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Author: astroid on October 25 2006

--> thiss was inspired by implex grace, hecanjog, bsr, tmns, roshi and all the other fine em411 ambient/noise/drone folks. maybe a little fennesz.

when i wasn't having nookie regularly, i'd occasionally have these wild water dreams, where i'd be swimming in huge waves around islands. huge waves.

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10/25/06 + astroid

mlbot said: "
I'm with jdg, try athe acoustic guitar. You can always delete it. "

i don't know how to delete things in protools. that's where my style comes from.

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10/25/06 + Roshi

I'm flattered that I helped make you drone. And I like this track.

Like others said, something contrasting to the distortion would be great...whether something like a cello line or something a little rhythmic. You can ground the listener in the piece with tiny rhythmic elements that give the listener a clue to where they are in the musical structure. A beep, a burst of noise, a click, nearly anything helps.

It seems like another missing piece is that it needs to breathe a little more. Heighten the listener's anticipation with a bit of a swell (crescendo) and then a diminuendo in proper places. Casals said that "diminuendo is the life of music".

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10/25/06 + astroid

more really good ideas. thanks!

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10/25/06 + astroid

thank you everybody who listened and commented, i can't tell you how much it means to me to have people so talented listening and giving me feedback! i love this place. i love you people.

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edited: Oct 25 2006 + implexgrace

i enjoyed it astroid!

all i would say about it is that i wish it was more "thick" if you catch my drift. you can do that with lots of compression and filtering..

that soft melody makes me smile when i hear it... and the the bits of static/distortion are like an image that gets fuzzed out due to errors on the medium.

maybe some more variation and "natural" "flowing" stuff. maybe you could take this whole track and layer it on top of itself like... 3 times... and each layer would have a different "master" effect on it... and then compress the entire thing real hard to make it all bind together.

lol blah blah blah

it's still really pretty

10/25/06 + astroid

thanks!

more fucking rad ideas. i avoided compression like the plauge, maybe it'd be good to mess with:D

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10/25/06 + skab

i liked this a lot. i can't really judge the stereo image at the moment coz i'm at work, but i remember you posting someting about binaural recordings and lo frequency sine waves - i'd like to hear some of those squeezed-off distortions go further out in the image.

also - in these dreams, did you ever make it to land? the progression in the melody seems like one of those escher staircases. it's my favourite thing about the track

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10/26/06 + bsr

daaaagnammit, stuck in work with no audio

10/26/06 + Bluermutt

need proper speakers. i'll be back.

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10/26/06 + chimplogic

this is great. in headphones just now it tore my face off

in the bestest of ways. the stuttery parts create a great sense of tension against the walls/waves of freq's.
freaking awesome man. thanks for sharing!

peace

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10/26/06 + utofbu

I like the implied harmonic resolutions. I am sure they might have been more literal before you Distro'd the snd. Very nead. I like when noisy shit drops into consonant resolutions.

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10/26/06 + mlbot

astroid said: "thank you everybody who listened and commented, i can't tell you how much it means to me to have people so talented listening and giving me feedback!."

And mlbot too.

You forgot to say "and mlbot too".

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10/26/06 + Psyingo

this is hot potatos! ...from a hot potato.

im always waiting for a perc groove, subtle, not overbearing or anything, very simple, but glitchy to come in.

but i loves it, you have inspired me now, to make a drone.

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10/26/06 + bsr

frikkin ace.

10/26/06 + astroid

thanks, skab. i had thought about doing the binaural sine wave thing in this, but there turned out to be something nice and ambiguous about having big muddy stacks down there.

thank you benjamin

yeah, utofbu, they used to be more explicit before i filtered/storshed the crap out of em. everything in the piece comes from filtered bits of this slow orchestral piece, which is just chords.

thanks phil, jon.

dunno, laird, "take that, pants" is an astonishing statement on ass texture.

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