Edge of Visible

Hello everyone,

My name is Danijel and I'm composing music for several years.

Edge of visible is my new album and I already signed first two songs to a publisher. Recently I've composed two more so before offering them I would love to hear someone's thought on those.

So any comment is more than welcome.

Oceans of Green: The orchestration around the relatively unchanging melody was definitely a plus, especially as pseudo-ambient music. Be careful of pedal tonics though, when you use your inversions in the second section, the minor 6th and other chord tones become a lot more exposed than contained. In the first section perhaps it didn't need to be repeated 3 times, maybe a similar but different introduction could be used instead of the first time. The later changes used were binary and very solid. When the melody returns after the melody-less part, the piano octaves sometimes introduce strange dissonances that do not resolve correctly. Other than that though, this was a fine movement.
Absolute Light: Not much to say for a pseudo-ambient track. It does its job well and builds constantly using similar themes. Your bridges were really nice. The tones you used clashed a lot less this time around. Good work on this one. 

Hello Monarcheon,

thanks for your deep insinght :).

Your points are valid, I could use more variations in Oceans of Green. Unfortunately I don't have adequate speakers to check everything so sometimes sounds "slips" where it shouldn't be....The dissonances that you hear are leftovers from a part before, I didn't hear them until you pointed them out so I will remove those.

Since you obviously know what you're talking about, could you listen to another two songs from that album? They are already finished and signed by publisher, but I would love to hear you oppinion on those.

Thanks a lot :).

In general, the rhythm section was way too loud in the mix. Maybe your producer liked it this way. But overall I enjoyed it as sound candy or some ecstasy experience. I kept waiting for a focus or arc but there was none. Once you start to pay attention to it, there's not much there.  Now, if Sade were singing, it would be a different story.

Edited January 19, 20179 yr by Ken320

Hi Ken,

thanks for your comment. You are right about rhythm level, I've fixed that in final mix. And you are also right about "focus or arc" as you said it - actually most of my instrumentals were ment to have vocals in them, but I'm having trouble finding adequate singers. 

I suppose my producers like it since they mostly work with movies, commercials and such and this type of music suits them.

But your points are valid and I will try to incorporate them in my future work :).

Really good stuff.

The only thing I would say is the drums on the second one are a tad bright, maybe

bring down the levels a bit

Thank you, I've corrected drum levels in final mix. 

In the meantime I've managed to finish another song, feel free to put your ears onto it :). 

Edited March 27, 20179 yr by Seraphus
Moved to separate thread, there were multiple audio files starting.