Telesto

Nice rework of the original track, I enjoyed the listen.

Wookiee
How long 3 minuets this will never do Andy?!?!?!?
 
Nice

It's the single version Wookster.
This could definitely take a vocal. Likes it.

Wookiee
How long 3 minuets this will never do Andy?!?!?!?
 
Nice

 
Hiya Wookiee!
 
Thanks for listening
 
Yeah, three minutes is a tad short! I've done longer intro's
 
 
cheers
 
andy

Andy
Another one of your tracks that sends me floating away. Nice one!

Now last time I made some comments here I got into trouble.  I have made a good friend from that experience though and very happy because of it. But Andy and I have conversed before. Firstly I love electronic music so I am into it from the very start.
 
My only criticism is that for me it is 3 minutes long and goes nowhere. That whole sound is really only good for 8 or 16 bars as an intro but I would take it somewhere else. The sound of that idea is great but the current arrangement is weak. 
 
Listen to the master e.g. Tangerine Dream. Edgar would do a lovely sound like that but only for the intro though. After 16 bars or so he would be into something else and developing something much stronger. New sections, chord changes and melodies. 
 
I love this too but I can already hear in my mind where it should go. Funny thing about TD is that it can sound like its on the same idea for a long time but in fact it is not. It is constantly moving and developing underneath.
 
But as it is it is also a lovely piece to relax too and just veg out on for sure!
 
 
 

bjornpdx
Andy
Another one of your tracks that sends me floating away. Nice one!

Thank you very much Bjorn

Jeff Evans
Now last time I made some comments here I got into trouble.  I have made a good friend from that experience though and very happy because of it. But Andy and I have conversed before. Firstly I love electronic music so I am into it from the very start.
 
My only criticism is that for me it is 3 minutes long and goes nowhere. That whole sound is really only good for 8 or 16 bars as an intro but I would take it somewhere else. The sound of that idea is great but the current arrangement is weak. 
 
Listen to the master e.g. Tangerine Dream. Edgar would do a lovely sound like that but only for the intro though. After 16 bars or so he would be into something else and developing something much stronger. New sections, chord changes and melodies. 
 
I love this too but I can already hear in my mind where it should go. Funny thing about TD is that it can sound like its on the same idea for a long time but in fact it is not. It is constantly moving and developing underneath.
 
But as it is it is also a lovely piece to relax too and just veg out on for sure!

Hi Jeff!
 
We should chat more often and I do feel rather guilty that, after you sent me your Super Nova stems, over 18 months ago now, I went off into a different direction, musically speaking. Still electronic, but perhaps more ambient, with less structure and, as a result, interest perhaps.
 
Telesto was yet another experiment, mainly with effects, which I am using more and more, along with busses and automation to bring "interest" to my work, rather than traditional song structure.
 
The original piece, by Stan Magendanz of Brisbane, really sets the arrangement for this, and I didn't want to change it, although I did change the tempo and repeated the first dozen bars or so just for a faded in intro, whereas Stan's piece kicks off with beats from the first bar.
 
And Stan did explain that, for his "odds and ends" piece, it was just an idea and wasn't really going anywhere. I liked some of the sounds he created and also the underlying beat, so I decided to download it and see what I could do.
 
A bit more about my current "creative spell," which has been going on for around 18 months now. I joined an ambient oriented forum, initially to tout my wares, but also to get a better insight as to what peeps thought ambient music is, nowadays. And it's a vast genre, abused by many, it has to be said and its definitions can be stretched somewhat.
 
But what I found was, it released me to explore sound more. I have always struggled creating music that follows traditional expectations. Regarding Tangerine Dream, even though I love everything they ever did, I much preferred their early works, from Zeit up to the double live LP, Poland. Rubycon has to be my ultimate favourite electronic album of all time.
 
My last real "structured" piece was a track called M81. Still not a traditional arrangement, not by a long chalk, but I spent a lot of time looking into chord structures and changes. Trouble is, it took me over a year to get it to a point where I has happy to publish it.
 
I have written other "structured" pieces since then, but I have never been happy with them and one, called Nessus, which was based on one VSTi called Hive, was uploaded to SoundCloud but it has since been removed. I wrote a short piece called Thank You at the end of 2016, just to say "thank you" to all my supporters and I do like that piece. But still for short of being something that I could jump up and down about.
 
Since M81 I have uploaded over fifty tracks to SoundCloud. I have done all sorts of experimental stuff and even brought my electric guitar into play in a few of them. I have also since invested in a hardware modular system, which opens even more avenues for experimentation.
 
I particularly like listening to, and creating drone pieces, and I guess that is where a lot of my effort is directed. They allow me to get more into sound design and effects, which I now realise I love doing. Trying to write a "song" was just holding me back...
 
 
Anyway! Been rambling too much and I'm starting to repeat myself...
 
Thanks again for listening Jeff and popping in here to comment. I really do appreciate that, and your comments are so valid. I'd also like to say that I will take them on board but I think, in the short term, my experimentations will continue in the same vein. For now, at least
 
 
cheers
 
andy

Just thinking of you again Andy and your interest into sound design and ambient concepts.  I would like to mention a few notable synths that I have recently got into that are totally amazing in this area.
 
One is Isotope Iris 2.  All I can say about that is OMG!!!  Another is granular synthesis.  Ben from the songs forum did an interesting piece a while back using a granular instrument.  He got my interest in granular back up.  The two that I am into are New Sonic Arts Granite and also Sound Guru The Mangle.  Not sure if you have heard of or have any of these but they are quite remarkable.  All three including Iris 2 are into going out and making your own recordings and bringing them back home and uploading raw materials into a granular and them playing with it.  And of course you can use the resources they provide for doing the same.
 
What I find amazing about the granular is that what may start out as a single Tibetan bell hit or even a single tabla hit can be transformed into a huge ambient texture that is ever evolving! Hard to believe but so true. And it is all in stereo too!
 
Here are a few examples:
 
Mangle here from a single Tibetan bell hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFDg7X3dlfc
 
Granite doing some great stuff too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuN0Jezi2Kw
 
In both of these you can click on a button at any time and hear the original sound that is making these textures and in most cases it is the most simplest of things!!
 
 

Well, if I didn't know it was yours, originally, I would have never known it wasn't yours.   
 

Thanks Andy that MMultiBandGranular effect looks very interesting indeed. I will look into it. It might be doing very similar things to what Granite is up to except in Granite you can still play the parts from a keyboard though which is also pretty cool.

I like the feeling it creates.  Some electronic stuff gets me down but not this.  Thanks for sharing!

synkrotron

stevec
Well, if I didn't know it was yours, originally, I would have never known it wasn't yours.   
 

Thanks Steve

I guess I did a good job of putting my stamp on it

I listened to the original then yours, and yes, you did! Really nice Andy.

jamesg1213
I listened to the original then yours, and yes, you did! Really nice Andy.

Great stuff James, listening to the original too. Thanks

Lovely trippy vibe which reminds me of the post-rave music we'd listen back at someone's house in the 90's. Lots of modern electronic music is missing that authentic atmosphere, great sound!

Oh yeah. Big difference between the original and yours Andy. Slowing it down opened it as much as the synth you added. A little repetitive for me at this stage, but I suppose more maybe woven into this.
 
Dean