Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by metropolisinter » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 3:50 PM UTC

epiphanitus wrote: post #159

metropolisinter wrote: post #8

Metropolis Intercom https://open.spotify.com/artist/2MK55SUKEEinO2tfWYDLuJ

I love the mix of the ambience and the narrator. Those PSAs and old narrations really add an interesting dimension to it. Question, where do you find those voice samples?

In "Cybernetics" the voice is from Stafford Beer [1] lecturing about the Cybersyn project [2]

In "Basilisk" it's Buckminster Fuller in the first minutes of 'Everything I Know' [3]

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_bXlEvygHg

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9nMMzErQhE

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by mrtb » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 4:26 PM UTC

I was on a gap year after an MEng in Computing when covid lockdown v1 hit the UK. Unsure what to do with my life I watched Downton Abbey with my parents and baked lots of banana bread. I'd picked up ukulele to de-stress during exam seasons and weeks before starting my first full-time engineering job I decided to make a rap music video with some vfx, animation, and... juggling?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GziSV9hQ-r8

Camera: Canon EOS 70D

Mic: Audio-Technica AT2020

Interface: Mackie Onyx Blackjack

Software: Logic Pro X, Adobe After Effects + Premiere

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by scraggo » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

Central page for all my music links: https://www.scraggo.com/music/discography/

Bandcamp: https://scraggo.bandcamp.com/

It's guitar/vocal-based rock with fusion and experimental elements.

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by adamzapasnik » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 5:55 PM UTC

tripngroove wrote: post #124

Recently released my debut album, "The Good Ship Cacophony" as Space Pirates Guild. Heavy guitars, synths, drum machines. - https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI... - https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild - https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/ - https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154... - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...

I love it, playing it on repeat on Spotify, thanks for sharing!

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by macrowhat » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 7:06 PM UTC

voidsymphony wrote: post #336

Long time lurker on HN, first ever post. I'm a developer who also creates electronic music in my spare time. I decided, never having done any 'web' development before, to create a webpage from scratch to host a couple of tunes I wrote. What resulted was a mathematically generated space-octopus with a starfield created out of tiny notes [!]. I did this for no good reason at all, other than then the enjoyment of figuri…

very interesting

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by tripngroove » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 7:49 PM UTC

Nemrod67 wrote: post #280

tripngroove wrote: post #124

Recently released my debut album, "The Good Ship Cacophony" as Space Pirates Guild. Heavy guitars, synths, drum machines. - https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI... - https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild - https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/ - https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154... - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...

Ooof some guitar riffs really hit right! Maybe the mixing could make them less detached in the highs from the rest. Great stuff!

Hey thanks!

I would love if you could say a little more here - what exactly do you mean by making the guitars less detached in the highs?

Currently iterating my creative process for the next album and one of my main areas of focus is creating a better strategy for constructing my mix. This album has many layers of synth parts and I found it nearly impossible to preserve all the detail I wanted.

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by machadojpf » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 7:49 PM UTC

I've been playing the bass guitar for a while in a progressive rock band: https://omiewise.bandcamp.com/

This thread has a funny timing, I'm right in the middle of the recording process of the second album.

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by tripngroove » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 7:50 PM UTC

sirtaj wrote: post #318

tripngroove wrote: post #124

Recently released my debut album, "The Good Ship Cacophony" as Space Pirates Guild. Heavy guitars, synths, drum machines. - https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI... - https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild - https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/ - https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154... - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...

I especially like your guitar riffs and wish they were louder in the mix.

Thanks. I really struggled with mixing the guitar and so many layers of synth. At this point it is what it is but I am definitely iterating on my process for the next album.

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by tripngroove » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 7:52 PM UTC

waihtis wrote: post #313

tripngroove wrote: post #124

Recently released my debut album, "The Good Ship Cacophony" as Space Pirates Guild. Heavy guitars, synths, drum machines. - https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI... - https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild - https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/ - https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154... - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...

If the terrans from Starcraft were less war-prone and more into mild psychadelics. Very nice!

Thanks!

This description is hilarious - I may have to blurb it for promotional material (if you don't mind)!

Re: Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it

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Post by tripngroove » Tue, Mar 09, 2021, 7:54 PM UTC

comprev wrote: post #292

tripngroove wrote: post #124

Recently released my debut album, "The Good Ship Cacophony" as Space Pirates Guild. Heavy guitars, synths, drum machines. - https://open.spotify.com/album/6YS0IJarvrzMtZzYMiN51z?si=GAI... - https://soundcloud.com/spacepiratesguild - https://spacepiratesguild.bandcamp.com/ - https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-good-ship-cacophony/154... - https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nC0XLATC5H8i...

Wonderful music, thanks for sharing. Huge supporter of BC over here!

Of all the services I've had to interact with to get this album out digitally, Bandcamp was easily the most streamlined and easy to use. Definitely recommend them to anyone as a first-stop in getting music distributed.