2014/11/16 16:10:10
BenMMusTech
https://soundcloud.com/aaudiomystiks/airport
 
Here's a track I did for my Honours project, the sounds for this track were all gathered from the airport boarding lounge and café just before the boarding lounge.  I've used a granular synth to create the all the synth sounds and all the grains were from the airport field recordings.  I've played the whole track into Sonar using the Yourock midi guitar.  Notice there is some cool looping going on in the breakdown and the 6/4 section, the audio snap palate was invaluable here and I think you get a real Pink Floyd loop feel. 
 
The idea of an octave bass riff came from the Pink Floyd track Careful With That Axe Eugene, it is an avant-garde idea...an octave bass riff...or as George Harrison once said "avant got a clue" The track is really a sonic painting of the Café outside an airport boarding lounge, the ominous sound of boarding calls, calling you to your fate...maybe. And if you listen carefully the news reader at the boarding gate can be heard mentioning flight MH370.
 
Ok back to work...Fugue no2 is on the way.
 
Ben
2014/11/16 18:07:28
ruralrocker2010
That's pretty cool. And has a small, somewhat familiar feeling. Maybe that's because I've done a lot of flying.
2014/11/16 18:24:28
Lynn
It's amazing how you can turn an ordinary day into a clever song.  I always love it when someone sees things in an entirely different way and can translate that into something I can relate to.  On the technical side, I would like to hear a little more variation or range in the dynamics of the parts, but otherwise I'd leave this alone.
2014/11/16 19:37:34
BenMMusTech
Thanks Josh, Thanks Lynn, basically I've figured out I'm an impressionist Lynn.  This means I look at the world and I can communicate whatever I see, or I take the ordinary and mundane and see the colours and light...or this is what impressionism is.  It's a Van Gough thing I suppose but I do it with sound.  At the moment I'm writing a second Fugue with the idea of bus stops.  Life is just a series of bus stops.  If I can be bothered I will go and gather some video of empty bus stops and create a video fugue.  Yep I'm a little pretentious.
 
Ben 
2014/11/16 19:39:02
BenMMusTech
ruralrocker2010
That's pretty cool. And has a small, somewhat familiar feeling. Maybe that's because I've done a lot of flying.




It could be the Pink Floyd link...Pink Floyd use the octave bass line three times off the top of my head.  Carful With That Axe, See Emily Play and Goodbye Cruel World.
 
Ben
2014/11/16 21:57:43
Jablowmi19
A bit ambient and techno for my tastes. And that lead instrument felt a little shrill. No disrespect, but I'm sure you want honest feedback from everyone. 
2014/11/16 23:42:29
BenMMusTech
Jablowmi19
A bit ambient and techno for my tastes. And that lead instrument felt a little shrill. No disrespect, but I'm sure you want honest feedback from everyone. 




Yep, that's the idea.  Techno...interesting since it was based on Pink Floyd...maybe the synth sound.  I agree the synth can be a little toppy.  Thanks.
 
Ben
2014/11/17 05:54:44
Jeff Evans
I like the sparseness of this track. You can really see the black backdrop behind the music in this.  Almost feel it.  After the dense layers I heard in last night's 'Tangerine Dream' concert I found this so totally different.
2014/11/17 10:17:39
kakku
This is like a minimalistic masterpiece. Very nice airy atmosphere. I might have used a bit lower bass tone but it's good like it is.
kakku
2014/11/17 11:01:27
Wookiee
I get it and enjoyed it nice
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