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  1. On 3/20/2024 at 5:38 AM, Red Shadow said:

    Hey btw a scant 8 of the tracks on your soundcloud account aren't available for download. any interest in rectifying that so I can blast them in my car to the chagrin of any pedestrian?

    ha, that's cool redshadow. i haven't been using soundcloud for a while. i'll get back to you when i have anything new and noteworthy, because i love the idea of my music being blasted to some random ppl in the states.

    but it's gotta be something new. my music from 2018ish was really just about coping with the strange new reality. i can do much better...but it's gotta happen!!

    i gotta get out of this strange anti-creative loop. for reals.

  2. definitely. over-analytical and just plain traumatized by all the crap that happened in those years.

    i have tried some pure cbd early on in 2019, when the voices situation was still pretty new. it's not really for me.

    i tried some weed a few weeks ago, and it was good for letting the fingers, like, just fall on the keyboard and see what they do. but it's a thing i better only do once a month or so. my history with cannabis is iffy.

     

    anything meditative is the way to go. biggest change for me has been doing regular cold showers. whenever i feel like not quite myself, cold water shock is good for gaining some presence. big fan of wim hof, and what he's saying about the vagus nerve and stuff. if i'm not wrong, that nerve can be connected to hearing voices, and becoming acquainted with the sensation of the cold can help you gain back some control.

  3. in principle. they're not the very best tunes. but i managed to prove to myself that i can still make music while hearing voices. cause that shit started around that time, 2017-18.

    these days, i can cancel out the voices a bit better and am accustomed to it, but i definitely lost my muse on the way. 2019-21 was fucking terrible for me. 

     

    it's fucking weird...i am sorta deconstructing the principle of "happy accidents", or i guess musical luck, whenever i try to sequence. but i don't reach that point often anymore where it just takes me over and i gotta do that tune, you know?

    i am much more alive than 3 years ago, but i haven't found my music mojo again. i'm in this weird analytical space regarding luck, in relation to sequencing.. because even though i have some chops, i have to say that most of my tiny musical brilliances were mostly luck. and that made me get really interested in the principles of what we call "luck"!

    final word: even though i fucking sucked in 2004, i was so good at sequencing stuff that excited me, because i felt it simply hadn't really been done exactly like that!

    much harder today innit?

  4. yeah, it's a similar sound. but without any real compositional meat.

    On 2/27/2024 at 6:55 PM, Red Shadow said:

    man i used to have a burned cd of the entire starcraft soundtrack that i would listen to ALL the time on my way to/from school and work back in the early-mid 2000s

    i believe you're talking about something like this in the second half of your post? sam did a couple of these but this is the only one to have survived his wiles on the internet:

     

    he showed me this back then. it's a good mockup thing, but doesn't really do justice to starcraft.

    i was thinking about finding and posting it, actually. so thanks, shadow!

    shna is a genius, but this one is just a little creative project of his from a looong time ago, and it neither captures the energy of the sound of the OST, nor is it quite there compositionally. 

    it's still very fucking good. illustrates what i was getting at perfectly. like, my mockup would be much worse

     

    i guess my emphasis is: the starcraft ost is really really good. like, much better than a lot of good albums. my opinion.

    ok, part of my appreciation of the OST is that i think we are embroiled in a global war about what is human these days, and the terran themes have become emblematic to me. they're a symbol to me.

    i just cannot deny that. 

    that's why i have listened to them for so many times.

     

    it's definitely grounded in the awesomeness of the compository amazingnesss though.

    ha

     

    seriously, starcraft

     

    what a good story!!!! terrans all the way!

    ZERG MUST DIE!!!!

     

  5. the bass on the first one sure is great. the slapping, plus all the pedal fx use to make it sound like a completely faithful upgrade. 

    i've been listening to terran 1-3 for so long when i go out with headphones. must've clocked in over 100 times in the last year.

    i like everything about the OG tracks. my appreciation for the arrangement and mixing kept growing. i mean i love the tunes, but i love their sound equally by now.

    completely sweet spot between BGM and rocking for me. not obtrusive, but as rockin as can be if you try progrock with that kind of midlate 90's soundset.

    i think the holy grail for SC terran remixes would be to pay equal amounts of homage to both the tunage and the peculiar prog/BGM makeshift mix, without copying too hard.

    and the megamix idea by BattleCake seems good to me. Terran 1-3 are totally a single progrock suite. but it has to be intervowen and stuff. could be pretty conservative, could be completely insane, because between the 3 tracks you have just sooo many motifs to work with. you can generate hundreds of completely unique mixes from the terran 1-3 idea pool.

    yeah that's just my idea. not starting work on it anytime soon i think, because...well i need more chopz and/or luck. but maybe i can start saving some patches that sound starcrafty, and making some bullshit music with them. yeah, starcraftian mockup. crappy alternate universe OST version. sounds great in theory.

    has anyone here tried their hand at sounding kinda like the SC Terran mixes? i think it should be fun.

  6. sweet to see some signs of life on here - i remember magfest threads from almost 20 years ago now, and you could feel the enthusiasm over finally meeting up, even from another continent.

    have fun!

     

    p.s. mazedude, i told you a couple years back that you gotta try loading the original doom.wad into modplug tracker as a sample. it sounded really neat - like a synth bass with a filter sweep or something, iirc.

    i randomly remembered this a few days ago while listening to OCR stuff. sooo, now that you are here - ever done that? :)

  7. On 12/20/2023 at 1:09 PM, Geoffrey Taucer said:

    Fair, it definitely feels more like a solo. But a solo traded back and forth between Felder and Walsh

    like a very friendly duel, in which the 'contestants' keep elevating each other with more beauty.

    it'd be very cool to see how they came up with it and how many iterations it went through!

    i think my definition of "guitar duel" is a bit...tainted as well, because i picked it up from Slayer mostly :D

     

    when i think guitar duel i think this song and cannot unthink it. but it might be down to all the dissonance and so on.

    i don't like all slayer solos/duels by far, but this one always made me feel like the guitars are straight up continuing the content of the lyrics, on a whole other level.

    guitar A says: "look how hopeless this really all is! it cannot be topped! PEWPEW!"

    guitar B says: "hold my beer, THIS is how bad it's really gonna get!! SCREAM!!! WAIL!!!! APOCALYPSE!!"

  8. On 11/26/2023 at 1:54 PM, Nase said:

    Eb major 6th chord. (1st inversion)

    if you move the low Bb down a whole tone while keeping the other notes the same you get the IV minor 7th(+9th) function. that's the tension thing kinda. it's a bluesjazz thing.

    i meant, it's likely an eminor chord with a major 6th added (C).

    to me, the major 6th in a tonic chord (whichever octave it may be in) does imply that you might wanna move to a IV chord later, because the major 6th is also the major 3rd of the IV chord.

    that's what i was getting at.... but it really ain't universal, it's just a blues/jazz staple as i tried to say. it just....sounds nice, you know ;)

    in this case, you can shift the lowest B down a wholetone and you get exactly that, a jazzy IV chord function.

     

     

    god, it's so easy to cause more confusion than help with this notation stuff if you're not on point. my bad.

     

  9. hey mi, not reading all that right now, but fyi pacifica was my first guitar in 2001ish. my dad had bought it for himself in midlife crisis, didn't end up playing it, so i got it set up for lefty a year later.

    i loved it. i'm not a guitar pro at all but it served me very well. my second guitar was an epiphone les paul, because they were supposedly epic for hard rock, metal and stuff...

    well, the sustain clearly was better than the pacifica, but i never fell in love with it the same way.

    i painted a lot of stuff on the pacifica's pick guard and made it sorta grimey (my guitar teach hated it, haha.)

    painted a lot of cell structures on it and dubbed it "cellular guitar".

    i think it's the only guitar i had i ever really loved. but well, most of my learning on guitar happened in the first two years, i got decent very fast through obsession, and when i got to know sequencers in 2004 that quickly faded.

    can't really vouch for its quality objectively. just a well priced guitar that's perfect for beginners, if it's anything like what they sold 20 years ago. it's probably a bit better now, right??

    yamaha is kinda no name generic but decent quality, and you can make it your own. i did it with eddings and such :)

    ibanez is a name that rings a little more. like, satriani or steve vai. haha. but what is that worth for entry models.

    idk i'd guess they're both good.

    the sustain on the pacifica 2000ish model definitely was pretty poor, that's one objective thing i can say. idk if it's better today. but i didn't care about perfect lead sound so much. in all honesty the pacifica would've served me well for anything i ever did.

    i sold it on the street for like 30 bucks in 2016, while giving up my apartment to travel. that was stupid. i shoulda kept that guitar.

  10. hey larry, thanks for the encouragement. reading that made me happy.

    i got nothing to send in. my last musical productivity burst is 4-5 years back, and it was all originals back then.

    in case i regain my musical marbles, i sure have a few remixes in mind. tunes i wanted to do well forever. starcraft terran music is a good example. that stuff is hard to do justice.

    i'll probably have to do a lot of fun and easy stuff to get to a level where i can do the kind of (OC) remixes i envision, again. back in 2008 it was OLR that made that possible. today...i gotta find my own projects to get me back in shape. maybe this winter. crossing fingers as well.

  11. i know it isn't, especially today. i think this was submitted in 2003ish though, and i loved it back then. still like it. always wanted to make a good starcraft terran remix since.

    i just randomly came across it on youtube and thought hey, why not make a stupid thread. i think it has a lot of mojo for being such a simplistic semi - cover, and it would've been well liked. i know that's not what ocr is about, ofc.

    maybe someone else can think of something. i used to listen to many other failed submissions back then...

    sometimes the passage of times changes things a lot. maybe a judge has some choice tunes that didn't make it but became absolute favorites of theirs.

    one thing i always thought is that if a remix is very similar compositionally but has exceptional "mojo" for lack of a better explanation, exceptions should be possible. not that i'm saying this mix is it - just in general.

  12. 9 hours ago, Uffe von Lauterbach said:

    This is a very good explanation, and I appreciate you answering in a way that isn't confusing for me. The part that confused me about this video is that he uses the G major chord. At least I assume this because it says G and not Gm. So that's partially the reason I got confused as to why he said it was borrowed from the parallel minor key while showing in text "Both borrowed from G minor". 

    haven't watched the vid but likely he meant Bb and F with "both". both those chords would be functions of the G minor scale. though the F could also be a function of G mixolydian mode, while Bb more significantly demands a change to some scale including the minor third interval of G. meaning the latter is definitely a more "decisive" chord.

    you can easily play a lotta stuff over a simple G - F chord structure, and be very ambiguous about whether it's a major or minor G scale. I - bVII is good for bluesy stuff eg., meaning you play around with the "blue notes".

    with G - Bb however, you're way more clearly going from a major G to a minor G scale, and back again.

     

    if i were you i would play around a bit with the classic 12 bar blues scheme. even just a simple I - IV progression is enough to see how gratifying it is to eg. change from a major third to a minor third, whenever the change to IV happens. that's blue notes.

    "the blues" is a good conceptual counterpart to the whole diatonic or greek scale stuff. it enables a better understanding of most of our contemporary 20th century music, without being too technical. rock, metal, jazz, you name it.

     

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