Forum Home Forum Home > Other music related lounges > Music and Musicians Exchange
  New Posts New Posts RSS Feed - my otherworldly synth music
  FAQ FAQ  Forum Search   Events   Register Register  Login Login

Topic Closedmy otherworldly synth music
 Post Reply Post Reply
Author
Message
  Topic Search Topic Search  Topic Options Topic Options
soundsweird View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer


Joined: December 08 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 408 		Direct Link To This Post Topic: my otherworldly synth music
    Posted: December 20 2005 at 01:30

 

       I wouldn't mind getting some feedback concerning the electronic music I've been doing for about 25 years.  It's done on an analog synth from the 70's that was customized to produce sounds that I have never heard anywhere else.  Comparing it to anyone else's music is difficult, but you might put it in the same general area as Brian Eno's "On Land", some of Cluster's quirkier, playful material, Walter Carlos' "Timesteps", the more avant-garde stuff by Robert Rich....

       My love of prog has found its way into my compositional process, in the way I orchestrate sounds.  But don't expect any sonic similarities...

       Go to this site:  www.wavemakers-synth.com      There, you will find some MP3's containing excerpts from some pieces I did in the 90's.  They are fairly representative of my work; some rhythmic, "musical" stuff, as well as some free-form, spacy material.  The sound quality of these MP3's is a bit dull; if you can boost the high and low frequencies, it'll sound better...

 

           Rick

                                                                         

Back to Top
soundsweird View Drop Down
Prog Reviewer
Prog Reviewer


Joined: December 08 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 408 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 27 2005 at 23:16

 

                                     oh well...........

 

                                                                          

 

                     

Back to Top
Trotsky View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 25 2004
Location: Malaysia
Status: Offline
Points: 2771 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2005 at 01:29

Hello Rick!

I checked out Left Right In The Middle, Odd Stranger and Shelf Life Of Clarity

You obviously have access to some very interesting synths ... but I admit I am far from the biggest fan of this kind of spacey progressive electronic music ... 

In fact the closest band I enjoy (and even then I can't take too much at one sitting) is the late 60s duo Silver Apples ... so you can tell I can't get much out of the electronic soundscapes you have created ... but well done, nonetheless ...

As for the lack of feedback ... this zone is pretty slow-moving and maybe particularly so during the Xmas period ... you may need to bump this thread from time to time ... I am sure that progressive electronic fans will have something to say about this ...

 
"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”

"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
Back to Top
Trotsky View Drop Down
Special Collaborator
Special Collaborator

Honorary Collaborator

Joined: October 25 2004
Location: Malaysia
Status: Offline
Points: 2771 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2005 at 01:34
Interesting story behind the Wavemakers too
"Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.”

"No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present."
Back to Top
yaksongs View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member
Avatar

Joined: July 25 2005
Location: United Kingdom
Status: Offline
Points: 128 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 28 2005 at 07:24

Hi Rick,

I listened to your stuff too, but didn't get round to posting - till now

Very strange sounds - I liked the one that sounded like whale song. I certainly can't make any of my synths sound like yours !! Reminded me overall of early horror/ scifi film soundtracks - Have you ever heard of a Hammond Novachord? I recently came accross this website:

http://www.discretesynthesizers.com/Nova/intro.htm

This has to be the earliest synth - 1937 !! - It was used for the music/fx for the outer limits - has interesting soundclips ! - some elements of your clips reminded me of the Nova

All the best

Martin
www.yaksongs.com
Back to Top
A'swepe View Drop Down
Forum Senior Member
Forum Senior Member


Joined: December 08 2005
Location: United States
Status: Offline
Points: 590 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 29 2005 at 14:56

Rick:

Gave your stuff a listen.

There - Very good voice emulation! evocative of 50's-era Sci-Fi.

Left Right In the Middle - Interesting FX - a bit too atonal for me.

Odd Stgranger Even Stranger - Again very good voices.

Ride - This one I really like - difficult to say exactly why - It's got a scary sort of feel attached to it, like going through a haunted house or a worm hole.

Iconoclast - maybe 2001 A Space Odyssey. Ethereal.

Overall its a little too out there for my tastes, but I certainly applaude your efforts. You have a unique ability to coax unusual sounds from an instrument that most of us are using for melodic lines. I don't think I could begin to get those sounds from my minimoogs (I have both a real one & the Arturia version of the virtual one).

Actually its pretty good stuff.



Edited by A'swepe
David - Never doubt in the dark that which you believe to be true in the light.
http://www.myspace.com/aardvarktxusa - Instrumental rock
http://www.soundclick.com/aardvarktxusa
Back to Top
 Post Reply Post Reply

Forum Jump Forum Permissions View Drop Down



This page was generated in 0.358 seconds.
Donate monthly and keep PA fast-loading and ad-free forever.