Nase

https://soundcloud.com/skoshu/maridian-meltdown Made for the last MnP compo. As a result, it starts off close to being a midi rip (using metroid samples). gets more interpretive tho. It was just meant as a bit of fun, but i quite like it by now for what it is. I suppose i could change up the notation a bit, but it'd seem a little forced. I'm usually more of a writing guy, but this is more about production and sounds. Recorded power drill, food mixer and water boiler for this one

Just a little update: Thrillseeker VBL is really good. I'm probably overusing it right now, like to slap in onto pretty much everything. Nice and simple to add some warmth with.

Sorry mate. I can get a little addicted to meta bullshit. I'll post something interesting when i can remember any of it.

Thank you, that's a nice compliment. In actuality it is anything but improvised, only in the sense that i didn't fully rely on theory but wandered off into the dark a lot while sequencing it, doing stuff by ear. So, non-real time improvising, in a way

That goes without saying, it's how scales should be used. It's just that there's always a phase of turning the learned thing into a fetish before you learn to abstract from it. And some seemingly don't progress much in the abstraction department. I keep coming back to this indian music mantra: 7 years to learn it, 7 years to forget it, and then the playing really starts. The numbers don't matter, but there is that general pattern of using newly learned stuff in a left-brained way that can be detrimental to your artistic expression, until it gets fully integrated into your language and you can use it only to get across what you wanna say. It's really the same with learning all languages. You jerk off a lot with all them fancy terms before you realise substance is more important. Maybe i keep repeating this cause it's a lesson for myself XD

I agree, that's like the best argument for a rework. Ratings should be kept as simple as possible, and should reflect subjective enjoyment, nothing else. If people want to review more objective aspects of the mix they can do it in written form. I'm fine with the 5 star measurement. That feels more like rating fine cuisine or a movie. As soon as you go into individual sub-ratings, it feels more like rating a car or something. Piece of machinery meant to perform a specific task.

The big difference is of course improvisation. If you improvise sections in classical music (or any other genre), there is no real difference regarding theory. Except that styles of music other than jazz are generally more accessible to people who use their own homebrew intuitive kind of theory. Just noticed that the thread title contains "scales". What do you guys think about learning scales and their correlation w/ chords extensively? Imho, it's a kind of double edged sword. It's a good tool like anything else in theory, but it seems a lot of players sort of become slaves to basing all their playing around scale runs. It's like a phase people have to go through, and some never quite seem to emerge from it.

Ha, thaat song. Only played that game in shopping malls and on emu briefly, but this tune sticks in your ear. Weird it's not on ocr yet.

HA, I'm not in hamburg though these days! i shall keep my exact location a secret...and NOT submit as many non-entries as i wish!! muha!

The Darke Sworde does not joke. it cuts the wicked and ignorant to pieces. For Everlasting Peace!!

... Nase has left the fucking building.

OMG no onee understands anyoneeee que? was? eine butterbrezel bitte.

if no one comes over to beat me up in case i submit nothing ever....you can sign me up as well.

imo exp systems can easily end up as a trite gimmick, unless some really deep thought is put into them and they're implemented really well. just the fact that it fits the site's theme isn't reason enough to go for added gamification...unless it ends up being a really good game. i agree that it's fun to play around with in your mind, but it's too complex and ambitious to just add as an afterthought. if you really want it brandon, i suggest going to the drawing board and fleshing out your game concept. if there's just that basic grinding exp thought, i disagree on it being a good idea. honestly, extending that concept to real life is fucking terrible too much of it in games already.

was that spontaneous? or is it an established nick variant? cause i'll totally be using it whenever i reply to timaeus.

To quote Dimebag: "I ain't Nostradamus, but I know everything goes in circles." evolution of the arts is very much about going back to old ideas with the bonus of knowing about more recent developments. changing up the way you think about what constitutes a song creates different songs. going back in time and into the future can be the same thing. woah.

i dunno what she said on irc, but sorry, that just sounds like teen angst to me. nothing in her post that seems to fit your perception, imho. don't be offended, i still get some flashes of teen angst and i'll be 30 in a couple years

yeah. as helpful as chords can be, it can also be helpful to totally forget about them sometimes and just write polyphonic melody. you can always give that names after the fact, but not thinking in extended chord terms and just going by ear can help break habits.

mustin did one. Savage needs 20 remixes!! Savage remix projecT!??!?!? WHY DIDNT WE DO THAT ON OLR!

got a birfday present! i hand picked a joke for ya: One day, an atheist was walking along a cliff when he slipped and fell over the edge. As he plunged downwards he managed to grab the branch of a small tree that was growing from a crevice in the rock. Hanging there, swaying in the cold wind, he realized how helpless his position was. Far below were jagged boulders and there was no way to climb up. His grip on the branch was weakening every second. "Well," he thought, "only God can save me now. I have never believed in God but I might be wrong. What have I to lose?" So he called out, "God, if you exist, save me, and I will believe in you." There was no answer. He called again, "Please God, I never believed in you, but if you will save me now, I will believe in you from now on!" Suddenly a great voice boomed down from the clouds, "Oh no you won't, I know your kind." The man was so surprised, he almost lost his grip on the branch. "Please God, you are wrong. I really mean it; I will believe." "Oh no you won't. That's what they all say." The man pleaded and argued. Finally God said, "Alright, I will save you. Let go of the branch." "Let go of the branch!" the man exclaimed. "Do you think I am crazy?"

tritone chord changes rock in general. you can make entire tunes with just that. just repeating I - bV can be fun. as the chords share no common notes but all notes of bV are a half/whole step away from I, you can play with different voicings nicely. repeating II - bVI ad nauseum is cool as well. it's a neverending change of unresolved tension, and once the listener's ear gets used to it and almost doesn't even recognise it as a function of the tonic anymore, you can move back to it (or something else).

downloaded the freebies on the xln site and fooled around with them. that "evil" feature on nectar is so much fucking fun!!

hey thanks. though what i really cared about was the revalver download..

I borrowed a mic from my dad...he had this midlife crisis inspired idea of making ambient field recordings, and now it's just lying around it's a pretty damn good one, so i should be happy he gets these ideas. did a little cover of "no business" for testers. crummy guitar playing, flat notes and all, but so what, kind of like the vibe.