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:
Week sevens piece was a little rushed as I ran out of time making the track I aimed to do. I had to improvise by performing an old piece live, recording and then releasing is straight to weekly beats.
The Piece was created as part of a soundtrack for the film El Eco del Dolor de Mucha Gente, which I composed. Although it was my favourite piece it didn’t find a place in the film and has been on the shelf since. Maybe with some more time I will arrange it for more instruments but currently it will stay on piano.
You can here the track for week 7 below:
I’ve just realised my complacency when looking at my site. I have only posted the tracks I have been making up to week 5. I’m Now at week 9 so need to step up my game and make you aware of them all which I will do over this week.
The track for week 6 is a slower more insular ambient piece of music made on the Teenage Engineering OP-1 which was then mixed down with ableton live:
Listen to the track here:
So To continue My Weekly Beats section my 5th track is Moonlighting a more dance focused piece that works with some Pads on the OP1 and then extra synth sounds are from Ableton Live and Native Instruments Komplete.
I’m really happy with the way it’s turned out and hope you like the way it sounds aswell.
Click the link below and give it a listen:
On this weeks track I go weird with a sampler:
The 3rd Track in my Weekly Beats segment is available below. Track 4 will be available from Midnight tonight:
My second week is here along with my second piece of music. It’s available to listen to and download on the weeklybeats website below:
My New Years resolution this year is to put out more music and with Weekly beats will be forced into it.
The aim of the site is to release a track a week for a year and I’ve set myself the challenge to match it. So every Monday at 00:00 a new track will be up on this site from myself.
Here’s a link to the first one:
I watched Team Ghost live a few weeks ago and bought their album Rituals. I’m a fan of the ‘NuGaze’ genre that is gaining prominence in modern pop. Team Ghost add a garage rock element that provides a contrasting rough edge to the produced electronica sheen found with other bands, whilst still keeping its catchy melodies and shimmering synth pads.
Things Are Sometimes Tragic Is powered by its metallic percussive line, built on with other percussion and synths throughout the piece and swelling to a driving collection of melodies and percussion that I can’t help resist tap my foot to:
In One Day James Blackshaw & Lubomyr Melnyk have improvised a beautiful album in The Watchers.
On the linked site for the album James Blackshaw quotes: “We set up, Lubomyr at the grand piano, me directly facing him with my 12-string guitar and began. I would retune at random between songs and together we would find interesting chord progressions, hints of melodies and ways in which to weave those immense overtones that Lubomyr is able to generate on the piano with those of my guitar. No more than two takes per song. Improvisation, spontaneous composition, whatever you want to call it. Either way, it truly felt as if the piano and guitar were as one – inseparable, parts of a bigger whole, a means by which for two people to make one sound. It never felt forced and never less than engaging. Lubomyr was always humble, jovial and open to ideas. The whole session lasted six hours.”
In those Six hours these 4 tracks were recorded and have intrigued me into many listens. What starts as almost chaos, slowly drifts in and out of these beautiful melodies, unpredictable but unforced, glimpses at true majesty. The continuous playing of the guitar and Piano Creates this element of complexity, making it hard to attach your attention to any element for to long or even at all. This makes repeat listens highly rewarding as I still notice things in my 17th listen to the album. You truly get as much out of their music as you put in.
Tascheter is the opening track from the watchers: