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kumate_champ07 wrote: »where did the link go?
www.myspace.com/frictionfire
Being careful here 'cos Ambient is a genre close to my heart in many ways both as a practitioner and fanatical listener. First off, anyone who includes Biosphere among their influences is off to a good start in my book anyway. As far as Ambient goes the work is fine and technically it pushes many of the right buttons. I'd not be objective enough here to address mix quality on the basis of a myspace listen so won't go down that road. If I had a negative to mention it would follow along the lines of one of those already posted on your myspace page. Emotion. I think it's of benefit to any musician working in the area of Ambient to spend some time deeply considering some themes that have a personal meaning for them. Not necessarily spiritual but to paraphrase the artist Kandinsky, any abstract art that ignores the spiritual becomes little more than a neck tie pattern. Much Ambient is pretty much by numbers and many seasoned practitioners joke about the holding down one key album. In the case of your music I feel (correctly or otherwise) that it does not address something that matters deeply to you and spending some time exploring some themes would add a huge depth to your music and bring it to another level that may with luck, perseverance, perhaps meditation and some other variables help give it a unique identity.
For homework
I'd suggest spending some time listening to the freely available download of 'The Circular Ruins - Retrospective' by Paul Anthony Kirby : http://www.dataobscura.com/APK/releases.htm for some insight as to someone currently producing beautiful Ambient that's got personality jumping out all over the place. Perhaps also consider the stuff that inspires the artists you like. Geir Jenssen (Biosphere) is easy to fathom, well his music is anyway. Geir himself is an interesting character (his advice to me was never use didgeridoo in my music) in that Nordic kind of way. Perhaps pick a theme/concept and explore it over the course of an album. In my case it's journeys across Australia. I know Geir is currently looking at the music of Shostakovitch which is tres cool. Prior to that, when I met him he was exploring the sound of the Tuba. You will remember he also did some work around the music of Debusy a few years ago.
Hope that provides some grub for thought. Stick with it all though. Am happy to chat Ambient via email/Pm that sort of thing. Party on.0 -
thanks for the detailed critique. im not sure about the emotion part, music has mostly been an escape/self therapy for when i was ill. maybe i dont put the emotional tracks on my myspace but ill check into that.Being careful here 'cos Ambient is a genre close to my heart in many ways both as a practitioner and fanatical listener. First off, anyone who includes Biosphere among their influences is off to a good start in my book anyway. As far as Ambient goes the work is fine and technically it pushes many of the right buttons. I'd not be objective enough here to address mix quality on the basis of a myspace listen so won't go down that road. If I had a negative to mention it would follow along the lines of one of those already posted on your myspace page. Emotion. I think it's of benefit to any musician working in the area of Ambient to spend some time deeply considering some themes that have a personal meaning for them. Not necessarily spiritual but to paraphrase the artist Kandinsky, any abstract art that ignores the spiritual becomes little more than a neck tie pattern. Much Ambient is pretty much by numbers and many seasoned practitioners joke about the holding down one key album. In the case of your music I feel (correctly or otherwise) that it does not address something that matters deeply to you and spending some time exploring some themes would add a huge depth to your music and bring it to another level that may with luck, perseverance, perhaps meditation and some other variables help give it a unique identity.
For homework I'd suggest spending some time listening to the freely available download of 'The Circular Ruins - Retrospective' by Paul Anthony Kirby : http://www.dataobscura.com/APK/releases.htm for some insight as to someone currently producing beautiful Ambient that's got personality jumping out all over the place. Perhaps also consider the stuff that inspires the artists you like. Geir Jenssen (Biosphere) is easy to fathom, well his music is anyway. Geir himself is an interesting character (his advice to me was never use didgeridoo in my music) in that Nordic kind of way. Perhaps pick a theme/concept and explore it over the course of an album. In my case it's journeys across Australia. I know Geir is currently looking at the music of Shostakovitch which is tres cool. Prior to that, when I met him he was exploring the sound of the Tuba. You will remember he also did some work around the music of Debusy a few years ago.
Hope that provides some grub for thought. Stick with it all though. Am happy to chat Ambient via email/Pm that sort of thing. Party on.
there are a few tracks i have that i would consider uplifting with a kind of epic/big sound that reach a crescendo, its like a release from frustration, i build up the sound and then it explodes with open filters and harmonics.
im about to go fulltime with production and give it the attention it deserves, my problem has always been putting in the best effort i am capable of. and i need to use a midi keyboard, i guess the problem with drawing piano notes by hand is that u miss out on some of the emotion perhaps. again thank you, i will read over what u said again later on today
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Its only an edit / Remix rather than an original piece of music but I think it works, plus I had to map it to the Video too so there.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXvwNuL1Cs
It'll probably be removed for copyright infringement by the time I post this so get to it quickly!0 -
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Just started exploring FM synthesis recently. A few tracks (terribly downgraded quality-wise by MySpace, of course) that probably belong to different genres but I have no idea which exactly:
http://www.myspace.com/mojubamusic
There's one track I'm especially proud of, "April 16", where I used mostly my own sounds built "from scratch" on FM8. Can share these FM8 presets with everyone who likes them. One track is kind of "offbeat" here - "Perfect-square window", which uses acoustic instruments.
I'm no musician myself, no musical background other than hard listening for many-many years. But it doesn't mean you can't criticize me 0 -
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Just started exploring FM synthesis recently. A few tracks (terribly downgraded quality-wise by MySpace, of course) that probably belong to different genres but I have no idea which exactly:
http://www.myspace.com/mojubamusic
There's one track I'm especially proud of, "April 16", where I used mostly my own sounds built "from scratch" on FM8. Can share these FM8 presets with everyone who likes them. One track is kind of "offbeat" here - "Perfect-square window", which uses acoustic instruments.
I'm no musician myself, no musical background other than hard listening for many-many years. But it doesn't mean you can't criticize me
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This is just a short ambient track I made. Please let me know what you think of it.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/59809887deae8a3b/0 -
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