Yes-And

The following is a link to a composition of my own. Pertinent information is as follows:

Recorded with an Alvarez RD20CU acoustic/eclectric guitar via using audacity as software. The only "distortion" used is the audacity noise removal effect, which I use mainly to remove background hiss, although, in some compositions, it does have other, unforeseen, effects. More such compositions can be found at http://www.myspace.com/christophdpierce as well as in the link listed in the "blog" contained on the myspace page. Alternately, if anyone is interested, I could probably find some other places to host pieces and link to them via the forum.

Said piece: "Yes-And"

www2.potsdam.edu/pierce03/Yes-And.mp3

There are times when these jangled harmonies would be intriguing. I took the slight out-of-tuneness as intentional. The repeated notes (starting deep on the 6th string) came over as heavy.

This sounds like it was multi=tracked - I know audacity can do that.

Did you record it d.i. or using a mike? The acoustic sounded a bit dry so a little reverb might have helped. (I admit to coming from the pre-consumer-computer-music age!) so a modern reverb pedal may be more intuitive than audacitiy's reverb. My primitive set-up doesn't allow me to monitor during recording while on the pc so I tend to do everything in hardware then transfer it!

General comment: it's a good composition but needs a little work on the prodcution side. If the detuning was intentional, that's fine. If not, the tuning needs a slight tweak.

cheers.

Yeah, the detuning is intentional, I like recording on a slightly out of tune guitar now and again, I feel it gives it a somewhat uneasy sound. I'd like, sometime, to look into using some of the bewtwixt tone tunings that have been used in Indian tunings at various times. As for the recording, it was recorded directly into audacity and it is, indeed, multitracked. I'll give a tweaking to the guitar and try to reduce some of the bass and see what I can get.

Thanks for the feedback good sir!

Eh, the myspace piece. well it sucked. It was so boring and reptative that I actually thought that the piece had hung up or somthing.

Then I noticed the other link, mp3 this time. Well I must say that it wasn't any better. Well you sure experiment with music which is good. But I don't like your experiment, sounds like a bunch of random notes.

hahahahahah, that's fine, at least you're honest. It's not for everyone, in fact it's probably for a minority. Thanks for the feedback.

No problem. Honesty is oart of the reviewing, otherwise it wouldn't be reviewing :P

by the way do you compose any "traditional" music? or just going for a strole in complete darkness?

Ahaha... 'traditional music' I like the question here... you should ask : do you write music from 300 years ago and are you a obediant servant of the king and do you wear a false grey hair when composing under the candle light ??...

Need more clich

As far as traditional, not really, the closest thing might be some actual songs I have hosted here:

CD Pierce - free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick

Which are somewhat more accessible.

I have considered composing something in a more traditional, but loosely adhered to, form, i.e. a sonata, sonatina, rondeau, etc....

As it stands I'm more or less trying to hash out a method of making music via my conclusions, though, so far, it is somewhat analogous to the Schoenberg approach, though I'm consiously trying to avoid simply adopting his method.

C.D. Pierce

P.S. If I had false gray hair, I might just have to wear it under candle light, just so it doesn't go to waste, Although I doubt it would affect my music much.

Ahaha... 'traditional music' I like the question here... you should ask : do you write music from 300 years ago and are you a obediant servant of the king and do you wear a false grey hair when composing under the candle light ??...

Need more clich