (RunaSHA) badge.
Fantastic little sounds squiggling in my ears and through my sinuses behind my eyes in headphones.
This is great as it stands, but it could really comfortably roll into one of your "big" acoustic drum funk and bassline driven tracks in the second half.
Comfy work though.
Glad you dug bb and cheers for the feedback!blortblort wrote:my favorite of yours since "Unstuck in Time"
So many beautiful bits bouncing around in this one, but never in a way that it's cluttered. Always interesting and effortless. you consistently amaze me, polyslax.
I'm thinking of having my name legally changed to polyslax.runagate wrote:Hey allen and... um, poly (never do I remember your irl name!)
you guys ever organize your songs into "albums" or somesuch grouping?
I tried a couple times but then just add random bits and forget what goes with what all the time.
I had an IRL friend tell me, "Damn, haven't seen you in months... I was listening to Driven Under The All-In-Flux yesterday. You put a lot of work into that didn't you?" (no) and... "There's something fundamentally wrong with you" (yes)
RL: MattYeah, I definitely do some albumizing of tracks, never planned ahead as a theme or anything tho...
runagate wrote:I guess asking poly about albums isn't fair: you can only fir maybe 7 poly songs on one CD! That's like 2 weeks worth of his output hehe.
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- KVRAF
- 3617 posts since 26 Sep, 2003 from Bradford - The Armpit of Britain
for some reason I can imagine the flying spaghetti monster listening to music like this as he touches people with his noodley appendages.
That's a good thing.
That's a good thing.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 8099 posts since 12 Dec, 2003 from Canada
diverdee wrote:for some reason I can imagine the flying spaghetti monster listening to music like this as he touches people with his noodley appendages.
That's a good thing.
Right on diverdee, I dig. Cheers mate!