[sdiy] new tune

[Dave Krooshof]

>Robert ,
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>>  Beautiful, minimal, tasty!
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>thankyou..
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>>  JX10... ( what do the resistors do? )
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><ROFLMAO> I should've explained, several people have asked
>I wanted a drone, but couldn't find my sustain pedal.
>so I played the two notes, and wedged a resistor under each key to hold it
>down.
>
>Paul

Okay. Interesting... How much Kohms? well, actually, it's a sort of resistance
you've used it for, resistance and friction is the same word in my language.

I like it too. It has a fat round sound. Alien, yet somehow soothing.
And sloooww. I like slow music.
Although the drone is spycho-acoustically in the background and the 
rhythmic stuff
in the foreground, I did not perceive it in that way, musically. The 
rhythmic stuff
is a 'time grid' in which the drone wanders.
So, it would be nice if the drones were controlled with something 
more interesting
then a sine, to make it have it's own sense of where it's going.
As for the structure, you keep adding layers to the loop in the first minute,
which got me thinking your music was about that rhythm. Then I 
thought: why don't
the other drums respond to the introduction of each new drum? But towards the
end I realized it's not about the groove at all, it's about that beautiful
and characterful drone. So I'd sneak the new layers in, rather then 
kickstarting them.
Eventfullness should be in the most important layer.
All drums sound very vivid, and I'm glad you stayed out of the fade 
in fade out clichees.
(notice I did avoid saying "fade the drums in") and it's a consequent 
soundworld
that you made. Call it simplicity, I call it choice.

In case you missed it, all of the above are compliments.


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groets,

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