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Only The Beginning by SmokeyVW [Email]
Genre: Experimental

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Last Played: Nov 19, 2008 - 11:12:45 AM
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Uploaded: Mar 05, 2007 - 06:29:32 PM
Last Updated: Oct 05, 2008 - 07:50:13 AM
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Description:
album: Omega
track 1: 1:25 Only The Beginning
track 2: 2:18 Cold Meds
track 3: 3:36 This Economy
track 4: 3:26 Michael's Fault
track 5: 10:48 Bellevue
track 6: 2:53 no on
track 7: 3:05 Get Data, Create
track 8: 4:50 Repeat Yeah Knickknack
track 9: 1:51 OOBE
track 10: 4:32 loosed
track 11: 2:03 dog
track 12: 5:52 Mind The Monks
track 13: 4:34 Tomographic Notions
track 14: 4:38 Omega
...more albums...

Album Description

it's about time

Song Description

It's only the beginning.

What it needs is a euphonium.
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Gee, all that waiting &mdash 03/05/07 - 06:38:04 PM
and no symphony. I felt like I was in the audience, trying to shield myself from the coughers. Cool.

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. &mdash 03/07/07 - 06:28:29 PM
hi!

it is "only the beginning" after all! the possibilities are endless.

thanks

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Euphonium &mdash 03/05/07 - 07:37:21 PM
I just checked wikipedia and apparently I used to play one. We called it a baritone horn.

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. &mdash 03/07/07 - 06:34:52 PM
i just recently became aware of this instrument. it's used in Holst's "The Planets" - i always wondered what that was, but it never rose to the level of trying to find out.

apparently the euphonium is a newcomer - it's only been around 150 years. (that makes me feel younger already!)

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There's a beauty to it... &mdash 03/05/07 - 09:32:39 PM
We put brackets around what we listen to, and how we listen... this goes a ways to taking the brackets off... You've got me smiling here....

Ed

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. &mdash 03/07/07 - 06:38:29 PM
i think you nailed it. i wasn't sure why this wacky thing appealed to me.

thanks!

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Cool experiment Bill &mdash 03/06/07 - 10:41:53 PM
What are you using to record with? Were you at the symphony? Great space to the recording. Tuning up has always been my favorite part of an orchestral performance - a one note jam.

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. &mdash 03/07/07 - 06:59:24 PM
M-Audio Microtrack 24/96 recording direct to MP3 on internal flash. i used the miniature T-mike they supplied with it. the stereo separation is insufficient IMO, but it's small. bass response isn't so good, but EQ fixes that. i use this for all my vocals too (while listening to the other tracks on my i-pod shuffle) in the quietest room in the house far away from computer fans.

yes, i was at the symphony. it was fun: i felt like i was a bootleg recordist while surreptitously recording the warm up and tune ups. i got one take of warm up followed by tune up. later that same evening, from the same seat, i caught two additional takes of tune ups.

i spent a fair amount of time mixing/processing. all three takes are combined here. each take got this treatment: send one copy fully panned to the left and the other copy fully panned to the right. use the sample AU to delay just one side by between 40 and 120 samples - that gives you from 1 mS to 3 mS delay. with no delay, it would sound right in the middle (inside your head when using headphones). by adding a small delay, the sound gets pulled over away from the delayed channel. all three takes got different amounts of delay.

i was going for a hyper-realistic effect - i guess it worked?

thanks Bud


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COOL &mdash 03/08/07 - 01:26:28 AM
made me think of john lennon...

a day in the life

very cool indeed

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. &mdash 03/08/07 - 07:32:01 AM
strange that you mention "A Day In The Life"...

this morning i awoke with a vision for a new song based on that graph from Mauna Loa of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. the song would be called "Stairway" and it would be similar to that Beatles tune, but with my own approach to a build up and ending.

strange... very strange...


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number nine &mdash 03/08/07 - 10:40:33 PM
number nine, number nine, number nine, number nine.
don't know why just came to mind. very cool and the audience is listening.

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. &mdash 03/09/07 - 07:23:43 PM
ahhh... just wait 'til the next song...

thanks for listening!


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form &mdash 03/27/07 - 07:21:33 PM
yet it does have it. somehow I was drawn into that picture (great pic btw), and started to have vivid daydreams about being on a cloud, in a large modern ambient concert hall with walls of glass. wanted it last forever. so i played it again :-) nice

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. &mdash 03/28/07 - 07:09:15 PM
double play? wow! thanks!

was that "cloud" one of those things hanging from the ceiling in the auditorium?

(i have a fantasy of listening to a concert from the catwalk someday. back in the day i watched a few school plays from just such a vantage point - it was fun. wow: i just remembered i ran the sound effects for a semi-pro play production once, as an emergency stand-in for the sound guy - now THAT was a trip! thanks for reminding me of that.)

the pic is a blend of two pics off the web (apparently public domain as far i could tell BTW). a sunset and a band in a room with those big windows. i actually spent a while finding those and a while blending them just so. i'm happy someone got into that image.

thanks KTB - maybe we can meet at the AJC sometime soon?

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