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More Music by ConfettiTsunami can be found on my Bandcamp page: confettitsunami.bandcamp.com

Weekly Beats 17 (Weak)

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Week 17 (Weak)

I’ve been a bit lax posting up my weekly beats tracks on here, So I’ll amend that over the following few weeks.

On Week 17 I decided to go back to basics and just play a piano, After several sessions of improvisation I worked out the piece, recorded it several times and then picked the best take which is what you can hear by clicking the link below.

Occasionally it’s good to get away from the electronics and to the raw development of a track. There is nothing better than just putting your thoughts and ideas down in their elemental form and sitting in front of a piano does that for me:

 

Weekly Beats 15 & 16

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The Past two weeks tracks made for weekly beats work together as a pair so I thought I would include them both together. Week 15 entitled Otdel Mokrykh Del is one big and dark swell of electronica before the guitar driven track Bloodlines kicks in on week 16.

Have a listen below:

Week 15:

Week 16:

Album: Winter

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The cover to my first album

My new years resolution, to make and release a track each week for the year is going well. I thought it was time to compile the first 12 into a winter collection album available to anyone through bandcamp. It’s a pay what you like policy so feel free to download it and tell me what you think of the tracks. You can listen to them all below or click on the link to download them through bandcamp:

Weekly Beats 14: (Vera Rubin)

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Week 14 (Vera Rubin)

This week I went a little more experimental. The original idea was to have two melodies, one on piano and one on an electric piano which over every 12 bars increased and decreased an octave so by the middle of the piece the interweaving melody were in the same octave before drifting apart. It also means that the bass melody and lead melody switch between the beginning and end of the piece.

I then added drone elements with guitar and synth to create an otherworldly sound, I have focused heavily on panning the instruments so they all have some space to breathe which may mean if listened to in mono it may not come out as planned.

Due to the songs circular repeating nature I thought I would dedicate it to Vera Rubin, American female scientist who pioneered work on how galaxies rotate and gathered evidence towards the theory of dark matter. A legendary Figure who needs more recognition.

Listen to the track by following the link below:

Weekly Beats 13: Terminal

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week 13 (Terminal)

This Week I make a track starting with a mistake in recording from the previous one. The intinal drum hit is a sample taken from the acousitc guitar recording on Camberweel beauty but I liked the way the slap of the guitar sounded more percussive and decided to lay it out for this work.

Pad’s and sounds created on the OP1 become less of the mainstay and more suplimental as the aim is to add more traditional instruments fore the next few weeks even if they are heavily processed.

Listen to the track here:

Weekly Beats 12: Camberwell Beauty

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Week 12 (Camberwell Beauty)

This weeks track wraps up the winter collection of music which will be bundled together to download soon. I wanted to send off the winter with a completely acoustic tune so I sat in front of a fire with an acoustic guitar and wrote Camberwell Beauty. It’s different to my usual stuff and I hope you guys enjoy it:

Weekly Beats 11: Whale to the Moon

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Week 11 (Whale to the Moon)

This track is inspired in part by video game music from the RPG’s of the 16bit, 32bit and Playstation era. I have been a fan of video game composers especially Nobuo Uematsu for a long time.

Their work ethic puts my one track a week project to shame, In later iterations of Final Fantasy for the Playstation hundreds of tracks were produced for a single game with a limited pallet of sounds and a short timeframe, yet the quality of the composition still shines through.

On Wail to the Moon I tried to replicate some of those sounds but add a bit more modern production to the piece. Listen to it by following the link below and tell me what you think:

Weekly Beats 8: Hunter, Killer

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Week 8 Hunter, Killer

This Track Is my entrance into Novations Music competition every sound is made from the free novation sample library available currently on their site.
I used a total of 16 Drum samples and 5 other samples to make the entire tune. Changing the processing of these samples Every 16 bars to alter the tone of the track. The aim was to try to make something slightly ominous which gets more oppressive as the track shifts forward.

You can hear the track below: