Ponder Then Awaken

SmokeyVW

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This is a 20 minute "relaxation tape."

I recommend downloading it to your iPod, find a comfortable place to lie down, and listen sometime when you have an uninterrupted 20 minutes available.

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image credits:
Title: Jonathan's Run Falls
Photographer: Hubert Stoffels from Pittsburgh, USA
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Hits: 1036
Comments: 12
Fans: 2
Plays: 45
Downloads: 36
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Uploaded: Apr 08, 2007 - 09:59:19 PM
Last Updated: Jul 16, 2008 - 02:30:42 PM Last Played: Sep 08, 2009 - 12:55:20 PM

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bud

bud said 958 days ago (April 9th, 2007)

Nice idea Bill -
The first two parts are really quite wonderful and seductive - nice detail in the white noise. The lush oechetra that brings us back at the end is amazing and I wish you had extended that section longer - perhaps resolving the piece in that mode. As much as the following string dance is brilliantly played and arranged - it feels like a different piece of music to me. Still a great offering for spring. Oh - now I get it - that's what it's about. The frost - the thaw - the awakening - the dance. OK - cool.

Check out my latest song called eye for you (w/particledots and michael2)

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 957 days ago (April 9th, 2007)
	. yo the next post was meant to be a response to your post... oops i was sort of thinking no one had 20 whole minutes for anything any more. & thank you for listening & commenting Check out my latest song called One For Me

SmokeyVW

SmokeyVW said 958 days ago (April 9th, 2007)

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i spent quite a while sculpting noise. i never knew how much fun that is! i used GB's 31 band graphic EQ to form two different noise profiles. those are crossfaded to form an evolving waterfall/rainstorm effect. (after doing that a while, i could swear i was hearing individual drops in there.)

there are some other games going on with the opening voices and the ticking clock. i considered (and almost did it) gradually slowing down the clock. but if this truly succeeds as a relaxation piece, the clock should seem to slow down all by itself anyway.

the orchestra pieces at the end are dry, unmodifed real audio loops carefully selected from the Orchestra JamPack. i can only claim credit here in the selection process...

i guess there were springtime concepts at play when i made this, but until you articulated it in words, i wouldn't have realized that. i started this thing back in January - originally it was 20 minutes of total silence followed by some orch loops.

Check out my latest song called One For Me

michael2	michael2 said 957 days ago (April 9th, 2007)
	loving this this is awesome, i love this more than i can say. now i need to go find the EQ that you mentioned (still unlocking the mysteries, i'm only at level 1 at this point). Check out my latest song called Behind Enemy Lines (w/Bud and Particle Dots)

SmokeyVW

SmokeyVW said 957 days ago (April 9th, 2007)

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wow! another listener. cool.

on GarageBand 2,
the EQ can be found like this:
double click on the track header, Track Info should pop up.
click Details
third row down on effects (or fourth) should be empty.
click on the arrow thingy to get the drop down
select AUGraphic EQ
i think the default is 31 channels - there is a 10 channel one too.

the trick for me on this song was to find a solid noise source. i ended up writing a bit of c code to make an aif of noise and imported it. i think you can get some good noise out of some of the software instruments - try some of the Synth Textures for that. if you get stuck, let me know. i'll share the white noise track.

thanks for listening!

Check out my latest song called One For Me

michael2	michael2 said 957 days ago (April 9th, 2007)
	thanks i will try that out for sure. i suppose i could drag one of my analog synths upstairs for white noise, but really now. where's the fun in that? Check out my latest song called Behind Enemy Lines (w/Bud and Particle Dots)

bud	bud said 957 days ago (April 10th, 2007)
	There's tons of fun in analog synths! Check out my latest song called eye for you (w/particledots and michael2)

michael2	michael2 said 957 days ago (April 10th, 2007)
	well i meant that i know how to use them already, so it's a different sort of fun. Check out my latest song called Behind Enemy Lines (w/Bud and Particle Dots)

bud	bud said 957 days ago (April 10th, 2007)
	Just goofin I recently started to mess around with my old synth on "Ornette" and had a good time. Check out my latest song called eye for you (w/particledots and michael2)

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 956 days ago (April 10th, 2007)
	. by all means, play that analog synth, and record it into GB. Check out my latest song called One For Me

bud	bud said 956 days ago (April 10th, 2007)
	Hey Bill Looks like Mike and I hijacked your page here. I went to a music store today and played a MOOG Little Phatty. Very cool synth. Check out my latest song called eye for you (w/particledots and michael2)

SmokeyVW	SmokeyVW said 956 days ago (April 10th, 2007)
	. LOL - just a few more posts like this and only one word will fit per line! Check out my latest song called One For Me

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Name: Bill

Eclectic, at best. I learned some music theory at school, and read a ton about it since. I've listened to lots of music over the years. I once played guitar in an actual garage band and actually got paid to play! Once. Although live performance is an... [see more]

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