If I Should Wake (WIP, Looking for feedback)

[Amberwolf]

122224 000001 000021g -- first public version.

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/if-i-should-wake

At only 30 seconds***, it's likely this is just going to be the intro for a long evolving track.   This one is another experiment with "misusing" sounds from assorted sources (mostly Ghosthack and Cymatics for this one) and building something around them after dropping them randomly in the track view, then rearranging (a lot) to make it musical, and begin forming what I want out of it, as I begin to hear something coming together.  

***with two new sections now added, it's up to a bit more than a couple of minutes now.

 

BTW, if you like the theme from "The Expanse", I've been told that the third section bears some resemblance in sound. 

I haven't gone to compare them directly yet, but I certainly liked that theme (the whole show actually, not just the music) so I'm surprised that I didn't hear this resemblance myself. 😊 

 

assorted tiny timing changes, stretched a few small sections of some clips to better flow

12-29-24:  122224 000001 100035j -- first extension and transition, using some of the same pieces as the first section (re-edited for the new one) plus some edited (retuned, snipped, processed, etc) parts of clips from Ghosthack's beautiful Shymer collection. 

 12-30-24:  122224 000001 100042k -- extensive small edits, added sounds, altered pitches, etc. 

Note the second section is stylistically different from the first; connected by the sounds and some of the musical phrasings.  Only adds another minute for a total of about 1 and a half minutes total, enough to leave you wishing for more.

12-30-24: 122224 000001 200063p -- second extension and transition (this section is more "cinematic").  Still under 3 minutes so far; am working on section four now, which will probably add another minute or so. 

12-30-24:  122224 000001 200069r -- extensive small edits in all sections

12-31-24:  122224 000001 200071s -- extensive small percussion and timing edits. BTW, if you like the theme from "The Expanse", I've been told that the third section bears some resemblance in sound.  I haven't gone to compare them directly yet, but I certainly liked that theme (the whole show actually, not just the music) so I'm surprised that I didn't hear this resemblance myself. 😊 

1-1-25:  122224 000001 200076u --  extensive small percussion and timing edits.

1-4-25:  122224 000001 200080w --  extensive small percussion and timing edits, mostly removing percussion tha was "in the way" of other things.

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[Keith Wilby]

That's very very nice indeed. Way out of the spectrum of what I normally do so I'm not qualified to suggest anything, but keep on it, it'll be a great track. 

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On 12/30/2024 at 12:50 AM, Keith Wilby said:

That's very very nice indeed. Way out of the spectrum of what I normally do so I'm not qualified to suggest anything, but keep on it, it'll be a great track. 

Thanks!   It's rather out of my usual methods, so it (and my last few most recent tracks) are quite the experiment for me.  

 

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[Keith Wilby]

No offence intended but, I don't think you'll get much in the way of responses by posting a new link every time you make a minor tweak to a song. Better IMO to get a song to a stage where it's already achieved a number of milestones and then ask for critiques. Just my 2p worth 🙂

[Amberwolf]

Well, I started posting the updates partly because there were virtually no replies to the threads, hoping to eventually get someone to listen and perhaps post feedback on the songs themselves.

The updates are (to me) milestones, but it's hard for me to say if I have done anything useful with the edits without feedback.   To me each version is quite a bit different from the previous ones, enough to warrant an "update" note.  

But just so it doesn't bother anyone, I'll stop posting to any of the threads except in response to anyone that does reply with feedback, and I'll only edit them into the first post instead.

And I'll go back and delete all the posts (well, replacing them with "." since there's no actual delete function) for the existing updates in all the threads, and sticking that into the original post for each thread instead.