Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah

Hi All,
Latest piece for your listening pleasure. All comments are always welcomed. Enjoy!
 
http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=13170223  "Destruction Of Sodom and Gomorrah"
 
Peace and Blessings, John
 
P.S. Go to my main artist page in SoundClick and view the painting I did for this song. You can make a free copy of it if you like and print it your self at home. Enjoy!

Hi John,
 
Yeah... A driving and energetic track for sure. I'm not 100% with the way the different parts "blend" together though, probably because they fade in and out instead of just jumping right into the next part, so it almost sounds like there are two different songs at war here... Or perhaps that is the exact effect that you wanted to achieve, in which case, nice work
 
cheers
 
andy

Hi John,
 
I like musical interpretation of world events what ever the context or perspective . I totally get where you are going with this.
 
Cool stuff.
 
Cheers,
 
Billy

Andy, There are many different pieces going on here and several different hits, whistles and bells and anything else I could throw in there with virtual instruments and other sound files. Just the way I like it!! Thanks for the listen and glad you enjoyed the piece for the most part.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Mesh, Not sure about any military vibe, but most certainly one of conviction. Hope you will have a listen and then you can comment on what you found interesting.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Nice!   Some of the guitar oriented themes remind me of the band Extreme (who I happen to like).   It is a little "different" in the way the themes seem to switch rather than melding into each other, but I think that's what you were going for.    About the only negative I could add is that it doesn't seem very "destructive", but hey, that doesn't take anything from what you've created. 
 

whack, Just goes to show you can't please all the people all the time. Don't forget, I create these for a video playing in my minds eye and of course you may create your own video (thru the music) in your minds eye, that is different from mine. I guess that is what makes art so special and individualized. It is a real ride though and hope you enjoyed it.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Great music

John,
  Wow, cool stuff here for sure!  The first jump in the motif of the tune shook me for a second but then I got into it as it shifted back and forth.  Very U2 meets Jan Hammer--ish for sure.  Would make a great music foundation for an extreme sports video...not that we have to pigeon-hole the tune.  Mix sounds good on my system and the performances were flawless.  Very fun.  Nice work!

Hey Gonzo, This is for sure painting a bigger picture from many smaller pictures and then taking it into the digital printer and blowing it up into a larger format through specialized mastering. The file is loaded only as 192mp3 into soundclick and converted to a 128mp3, yet the sound has pretty much kept all of its original values. It is because the various values learn through the conversion process and change accordingly.
 
All my work is for video, but I don't have a videographer to work with and having this cancer doesn't make things any better . I can't play my guitars, because of the tingling side effects, so I just have to do the best I can due with the software that I have.
 
Whether it be for action, drama, sports, there are many, many pictures playing in my minds eye all the time, so I just put the music to that, and most likely that the only play it will be seen. Like you, you already envisioned a sports thing, Pink Floyd possibility, action feeling/vibe, so maybe you understand it more than you think.
 
Anyway, glad you found it interesting.
 
Peace and Blessings, John
 
By the way, have a 1971 Gibson SG1 for sale. You can view it on my sound click page. Have a peek!! 

Amine, Thanks for listening and glad you enjoyed the piece. I just listened to one of your songs, Some Day, the first one on the list, very nicely done and enjoy to listen to, with a nice clean mix.
 
As for what I do, because of my cancer my fingers tingle 24/7 and I can't play any of my guitars, drums or keyboards anymore, so everything I do is sequenced from nearly $15K worth of files I have purchased/collected or created with my instruments or virtual instruments over the past 25 years. I have been trying to sell of my instruments, because my type of cancer is terminal, but is very, very slow growing and who knows, maybe they will come up with a cure soon.
 
Anyway, hope you will go to my site and listen to more.
 
Peace and Blessings, John

Amine, Well, to tell you the truth, I, myself, don't even know how I work with all of these files. They are all stored on my computer and backed up to a 3 TB memory drive. When I start a piece of music, I go to these files and start to listen to them to see if I can find what is appealing to what is playing in my mind, based on a video in my minds eye. You may notice that one of my statements is: I try to created music that goes along with the title of the song, thus the video in my minds eye helps me come up with the title. Listening to the file I own can take days and I write them down and when I'm ready, I choose a tempo and beat I think will work for what I want to do, then I convert the music pieces to my selected tempo/ beat and then I start to arrange them on how ever many tracks it takes to create a wav. file. This can take hours or some times days to get everything into proper perspective so it ends up being an actual completed piece of music. It takes time to adjust everything in the mastering process and is very time consuming, but for me it is all worth it. Look at it this way: How mush do you think it would cost me to hire professional musicians to play all of these instruments to create these musical creations I have done? It would be in the thousands for each and every piece. My file are for as long as I live, with all rights to create musical pieces and even to sell them if I like, but I have gotten some good prices, on sale, when purchasing these file, over the years, and for the virtual instruments, as well. So, there you have it.
 
Also, thank you for your prayers, they are very much welcomed and appreciated.
 
Peace and Blessings, John