a download track and a request for discussion

[pulse777]

hi all@vsl-forum

though i am new in this forum, let me give you a quick info about myself..

i would call myself a "engaged dilettante" [:)]
my background is piano and above all electronics (no no: not that boom boom tschak, its more that experimentell site of elecs. [:)])

what i read so far in this forum, here are so many people with interesting backgrounds and ideas for compositions, so
i created a server log-in for all of you interested in sharing your music with me, maybe talk about composing, sharing gernela ideas about good and bad acutal compositions....or even ways to get better with the vsl-libraries on ..

ive uploaded a first trial with my vsl-bösendorfer and -solostrings standard plus environmental electronics. its a simple, melancholic scoreintro that should be the background for male spoken words and maybe the starter of a new project called "peaks and shadows"...

quick linernote:
instrumentation: 2 cellos, viola, grandpiano
electronics: non rythmical recordings with bongos and vibratone, stormrecordings, woodrecordings - all with EFX - for background atmo

you`ll find it here:

ftp://durch3.de
Login: vsl
pass: demopus

sometimes macusers and pcusers with Internet Explorer 7 have problems with opening the server...

general: there just can be 1 person loged in, so if it doesnt work, try again later, maybe someones online
for PCuser: simlply open this link with explorer, problem should be solved
for macusers: i am sorry - i have no idea... does anybody have a useful idea?

still problems? please let me know..

looking forward for feedback, contact or discussion with you or compositions you can upload to the server

greats from germany (this is the reason for the nearly bad english [:)])
markus

[JBacal]

I liked it. Nice desolate mood with an appealing strangeness.

Best,
Jay

[pulse777]

hi jay,

thanks for the comment...
well, it should like that.. a bit strange, about over all sad and calm - the speaker will talk about leaving a place and person, he loved but couldnt find peace with [:)]

i definetly have to improve using the solostrings more complex... slow legato or portamento melodies are very easy with the vsldaemon [:)]

greats
markus

[stephank]

Hey.

Sounds very interresting. Do you used a special technique to organize your "background-noisings", or are they "randomized" (sorry couldn´t find a better word).

Why U used the piano in such a harmonic way?

Did you improvised it, or did you composed it?

Best regards,

Stephan

[pulse777]

hi stephan,

thanks for your feedback

backings: i always split it into 2 phases.
1) recording of everything that comes close to my mic [:)]... then i take time to listen to it, mark the best parts and start to add effects, filters etc. in general i built up own arrangements for theses noises, so it gets a "evolution" (here your here i.e. outside recordings from storm cyrill last year in europa - in a forest, at home, at a railway-station)
2) when an idea or melody comes to my mind, i try to record it and then add this electronic sounds - i usually try to find sounds, that are also match by its origin (even if you dont here it [:)]). i take out parts or sequences fit them to the rest or rearrange them to make them fit... often i play sounds with a keyboard (sampler). to me the most interesting music revolution in the past 100 years is definetly the use of sounds and noises in composition

Bösendorfer: i would call it "written down improvisation". so at first i start to improvise.. then i change or add parts. when im ready with the idea i make a first recording. at least i go from part to part and try to make it all "sound as one piece", record and change parts and so on...

the piano is that much harmonic, because
a) i love things like gagaku or composers like satie i.e.
b) the idea always is to have something calm, warm sounding and some disharmonic, maybe strange (this piece is a more calm one [:)]) for contrast..
also its the starter for 7-8 tracks... they range from jazz to strange electronics to filmusic and spoken words (so i wanted to add a bit of everything in this piece --- in two weeks i will record the spoken words... looking forward for the result [:)])

greez
markus