Back on my computer, for a nostalgic and moody track. Not very happy with the violin part (it's off here and there) and this track would benefit from some additional work
Last track of the year! I went back to good old breakbeats and glitch!
For those who join on Weekly Beats 2024, see you there! :)
For the others, hope to see you around!
The title is from reading Max Tegmark's Mathematical Universe. Where science is more mind blowing than the wildest SF.
Not unhappy about this track, which goes into weird wild directions.
I am changing a bit my workflow to reignite inspiration. I decided to start finding some riff on guitar and build from there. I kinda like the result, and I like that it was a fresh approach for me.
By the way, unfortunately, no - large sauropods could not whip their tail at supersonic speed, even though some paper of 1997 claimed they could. This is fortunate, as the aforementioned tail would have snapped. Have no doubt though that a good tail whip could still hurt unreasonably well.
I was pretty good this week at finding good excuses not to work on a track. I spent a grand 44 minutes on this one, and it does feel like it. Ok, especially for the upcoming Weekly Beats 2024, I need to get back to start a track early in the week, put more love and inspiration in it rather than a quickly produced simple track.
This started as a music about mazes, then kinda went into trip-hop territory before going back synthwave. A dog cannot be a cat, however hard they try.
A baroque vibe for this track inspired by Castlevania. I ran out of time and could not really clean up this track. The structure and the mixes are pretty raw. It's missing some frequencies here and there, some transitions are abrupt. But hey, time's up for me this week.
Synthwave + electric guitars + fx samples! Kinda inspired by the anime Akira, but not really at the same time.
I had to scratch that metal itch.
An Halloween themed track for this week.
A rather lazy track but at least thematically appropriate for the season.
Ok back on my feet and with my DAW. I worked on this track this Saturday mainly. It would fare better with a few more hours of work. I think it's like 70% done of where I'd like a track to be, but i kinda already enjoy it more than a lot of tracks i have done over the past few months.
This is only a recording of ambient sound. Last week, my father passed away. I recorded quickly the Silence track of last week, before going to take my plane to bury him.
One week later, the aftermath. Time to go back home. I am sitting a last time in the calm aftermath recording the sound of that final night, as life seems to continue, even though the silence now sounds a bit different. Time to go home.
I started the track on Saturday morning. I wanted to first try out making a set of percussions using FPC, and setting a wide panning of the different instruments. The percussions ended up being a set of traditional sounds, so it felt appropriate to dig into my Native Instruments library for a set of traditional instruments. I went for the middle eastern package, and used the Oud (a guitar like instrument) and the Zurna (a type of flute). I have a great love for the complex harmonies and rhythms of middle eastern music! This started reminding me of the band Secret Chiefs 3, so I went in and dug some electronic samples and arps to get into that. Some additional vocal samples, shake it, 30 minutes in the oven, and here you go.
I am at an airport waiting for my plane so I recorded this filler of a track, using a drum, simple synth and a recording of the waves on the Mediterranean Sea.
This week I was in a hurry so I gave myself a hard constraint - 45 minutes to start a track from scratch and upload it. This was a fun experiment. No time to think, embracing absolute randomness.
AND I MEAN ABSOLUTE RANDOMNESS.
More a teaser, or a sketch of an idea. There could be something interesting there if I dedicated more time to it.
I was out on vacation in Hokkaido. No computer, just my phone with GarageBand (which I really cannot use yet) - doing lots of field recordings and using that. Not a great track musically, it’s more like a blurry Polaroid of a brief instant.
Tons of drums and beats, some koto and strings breaks, a high synth lead. "The best meals are prepared in old pots" is a French expression - i pulled all my old pots and cooked something quick but that kinda works. Slightly cheesy towards the end, but still fine.
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@Rain25 Thanks for taking the additional time to listen again and reply! :)
@Kedbreak136 idk im listening to the track again i think the drums sound fine. maybe i didnt like the bass sound at 0:54... it was kind of moody intro and buildup into moody bit with violin and youve got this sort of bouncy 1234 1234 bassline maybe id just replace it with saw waves reese bass constant note or something idk. idk why i said the drums, i cant rlly think of anything in particular id change bout the drums. i really like 1:58 to the end.... that part is really cool. maybe actually now id criticise the melodies up until 1:58 in general didnt have a strong enough singular theme. but thats something i dont do very well.... yea i guess i just didnt like the bassline at 0:54. just in general i thought the melodies and chords sound pretty decent where the drums and bass might not sound as nice... but i cant rlly say anything more specific than that so pretty useless feedback. overall from my perspective having listened to ~10/20 earlier stuff uve uploaded i thought it overall sounded like progress caus idk id heard you do something like this before and i liked the overall vibe of the track. sorry i couldnt give more detailed feedback. yea listening again idk not too good at feedback but again i like 1:58-end.... my main reaction to the track was just ye nice one but i been trying to write feedbacks just to see if i like writing feedbacks. dont like writing feedbacks good thing i am not music critic.
even if i distill all this feedback into something succinct like 'nice, liked the vibe dis track sounds like progress or somethin to me ears keep it pumpin' or whatever. idk its just boring describing music with words in any way at all haha im fine with other ppl doing it, i liked some of the feedbacks uve said bout my uploads but yeeeee i just find it boring to say things bout music myself. i find it hard and i never rlly like my feedbacks but whatever its a good thing i like making music and not talking about music i guess caus i can just do that instead. i mean i could distill again into 'moody track, nice vibe. sick ending!'. like nah commenting on music is not for me. id probably type sickkkkkk track with a random amount of k's that might be pe muysic crutcyhikjsml
@Rain25 Thank you for the comment and the feedback! What bothered me the most with the violin is that there are 2 points where the tempo is off and I can only hear this. :)
Good point on musicians with different backgrounds listening to different parts or focusing on different instruments. For instance, for the drums, what is the thing that you would change here, what is the thing that did not work well for you as a drummer?
i dont intentially try be positive on ur tracks but........ but ahhh i dont think violin was weak aspect of this track. i think drums and bass might have been weaker, i thought violin was fine or even good or even nice.... idk i tend to like your tracks. dunno but cool track. id steal that pad from intro. i liked the violin. sometimes you mention parts of ur tracks u dont like that i like. im playing a lot of drums atm so im probably only hearing drums. i dont know think paradigm of 'br wut is weak aspect of this track' rlly makes sense in terms of making the shitfuck that is music but whatever u seemd cool with vague criticism i liked the vibes of this track reminds me a bit of something i would make because fuck vocalists