Experimental electronic track, generated all in the box on soft synths, nothing but the note 'C' in this one, but making use of a lot of upper partials generated by the waveforms in the synth patches.
 
Thx to UHE Zebra2 for the many useful patches, and to Sonar X2a for the three or four dozen automation lanes
 
All comments pro or con welcome.
Resonance Etude

It doesn't excite me musically.  As an old blues/rock player I need to get something in my gut to keep listening.  I almost quit listening and that would have been sad.  The only reason I stayed was because of the Soundcloud waveform promising something more.  Then there was some excitement then back to redundancy, then some interesting stuff again.  So, the parts that were exciting were few to me but they were really good.  I'm just saying that this is not my favorite genre and it takes more to keep me involved.  I did listen to the whole thing though.  I'd say there was about a minute out of the 5 minutes that seemed to move me.  The production sounds good.

Thanks for hanging in there to try out the whole track. It really is an experiment, manipulating pan, reverb depth, and lots of frequency bands changing throughout, while pitch stays constant. My impression having gone through the exercise is that while these recording-engineering tools can produce a sense of direction, nothing short of true melody/harmony can produce emotion.

For me, if you cut the front 1:45 off and take it to 4:00 and then cut the end off from there, then you have something to start out with, as I found only that part willing to hold my attention, and it was good. The beginning and the end are just the same stuff for to long of a span time. Make more of what you have in the middle and mix then all together, then you will have something to hold a persons attention. The mix sounds good, but one can be bored with a long intro and out going piece. That's just my opinion, as I don't know what your looking for as to direction in the over all piece.

Peace and blessings, John

Thanks for the feedback, John. It's definitely minimalist in approach at both beginning and end--small changes spun out over time. I'm experimenting with trying to get the very most out of manipulating aspects that recording engineers usually deal with more than composers and songwriters--reverb, pan, frequency balances. Some of these are much more noticeable when listening through headphones, especially pan, but even over headphones I realize it's nothing like the standard music forms. I give up a LOT when there's no melody or harmony.

I forgot to say "WELCOME TO THE FORUM".  I like your attitude UMSnob.  Keep 'em comin'.

Interesting concept - and it interests me intellectually but doesn't "float my boat". It would be great to use it as the basis for a track with more pitch variety.

Cheers,
Terry.

just like purple said, interesting concept. I always wondered if I wud be able to produce a song, solely on one or two chords, but with the help of arrangement tricks, still keep it interesting and fun to listen to. I have not dared to try, yet ;-) I believe that if you have used vocals, or some vocal samples, you cud get our attention from beginning to the end.

The steady morphing of that initial note, changing shape and texture over time, had a strong emotional effect similar to what Alan Parsons was doing in the Seventies. My suspicion is that Snob was using this technique to try to open up the listener subconsciously, to make the eventual techno slam more effective.

@Purple, speedTom: Thanks for the comments! Yes, I gave myself a "get out of jail free" card, I know, by claiming up front that this was experimental. I think I have a better sense now of what these particular aspects of music can and cannot be called upon to do.

I *am* sorely tempted to add an additional layer of content by constructing a vocal to go with it--not a "song" per se, which implies too much, but definitely a human voice (spoken? sung? Vocaloid???) that will draw in the listener's ear, and let the single-pitch tricks do their work in the background.