Possibly interesting?

Someone might find this of interest, whether it can truely be considered a composition of my own or not is of some debate, I put it together, though, and that required some effort and tact.

Radio

C.D. Pierce

Well, that needs a lot of work of cleaning ! :) It sounds like if you used analogue tape from the 50ties. ehehe If that was the desired effect... it works. What where your goals in composing this 'collage' ?

Mostly that it just started because I thought it might be interesting. More specifically, most of the recordings are from short wave "numbers stations" Numbers station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and it seems like alot of very good and musically interesting things could be done with sampling, overdubbing, and sampling specific parts of them, etc. . Hence, since what I used was recorded directly off the radio by someone, it sounds quite dirty (I specifically used some tracks from the Conet Project). Obviously, there's also one of Satie's Gymnopedies thrown in there, mainly becase a. I like Satie. b. It's an interesting contrast. and c. It's a rather strange recontextualization of it.

I'm sorry I can't describe why very well, but there's something about it that I really like. Some kind of mystery and a fine "musical" sense of the arrangement of sounds.

Something is effective in it for me. The piano part you used works well, but what if you composed a work for piano and used it in a similar way? Maybe record your own sounds too. Or just become Trent Reznor. OR!!! leave it how it is, because hearing sounds from different people, places, generations, and throwing them all together is cool too, and you become the focal point, playing around with their past which has arrived to you at present, and now it's your past arriving to my present.

I'm going to shut up now.

This piece gave me two impressions:

1. I am sitting in a cabin partially in the forest and I stick in a VCR. Some creepy images comes up. Then my telephone rings and a voice says "seven days!"

2. I am in an amusement park when all of a sudden everything starts turning into rust and blood. Small, mutated monsters start chasing me that don't have arms. One of them is a tall humanoid corpose that wears a huge pyramidal helmet and carries a huge knife so big it has to drag it around.

This might be good for a halloween ambiant track... scares the hell out of me, up to the piano at the end.

hmmm, yeah, i was going to say this could work well in a movie...like hannibal when it used the bach gouldberg idea along with sound.

Yeah, alot of what you said is the reason why I put the piano part in the end, it's almost like a sort half relief of tension, but not quite. I also enjoy injecting sounds or music that are barely audible, I theorize that the ear, on some level, still tries to keep track of the sounds even when they can't be heard.

As for adding my own music so something similar to this, I'm planning on it, although it would be with an acoustic guitar since that's what I have access to. When I get around to it I'll post it and see if people like that or not.

;) I enjoyed it a lot,a funny interlude...