Sounds for a show?

[The_Doctor]

After talking to Jem, and later mentioning it in passing here, I decided to post something.

People have talked of Swami's eye-melting abstracts, but I can't do it by eye. I try to do things by ear sometimes. Here are two of them. If they inspire anyone enough to make a show set to them, you earn yourself royalty free use. That even includes making money if it comes to that. The only thing I want is that you publish their origin equally with anything that uses it for those who want to know where it comes from.

I could talk about them, but right now that makes no sense because I don't know if anyone's interested. Well, I know that Jem likes them. And so do I.

Aquamarine (FS1R).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Aquamarine.mp3
Beyond The Stratosfear.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...tratosfear.mp3

(One thing should be said. The second one is named after something by Tangerine Dream. What impact tht has in copyright law I don't know, but it does not sample any of their work. It is very loosely based in part on one short phrase of their notes, but immediately goes on as my own improvised work. If some predatory lawyer is out there watching, talk to me first. I don't have enough money to make it worth your while doing anything else.)

[Galvonaut]

Thanks for sharing

I like the ethereal feel of Aquamarine.

Keith

[The_Doctor]

Thanks. Even so, I sense the ethereal fall of a lead balloon. The number of people who would like what I do will be vanishingly small. For exactly the same reason that DJ Tiesto and Kylie Minogue are not consigned to oblivion by Tangerine Dream. I'm not sure why I did this, but it probably wasn't a good idea.

[swamidog]

i like your sounds. i'm more inclined to use stratosfear over aquamarine.

i have some shows currently in the works, but i'll give your pieces some additional listening time and see what happens.

After talking to Jem, and later mentioning it in passing here, I decided to post something.

People have talked of Swami's eye-melting abstracts, but I can't do it by eye. I try to do things by ear sometimes. Here are two of them. If they inspire anyone enough to make a show set to them, you earn yourself royalty free use. That even includes making money if it comes to that. The only thing I want is that you publish their origin equally with anything that uses it for those who want to know where it comes from.

I could talk about them, but right now that makes no sense because I don't know if anyone's interested. Well, I know that Jem likes them. And so do I.

Aquamarine (FS1R).
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...Aquamarine.mp3
Beyond The Stratosfear.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...tratosfear.mp3

(One thing should be said. The second one is named after something by Tangerine Dream. What impact tht has in copyright law I don't know, but it does not sample any of their work. It is very loosely based in part on one short phrase of their notes, but immediately goes on as my own improvised work. If some predatory lawyer is out there watching, talk to me first. I don't have enough money to make it worth your while doing anything else.)

[The_Doctor]

i like your sounds. i'm more inclined to use stratosfear over aquamarine.

i have some shows currently in the works, but i'll give your pieces some additional listening time and see what happens.

Ok, that makes me feel better. I'd wondered what you might make of them already, and while I'm not a betting man, I'd laid heavy odds that if any, it would be that one, not Aquamarine. Interested much? I can't really explain it anyway, just a kind of synaesthesiac idea of affinity of certain sounds and visual pattern. Anyway, you got the idea, trying it again. Sometimes even I don't like them! Then other times they repeatedly make my spine tingle and hairs stand on the back of my neck. They stood the test of time. If they had not, I wouldn't risk taking up anyone else's time with them.

[dnar]

Stratosphere for me too.

Showing my age here, I did a show with Tangerine Dream once, must have been 78 or 79. So memorable was this gig I now have the most extensive collection of their works, hours and bloody hours of it! They are one of those groups that have a past member list that is longer than Paris Hilton's guest book.

[ImageLight]

Pretty good stuff..
What instruments did you create them on?? I'm into experimental electronic music as well...
You can check out some of my stuff here.. www.reverbnation.com/ImageLight
Please forgive my attempt at singing... ;/

[The_Doctor]

Daring man! I try not to sing, I think it scares trees for miles around. I whistle too, but that works for me, I have yet to figure out how to catch it usefully to put with other sounds though. I intended a pitch to MIDI device (because Dieter Doepfer's is perpetually on the back burner, but we did have some lengthy and very cool email conversations about the problems and possible methods to do it. He wants fast bass response, which may well be impossible on physical principle, but I'd settle for higher frequency input and transposition afterwards, and less demanding source timbre compatibility too). But I might just put a big pop/wind shield on an Oktava MK219 and process the audio directly...

Note spelling: Stratosfear. I think Tangerine Dream were very particular about that. Works for me anyway. I recently discovered that mine worke pretty well just listening to it as if it was part 5, right after theirs. A bit spartan, but I like that, I find that if I try to layer stuff like they do it dilutes things I already did, maybe I just do sketches better than paintings...

Aquamarine was DX7, SY99, FS1R, PhaseMod (my own), whatever is DX7-compatible enough to use it. 28 years ago, when people were selling DX7 sounds for 4 quid a set of 32, a guy sold some of mine for 3 quid each. I couldn't beleive people would pay that much. Aquamarine was one of them. But I couldn't make them fast enough to attract more sales. I have no idea where they ended up. Although there is a dead ringer for a 'Synthflute', on Falling from Grace by Marylin Faithfull. But I'm pretty sure I'll never know if that was mine or not. Only that if someone paid for it they probably wanted to get some value out of it by using it. These days, it's not a spectacular sound anyway, but it was sort of cool when DX7's were new. Mainly because it didn't sound like one. (This was my main aim, to extend its output in ways people at the time seemed to refuse to beleive it could go. I thought there were entirely too many plinky pianos and dodgy strings and brass).

Beyond The Stratosfear is a bass guitar, with one of my earlier attempts at JJ Burnel's bass sound, but played without a pick for this one. The piano is a Kurzweil Micropiano. Originally there was a simple bass ostinato on a keyboard, played to a click track. Then piano improvisation after the chords bit. Later, I removed the ostinato line, replayed it on the bass in its original form for the opening, then improvised on it to back the existing piano part.

Dnar, awesome, working with TD? Got any good stories? Also amazing is the year. I bet it never got better than that. Some of the music did (White Eagle especially, and the Song of the Whale (which isn't entirely without influence on Aquamarine...), but the Force Majeure, Ricochet, Stratosfear LP's that led up to 1978 are surely the peak of a volcanic musical eruption that lasted many years. I think I have a few gaps in my collection... Not many though. Film soundtracks mostly. I had Sorceror once, but not now...

[The_Doctor]

Pretty good stuff..
What instruments did you create them on?? I'm into experimental electronic music as well...
You can check out some of my stuff here.. www.reverbnation.com/ImageLight
Please forgive my attempt at singing... ;/

I like Robot Vision a lot. Like 80's sounds, Kraftwerk, Propaganda, Art of Noise, Gary Neuman(?). Something nicely TD-like about that bandpassed string sound too.
Good bit of dark industriousness in Fishy. Unusual to hear that sound with a bit of humour. I think it works.

[ImageLight]

If I remember correctly, Robot Vision was done with a MemoryMoog+, Roland Juno 106 and a TR909 drum machine. I still love the sound of the old machines...