Post by tommy on Nov 30, 2008 0:39:07 GMT -5
but I'm not sure where else to post about this. I recently started a strange musical experiment.
For several months now, my PC has had its audio-something uninstalled, and it kind of sucks, but I finally found a silver lining in it!
I've often tried making "mash ups" in Sony Acid. It always flops very badly, because I have an idea of what I want it to sound like, and then it doesn't turn out, or I get too detail-centric and mess the whole thing up. However, those sort of things can't happen to me when my computer can't produce any sound, so for the last two days, I've been diligently making "songs" out of other songs on my computer. Since I can't hear anything that I'm doing, I just have to look for little peaks in the soundwaves of different songs and isolate them so I can make beats out of them. It's really more of a visual art project than music making, in that respect.
I do know my music library well enough, though, that I can find certain parts I want, but I still can't hear them at all as I manipulate them. It's a very pure process, like a deaf composer who also doesn't know what instruments he's writing music for.
Some of it has turned out to be more worthless than I would have expected, but some has actually surprised me by being rad (I can't take any credit, since I didn't put any musical thought into making it).
All that said, I'm planning on making a release in a while (probably over winter break, since I've made 30 songs in the last 24 hours (they're all under a minute), so I can sift out the absolutely awful ones) under the name Tommytronica (an old alias I did a Garage band "album" under). It's going to be called "experimental" "music" "album".
Anyway, i posted here to see if anyone's interested in hearing it when it's done, since the regular posters here seem to be pretty open minded about music.
So, should I post a download link when I've got it done. or pack up my unorthodox ideas and go? Just kidding.
For several months now, my PC has had its audio-something uninstalled, and it kind of sucks, but I finally found a silver lining in it!
I've often tried making "mash ups" in Sony Acid. It always flops very badly, because I have an idea of what I want it to sound like, and then it doesn't turn out, or I get too detail-centric and mess the whole thing up. However, those sort of things can't happen to me when my computer can't produce any sound, so for the last two days, I've been diligently making "songs" out of other songs on my computer. Since I can't hear anything that I'm doing, I just have to look for little peaks in the soundwaves of different songs and isolate them so I can make beats out of them. It's really more of a visual art project than music making, in that respect.
I do know my music library well enough, though, that I can find certain parts I want, but I still can't hear them at all as I manipulate them. It's a very pure process, like a deaf composer who also doesn't know what instruments he's writing music for.
Some of it has turned out to be more worthless than I would have expected, but some has actually surprised me by being rad (I can't take any credit, since I didn't put any musical thought into making it).
All that said, I'm planning on making a release in a while (probably over winter break, since I've made 30 songs in the last 24 hours (they're all under a minute), so I can sift out the absolutely awful ones) under the name Tommytronica (an old alias I did a Garage band "album" under). It's going to be called "experimental" "music" "album".
Anyway, i posted here to see if anyone's interested in hearing it when it's done, since the regular posters here seem to be pretty open minded about music.
So, should I post a download link when I've got it done. or pack up my unorthodox ideas and go? Just kidding.
pretty creative
