Two pieces, SaxoSex & OMG.

So, here are two pieces I wrote based on similar ideas, but with different characters.

The SaxoSex piece is for synthesized/sampled Sax, and it's pretty much working experiment on reverb types/intensities as a crucial musical element. The piece is split into sections according to the type of technique used. The two main sections are the "Sea of sound" style reverb-spread out notes with no particular order or sequence. In the middle there's a other things, but these two parts are the main course, like a sort of "theme".

There's a pseudo-cadence at the end, which I wrote only to parody the typical ending, and it's mostly just that.

So, about OMG... uh... Yeah, well. This is one of the many pieces I wrote where I tried to work with only ONE single sample and do a bunch of stuff with it. The original .wav is me saying "Oh my god!" ...which I looped on purpose weird, so the popping noise in the loop is intended and used as a musical element too.

There isn't much of a structure to it, it's more like variations and different techniques in sequence. And, yes, despite what it may sound, the entire piece was composed using ONLY that .wav of mine, nothing else. Everything else is manipulation.

So, yeah. Enjoy!

05-OMG.mp3
03-SaxoSex.mp3

PS: Oh, before anyone assumes anything improper, no, the OMG thing has nothing to do with religion, has no religious grounds what so ever, and in fact I could've said just about anything else, but "Oh my God!" sounded pretty funny at the time for some reason so I used that.

i find it, well, psycho - i imagine one little devil behind it having fun with all those possibilities of reverb and "oh my god" deconstruction psycho and phunnn

I'm such a bad person, aren't I? ;P

bad like in michael jackson's - because i'm bad, bad, really really bad

That's bad, with all that vent-bustin' and dancin in parking lots.

one could just envy being BAD as that

Originally Posted by pliorius

one could just envy being BAD as that

One could, indeed. One could...

*is now terrified of the prhase "Oh my god"*

But besides that horrible mental scarring, it was an interesting piece. It most certainly blurs the line between music and noise (in a good way). I think you could have done more with the idea though. A bit more structure would've helped.

Well it was an experiment, so I experimented and once I was done with it, it ends. Not so fancy, but gets the job done! OH, and certainly, I wrote other pieces which develop more the same concept. Saxo Sex came after OMG, and it uses a more structured approach.

Listened to SaxoSex. Love it. Really delicious sounds you're getting out of those 'verbs. Sounds pretty crazy. Messes with my sense of space. Try listening with your eyes closed; it's a real trip.

Now for OMG. Didn't enjoy this one as much. There were some really great moments (my favorite was the line at the very end); however, given that the interest in this sort of music is primarily timbral, I felt that the music didn't have enough variety of timbre to hold my attention. It sounds like most of the variations were generated by playing different slices of the sample at different pitches. If I were making this piece, I might have incorporated more effects processing: flanging, distortion, filtering, ring mod, etc., to create more timbres. If your software can do it, feeding samples into a (modular or semi-modular) synthesizer can give you a lot of new sounds, because you can use the synth's filters, envelopes, LFOs, etc., to process the sound. This doesn't violate the rule of using only the sample as a sound source, as long as you don't use the synth's oscillators or noise generator as sound sources.

Also, in the future, consider putting your files up on a website which will allow easier access; preferably playable in the page itself. I expect you'll get more feedback.