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Length: 0:33 Time Signature: 5/4 Type: Loop The theme for Alice Evergreen. |
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I'll listen in about an hour, I am so fucking busy working for some bloke panicking about his website.... inbetween chatting on here like a pro. |
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I like the microtuning. It wheezes and jingles. It's old fashioned and futuristic, nostalgic and alien. It makes me think of things turning into other things. It's sly. |
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Coolies - I'm busy catching up on my writing for the day anyways: just had to release that little loop from my system via the comp. |
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Excellent, thanks for listening and responding. Glad you mentioned nostalgia/old-fashioned because it was an effort to capture the spirit of Alice, and it's quite a nostalgic & old-fashioned story. :) |
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weird melody.. real alien folk type stuff. makes me think of monty python except everyone is a grey alien |
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Yeah, I was going for a muted feeling to it. I built the bass melody first, then the descending arpeggios, fleshed it out with two basses riffing off one another, then concocted the main melody, added a small sub-melody leading off that one, then subtly doubled the primary melody! The simple chord structure is: B minor, B minor, G, D, quite simple. |
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Lovely stuff, vague oriental feel I felt, nostalgia, foreign film, enchanted attic, actually bloody good. |
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Thanks for the nice words: I'd like to write music for each main character/chapter of the story, Alice Evergreen. For a long time I've wanted to make books more interactive--if this thing gets finished (and I'm working hard on it each day now) &, Praise Allah, actually published, it would be great to include a soundtrack for it. Kind of like Peter & The Wolf I guess, except with more words. |
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no, thats just crap. sounds like a plaid poo. |
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Was there a lock in at the Black Cock or whatever pub you work in? |
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whats that supposed to mean? that doesnt even mean anything |
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You apparently work in a pub but you're not familiar with the term "lock in"? |
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This one is weird. Don't really like. Detuned arabian repeat. It's not saturday I better vamoose. |
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don't really like the little off-key horn sounding thing working counter melody. everything else about it is sweet ass though. |
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L O L |
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Yeah, listening to it a couple more times, it's quite intrusive: I think I'll have it waver in and out & extend the piece with a secondary theme.... thanks for the inspiring post! Hi Seano, how are you? :] |
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HI HI HI PAUL I'm great. I would be even better if your zebox page loaded for me. |
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Oh, geeze. How are you?! PM on slsk. My name is still Dolleater. You still use slsk right? |
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thats not what i meant and you know it. |
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Well, I don't know what you mean when you say you don't know what I mean. I was insinuating that you'd been drinking after hours at work and that's why you were acting extra mardy, in a lighthearted, slightly chiding manner. |
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good one! you could and should make it longer, though. for some reason I have the feeling that a field recording done by attaching a microphone to a bike and just riding around would be good. |
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really like it, but I would agree with evolume about the intrusive horn. i look forward to hearing more themes :) i still need to read through that section of the book you sent me, i'll make sure to find some time :) |
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Thanks guys -- I'll probably work on it a little tomorrow if I find the time :) |
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Expanded to 17 bars - changed the instrumentation of the "horn-like" instrument, developed the main melody a bit while retaining the main thrust, before a more ambient sounding last four bars, leading to the beginning again. "When we reach that point, whatever happened WILL happen again" |
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ah, much better :) |
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Do you like the progression? I do, but I was worried in case it stomped all over the original atmosphere and ruined it :-\ |
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you know usually i hate it when people try to emulate real instruments (i assume the guitaryness is done on computer) but this is lovely. |
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Thank you :) Yeah, it's all 'virtual'... almost all of the instrumentation comes from the lovely StringStudio VST; the main high melody, however, is a LegacyCell patch. I've added a small SAWII homage in there, too, for the kean-eared :D |
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you know i played this on a loop for about 5 minutes solid and it became almost kind of mantric. then i put it through my kaoss pad and really slowly turned up one of the delays and nearly did a little wee of pleasure. |
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That I'd like to hear - post the results! I've been listening to it on a loop for the past 20 minutes, and can't turn it off.. though I've noticed that the first note of the high melody is missing :( |
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gimme 10 minutes :) |
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sorry about the shit sound quality. its nearly 3:30am :) in fact sorry for ruining your loop. just going through a couple of delays. the first ones a bit horrible. |
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I love it now! This is imaginary fantasy quality ish. It's hard for me to make stuff like this. There's different instruments but they all function as one unified thing. I guess you just kind of freestyle with one instrument at a time with whatever sounds good here and there, leaving enough empty space for other instruments to do stuff. I'm going to try that right now and let's see how shit it turns out.. |
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worse. the original was minimal/ much better. |
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i was only playing and its not saturday. |
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:( |
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its ok, everythings gonna be alright |
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Hi wMw - did you get banned from Zebox, or were you tricking me with your comment? :P Anyway, yes, I would build it up & tweak it all in an attempt at unity. I'm glad that you enjoy it now! :) IndeKs - downloading now! |
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I was tricking you, but don't tell you; it's a trick. |
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I even capitalized everything but the e in zebox which those gay fagoteers would probably do if they posted such a message. I just deleted the hell out of the melody I made for the good of humanity. It sounded like your track run over by a trash truck carrying a load of moldy maggot infested tacos, some of which spilled out and fell on the bla bla bla bla |
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NO MORE XLT TODAY |
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can u save that as a midi n shit then email it to me or some shit n shit |
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and.... FIVE |
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This is really great. It has a classical feel to it. My only recommendation is this: if you were to extend it, please repeat the first eight seconds or so -- those parts are wonderful. I'd love to hear them more than once. |
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it sounds like good supernes music listened through a gamecube. i can imagine the ruins in the forest level. i like the last seconds, when it becomes more silent - in a longer version, making most of the track this way would valorize the more soundful beggining, wich you could repeat in the ending. |
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hmm, good idea stefano! A recurring theme haunting the piece. Btw,you talk of a ruin among the forests: that is spooky because in Alice, the main building is a ruin just beside a forest, Devil's Wood. Excellent. Indeks - listened to that first thing this morning after having a haunted dream: I really liked it, sounded pretty amazing :) w M w : hey, I should be able to convert it into a MIDI file (I think), and e-mail it to you, no problem... sometime in the future, maybe even this weekend. sirmailbox: thanks very much for listening: At first, it was the first section looped three times.. when I decided to expand it, I debated whether to repeat the first section, or not. For some reason, I decided not to - I can't remember why, now. Think I'll work some more on it, before the Definitive Alice Evergreen! |
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btw who is Alice Evergreen? |
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Alice Evergreen is the title character of a story I'm currently 13,000 words in to (approximately one-third of the way). I'm going to take up your suggestion about developing it from that ambient section at the end, bringing the main theme in once in a while a la rondo. :) ta very much. |
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How did I miss this until now? Anyway it is really really nice. Your melodic work, whilst generally being too short, is always excellent. But from the opening pages of what you sent me the music fits perfectly. |
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