My Newest Song

So ya. This is it.

Frictionless.mid

theirs also an MP3 version on my soundclick.

soundclick.com/madmaxtm

You seriously need to judge this, I'm begging you dangit.

An interesting piece! ;) It kept my attention all the way to the end. Good job! :blush:

-William

Thanks yo.

I editted it again, so yes, here it is...

For whatever it's worth...

I like it.. I'm not really used to listening to "this kind of thing" that is.. Well like a midi thing that plays, on my computer anyway.. the quicktime music synth... or when I played the MP3 version of it.. It was still played by "that kind of instrument." I feel like.. Well I want to see it realized.. Another words.. I want to hear good quality instruments performing it.. with all the bells and whistles.. and the production.. and everything.. I think that way it could be really incredible..

As is.. Well you know.. there's a lot of performance dynamics stuff that sort of introduces certain types of complexities.. like.. The way a string section could be expressive in the way it uses pitch.. or the way a piano could be expressive in the dynamics of how hard the keys are hit and where they fit in time.. And absent all that kind of thing.. In a higher end realization.. It's hard to know exactly what you have..

On the other hand.. if you're someone who's interesting in scoring video and computer games.. I think then it's a slightly different matter.. Because then I want to see how you optimize it.. Another words.. Well I've never done any of this sort of thing so I don't really know about it.. But your typical modern game system.. can obviously have a certain amount of built in synths and samplers and effects.. And and.. well look what they did with the ancient Atari 2600.. Where it's abilities where limited but every ounce of it's expressive possibilities where realized.. At any rate. .from what I gather it's all about how you optimize stuff and blah blah blah...

I suspect the prevailing thing.. is to sort of offer feed back on composition and not really worry so much about the realization.. But I think there is the issue of how the composition relates to realization.. Another words.. There's a certain amount of repetition.. Not Philip Glass amounts.. but certain amounts.. And if you had other variables breathing life into the performance.. that would / could effect how we interpret the repetition..

Some of this I say as a microtonalist.. Where in my microtonalism I deal with creating something like 'an interpretation of my composition' at least with respect to pitch expressiveness... There by introducing more levels of complexity... So that maybe it's a repetition.. but on very subtle levels nothing repeats exactly..

As I listen to it a few more times I realize some of what bothers me.. There's a guitar sound that reminds me of an 8 bit Mirage sound.. which was like this old sampler.. that I used when in College.. and I have some negative association with the sampler as a result.. and that sound.. In part just because I used it soo much that my ears have grown tired to the sound.. So this has nothing to do with you or your composition.. But it does have to do with things like the way the sounds relate to one another.. And sometimes it doesn't all completely jell together for me. .

I guess maybe the drums.. There's a certain part when it first comes up.. I'm betting that if the whole mix went through a little bit of reverb that would have the effect of unifying everything a little more..

So I guess.... for my taste.. I'd like to see performance dynamics pushed a little more.. I mean go John Coultrain on it's donkey, you know? And.. if you can do a certain amount of mixing stuff as a part of game music.. definitely put in some transient effects.. revebs, delays.. etc.. Doesn't have to be a lot..

Because I think I generally like the composition.. I just feel the need to push on it a little.