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Is this your work, alternative?

I like your sounds, you get really good atmospheres and textures

My favourite tune is 'Hope' which sounds a bit like classic DJ Shadow meets Eno

A bit more production nous and perhaps with a bit more experience in creating more compelling arrangements, and you're onto a winner.

I really wish the whole World could listen to the songs you compose, play, arrange and record because they're all great songs and I love them. But I understand and respect your decision to withdraw them at the same time. I hope that made sense, I'm having one of those "difficult to express myself" days.

Here is my soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/tom-hickling]

It is. Thankyou very much.

I take Soundtrack Pro loops, and other samples from a website called: Sampleswap.org, and play around with them.

Yeah, at the moment they're just sketches/loops/noise. I'm hopefully going to make better arrangements on a new album with the working title: "Controlled Zone".

Thanks for your feedback.

I've started taking guitar lessons

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-7cAL8qS2Y[/youtube]

That sounds beautiful Pandabear.

Thank you very much.

that was very good in my opinion. you are very studious i think.
i like very much what you played and i am going to listen again to it now.

OK...it's SPACE MUSIC time again!! ! Here's my latest "floater" on Youtube:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIn17Hq8I0E[/youtube]
My first one was all Synclavier FM. THIS one, though is all Synclavier sampling. All sounds, as always, programmed by myself. The source for these sounds is a Roland alpha Juno 1. Originally I'd planned on using the samples to make a fake-out multi-timbral alpha Juno and then go back and track the different sounds one-by-one. But as usually happens with me, I manipulated the sounds too much on the Synclavier that it would have taken days of programming and tracking to get similar effects on the Roland. Also thought about just tracking the sounds that I didn't manipulate and layer them with the Synclavier version. After months of shelving this project, getting distracted, and finally just being honest with myself and giving up, I decided to leave it alone. It's still, I think, a good example of what you can do with vintage, cheap DCO analog synthesizers! I dunno--it may even be better than my first one. I also finished another one last night/this morning that I'll post in a few weeks.

Images courtesy of NASA...

Comments/criticism welcome.

that is astounding. i disliked it at first, and i was going to reply "it develops and develops and develops, and then then it is over. it does not really develop into anything", but as i was trying to formulate a more descriptive answer, the music was still playing (for the second time), and i became distracted by it, and then i listened to it, and i realized it was brilliant, so i listened again from the beginning.

i can not imagine how you can paint such a psychotic picture of "uncertainty in the face of the enormity and grandeur of the universe" (as i perceived it) with sound.
wow.

5PRYME - Anathema
http://soundcloud.com/5pryme/5pryme-anathema

Something more downtempo I pieced together this past week. Just a momentary break from dnb at which I thought I might put self-expression over format or complexity.

On another note - good riddens to some really nasty problems I was having with Ableton output for the better part of a year. Hopefully that's a closed chapter and hopefully I'll have an active 4th quarter and a great 2012 .

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgPDdyr8Bz4[/youtube]

These are beats that I hadn't finished at the time squashed up into a little reel. They're not my best, most of it is sampled beat making, but I love these beats all the same.

[quote="AngelRho"]OK...it's SPACE MUSIC time again!! ! Here's my latest "floater" on Youtube:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIn17Hq8I0E[/youtube]

Wicked stuff... very pro sound. Like it a lot. sounds very 80's sci fi

I agree it's brilliant and many other things as well but I also have to admit that when I first heard it and watched the video, it didn't impress me as much as it did when I listened to it without watching the video, which I did several times with my eyes closed. The photos are beautiful but I personally prefer to listen to your music alone and allow my mind to just follow it where ever it might go. Thank you, AngelRho.

I love this Tech, Thanks for sharing it.

@b9, Moog, and Taupey:

Hey! Thanks for the comments--you all are awesome!

b9: I know what you mean about "developing, developing, developing..." 12-tone (serial) music was my specialty as a graduate composition major, and it really still is but I just don't get to express myself the way I really want to--hence this 4-part space theme I'm working with right now. One thing you learn about this method of composition is the idea of "developing variation," which basically just means deriving an entire piece of music from a tiny musical idea of just a few notes. The good serial composers make up for lack of tonal resolution by making their music rhythmically interesting. But this is difficult to do when your goal is more of a floater type ambient/space music.

I probably could have done a better job... There are some places that are sonically just entirely too bright and too loud. A problem I ran into composing it was I lost track of time and didn't realize I'd come up with over 20 minutes of music! I had to do a lot of trimming down, and I feel some parts sound a little rushed. I simply reached a point where I had to admit to myself that I was really done working on it and it was time to let it go.

@Taupey: I find your comments really interesting. Something I learned along the way is working with music this way tends to come across as really harsh, not something that is easily avoided, and a way to balance the sonic harshness is to add a visual element. I've always been fascinated by astronomy and space images, and the Hubble images are beautiful and somewhat parallel to what I was thinking musically. Think of it as drinking a dry red wine after nibbling a piece of chocolate. It seems to me you prefer one OR the other, and I'm flattered that you liked the music better without the images!

@Moog: Thanks! I don't have many expensive toys, but the instrument that played back those sounds is probably the best big investment I ever made. I sampled a cheap Roland board for this piece and all I used were those samples. I do own a Yamaha TX7, TX802, and an Akai S2000, and I have yet to make use of those in anything like this. They are great synths and CHEAP. I like the raw kind of character those boxes have. You can still get similar kinds of sounds in the latest plugs, though, and for several years my main synth was my laptop.

And I do LOOOOOVE the 80s!! !