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album: Plankton
track 1: 5:26 Drop
track 2: 4:46 Ocean Lady
track 3: 4:48 L'Heure Bleue
track 4: 3:31 Sink Into The Sea
track 5: 6:08 Steps
track 6: 6:36 Seven GHs
track 7: 2:32 Nautical Twilight
track 8: 12:48 See
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Song Description
Your next step.
You sink into the sea.
Softly the light fades to green.
Life is all around you.
As you drift down deeper.
Look up at the circle.
Words lose meaning.
~~~ notes ~~~
The piano part was captured by a two stage process: first I noodled around on the keyboard while thinking "you sink into the sea" - that's the rhythmic component behind a lot of this. Once I was comfortable playing it, I recorded it into GarageBand with no metronome.
I also captured some improvising in a mode having a variety of names, like Major Gipsy, or Double Harmonic Major. The notes are: D Eb F# G A Bb C# D. It can be coded as 1312131, see this list of modes.
I think I first became aware of this mode from a Liszt work I heard years ago. It's a really cool mode to play around with. It has lots of nice symmetries, and those two minor third intervals are wild.
Then I edited the heck out of it in GarageBand! The beginning and end are quantized timing. I left the timing of the improvised part in the middle as is, because i wanted to keep the expressive ritards intact. So GarageBand's nice even measures mean nothing in the middle.
I also changed around the pitches of many of the notes as I refined the string part, so half the pitches changed: only the velocity and timing remained of what I had originally recorded for the beginning and end. Finally, I also reduced the loudness of several notes.
track 1: 5:26 Drop
track 2: 4:46 Ocean Lady
track 3: 4:48 L'Heure Bleue
track 4: 3:31 Sink Into The Sea
track 5: 6:08 Steps
track 6: 6:36 Seven GHs
track 7: 2:32 Nautical Twilight
track 8: 12:48 See
...more albums...
Song Description
Your next step.
You sink into the sea.
Softly the light fades to green.
Life is all around you.
As you drift down deeper.
Look up at the circle.
Words lose meaning.
~~~ notes ~~~
The piano part was captured by a two stage process: first I noodled around on the keyboard while thinking "you sink into the sea" - that's the rhythmic component behind a lot of this. Once I was comfortable playing it, I recorded it into GarageBand with no metronome.
I also captured some improvising in a mode having a variety of names, like Major Gipsy, or Double Harmonic Major. The notes are: D Eb F# G A Bb C# D. It can be coded as 1312131, see this list of modes.
I think I first became aware of this mode from a Liszt work I heard years ago. It's a really cool mode to play around with. It has lots of nice symmetries, and those two minor third intervals are wild.
Then I edited the heck out of it in GarageBand! The beginning and end are quantized timing. I left the timing of the improvised part in the middle as is, because i wanted to keep the expressive ritards intact. So GarageBand's nice even measures mean nothing in the middle.
I also changed around the pitches of many of the notes as I refined the string part, so half the pitches changed: only the velocity and timing remained of what I had originally recorded for the beginning and end. Finally, I also reduced the loudness of several notes.
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Macaudion
For the ocean - Somewhat haunting - And it is as huge as this - Man
for some reason this piece makes my soul shiver w/ respect - Maybe
it's because I can't swim - Chuckle - Very nice work here - Looking
forward to hearing the rest of this - Thanks for sharing - Dion