I would love if you could say a little more here - what exactly do you mean by making the guitars less detached in the highs?
Currently iterating my creative process for the next album and one of my main areas of focus is creating a better strategy for constructing my mix. This album has many layers of synth parts and I found it nearly impossible to preserve all the detail I wanted.
This is wonderful. I've actually been wishing I could create music like this for some time. I have some guitar background, but zero DAW experience. I just downloaded FL Studio last week and have been playing around with it. What would you suggest I do in order to learn how to make music like you?
Check out Perturbator - Dangerous Days. Synthwave used to be very heavily influenced by metal, both aesthetically and musically, but a lot of that has been lost as the 'chill youtube mix' side has taken over
Thanks for your interest - it's been a lifelong pursuit. There was an old upright piano in the house while I was growing up that I always gravitated to. Had about 10 years of piano lessons as an adolescent; had a love/hate relationship with the structure of taking lessons but it was invaluable. Ended up playing tuba all through high school in various school bands, which got me in to playing electric bass in the school jazz band. Around this time someone gifted me an old electric guitar and I fell in love with that distorted feedback you get when you crank the volume and stand in front of the amp. Started a really bad high school rock band. This led to several more rock/emo bands over the years. Concurrently, a buddy in school gave me a pirated copy of Propellerhead Rebirth, which emulated several of Roland's old drum machines and groovebox-style synthesizers. Found this super interesting. Spent a lot of time in college making bad techno with Fruity Loops. Kind of gave it all a rest while I did startup life for a while... then I had the good fortune to be working out of a building near a recording studio and we sort of got to go hang out in there every so often. At some point, a band was set up in there and I laid eyes on an old Roland Juno-60. I was so intrigued I immediately bought one on craigslist and that has sent me down this enormous rabbit-hole of hardware synthesizers... which, to my eyes, is this wonderful center of the venn-diagram that intersects design and music and technology. Putting together a solo album has always been on my bucket list and this last year of isolation was the perfect opportunity... and here we are!
Thanks. I really struggled with mixing the guitar and so many layers of synth. At this point it is what it is but I am definitely iterating on my process for the next album.
Of all the services I've had to interact with to get this album out digitally, Bandcamp was easily the most streamlined and easy to use. Definitely recommend them to anyone as a first-stop in getting music distributed.
I ended up with a pinched nerve a couple of years ago and couldn't walk for a long time--lost the feeling in my leg. Totally sucked. My girlfriend left me at almost my lowest point too, even after casually agreeing to marry six months earlier (not officially though).
I was living in NYC and my building porter and I started jamming to cheer me up. He had no musical training but just played from his heart. He also started doing push-ups and exercising with me in my apartment in-between recording, which helped a lot with my health. After 11 months the building supervisor got pissed and put an end to it--came to my door screaming at us. Good times haha.
After jamming for so long we had a good collection of music and I decided to assemble it into a full album, particularly a rock opera, telling the story of us making the album.
We plan to release it this year, but I've been sharing some of the nearly completed songs with friends and family. This is the last song on the album:
I developed a music theory MIDI generator with all scales, all chords, all keys including the past 100 years of chord progressions used in popular music (ordered by most famous to very dissonant ones). You can find the beta MIDI chord pack here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9l6guk9jdz5mpe6/MidiTheoryPack_bet...
With these progressions you can easily create a basic harmony for your music and with the scales and chords you can diversify them and make them actually great compositions.
But please don't share this too much yet. I'm still working on that and will release it Open Source very soon after a refactoring of the code. If you are good in music theory. Please send me suggestions here in the comments. I'll keep you posted
I'm a developer who also creates electronic music in my spare time. I decided, never having done any 'web' development before, to create a webpage from scratch to host a couple of tunes I wrote.
What resulted was a mathematically generated space-octopus with a starfield created out of tiny notes [!].
I did this for no good reason at all, other than then the enjoyment of figuring out how to do it and of creating something. It also took way more time than was sensible.
I think I understand what you mean about music being a way back from despair too; after I dropped out of medical school when my best friend died, I was asked to try and retrieve her music and photos which meant figuring out how to fix a fried external hard drive of hers, and a broken ipod too.
The music I recovered was one of the few things that helped me get through a pretty dark time.
beautiful stuff, vocals are great and remind me a bit of young the giant's vocals, but over a totally different style of music. really enjoyed the listen!
Wow it's great to see so many HNers making music out there, looks like my programming playlist is about to get some much needed fresh content. I've been sitting on a pile of half-finished projects I've been meaning to get around to completing for ages, throwing a few of them out there to hold myself accountable to follow through:
This one melts :) Love the 80s style with the deep background
https://soundcloud.com/guhcci/alight-demo/s-tgQ0GjLwC3Y
^ this one also distantly reminded me Principles of Geometry (Meanstream album), although, I would imagine this may be only me
Aw thanks, appreciate the kind words! It would be a dream come true to perform onstage someday, but for now I'm just counting down the days until we can bring back live music again :)
Thanks, your comment means a lot! Guess the contents of my personal playlists are leaking, even as an aughts kid there's something about music from the 80s the evokes a nostalgia for a time I never experienced ahah :)
Thanks for the good vibes! Definitely looking to eventually put out an album or EP at some point, I'm finding music is a lot like software in the sense that however long you think it will take to do something will end up taking n^2 time to do in reality ahah :)
I've been writing music for, god, almost 20 years by now. My current project is to actually write an album, as opposed to individual songs. It's coming along, slowly.
During quarantine I picked up a few things. I grew up on SNES RPGs, and one little project was to learn how the SPC worked a bit better. I ripped some samples for the instruments from Seiken Densetsu 3 and wrote a small sampler that can play back the raw ripped samples using SuperCollider. With that and ORCA, I made this tune, inspired by Infocom/Brian Moriarty's brilliant game Trinity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ0JY_LTxc8
Another project was inspired by growing up with Winamp visualizations. This ended up being a huge rabbit hole as I made a visualizer using Three.js, ran into performance problems rendering a 1440p video in JS, ported to C++ with plain old OpenGL, and figured out how to use ffmpeg from C++. All for a visualization for a track I did years ago! I love how it turned out, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlA_Mkld3xc
Your AI made music is pretty good as far as AI music goes, it's an interesting approach to not go for "put a neural net on Bach's discography".
Maybe using other styles of World Music or evolving from simplicity is the way to go...
Good stuff, like the idea of 1 day projects. In my experience the tracks I’ve actually finished are always the ones that came together pretty much in a day. Otherwise they get lost to time.
This is one of my least favorite features of Soundcloud- the bots and pay for play/exposure 'offers' I get. Some enterprising young females even have bots to post porn links. Spammers leave no stone un turned I suppose...
This is going to sound odd, but I am practically un-recorded. I'm a jazz bassist, and I find the recording process to be stressful and unrewarding, but love to perform for an audience. So my recordings are limited to cases where someone hired me to play bass for a demo, or something like that. Perhaps part of recording is a mental game, getting over being distracted by the thought that someone else is paying for my mistakes.
Also, maybe music is for me an escape from the tech world. So my utopia is still playing alcohol powered instruments with a bunch of kindred spirits.
But it's cool to see so many links.
During the lockdown, some friends and I have gotten together using Jamulus, just to be able to keep playing. I also tried a "round robin" recording, where each player lays down their part and passes it along to the next player, but the tune I chose was quite frankly over my head, so the final mix isn't really presentable. Also, I chose the tune in the first month of the lockdown, so it sounds really lonely and depressing.
I’ve been producing electronic music since the early 2000s, and I’m still not sure what genre it is. It’s definitely not dance or EDM, but it’s not downtempo or ambient, either.
Seconding those demoscene vibes. I'm into it. Not really sure what you call it either. Not ironic enough to be vaporwave, not 80s enough to be synthwave... well, whatever it is, it probably ends in wave. Is demowave a thing?
Regardless, this is going into my Spotify rotation!
I’m actually kind of amazed that you’ve traced that lineage, as some of the earliest influences on my musical taste were the tracker-based soundtracks of Amiga games, coming out of the same milieu as the scene.
I never could get into trackers, but there must be elements of classic modfile music that still come through in my music all these years later.
I play guitar in a post-rock band called Caves of Steel. Our third album "Path to Ground" was slated for release around this time last year, but the global pandemic kind of took the wind out of those sails for a little while. I miss playing shows.
Anyway, here are some links. I'd wager it works well as coding music.
Ho thank! I was very hesitant to publish it because I did it 1 year ago and I found it full of flaws.
But some friends of mine tell me to finish and publish it. It’ll be on all streaming plateforms the March, 21 :)
I've been trying to make music for years and I've found that I have a hard time finishing stuff on my own but I actually really enjoy collaborating and helping other artists produce their tracks.
I'm a co-producer on this track by this extremely talented and prolific R&B singer who was gracious enough to let me help her where I could.
I drum in a death metal band called Glorious Depravity. Funny enough, all of our members are software developers, though that isn’t the theme of the band or anything. https://gloriousdepravity.bandcamp.com
I’m also the vocalist and guitarist for a black metal band called Woe. I started it as a solo project over a decade ago and things sort of got out of hand. https://woeunholy.bandcamp.com
Both are also on Spotify, iTunes, or whatever streaming service you use.
Doug is amazing, I really think he’s our secret weapon. He works with me, too. He’s a great guy. Check out his doom/death project Weeping Sores if you haven’t, it’s awesome! I recorded and mixed it a couple years ago.
I’m a church organist. During lockdown last year I recorded a set of hymns and voluntaries each week: here’s a typical one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KCz11fwRFB0
(skip to 20m15 or so for the Howells piece at the end, which is the best of the lot)
I’ve been doing music for many years, but only recently letting other people hear it! My last two released things are a 20-minute mostly electronic melodic-ambient suite [1] and a string quartet piece (my first!) [2].
I just put out my first techno EP. I'm using the proceeds to raise funds for the Service Workers Coalition. I wanted to push myself to see a project through to completion, which resulted in this EP.
Guitar's my main musical outlet nowadays though. Actually recording and producing stuff is the part I wish I had more of a drive to pursue. Hopefully I'll get to it once again in the near future.
Hello! I've been reading HN forever and just want to say how much I appreciate the community. It's not a surprise how many of you are musicians. Almost every coder, engineer (of all disciplines), or otherwise technical person I've worked with has some kind of music background - from marching band to Death Metal. I've always loved that.
I've been making websites almost as many years as I've been in band - which (yikes) is basically a large INT. Being a coder freed me to go on tour and I was lucky enough to get out there for nearly 20 years (in my own band or as hired gun) and am still getting out there - albeit shorter trips. I'm super grateful. I've released music from a few different projects this past year or so...
Raw sounds were generated by manually fiddling with audio cables, field recording, and tone generators. I fed them all into Audacity and layered and blasted them out in different ways - pitch shifts, overdriving, intentional clipping and phasing, cutting off the tops and bottoms of waveforms, running them through tweaked reverbs and sound reproducers designed for slowing down music - intentionally misusing effects to create new sounds and distortions. Once I had a big project file going, I split it up into sections and started arranging things to create patterns, rhythms, and repeating themes, and work the noise into a kind of narrative that was forming in my brain.
My band Society Burning, to celebrate our 30th anniversary, just released our first full-length album in a decade. We even had some CDs made - probably will never make back what we put into it, but it has been a good long time in the making. Covid helped us finish it in a way - music helps us keep sane. (Instead of another EP) (Industrial Rock/electronic)
I haven't done much in the past year due to creative blocks and not having long train commutes that were conducive to this kind of thing, but here's a few of my better ones. I also put out short albums in 2018 and 2019 for National Solo Album Month, they're there in my soundcloud as well.
I really like the juxtaposition of your HN user name being an alias and your 'artist' name being your real name. :) Like the first song Im hearing, listening to more now.
I've just finished writing a deep techno LP which should be getting released soon. I wish I could share that as I think it's much better than my work up till now but anyway! Deep Techno is a perfect style for background music to code to, similar in some ways to IDM but the repetitive 4/4 beat is great for focusing - well it is for me!
If you're interested in the style check out the deep techno playlist on my Spotify page, I cover all the well known artists of the subgenre.
I studied classical music composition and have still written music while working as a software developer. I'm happy that I (re)found a passion for programming as being a freelance composer wasn't paying quite well :D It has also been a joy to notice how my studies gave really good foundations for becoming a software engineer.
Currently I'm writing a commission piece for symphony orchestra. Quite excited but super hard to find time to concentrate while working in a seed-stage startup and raising two kids... But deadline is in autumn and I'll spend my summer nights writing music.
Me and my friend do some dance pop music for fun as "Asia Europa". We both compose and produce, she writes lyrics and sings. We also did bunch of DIY music videos ourselves.
I've been writing music for about 10 years, but low output, only about 1 song per year. I mostly write some variation of metal. I love writing, but so far haven't gotten much practice at mixing, so a "professional" sounding mix eludes me.
Here's what it sounds like when I have help with the mixing:
My quarantine hobby has been to get better at mixing and producing music. I mostly play guitar, so it's been a difficult process to get my vocals and lyrics anywhere near good (and something I'm still working on). I'm starting to hit a point where I can mix on autopilot (not that the mixing is great, just that it's no longer the bottleneck), so my next effort is to write drums that are more than just stock presets.
Huge shout out to http://songfight.org for being the catalyst that created any of those songs that have lyrics. They're a pretty small community that's been going on for 20 years, where every two weeks you're given a song title and 1 week to write a song that incorporates the title. The real beauty comes from the forums where people review each other's songs with a critical eye. Very wholesome community.
Note: please don't vote for me in this week's Songfight challenge - since the winner normally has somewhere between 10 and 20 votes, it's very clear when someone is calling on friends to flood the votes. It'll only lead to deep shame on my end, but I do encourage y'all to vote for any songs that you particularly like.
Hi there! Long time lurker on HN, and I love this community. I thought I’d share my work here. My background is is physics and maths, scientific programming and research (back in the day) got into teaching for a while. Music was always a hobby but in the past two years I’ve decided to put a lot more time and effort into it. I’m studying a music production course to reinforce some concepts and learn more mixing and engineering theory.
Part of music for me is that it feels like a more meaningful way to apply my science knowledge. They way music makes people feel is really powerful.
I work with my partner, we DJ, produce and play instruments (drums and piano with bands/jam). It’s amazing fun and you meet some amazing people. We’ve also done a few live stream events on our own channel and other peoples channels.
Hoping to finish our first ep this year. We’re from Australia, east coast. Mostly bass music, but we really try to keep things diverse in terms of sound and influences. No techno/house/trance. It’s a small scene the bass music, relative to the older générés.
Have a listen, drop us a line if you like what you hear!
I've been doing mainly improvised (experimental) music for the past 20 years. My instrument / sound source are the magnetic fields emitted by hard drives (hdd), signal generators and for the last year the cheapest synths you can find. I've always been very bad at documenting what I do, so there is not much to look at or listen to. also, I have always thought of my music to be for live audiences and so there are only a few releases I did over the years.
here's my ancient website hosted by klingt.org - a platform for musicians of the experimental / jazz / new music genre originally from vienna, now international:
https://rossi.klingt.org
it has a jukebox that lets you listen to hours of copyleft material by the platforms users:
https://jokebux.klingt.org/
Here's an old song of mine. My main claim to fame as a songwriter is that before Suzanne Vega became famous, I was in a weekly songwriter's workshop that she was involved with (and co-founded); she liked this song when I presented it during one of those Monday night workshops at the Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village.
I love the mix of the ambience and the narrator. Those PSAs and old narrations really add an interesting dimension to it. Question, where do you find those voice samples?
I do! Originally a rock/metalhead I got into electronic music production almost a year ago. I released my first EP a few months ago with 80s/alternative/rock/cinematic influences:
It's probably not on par with other productions out there, since I produce, mix and master everything myself, but I enjoy the process a lot and keep on making music!
I'd be happy to receive some feedback and maybe one or two new fans ;)
This is a nice thread, I think one of the hurdles we will have to overcome in advancing our common civilization is the lack of cooperation and clear meeting grounds for artists.
Do we have anything like the 19th century artist cafés in Paris that gave rise to new artistic movements for both the elitists and the broad public?
These are some tunes I wrote and performed with my band Jonny Lives!
"I'm No Good By Myself" video where we had puppets of the band made by the Team America puppeteers and I got to realize my maker dreams to the max, building a life sized record player with a working (chain-driven) turntable.
The "Get Steady" video was produced and directed by Kal Penn and was paid for out of the film budget for Van Wilder 2 (we were on the soundtrack). If you haven't seen Van Wilder 2, spare yourself, but fun video!
Outside of being a software engineer I’m in an indie band my with my wife called Starover Blue. We were based in San Jose for almost 8 years before moving up to Portland in 2017 for the more supportive scene. https://staroverblue.bandcamp.com/track/the-howl-makes-no-so...
Releasing an album was a creative bucket list item for me. I released my first in 2010 as an accompanying soundtrack to an online digital art project. Then another, and another...enjoy.
Perhaps more interesting to the HN crowd is another project of mine, https://wavtool.com - a hackable audio editor for running and sharing JS audio effects.
Would you happen to know, does DistroKid offer the same pro publishing services like CD baby etc? At a cursory glanse, I saw a limited list on the DistroKid website vs a longer royalties services list competitors have.
P.S. congratulations on the game relase! Spotify was asking me to login, so i think I found you on youtube, giving a listen. Perhaps consider updating your post by adding a non-spotify link?
CDBaby and Distrokid have a different model. Distrokid is effectively subscription based, with unlimited uploads of singles and albums as long as you keep up with your payments. CDBaby, by contrast, is more transactional. This works better for me, at least, because I do music as a hobby on the side, and so tend to release individual tracks sporadically, rather than entire albums. (Although having said that, I'm working on an ambient album right now!)
I'm certainly not raking in money through music streams, but I'm also not doing much marketing -- this post on HN is the most marketing I've done in the past month. ;) Unfortunately that means I can't really comment on how Distrokid compares in terms of managing payments etc.
I hate self promotion, but the heck with it. Demoscene/chiptune musician here. I started making music on the C64 in the 80s (but never released anything back then) and then later on the Amiga in the early 90s.
Besides the occasional C64 SID tune, these days I mostly compose and play just for myself on the piano and learning to properly play the cello. I'm also in love with various rhythm instruments. The drums were my first, real instrument apart from computers. :)
A number of years ago a co-worker didn't believe that I could sing or play guitar, let alone at the same time! So I told him to pick a song and I would record it. He picked "Holding on For A Hero" by Bonnie Tyler.
I didn't think that song was very interesting and so I decided to choose one that was more my own liking. Taylor Swift's new album had just come out. Although I'm definitely not a Swifty I thought some of her songs were catchy, so I decided to have some fun with it. You can probably tell that I'm a huge Weird Al fan.
Knowing little about music theory and even less about production, I made the questionable decision to create a (darkwave?) synth track in LMMS. It turned out better than I expected:
While my wife was in her first trimester of pregnancy, I had some extra time in the evenings. I started streaming “improvised ambient soundscapes — music to lie down to” on Twitch. I’ve done a lot in a lot of genres, but this was a years old idea come to fruition.
It’s all improvised, and 95% guitar — tho you might not hear that at all!
I mixed the results from many live streams into an album and released it late last year. (And some new stuff next week!).
Not anymore, but when I was younger I wanted to do a music program and get into video game music, wrote a few hundred pieces while I learned the basics: https://soundcloud.com/james-futhey/sets/latest
I make mashups of lofi beats with philosophical quotes about western society in audacity for fun. Just finished this "album" on soundcloud. https://m.soundcloud.com/zooart/sets/lowatts
Currently doing a lot of live looping and working on an electronic set which I post a lot of random snippets to my instagram, hoping to have a 45 min set to play live once pandemic lifts:
I used to make experimental (approximately trance) EDM[1], and then I guess I got the music equivalent of writer's block. I have no formal music tutoring.
Over ten years ago I started my project/band called Two Games Joined, where I cover tracks from video games and sometimes other popcultural stuff and make them into actual songs with lyrics, plus write original songs inspired by them. The lineup is sort of a revolving door where some people record parts more often and others feature for a song or two.
It's mostly aggressive music with harsh guitars and electronic noise, but it also gets trip-hoppy or mellow sometimes. Most of it would probably be classified as industrial.
Main inspirations: Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, Powerman 5000, Rabbit Junk, Alexander Brandon, Amon Tobin, Public Enemy, Killing Joke.
I’m a lifelong musician who recently started diving into the world of audio production. I like most music genres and try to experiment with producing a little from each.
Here are a few of my recent tracks that I think turned out ok:
In the previous century I was producing electronic music semi professionally (as in - played big events, kept a day job). I quit around 2004, sold the studio, and then got back to it a few years ago.
My last tune, and first release (on physical medium) in 20 years was a remix for IAMWARFACE (great band):
Here's an album I made with Haskell (TidalCycles) and SuperCollider! Isohedra has groovy, moody and minimal beats - I heard it's good for concentration.
I've been at it for some time but this is my first code-generated release.
My own stuff isn't something I'd inflict on people, but my son has been performing with band called LAIIKA. They've put out 2 singles so far, pop that draws on that stripped-down 80s feel; I'm pretty excited about the material they haven't released yet too.
I've been singing a song every day since November, part of my power-off activities. I recorded before and after about two months. Before then I'd never sung more than Happy Birthday so I expect most people can sing better, but I love it.
Here's a recording, which includes a story about how This Land Is Your Land brought me to tears at the litter everywhere https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo.... I also pick up litter daily, though I've been doing that since 2017.
Description from the label:
'1. American Digital Prayer turns the building blocks of our perplex modern existence into a provocative sound collage of 0s and 1s questioning (or mocking?) the core values of high-tech society.
2. Google Computer's first release titled "Internet" and you will be taken to a magic place.'
I make jazz piano music and funky electronica, drum & bass occasionally. My most representing albums are The Box of Unusables, Nightly Blues, Gematria. All available for free download on bandcamp:
The vocals don't match the electronic music as much as it should IMO. It sounds a but too much like children music. The vocals trivialize the subject matter. Electronic should be more neurotic.
I like the tune but think it could be a lot better with different vocals (or no vocals) and possibly some additional electronic soundtrack on top.
I've always been interested in creating random soundscapes. For this purpose I built a SuperCollider[0] application[1] that does the job - at least for my tastes!
An electronic ambient / drone / noise soundtrack. All the tracks should be playable freely.
Mostly electronic with some diy shovel guitar samples and collected & recorded ambient noises.
Most tracks are melodic and somewhat calmly chill, however, Tracks 2 and 3 (and the bonus 30 minutes mix) are noisy. Give them a fast-forward at lower volume to insure you don't encounter noise level you would not be comfortable with.
I find experimenting with ambient music as well as digital drawing helps me reset.
I was on a gap year after an MEng in Computing when covid lockdown v1 hit the UK. Unsure what to do with my life I watched Downton Abbey with my parents and baked lots of banana bread. I'd picked up ukulele to de-stress during exam seasons and weeks before starting my first full-time engineering job I decided to make a rap music video with some vfx, animation, and... juggling?
Long-time lurker, making electronic, synthesiser instrumental movie-soundtrack-ish music in Finland (though we're both originally from New Zealand).
Had two chart-topping albums on Finnish iTunes, something I investigated that turned out probably more the result of an under-utilised Finnish iTunes than our popularity. But it's still cool to be able to say we had a "#1 album in Finland", and it be technically true...
I started making music in the 90s when computers were obviously much slower, so we're only used for MIDI sequencing of external hardware. I spent my highschool years doing y2k prep for a few companies, and saving evey dollar do I could buy hardware samplers, mixers, synths.
These days, it's modular synths (some of which I've built), and many computers.
Been writing/composing (or what do you call it when you "write" the music by figuring it out on the keyboard and never even writing it down? :D) some piano pieces. I feel I would need to up my production quality by a big factor, but I've made some simple recordings:
I got into music production when the pandemic hit. I've been obsessed with it since March. I've been playing guitar for over 20 years though. I found I enjoy making electronic music with a lot of orchestral and piano elements. If you are kind enough to give me a listen, check out Dark Matter and Dark Energy, these are the ones I am most proud of. I still have a lot to learn though, mixing the music properly is very difficult.
I make music on and off since I was a teenager. I always tried to keep it as something to bring me joy instead of letting it consume me by trying to become famous or well-known in some way.
People tell me it sounds like videogame music but videogame music can sound like anything so I never understood what they meant by that.
A few months ago I built a website to showcase the music I made recently, simply by replacing the files and letting people come back and play it https://glitchy.website/
I’ve recently been delving into solo composition and production after being part of a rock band for the better part of my musical “career” due to the pandemic. Modular synthesizers have opened up a whole new manner of thinking in regards to creating music, and I’ve been having a blast trying to understand this new paradigm - https://open.spotify.com/artist/24DaBLXr68RdgcQ9HZM1CZ?si=jk...
These days I compose electronic, ambient space music with synths, modular and otherwise, and sometimes acoustic bass and field recordings. In a previous life stage I played bass in jazz ensembles in and around Boston.
Anybody here remember Beyond the Mind's Eye etc? (Some of the same clips were used in Lawnmower Man). I found a VHS of it at a Good Will. Made a music video chopping it up (2011):
- http://sunbather.biz ← old music portfolio site, links to everything mentioned in this comment.
Other retro nostalgia things: I did a lil track w/ Julian Wass where we sampled MIDI and speech from Dark Seed (old point and click DOS game that oddly had art direction by H.R. Geiger). We had more planned but I'm glad we made this one. https://cyberdreams.bandcamp.com/
Also, the last track on that Tunnel Visions album is based on a sample from Star Tropics, if anyone remembers that game :)
I've been stealthy since ~2015. I'm still making stuff, so I have a big backlog. Which is a fun problem to have. Once I get a business off the ground... then I'm gonna start releasing stuff again. (New project(s).)
I got into beatmaking in 7th grade with FL Studio FKA Fruity Loops. In college, it was actually a Max/MSP class that motivated me to learn code. </waxing-nostalgic>
p.s. I've always wanted to make soundtracks for indie games. If anybody's looking, LMK. I have a lot of stuff in the backlog that I could take in that direction.
I picked up writing music a few years ago - something I had been longing to do since my early teens, but avoided because I hated the feeling of having no idea what I was doing.
I’ve been working on a track for the past few months. And for once, I’m really happy where it’s heading! Work and ‘rona are cutting into my energy levels hard right now, but I’d love to finish it up someday.
Have been writing songs since more than 20 years now, and got into producing around 2007. Genres range from singer songwriter to electronic and orchestral and anything that materializes really
Here’s my latest released track, an instrumental piece trying to capture the strange time we live in now:
I started producing chill lo-fi some time ago just for fun. And since the people around me liked it, I drew cover art for them, created videos out of it and published on youtube.
I make minimalist funk compositions inspired by video game music, funk (ofc), and jazz. There's a whole album here but I'm just pasting a song I think has broad enough appeal.
Please use headphones, phone speakers are a nightmare to mix for.
Ambient-ish songs mostly with guitar and some keyboard.
I've been teaching myself a bit of both in the last year. At some point I'd like to learn more about mixing and also some lower-level sound design (perhaps intersecting with programming).
I'll be checking out music from this thread throughout the week. Nice idea!
Haven't made much lately, but this is the best music I ever made, in collaboration with others on a now defunct website called myvirtualband.com It's got a Trans-siberian Orchestra kind of sound: https://soundcloud.com/stephen-cameron-456738857/rocket-sled...
I have an on/off electronic music project that spawned out of the witch house scene back in 2010. I haven’t released anything for a while but I’m still making stuff occasionally. Hoping to get something new out this year at some point...
I've been playing guitar for nearly a decade, recording music for about five years, and I recently started playing the Chapman Stick, which is a wonderful instrument!
I make alternative rock (mostly with female singers) with the occasional splash of electronic instruments.
Working from home has given me time to play music again, and I’ve been putting some new compositions/improvisations for piano, guitar, mandolin, mandola, mandocello, and bass on YouTube:
I write contemporary classical music, and am applying to some highly-regarded conservatories (I enter college this year). I've made it past the prescreens and done all the interviews, so now it's just a matter of waiting and seeing what happens!
I posted my bandcamp stuff in another comment, but on this thread I'm mainly looking at peoples soundcloud links because they are easier to scan through, here's mine:
Yes I’m very interested in edm production and working on some side projects in the space! Have tried producing a bit of everything (DnB, bass music etc) but might focus more on house/techno since it can be easier plus DJs will find it easier to mix into their mixes.
I have been making music on and off for about 20 years now. Best source of my music I can refer to is https://ozmodic.bandcamp.com/music/ as aside from that, it is scattered in disparate parts of the internet that are too much for even me to remember sometimes.
I’ve been recording for a couple of years except last year was really difficult and am slowly picking it back up. Here’s something I recorded in the past and you can check other stuff on my SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/pablo-garcia-141/demo-11
I participated in February Album Writing month for the first time in over a decade, and successfully wrote 14 songs in 28 days! A variety of genres, but mostly lower key (bossa nova, ballads, etc)
I produce techno and house with mostly hardware instruments and sequencer (love my Cirklon Sequentix...) and have been doing so for the past 2 decades.
I used to make music with Fruityloops between the age of about 14-20. I never got that great but pleased with a few tracks. Still have hundreds of "demos" on my old hard drive.
I started a band with fellow computer science faculty members before the pandemic. Unfortunately we haven't had a chance to record anything of decent quality and we're not quite ready to start playing together in person again yet. But I love this thread!
Noodled in my school days, studied composition in college. Finishing work has gone way down since becoming a programmer- it seems to compete with my creative musical impulses.
On a certain level, I think music should be free as in libre. It’s kind of an idea more than anything else. I’m thinking of selling music and then after a certain time (12 months?) it becomes pay what you want.
In terms of DRM I hate it and never want it to be a burden to my listeners. If someone steals it, they probably weren’t going to buy it, but maybe they’ll come to a show/buy a shirt. I don’t like ad supported streaming either, or streaming in general, we already went through the issues of mega record labels, would hate to see steaming services start to dominate music taste/direction.
I don't have much that's at all polished, but I've been recording things ~daily since early on in COVID and have been posting them at http://noise.nateeag.com.
- https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI...
- https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild
- https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/
- https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154...
- https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...