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

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Post by mintplant »

throwawaygimp wrote: post #253
mintplant wrote: post #160

I did once, a few years ago. In a procrastination-fueled frenzy I banged out a harsh noise album in a single sitting. It's still kind of a blur. https://1iu1iu.bandcamp.com/album/an-urban-summoning There's a short film that goes along with it, but that'll probably stay in my head.

Thats really interesting. How did you put that together? I've always liked this sort of thing. Would love to know how you did it

Raw sounds were generated by manually fiddling with audio cables, field recording, and tone generators. I fed them all into Audacity and layered and blasted them out in different ways - pitch shifts, overdriving, intentional clipping and phasing, cutting off the tops and bottoms of waveforms, running them through tweaked reverbs and sound reproducers designed for slowing down music - intentionally misusing effects to create new sounds and distortions. Once I had a big project file going, I split it up into sections and started arranging things to create patterns, rhythms, and repeating themes, and work the noise into a kind of narrative that was forming in my brain.

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

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Post by japhyr »

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've been listening to your music all morning as well. Thanks so much for sharing!

Can you say a little about your background as a musician?

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

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Post by sickcodebruh »

Nemrod67 wrote: post #283
sickcodebruh wrote: post #185

I drum in a death metal band called Glorious Depravity. Funny enough, all of our members are software developers, though that isn’t the theme of the band or anything. https://gloriousdepravity.bandcamp.com I’m also the vocalist and guitarist for a black metal band called Woe. I started it as a solo project over a decade ago and things sort of got out of hand. https://woeunholy.bandcamp.com Both are also on Spotify, i…

Nice old school Brutal Death vibes here, good mixing, good job! My brother has been working on a Black album for the better part of 10 years, these things are cathedrals XD

Thank you! I also recorded and mixed it. :-D

I feel for your brother, a solo project can become an endless chore.

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

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Post by sickcodebruh »

3131s wrote: post #208
sickcodebruh wrote: post #185

I drum in a death metal band called Glorious Depravity. Funny enough, all of our members are software developers, though that isn’t the theme of the band or anything. https://gloriousdepravity.bandcamp.com I’m also the vocalist and guitarist for a black metal band called Woe. I started it as a solo project over a decade ago and things sort of got out of hand. https://woeunholy.bandcamp.com Both are also on Spotify, i…

Nice, the vocalist from Pyrrhon and Seputus is with you guys! I like your band's style, although I usually only listen to BDM. I'm working on the guitar parts for a BDM album, but nothing to show so far.

Doug is amazing, I really think he’s our secret weapon. He works with me, too. He’s a great guy. Check out his doom/death project Weeping Sores if you haven’t, it’s awesome! I recorded and mixed it a couple years ago.

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

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Post by tripngroove »

japhyr wrote: post #352
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've been listening to your music all morning as well. Thanks so much for sharing! Can you say a little about your background as a musician?

Thanks for your interest - it's been a lifelong pursuit. There was an old upright piano in the house while I was growing up that I always gravitated to. Had about 10 years of piano lessons as an adolescent; had a love/hate relationship with the structure of taking lessons but it was invaluable. Ended up playing tuba all through high school in various school bands, which got me in to playing electric bass in the school jazz band. Around this time someone gifted me an old electric guitar and I fell in love with that distorted feedback you get when you crank the volume and stand in front of the amp. Started a really bad high school rock band. This led to several more rock/emo bands over the years. Concurrently, a buddy in school gave me a pirated copy of Propellerhead Rebirth, which emulated several of Roland's old drum machines and groovebox-style synthesizers. Found this super interesting. Spent a lot of time in college making bad techno with Fruity Loops. Kind of gave it all a rest while I did startup life for a while... then I had the good fortune to be working out of a building near a recording studio and we sort of got to go hang out in there every so often. At some point, a band was set up in there and I laid eyes on an old Roland Juno-60. I was so intrigued I immediately bought one on craigslist and that has sent me down this enormous rabbit-hole of hardware synthesizers... which, to my eyes, is this wonderful center of the venn-diagram that intersects design and music and technology. Putting together a solo album has always been on my bucket list and this last year of isolation was the perfect opportunity... and here we are!

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

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Post by waihtis »

tripngroove wrote: post #349
waihtis wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)!

By all means!

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

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Post by dontreact »

Rochus wrote: post #47
dontreact wrote: post #2

This is probably the one I'm most proud of! https://soundcloud.com/congratulatinos/caroline

Nice, sounds like real instruments; did you play all tracks yourself (incl. bass, drums, perc, voices)?

This was with a band, all recorded live in a studio except for the vocals which I did later myself

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

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Post by dontreact »

dontreact wrote: post #358
Rochus wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, sounds like real instruments; did you play all tracks yourself (incl. bass, drums, perc, voices)?

This was with a band, all recorded live in a studio except for the vocals which I did later myself

The drummer was incredible, a Senagelese griot playing Sabar drums. Unfortunately he is back in Senegal now.

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

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Post by eitland »

Some seriously talented musicians here.

I have favourited a number of tracks here across a number of genres.

Maybe interesting to some of you: I'm especially happy for so many good recordings without lyrics.

I'd like to propose a monthly Show HN thread for musicians: "Who has released" or something :-)

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