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Points: 78 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 07 2009 at 09:22

Loved the music!   Don't be surprised if someone might want to use your score for a film!  I felt constantly moved that something was happening, or was about to happen.   You created really subtle tension, almost unnoticeable at times, until it was too late and I was taken in by it!   Nice!    Oh, the picture on the back with the wings absolutely killed me!  I loved it!   Clap

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Moments - 2002

 

Moments was the 5th CD of music I ever produced. Written in 2002 as the antithesis of those pseudo-new-age relaxation disc, I deliberately set out to make music that sounded relaxing, yet was dissonant and full of "wrong-notes" (so many in fact you would wonder if I ever knew any right notes).

 

On a flight of vanity, this was the only CD to get a "proper" release, all be it through mp3.com.

 

here is the download link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TYRKQRBF
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Points: 32181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2009 at 23:43
I just saw this thread. I absolutely love electronic music, and I plan on downloading these right now.

Can't wait to hear them, Dean! Smile
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2009 at 11:19
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Damn Megaupload! I can only get 16 kB of data and the download finishes... Unhappy
 Unhappy ... I don't know what to suggest - sometimes a different time of day gives a better response.
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Points: 4900 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2009 at 11:19
^ That's the only work by Dean I've heard so far. Let me know what you think about it.
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Points: 32524 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2009 at 11:07
I just downloaded Moments.  I'll listen to it in a...*ahem*...moment.  Embarrassed
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2009 at 11:02
Damn Megaupload! I can only get 16 kB of data and the download finishes... Unhappy
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I just finished listening Dean, and let's just say it's probably best you didn't get added to the database...

...because if you did, we'd have to create a new category: "Math Electronic Prog." Wink
I've done a couple more albums that would probably fit that category (I'm an Engineer - I love numbers) - I'm listening to the first now ("spunos" - you'll have to turn the monitor upside down to get the gag) all based on the number seven it was the second album I ever made and it's dreadful Dead ...and the other is The Mathematica Cacophony - a suite of three CDs about three key eras in mathematics, music and astronomy(Ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy and the present day). Hopefully all my other stuff is more "organic",


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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I just finished listening Dean, and let's just say it's probably best you didn't get added to the database......because if you did, we'd have to create a new category: "Math Electronic Prog." Wink


Make sure you get MOMENTS aswell - Absolutely phenomenal stuff!

-Joel


Will do!  Thumbs Up
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Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I just finished listening Dean, and let's just say it's probably best you didn't get added to the database......because if you did, we'd have to create a new category: "Math Electronic Prog." Wink


Make sure you get MOMENTS aswell - Absolutely phenomenal stuff!

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I just finished listening Dean, and let's just say it's probably best you didn't get added to the database...

...because if you did, we'd have to create a new category: "Math Electronic Prog." Wink
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays
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Points: 32524 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2009 at 18:31
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ thanks Rob. I do all my own artwork - it's cheaper that way LOL


I do too...but man, that is one gorgeous cover.  There's a lot to appreciate about it.  It makes me want to hear your piece now, but it's sort of family time, and here I am still fooling around on Progarchives.  Embarrassed  Shame on me.  LOL
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^ thanks Rob. I do all my own artwork - it's cheaper that way LOL
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Points: 32524 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2009 at 18:18
Beautiful cover.  Did you make that?

Also, I downloaded this.  It will be my first TCoL experience...I just don't have time to listen to it right now.  Embarrassed
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 30 2009 at 17:28
Metamorph 2005
 
 
Metamorph is another single-track album, the track is called Tessellation Boulevard (though no actually tessellations were used in composing it) and consists of 2095 bars of music written to a set of rules. For the melody, each bar contains 10 semi-quavers (10/8 time) in a pentatonic scale (C#) and only one note is permitted to change from one bar to the next, the harmonies and accompaniments are written individually around each specific bar. This results in a piece of music that sounds repetitive, yet there is no actual repetition. As if each note was an ice crystal and each bar forms a snowflake then the resulting 65½ minutes of music is a snow field that appears uniform yet has drifts that often disguise the underlying structures.
 
The cover picture is nothing special and has no meaning - it is just a doodle I did one evening while not watching TV, like the doodles I used to draw in my exercise book at school during a particularly dull lesson as the teacher droned on in a monotonic dirge to some long dead king of a long dead civilisation in a land far far away that no one could say for sure whether what they attempted to teach us was actually verifiable true or was mere supposition and wishful thinking based upon a scant few traces of archaeological evidence...
 
Download Metamorph here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4YR8APDN 
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2009 at 17:30
^ I've just tried all the links and every one works except "Indulge"
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2009 at 16:28
I tried to download your albums to hear for myself, Dean, but the links no longer work I'm afraid... I get the message that the source file could not be found...


Edited by Tuzvihar - July 29 2009 at 16:29
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^ Well, just for the record, Dean, I think you be quite a welcome and loved addition to the site! Big smile
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2009 at 18:06
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Don't laugh at me, please. I didn't listen to your music (Embarrassed). I asked you on the basis of what you had written in your initial post ("electronic/experimental/neo-classical music").

Or do you feel you're not worthy? Wink
 
(not laughing at you, just at the idea of me being added Wink)
 
But it's a good question, that prompts a thousand answers...
 
I don't think my music is particularly "Prog" - whenever I've tried to write anything "Prog" I've always failed -everything is a little bit Prog because I use odd time signatures, strange key changes, exotic scales, funny chord progressions, layering and counter-point and non-standard song structures (I've never written an AABA song in my life) ... and because Progressive Rock is a big influence on me, but having some of the component parts don't make it Prog, lots of non-Prog music also uses these techniques (Jazz, New Age, Neo-Classical etc...). I think I am too close to the material to judge - perhaps someone else can hear it as Prog - one of the reasons artists don't like being pigeon-holed is because they think they are being original and non-generic.
 
My only aim when setting out to record all these albums was to make weird/avant garde/exotic/experimental music that sounded "normal" and accessible - I don't think that is Prog in itself. Certainly not all avant garde music is Progressive AG, not all Electronic music is Progressive Electronic and not all Psyche Rock is Progressive Psyche Rock.
 
Whether "worthy" or not I cannot judge - I think my music is naive, amateurish and simplistic, and while I don't think "quality" has anything to do with being added to the PA, I think we must draw a line somewhere Wink.
 
(of course there is a modicum of fear involved - it's one thing having your friends saying nice things about your music (regardless of how bad it is) - it's something else when a total stranger rips it to pieces over the internet)
 
When we were discussing "unsigned" bands back in 2007 we noticed that with modern home-recording equipment and software it was possible to produce a "professional" product without the expense of a studio and record label and self-release over the internet as a download only album, in principle the status of "unsigned" does not exist once a band has recorded something. For a very modest sum of money it is even possible to produce a saleable CD complete with booklet and jewel-case -  I did this for my Moments album using mp3.com, and there are a number of vanity-press businesses out there who will do this for you for very low production runs. So we decided on a set of "rules" that determined whether an unsigned band who had self-released an album could be admitted to the PA and since then we have added a number of bands and artists who meet that criteria.
 
The problem as I see it is people like me - I have met all the rules for being a signed artist (all of my CDs are "for sale") - yet I do not consider my self a "serious" artist - I am still an amateur playing around with some recording gear at home making - whichever way you look at it I am unsigned, and I don't think we should be adding "artists" like me. (My personal opinion)
 
 
 
 
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Points: 13536 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2009 at 13:07
Don't laugh at me, please. I didn't listen to your music (Embarrassed). I asked you on the basis of what you had written in your initial post ("electronic/experimental/neo-classical music").

Or do you feel you're not worthy? Wink
"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

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^ LOL
 
 
 
Oh oh oh - no.
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