(Composition/arrangement structure of the track'd different "movements".
A different kind of verse-chorus-bridge approach.)
Hello,
First, this is an original composition by me.
Second, years ago, I posted a similar question and the truth is that composition and mix was quite muddy* and it deserved the harsh critique at the time. (*Something I didn't pick up on--forest for the trees syndrome in the creative process...) Peer feedback is instructive.
Genre of music
First, track length: 8:21 min. to fit video. As to style, hard to categorize, but I call it "slow-groove soundtrack-ish instrumental rock". Some say there is a touch of pre-choral phase Vangelis. Makes sense for I have known of his music since he was with the Greek pop band, "Aphrodite's Child." Lead guitar-ish, keys, pads, and and making at times syncopated, "human sounding" drums/percussion.
Put it this way: I turned 62 this year, grew up on progressive U.K rock (Floyd, etc.) and European classical, so it's not hip-hop, or robo-dance music. I'm into melody and layers. No sampling, all instruments played by me with exception of structuring custom MIDI-based grooves, bar-by-bar, incl. grace notes, etc.
Limits of My Setup or Gear
While I have a natural sense of creating music that goes back a ways to my days as an aspiring singer songwriter (6&12, then electric rhythm guitars), I can neither read or write scores - "math block" kind of thing. Then I discovered the music workstation on which I could play multiple instruments. My setup is by no means professional due to living on fixed disability income:
-- 2 Near-field 5" cross-over KRK speakers BUT in which both amps died, so they are no longer active, but passive.
-- Software used for recording of my playing and customizing mostly MIDI drum tracks - Steinberg Cubase 6
-- All non-percussion instruments played by me on an ancient but classic Korg Trinity music workstation. Some sound banks are also customized/programmed-tweaked in-Trinity by me.
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That wind-up is so as to not judge me by too stringent professional recording standards for my speakers are now more or less acting like consumer ones. And everyone's listening platform type and quality is different.
And of course, music is very personal and "in the ear of the beholder."
I'm not asking you to like it, just grant me some feedback as a track.
So here are the two questions:
1. As stated at SoundCloud, this is a "polished draft" but close enough to the final.
- Q: What is its overall sound quality and mix? And what platform did you hear it on?
2. I am purposely not stating what the video is about so as not to influence this query.
Title is purposely mysterious-poetic.
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Q: What emotions or space of mind, etc. does it evoke, etc.?
I also believe and want it to stand on its own as a composition, soundtrack or not.
Thank you.
~ Philip
VALLEY OF PLEASURES
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