Fugue No2-Waiting At The Bus Stop For You

https://soundcloud.com/aaudiomystiks/fugue-no2-waiting-at-the-bus-stop-for-you
 
Sorry to post two in a week but I thought this track deserved ATTENTION!! (I wrote and performed this in a night on Sunday...yes all of the strings were performed into Notion 3 with the Yourock guitar...I was a virtual viola player, I love viola).   It is my second attempt at fugue...at least I think it is a fugue...please correct me if I am wrong.  I sent it to my supervisor but he never gets back to me.
 
The concept is life is a series of bus stops, and I am waiting for you at the bus stop.  I'm going to do a video for this piece...a montage of empty bus stops lol.
 
The piece is in 5/4 yes odd time signature again, but the development is in 4/4.  I think it is in B minor although its probably is in some kind of mode...perhaps B Dorian.
 
I've found a way to make the virtual strings sound better in my opinion, I decided to triple track everything, and one track even has the slightest amount of varispeed...cool.  I've also decided to bounce all the strings down to a single stereo track from Notion 3, rather than bounce them out individually and treat them in Sonar this way.  By bouncing the strings out as a stereo track, when I put them into Sonar this time I was able to make the triple verbs I use gel together better.  Yes I use three different verbs to simulate the sound of a concert hall: two perfect space verbs with far and close XY and the BVERB hall.  I've also used Waves Eddie Krammer's Zep Tape Emulation and I'm really digging the HComp also by Waves as my mastering compressor...who would have thought a plug, which was on special from 150 bucks to 37 bucks could replace an outboard 2000 dollar mastering compressor...it does IMHO.
 
Ok again sorry for posting two in a week, but again I think this deserved ATTENTION.
 
Ben

I liked this song though it was somewhat complex. You managed to make quite a show with just a couple of instruments. Somehow I wish there had been a pad sound making the sound even larger. Silly thought probably. Another idea was to perhaps morph the fugue into a more pop sounding style. Probably very hard and perhaps even stupid. But it is very nice as it is.
kakku

kakku
I liked this song though it was somewhat complex. You managed to make quite a show with just a couple of instruments. Somehow I wish there had been a pad sound making the sound even larger. Silly thought probably. Another idea was to perhaps morph the fugue into a more pop sounding style. Probably very hard and perhaps even stupid. But it is very nice as it is.
kakku

Thanks Antti it does have a very rockish popish feel to it in places, so its not a silly suggestion to morph it into this style.  It's the pulse your hearing I think, which is not very classical, in fact more blues and probably something I borrowed from Eleanor Rigby.
 
I now know you like your synth pads, but it is an exercise in composition and honchos would not be happy lol.
 
Thanks for listening
 
Ben 

I don't know what you guys are talking about but I did like this.  Different from anything I've heard for awhile.  

Lynn
I agree with Warren, this is different if not unique.  Ben, I applaud your well of creativity and muses.  The one thing that I consistently miss with your music is the dynamics.  It seems like every element is the same level from beginning to end, or in other words, where's the range from pianissimo to fortissimo?  Without that dimension, samples sound like samples only and not real players, though these samples are pretty good.  I  think that's the only thing missing from your music, in general, and in classical or avant garde music, dynamics are gold. imho

Thanks Lynn, yea it's a hard one, dynamics that is.  There is some on this, but they maybe get drowned out when I go and squash everything in mastering.  It's also very fiddley adjusting each note's velocity...which is what I have done, then I get lazy in the cutting and pasting lol.  I'm hoping Notion 5 has some sort of global velocity thingy...yea no language to describe, this will make it a lot easier to get in there and add more dynamic nuances.  On saying this I'm probably reflecting my own personality within the piece's themselves...meaning I'm a basher and I'm loud and don't have much emotional dynamic.
 
Thanks everyone else too.
 
Ben

I think the 3rd demonic detention should have been discussed in determining the differential despairities between the dialog and the dogmatic approach of this piece...
 
you know what I mean?
 
 

 
oh BTW cool tune! ;)

Thanks for all the positive feedback and for listening guys. 
 
Ben

Rimshot
I liked it.  I would suggest that where your voices intersect, that when there is discord, perhaps editing so that the collision of notes are harmonic to the key and not random hits.  It is one thing to write for 4 voices but another to then clean up the work so that musically it all fits technically (or not).  
If you want the collisions, then please disregard.  If you don't know they are happening, then maybe take another look at the composition.  If you have tried to make the whole piece harmonious, then there may be some work still needed.
 
Rimshot

Thanks for listening Jimmy...as is always the case with me, it's somewhere in the middle re: discord.  I have a basic idea of what needs to go where, then let it go where it needs to go.  I know this is going to get me into trouble because "the rules" if I try and do this seriously then I am going to have to sit down and work out the issues, as it is the composition took an evening and expressed some emotion.
 
Cheers Ben