Alligator Alley

Edit: This piece is now part of a larger work, so please ignore this one and go here

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/jungles-ganymede-20936.html

This was a very quick one for me. I started it last night while fooling around with some synths and it kinda grew on me. I put about 4 hours into it last night and another hour today.

It uses a number of synths and GPO and was sequenced in Sonar PE 8.

Here it is

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I know it's not everyone's style of music, but it's nice to have a little change of pace now and then.

Ron

This was beautiful! ...Well...not beautiful...It sounded ugly, but the amazing kind of ugly, if you know what I mean . . .It was dissonant but the good kind of dissonant!

The point is I liked it. It sounds nice for say a creepy area in a video game. I especially liked the (correct me if my terminology is off) glissandos of the stringed instruments. Bravo.

Ok, so it's not going to win an Oscar, but the music (or 'music') is without a doubt atmospheric and background music to what I see as a level in a video game.

Not quite to my taste discordance-wise, but it certainly paints a picture.

Hey,

Very atmospheric, I agree. The percussion gives it a sort of comical/humourous vibe to me. All you music seems to remind me of music from old Disney cartoons I use to watch when I was a child. It's something about your style of writing I suppose. I can see Donald Duck making his way through long grass in a swamp filled with alligators that are watching his every move. :P

Maybe I'm just an odd duck though. :blink:

Nice work.

Ron

It seems like I never know how to comment on incidental music. I just wind up saying, "This part was cool; This part made me laugh....etc.etc."

With that said, one thing I really liked about this one was my "depth perception in listening". What I mean is that you managed to create more of a 3D atmosphere, something which I haven't really heard in your other music but that I really like. It seemed as though some parts (like the percussion and guitar were right up close), and the wailing strings and such were far away.

As much as I love your "concert" style music, you have a gift in painting a picture with music. Maybe that's why your style appeals to me so much, being a very visual person.

I really hope you never stop composing, Ron. You and Nikolas continue to find new ways in staying my favorite composers on this site. Nice work!

Vince

This is great Ron! I really liked it. I can hear this being a soundtrack to a freaky-haunted jungle or a marshland scene in a movie or a game. It has that kind of a "something-aint-right-here" voodoo feel :) I like the percussion because you used a lot of elements in creating a rhythm, and the effects you got with strings are really awesome. Great work!

Hey Ron - this is pretty impressive for a few hours work. I don't normally know how to listen to your stuff if that makes any sense, but I got a kick out of this one :-) Definitely has a creepy atmospheric quality.

Cool. And weird, in a good way.

That is one twisted work of art! :)

It sounds... messy and yet gives a few clear ideas of what it should be for.

Alot of people wouldn't be able to stand 30 seconds of this. but it would fill a hole in a movie scene that couldn't sound different then this and then people would love this..

alot of power and style.

I listened to this piece, and I really liked it, but I felt it was SOOO LONG, and I thought "When will it ever end?!?!"

Then I realized it had been repeating for like 10 minutes. :facepalm:

Very cool. I agree with whoever it was commented about a sort of layering feeling... a dimensional space, as if observing a 3-d sound object, and as it turns, it hits you in different places.

I wish I had good ideas. ;-)

Michael A. Garman said: "I wish I had good ideas. ;-)"

Well, Michael.... it is "Young Composers - Where musicians share ideas"

i think its mindblowing

some of the textures are great, others not so great.

but all in all awesome.

Ron

To me the piece has an industrial sound, like a huge construction project with many activities going on all at once over a wide area. I agree with thatguy that you have created a soundstage with depth. The repeating percussion layer keeps it from being scary - to me at least.

There seem to be several separate ideas overlaid creating some interesting textures. It might be a little too rich, too musically involving, for background to a video akthough a wide screen scene with lots of action might suit it very well.

Another very enjoyable piece :thumbsup:.

Herb

Hey Ron

I really had a fun time listening to this...i love unpredictable pieces, it's like an acid trip :P

Your style is inimitable, i really like it!

Wow Ron, I really liked this. You have a very unique and awesome way of painting textures.

The one thing I missed however, though this was probably a conscious on your part, was a sense of direction in the piece. I would have liked to see some sort of flow/development, or at least some goal for the texture you created so that it doesn't stagnate.

Otherwise, great job! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it.

Since no one really asked any questions about this piece, all I will do is thank all of you for taking the time to listen and just as importantly, took the time to let me know you listened and enjoyed,

Granted this one will not win this years oscar for best music, but it will be an honor just to be nominated. (Yeah, like that's gonna happen).

I have composed another piece that uses the same instrumentation that I hope to post in the near future. It is much more tonally centered and has a lot less poly-rhythmic ideas employed.

I think the two pieces are actually one and that I might of posted this one too soon.

Thanks again guys.

Ron