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astroid power-up!
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elektro80
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 4:31 am Post subject:
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Magnificent! _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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jeff harrington
Joined: Nov 08, 2003 Posts: 84 Location: Brooklyn
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 6:40 am Post subject:
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Heh... make your demons beautiful... and then they can be saved...
Saved or safe?
Wow this is a great song man! Concise, bitter, practically noble in its blackness. Is that you singing? Nice counterpoint too... somehow you combined all these elements without sounding like a smarty pants.
Heh... looking for a prop smiley and only found this. Things...
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seraph
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 7:28 am Post subject:
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it's a nice piece and it's interesting that the motivation for writing it was not musical. It wasn't an exercise on a particular style, I guess it blossomed from your painful feelings without much thinking about them. Creative people are fortunate because can channel their feelings through their art and the results are usually relieving (and sometimes beautiful too). Something similar happened to me a few years back. No one was dying but I felt in very bad shape and writing this song helped me. I guess writing "things change for the worse" helped coming to terms with your pain. Good job! _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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astroid power-up!
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:
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jeff harrington wrote: | Heh... make your demons beautiful... and then they can be saved...
Saved or safe?
Wow this is a great song man! Concise, bitter, practically noble in its blackness. Is that you singing? Nice counterpoint too... somehow you combined all these elements without sounding like a smarty pants.
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it's "slain". It's an old confucian proverb. It is me singing. I'm really happy with the genre mixing on this one (bossa nova/baroque/electronic). thanks a lot.
listening to your piece right now, seraph. amazing. it sounds like a sad scene in a Wes Anderson movie , like something which is sad and sincere without giving up its complexity. you're right about the relief thing- i'd listen to my song over and over. i was such a confused mass of feelings during the year after my mom died, and producing this little song to be so unique really helped. |
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mosc
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject:
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This some is a gem. At one point you edit in about a half dozen electronic sequencer notes. That's terriffic. The fact that it was a one time thing is brilliant.
There are a lot of contrasts. Light hearted and very dark, or is it dark hearted and light. Very simple and virtuoso; or is that virtuosotic?
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astroid power-up!
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2004 3:33 pm Post subject:
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mosc wrote: | This some is a gem. At one point you edit in about a half dozen electronic sequencer notes. That's terriffic. The fact that it was a one time thing is brilliant.
There are a lot of contrasts. Light hearted and very dark, or is it dark hearted and light. Very simple and virtuoso; or is that virtuosotic?
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thanks lots. i think it probably is dark-hearted and light. i was reading lots of war history at the time, too (WWII, ancient Iraq, Chomsky, Said, and about three hours of C-span a day). I was in a pretty bad place, addicted to pain-killers, very numb. maybe i should call it "i went to hell and back and all i got was this stupid song?"
one of the things which was hardest for me to come to terms with was dealing with my own grief. My mom's suffering was fairly bad and vocal, so it far overshadowed the families'. and then, all of a sudden, hers was over, and mine was just rearing its head.
thanks for listening to the tune. i have to get back to critiquing things here. |
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mosc
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:44 am Post subject:
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jeff harrington wrote: |
Heh... looking for a prop smiley and only found this. Things...
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How about this one?
I found a place where one can make them to order. |
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seraph
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2004 1:32 pm Post subject:
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mosc wrote: | |
for those not native english speakers, like myself, I suggest the following article about Online Lingo where you can find explanations like:
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
LMAO - acronym for Laughing My Ass Off. Scientific research has not yet proven whether users typing a LMAO are actually emitting any sounds from their mouth.
LOL - acronym for Laughing Out Loud, a reaction to something humorous. Not as strong a reaction as ROFL or LMAO.
ROFL - acronym for Rolling On Floor Laughing
etc. _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
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Mohoyoho
Joined: Dec 03, 2003 Posts: 1632 Location: Tennessee
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zynthetix
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i concur with the masses, this is quite good. |
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astroid power-up!
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2004 1:34 am Post subject:
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thanks guys. these comments are really nice. i only wish i could write more songs like that! |
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