love the stereo mix, and all of the random key parts are great. that picture is really disturbing to me for some reason. great job.

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I love how picture-conscious you are: you always have the dopest photos and I'm a big fan of the I-saw-this-really-cool-thing-just-going-about-my-business aesthetic. Thanks for the positiveness etc. Also, I can't figure out what you mean by "random key parts", probably because I am not a musician...

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hey shon. what m2 tries to tell you, i think, is that your melodies here lack a tonica (ground note), atonal music has that attribute. What is important though, is that the individual note layers need to make sense as a whole. And you have seem to be able to do that. Very cool tune. Very cool picture too, I agree with michael, it is a disturbing picture. My interpretation is that the picture combined with those seemingly irrational melodies creates the impression of a psycho tool shed. Ha! Not cool, but ow so interesting as art:-))). The fact that you are not a trained musician adds to your talent, you feel the music. So sometimes you are going to fail in scholarly departments, the traditional music-theory department, but your work will always be interesting and have (huge) hints of musicality. M2 sees it, I do. Keep rocking bra
Succeeded.

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Your explanation is very helpful. I'm gad to hear that the melodies fit together despite my haphazard and uneducated approach. I would like to learn how to build off of a tonic and such, though. I'll have to start studying. Thanks for the encouragement.

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Shon, this song sounds like the soundtrack to Jean Paul Sartre's novel Nausea. Very cool. You make a nice collage of sounds in here that work well together. I listened to the second half of this work first, but I downloaded both pieces and have them playing in the suggested order now. I think the crazy jungle drums get a little over-bearing at some points--I'm thinking of the tom tom rolls in the second half especially--but you move in and out of it smoothly enough that it's not really a problem to the music, just to my ear.

This is a slick pair of tunes. Keep 'em coming.
-g

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