i know this should probably be in the music section, but i wanna know what kinda music the stoners make. post a link to some of it, or if you have a soundcloud or bandcamp or something post that too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uz7sXHkvXCU"]Bradstam - Mixed Signals (Nightmares on Wax Mix) - YouTube https://soundcloud.com/bradstam
That's cool Gongshaman----I like to play with my Korg MS 2000 analog synthesizer---and have written numerous pieces------but just for fun---I've never recorded anything. However I did perform in public one time----a friend asked me to write and perform in a talent show because he was worried he wouldn't have enough people participating, and wanted to fill up time. I came up with slide shows on a series of themes---one on the ocean, one on a sunrise, a wintery snowscape, one in caves, a sunset, and then night. My son played the slides while I played the music I had written---about 5 minute songs for each theme. I did the first three themes at the beginning of the show (I wasn't actually competing) and the last three after the end of the show. People loved it and I thought it was a lot of fun. Unfortunately I have a problem with my Korg now----the connection that the power chord goes into in the back of the Korg is loose or going bad. I have to hold the power chord tightly over the keyboard, and if I let loose even a bit, all the power stops. Apparently this is a problem with these Korgs---I am tempted to open it up and see if I can fix it----but of course everyone insists that I have to send it to Korg to have them fix it...
Oh yes those Korg synths were fairly coveted back in the day. Though I'm primarily a guitarist, it was my desire to own a synthesizer from the first time I heard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVvQQMrEUzQ"]Isao Tomitas 'Pictures at an Exhibition' by Modest Mussorgsky. I really felt strongly at the time synthesizers were the future of music. Polyphonic synthesizers were nonexistent then, but I sat around in Jr high school drawing on my note book sound envelopes, graphical representations of fantasy timbres I might conjer once I got my hands on one of these magical electronic devices... I think my first polyphonic synth was about '83 or so, a used Juno (7?) 8 note polyphony as I remember LOL not much by todays standards. Funny, though now I have soft synths that absolutely blow away anything I ever dreamed of and a digital studio all on my desktop, I find I'm more interested in sounds made by real instruments. Those tracks on soundcloud were made with only Bb trumpet and 36" Chao gong.
Same here----my parents made me study piano for about 6 or 7 years (I'm glad they did now), but I really wanted to play guitar---and I started that in Junior High I think. But one day in about '77 or '78, my mom was doing some shopping and I went into a music store next door while I waited for her----there was a beautiful Moog synthesizer. I asked the guy if he could demonstrate it---It was so cool I had to run and get my mom and make him repeat if for her. He made some of the typical moog sounds---like you hear on Emerson Lake & Palmer's, 'Ohh what a lucky man he was.' I was totally in love with synthesizers after that. I agree with you----all those soft synths are pretty amazing-----but its nothing like the real thing. Actually in my first album of pictures on my page there is one where I am playing my Korg----I think that is on there.
I make music a bit in my spare time. Electronic stuff... here's some soundcloud links and I've got a few on youtube. I'm not a huge fan of dubstep but I've been experimenting with it a bit... it's fun to make. I made everything using FL studio. Halloween theme remix: http://snd.sc/ZX5GI2 Insomnia remix: http://snd.sc/ZX78tS Next Dimensional World remix: http://snd.sc/Yrrtue Random stuff: http://snd.sc/YrrEpm http://snd.sc/ZX570L https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q78Cyi_8NA"]Bru - Fatality (Mortal Kombat Dubstep) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcxZE6tYk_0"]Bru - Home Bru'd (Fruity Loops) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE8Amy-QbWY"]Bru - L.S.D (Fruity Loops) - YouTube
Wow! I really dig those Brudof. I love dubstep myself----but I didn't know what it was until a few years ago, when my son turned me onto it. But here is the crazy thing---I was playing with some deep bass on my Korg, which I thought sounded real menacing and alien---but cool. I had this idea of composing a somber classical piece in minor chords using a pipe organ sound bank, and then it would break into this deep bass sound that would drop into the lower menacing tones---it did that several times and then closed on that bass with maybe an explosion---I forget. I titled it something like First Contact: The End of the Human Race. That was several years before I learned about dubstep---but I think it is essentially a dubstep piece. I still have the music somewhere---put away with all the others I composed.
