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dono · Post by **dono** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 4:47 am

I'm not working on this stuff now, it's about 4 years old. I was digging through some old sound files and I came across these.

http://www.scottcagno.com/old/SelfJam.mp3

http://www.scottcagno.com/old/altwentysix.mp3

http://www.scottcagno.com/old/altwentyone.mp3

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:25 pm

Heres a short peice I recently finished, no drums just one sampler.
The pad is actualy a heavily fucked up recording I made of a dialing tone from a local telephone box.

It reminds me of a walk taken in warm rain.

Skywave - Walk In The Rain:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JKDWVBLG

Oh and cool tunes dono, dont think i've heard anything similar to them before. They have a strange pitch shifting effect that reminds me of house of Albin'Adab.

Synthestesia · Post by **Synthestesia** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:30 pm

I'm working on an album called Talking Animals Don't Exist. Here's the current track list.

1. Q

2. Krispee

3. Cognitive Barrier

4. Shamu

5. Tommy the Yellow Dragon(named after an imaginary friend of mine)

6. Zillion

7. Ayrahabt I

8. Infinity Plus Googol

That's all I have so far. Sorta on a musicians block. I can't think of anything else.
God I have no patience.

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:37 pm

I am always working towards an EP or Album but by the time I have a few songs together I lose faith in my work and start work on more tunes.

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:49 am

Sorry I haven't caught up on this thread - I have some homework to do, and the best kind!

Put this together before sleep as a rough draft, but it ended up almost passing as a completed track. Haven't been inspired too create much lately but this came out very well today, very melodic -

[see below]

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Fri Nov 06, 2009 10:02 am

I've done a lot of work on the percussion of the track I posted above, and its 98% done now I'd say -

http://www.mediafire.com/?j2m3wl3mjdm

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:27 am

A short relaxing peice:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HXB34HQ9

s7409651 · Post by **s7409651** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:30 pm

Pantheon wrote:A short relaxing peice:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HXB34HQ9

I really enjoy everything you upload, this one is really lovely, really my kinda thing!

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:26 am

Pantheon wrote:A short relaxing peice:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HXB34HQ9

I like this a lot, particularly how you open the filter on that main bouncing sound to give it melody, and then sneak in the pad to redefine the atmosphere. I've been listening closely to the pad to try to figure it out by ear - my best guess is 3 LFOs, two slow ones panning the filter and opening/closing it, and another faster doing I'm not sure what to give it that low growl.

People seem reticent to share their sound design here, but maybe you'll give me a hot/cold?

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 1:57 am

Bryan wrote:
Pantheon wrote:A short relaxing peice:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HXB34HQ9
I like this a lot, particularly how you open the filter on that main bouncing sound to give it melody, and then sneak in the pad to redefine the atmosphere. I've been listening closely to the pad to try to figure it out by ear - my best guess is 3 LFOs, two slow ones panning the filter and opening/closing it, and another faster doing I'm not sure what to give it that low growl.

People seem reticent to share their sound design here, but maybe you'll give me a hot/cold?

Thanks for the feedback man. I think its cool that you would try to figure out how I made my tune

I dont mind sharing how I made it at all:

The main bouncing thing started life as a kick drum, and I did some resonation effects with a comb filter, and added tape delay. I was just trying to copy the sound from the BoC website.

As for the pad sound, there is actialy 3 playing. Two are exactly the same just phased slightly to bring out some rich tones. Then theres another 1 with a different sound playing the same notes to make it sound full. And yes you were right there are each being panned and filtered by the lfos.

The grouling sound, well...

I used an AutoFilter in ableton. It automaticly selects the filter cutoff based on the input sound level. The trick is to turn the attack and release times down to less than 1ms for each, so when the signal gets loud the hi-frequencies get destroyed rapidly.

I made a new tune today, more tape experiments. Recording the tape rewinding and then reversing and pitch shifting to degrade the sound. I figured out it almost fully flattens the spectrum somehow.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=L4HZKM3U

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 7:33 am

I had mega insomnia tonight, so instead of sleeping I made another tune.
This one finaly feels so personal to me even though I cant describe how.

Very relaxing and hopefull sounding, yet fragile at the same time:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ONDLSSWK

I hope you enjoy this.

many colored grass · Post by **many colored grass** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:56 pm

Synthestesia · Post by **Synthestesia** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:59 pm

many colored grass wrote:

Nice!

many colored grass · Post by **many colored grass** » Mon Nov 09, 2009 11:09 pm

Synthestesia wrote:
many colored grass wrote:
Nice!

Thanks man!

dono · Post by **dono** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:08 pm

Short track

Have a listen, lemme know what you think!

http://www.scottcagno.com/bounce/elevenseven.mp3

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:06 pm

dono wrote:Short track

Have a listen, lemme know what you think!

http://www.scottcagno.com/bounce/elevenseven.mp3

I realy like the field recording underlying the whole peice. The transition is great, where the melody emerges from the depths of the sound. The drums sound great and kinda lo-fi. The pad is great also, simple but nice nice tones. Minimal peice but tons of atmosphere.

I made a similar peace by accident today. I was playing with disabling the erase head on my reel-to-reel when sudenly what I was recording merged realy well with what was already on the tape. It was unexpected but luckly I recorded the whole thing

Ambient/Abstract/Minimal -

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XFBW278F

dono · Post by **dono** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:16 pm

Thank you man. It's nice when it's simple, yet effective.

Pantheon wrote:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XFBW278F

I tried to have a listen, however it told me that, "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavaible."

I'll have to try again in a little bit.

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 3:19 pm

dono wrote:Thank you man. It's nice when it's simple, yet effective.

Pantheon wrote:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XFBW278F
I tried to have a listen, however it told me that, "The file you are trying to access is temporarily unavaible." I'll have to try again in a little bit.

Yeah I uploaded it a couple of seconds ago so it may need a little time.

Pantheon · Post by **Pantheon** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 4:40 pm

Ok I think the upload fuck up, so I re-up'd:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=R7VS8QTE

Has anyone else play with disabling the erase head on a tape machine?

dono · Post by **dono** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 5:15 pm

That's fantastic. *makes me want to hijack it*

Also, have you every tried covering the erase head with crinkled tin foil? Just a suggestion to try, I have never done it before, so i don't know how it will react.

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