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Mmm.. spacey! I wonder how it would sound with the full arrangement. Also... the instrument's intonation's not very good. Have you considered having your guitar set up?
But anyway... I made a track inspired by 70s prog today. here I tried to make the drums sound lo fi yet still a bit modern. The same for guitars. What do you think of this?

Dayvenkirq wrote: Given that I am currently under a dry spell, here's a crazy idea: What do you think of a piece of music that lasts for 55 minutes and consists of no sound at all? Absolute silence. The idea is not to annoy the listener but rather to understand the listener's impression of it, how the listener interprets the complete absence of sound, for the author to come in contact with another person, with the rest of the world.

So John Cages "Silence" was the single off the album. This is the album (with collaborators, silent partners if you will), at long last.

Can't wait for the 2 CD version. Y'know, with the live versions.

 

Thanks, here are the lyrics:

Edited by DDPascalDD - August 10 2016 at 14:52

^I could have something which might fit what you want. It's a track with mainly piano in the lead and some vocals in the middle (3 verses) where the piano is just accompaniment. It's got drum and bass added here and there. 

Anyone tried this before? 

^ I guess I will have to try some contrapuntal methods on my boring vocal melodies when I get home from work tomorrow. Thanks. 

^ How do you start writing one? Or do you actually start writing a song with a vocal melody? Or does it come to you somewhere in the middle of the process? Does it come in its finished form or do you somehow manage to alter it (but so that it doesn't sound contrived)? 

Edited by Dayvenkirq - June 22 2016 at 00:59

Anyone here writes vocal melodies?

^Thanks, didn't think to check the suggestions thread.  I tried to use the search function but it timed out a few times and I gave up.  If you're already in the archives then I should save my blah blah for review unless you're asking for feedback on something new!

Holy smokes, DDPascalDD.  Holy.  Smokes.

Alright, I obviously realize you are doing this at least partially with midi which does occasionally affect the sound.  But other than that - I am sitting here shocked.  "On Earth" is pristinely lovely and surprising at many turns.  Most folks who dabble in midi and synth (that I have heard) do so with a very heavy hand.  Not so, here.  There are all sorts of subtle little details and appropriate midi/synth sounds to generate them rather than leads fighting leads.  I absolutely loved this piece.

I like "Rose" as a song generally but feel that it needs a real acoustic guitar rather than the midi sound.  Fake acoustic guitar nearly always sounds weird.  I know you said you don't like your singing voice, but I find what you're doing here to be interesting.  I wasn't able to understand the lyrics, though.

"Not Me" - I liked the beginning but once that off-kilter piano part showed up "like" got upgraded to "love."  I am curious, are you playing the part on the keyboard or do you program it in on a staff in the software?  I play piano so I do have a tendency to latch on to piano parts.   I also feel that "piano" as a separate entity from "keyboard" tends to get a raw deal in the realm of prog (and is underused, and when used is often not used well).  Anyway, it is nice to hear something expressively emotive (as opposed to cliche) coming from a piano part in a prog song.  I like the transition halfway.  I am once again enjoying the overall effect of your mellow singing here.  There do seem to be a few parts that are a strain for you to hit the low notes, that's all.

There are a few parts later in the album where wavering in your voice is more noticeable.  This is usually more an issue of practice than of their being anything intrinsically wrong with someone's voice.  Your vocal "chords" are controlled by tiny muscles, and exercising them helps you to hold tone.  (I don't mean to harp on your singing here, it's just that you had specifically mentioned this earlier in the thread).  I am curious if you have taken voice lessons?

Where you finally do lose me on your (very good) album is the bells in the final track.  But they don't last long.    And then you come in with this beautiful section of sweetness at about 8 minutes.  And approaching the very end of the album, you embark on this extremely Nobuo Uematsu-esque journey into the land of video games - I loved that.

Do you have a thread in the "unsigned bands" section for this?  I poked around but didn't find one.  I'm realizing that since you already put the album up on bandcamp that feedback may be useless in the Musicians Exchange forum?  But it didn't feel right to enjoy the music and then just not say anything about it.