Musical creativity

[eon]

I'm interested if on this community any of you compose or do any type of music.

There doesn't seem to be a board called out for all things sharing creative works.. I figured this board would be the best place to do it, as typically the act of creation will stem from ones interest in the style/medium in which one is working, the intense dedication to and absorption in it.

mine is to create vibrant, breathing/seething synth patch textures and craft songs from them, which are very melodic and emotionally expressive. how i do it is to experiment or improvise till i hear something favorable that sticks in my mind, try to compose that specifically so i can listen to it on repeat... then i hear the next part and do the same over again.. revising it moment by moment, process over product.

From February to August 2009 I produced my first work of this nature. This was the year before I encountered my aspie discovery. All I had done in the past before that with music writing was experimentation to learn what I liked and get familiar with composing and playing with synth tools/sampling and production/DAW arranging environments.

Now I'm working on a 2nd album/work after 2 full years since completing the last one. With some new tools I've resparked the creative urge & special interest.

the most important thing beyond my own satisfaction and stimulation in the listening and discovering of every song, is to have them heard by others. the sound captures my emotion and overall the truest communication of who i am

my project page is soundcloud.com/dreamsofmydeath

 

[Geordie]

eon, i like your music all the best to your work

 

[Occasional_Demon]

I can't have a listen to your music right now, eon, but I will when I get the chance.

I have a myspace for some of my older projects. Some of it is folk, some of it is more rock. It's on myspace here: shichi | Free Music, Tour Dates, Photos, Videos

I've been in several bands in the past and I'm on the lookout again.

 

[MrRobot]

I write music. Orchestral mainly.

Film score style as well.

TWS Soundlab's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free


Enjoy

 

[epath13]

You're incredibly talented artist eon. I'm not just saying it, I truly believe it! Hope you make it big one day, it's only if you want it of course...
You understand...or should I say... sense what art is about and bring it in your music, it is a rare quality!

I've been writing music for the past 17 year... wow that sounds like a long time but unfortunately I've stopped recording in my early 20s because I couldn't figure out what style to write in, how to arrange, if I need a band or not etc. I had a death metal band but got bored with the style, wanted to play something different switched to alternative...it was a little bit too alternative, my voice wasn't mature enough, lyrics suck but songs weren't that bad actually lots of people liked it besides those who thought I was trying to be like talking heads (I didn't even listen to them at the time) in the end I kept writing songs but couldn't decide on the style. Now I'm coming back and at my age I don't care any more I'm just going to write whatever comes to mind and however it comes, post it and see what people think. Hopefully I will be able to perform again one day (hope sooner than later )... since I started writing music it seemed I couldn't live without doing it, it became a part of who I was, of the way I expressed myself... the way I communicated with the world.

 

[eon]

nice to see all of you come out and post on my thread. i will listen to your work. i strongly suggest using soundcloud as a platform over myspace. I will still not object to hopping into myspace to hear what you have there, though.

i've always believed in process over product for my music. however, on the latest efforts, i'm taking a step even deeper than that... the idea of CONCEPT to drive process.
the first 3 items i've finished for the (potential) new album blow my own mind.. the concept i took to drive the process of each one goes beyond anything that happened in my process for the 2009 work.

the idea that my music models is the same idea sought by film scoring. i need to portray action, things happening, and deep, vibrant emotion, in the sound. many scoring moments have been incredible inspiration to me musically, not even compositionally. The music i tend to love most is also very cinematic and listening is itself a journey.

i'm curious of your production process, mr robot. the sound of all your tracks being orchestral score style intrigues me.

i will post comments about the other project that has been linked also, tonight i have to crash soon.

 

[Occasional_Demon]

Yeah, myspace is dead really. I like soundcloud a lot and I'll probably migrate some of my stuff over too eventually.

 

[MrRobot]

i'm curious of your production process, mr robot. the sound of all your tracks being orchestral score style intrigues me.

I just open the Digital Audio Workstation (GarageBand '08) and start writing.

 

[eon]

Wow, I didn't know that GarageBand provided such great sound with this instrumentation. To at least get close to the texture of total sound portrayed in orchestral scoring.

I will have to buy the iPad version, now

 

[MrRobot]

Wow, I didn't know that GarageBand provided such great sound with this instrumentation. To at least get close to the texture of total sound portrayed in orchestral scoring.

I will have to buy the iPad version, now

It does. But that also depends on the way you orchestrate it. This is the desktop version of GarageBand along with the added orchestra instrument package. And vocals as well.


The iPad one is pretty good. But it has few instruments.

 

[eon]

yeah, i fouind this out the hard way. should be called garage-pianoGuitarDrums-recorder.. no composing interface. no good instruments. the app the way more toylike than even the original music app i tried 2 years ago, noise.io synth, which at least had custom control pads and sequence/pattern banks you could program. NOW im itching for having a mac again. earlier this year i sold off macbook air 11 i had bought for xmas thinking i was going just buy a pro when the model refreshed and i had my next bonus. but that extra cash went to a $450 camera we wanted for good baby-photos so im sitting here macless.

 

[eon]

i just found a site called the sixty one, where it's set up to get people to listen to new artists. i posted a track from my first EP last night and already have some listens, 2 likes. if you also like discovering new artists it's such a cool setup. check it out and sign up as a listener, i could use the likes as well to help people discover.

 

[Kollide]

I'm a musician and producer myself. My acoustic/singy stuff is here - Kibi (Kevin Murray)'s sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free , and my electronic musique is here - phenical's sounds on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

The tracks further down of mine on Phenical are better I feel, the top two are just weird hip hop-like beats I had going over the weekend. Glad eon made this thread, merci!

 

[vangelis]

I am in the early stages of arranging trance variations of Icelandic folk songs - needs a lot more work and refinement before I would be confident enough to share though. I use a mixture of Roland and Yamaha keyboards including the Gaia and virtual CS80 plus Arturia, Maschine and Komplete Kontrol software. Sadly there are not enough hours in the day though despite me being awake for 18 of them usually. I will have a listen to your compositions at some point as I am interested in all music.