Wish I could sing some lyrics to go with , that would express what you are wanting.................i love the melody....................... :)

[ Reply to This ]

this feels to me like nascent pupa of a song. i keep hearing more and more laters of melodic loops i should add... it could just keep building and building until it overruns the planet?

some vocals would certainly be welcome - unsure if any words are necessary - maybe just vocalizations would do.

you're welcome to have the raw (very raw) GB file if you would like.

thanks

p.s. maybe i should toss this out into the open collabs genre?


[ Reply to This ]

and meandering, in a good way! I like this one, the patient transitions, the melodies, the bits of guitar and piano mixed with the electronics. Thanks for sharing.

[ Reply to This ]

thanks for listening!

it was a quick and dirty capture of emotions spawned by Cipher's video. in a lot of ways it's actually the exact opposite. (did i ever mention that i tend to mix things and their negatives fairly interchangeably? it's a nice source of innovation, but also a source of gaffes, puzzled looks, and frustrated sighs.)

i was almost going to tidy it up into a more final mix, but instead i left all the goofy stuff i recorded while developing the parts that get blended together at the end. i liked the chaos into order effect that gives.

thanks

[ Reply to This ]

rhythmic pull that lies inside this piece - I feel like i can burrow into it and ride this slow wave pulse that grows more prominent as it progresses. Very well - and patiently - developed. I must admit that I could have stayed in the first miasmic minutes indefinitely - it's the kind of thing I like and am comfortable hangng out in. To me - once it congeals it becomes less interesting - though very beautiful and nice to listen to. Excellent work - thanks for posting - and welcome to spring.

[ Reply to This ]

it's funny you prefer the early portion that i would typify as chaotic. this was a recording of me fooling with the mod controller trying to make the voice synth go ee-ah-oo-ah-ah. plus learning how to play the piano bass line. i minimally mixed that. if you were sitting here listening to me gather up this material, you would have heard mostly that first part, just all mushed together into one pseudo-take.

i feel this is very much an unfinished piece - thus the genre choice - and in a way that is perfect to reflect the feeling of springtime - when all things start anew.

sounds to me like if i ever finish it - i risk ruining it! funny how things can go that way.

for some reason, i'm finding this very sad to listen to: for me it's like a bad trip down Nostalgia Road. maybe it's the Cipher's video origins of this song causing that. not sure. the musical ideas here are based on something i wrote many years ago. i should dig up that version and see if it's anything like this one. i think i titled it "the end" - fitting in an odd, negative space sort of way.

thanks Bud - happy spring to you too


[ Reply to This ]

but I often find that when we strive for chaos we create beauty. Or is it when we investigate chaos we find a deeper beauty?

[ Reply to This ]

i hear you on this notion.

beauty and chaos are often found very near each other on just opposite sides of fractal boundaries... if you know what i mean.

[ Reply to This ]

Like coming out of darkness. Into the Light. Funny there are three albums i like very much. Dark intervals ...Into the Light .... and of all things MY Song ...all Keith Jarrett records.
Like a journey into a forest with beams of light streaming in now amd then...
Musicly very interesting and captivating. Kinda reminds me of a modern Bolero. The building. The layering. very cool work.
An insperaion to work on a project of my own...
Thanks for the note...I now got u on my e-mail list.
great!
Peace
Tim

[ Reply to This ]

yes, i hope in the near future we all begin to see the light.

i still admire Ravel's Bolero. another recent song belies that admiration even more strongly.

thanks for listening and commenting!


[ Reply to This ]

...of the early days of ambient music... early Eno... like the fragments of music from other people's headphones, other people's radios at the beach... sounds coming through windows as we take a walk... sounds from passing cars... fragments of musical sound that roll through our consciousness in the background while in the foreground we order a latte or decide we'd like fries with that...

Becomes more musical, or more definitely and definedly musical, more conventionally musical, as it rolls along... At which point one can realize that it was musical all along and almost yearn for it to go back to being mysteriously almost-musical...

I like the almost-Gregorian, almost-maybe-backwards-Mellotron vocalness at the beginning... Did you find a way to get backwards tracks in GB, or what am I hearing?

I like the simple pulse of bass line that pops up, and I like the guitar bits, too...

Neat...

Ed



[ Reply to This ]

the assembly of sounds in the beginning were definitely real, unrehearsed random musical stuff. in a way i treated it like "found art" in my own raw materials. this is the junk that usually gets recorded, cut apart, and mostly thrown away. this time i kept a lot of it.

the mellotron sounds are not processed to sound backwards. that's just how they sound with minimal adjustments. i guess they are intended to be mixed in with a strong mix of other instruments. "in the raw" they sound, well, raw. i guess i rather liked that sound.

thanks for listening!

[ Reply to This ]

Ok, I invent my own stories to others' music, but I got this cool story about what's going on. A soul is entering into eternity, and the first moments are a chaotic jumble-angels and demons striving for the catch- where will this one end up? The soul is floating, floating, upward, towards the light. The clamoring voices give way to music, flowers are blooming, and the cumulus clouds part for the sunshine. The journey has begun, and the soul floats upward in peace. Really interesting and multilayered, and as usual, perfectly put together. :-)

[ Reply to This ]

i like your interpretations. i hadn't really thought about quite that way, but sure, that captures it nicely.

an aspect of this song is the chaos that arises from unplanned, random actions. i was applying that idea to the beginnings, in fact the title is GarageBand's default song title - why create a name for this? i just used the default. why bother plan out a name? why bother plan out a song? we'll deal with the problems as they come up...

well, maybe that's a little too flippant. it's way too easy to look back on what you did and rationalize it all.

hmmm... i think maybe i should stop rambling now.

thanks for your thoughtful comments Roxylee - always a pleasure.

[ Reply to This ]

The rhythms of a life well spent. Accompanied by a choir! A JOURNEY! Walking the path of your life on a beautiful and temperate sunny morning in paradise.

[ Reply to This ]

funny, this ended capturing the chaos in how i create some of my songs.

usually i wouldn't dream of leaving the odds and ends of trial recordings and mis-takes in a song, but here it somehow just all came togther...

Bud urged me to leave it as is. Roxylee found a meaning. everyone else's words ended up crystalizing it for me.

so, in a sense, this is a journey. maybe it's a little piece of my MacJams journey?

[ Reply to This ]

it builds from chaos to a beautiful melody. It really does symbolize the beginning of a journey - the angel rises up from darkness and doubt into the birth of a new day.

[ Reply to This ]