Secluded Garden

Here's another non-mainstream offering from me. As with the last one, it isn't a terribly substantial piece of music, but as always I would welcome any comments.

I created this piece by heavily distorting the sound of a single piano chord and using the result as a voice in itself (the same technique was employed in the aforementioned last electronic offering). Then, I added some processed birdsong over the top. The result is somewhat eclectic, but - in my opinion at least - rather interesting and even beautiful in places.

The name derives from a memory I have as a child of exploring the garden of a derelict house, although there's nothing programmatic or pre-conceptual to this whatsoever, only what the sound of the piece evoked for me.

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I'm not a huge fan of avant grade work. I find alot of it unappealing. Not sure why. maybe I just don't understand it. That being said, I find this piece very interesting. THe idea of building an entire piece around an incredibly distorted, almost unrecognizable piano chord is a great idea if you can pull it off. This actually could fit well into the incidental forum as well. It has a very chilling ambience to it. Near the middle when it's at, what I hesitate to call, the climax. It feels so cold. Like it almost freezes time itself. I won't say this is the type of music I could listen to all the time and enjoy, but as of right now, I do find it rather appealing.

i'm a huge fan of avantgarde and i find it very nice and calm. almost church music. the dronessss...though i don't think birdsong over it does anything to it. the lone drone is enough nice and could have lasted for hours. i love to go to sleep with this kind of music. it just sets you up for a nice dreams. or to just stand by the window and watch the morning come, with a smoke of cherry tobacco

the morning red colour...

Thanks to both of you! I'm well aware it probably isn't the kind of thing one could listen to all the time, mainly for the purpose of preserving sanity (), but I'm very glad you found it appealing. I too find the effect of the middle section rather "chilling", by the way.

ha ha, you've done the trick,mate )

great piece, loved the format of a gradual buildup then deconstruction...and on a personal note I find it more a appealing then an original piano sound itself. The evolving texture is wonderful and its interesting to hear the interplay between the different partials produced by strings as the piece becomes thicker.

Thanks for listening! Glad you liked it, also.

This reminds me of the Lost in Translations soundtrack. This could really help me fall asleep, in a good way of course!

I find the way you created the sounds immensely interesting

As you stated in your first post; it is not substantial. I do not see it as a negative thing, not with this type of music. I just love to soak up the atmosphere the sounds create. When I think about it, once again, it feels as if you were underwater whilst in slow-motion.

When I think about it, once again, it feels as if you were underwater whilst in slow-motion.

Hehe, I really enjoy the fact that people offer differing interpretations of what a single piece of music could represent, yet no one reading is superior to any other.

One of the reasons I'm a big fan of ambient music is because it just is - it hovers around for a few minutes, doing very little, then just disappears. The quality of stasis makes it almost synonymous with nature. Man rushes around from one juncture to the next, and so does his technology; nature tends to exist in a single state for much longer than that.

Just rambling, I guess. Thanks for listening!

Nice sounds you got there. I like the build up, and how the piece uses only very few different sound sources. Though, it's arguably sort of static, though I guess that was the intention.

Overall, I'd say it of OK duration and the small changes of timbre and variations of the multiple sounds occur slow enough so that there isn't a sense of abrupt movement that would otherwise break the character of what it's building up.

On the other hand, as I get the impression this goes more in the music "moment" direction rather than standalone "piece", it seems as if it would belong as part of a whole, or maybe a movement from something.

Either way, I like it, but think if maybe this could be part of something, or compose other pieces around this.