exitonly

ok so its the morning now and I'm going to try to address this a little better, though my initial reaction still stands. I posted my general opinion. It has to come from you. That's all I said about it. I don't know you and I don't know if you are creative, skilled or anything else. I haven't heard your music. I made a general anti-gas statement in a thread about being anti-gas and you're attacking me personally for it. I didn't intend to offend you but just giving my general opinion/advice. You seem like a decent person in general and I don't have any problem with you but I think you need to calm down a little. I also think if you keep posting about all the gear you're buying all the time, don't freak out when someone comes along and gives you the advice of "hey maybe you dont need to do that". I wish you the best in whatever you're trying to accomplish.

sure

thinking you are going to find the thing that will give you the thing is the disease. it has to come from you. if you are skilled, the equipment doesn’t matter much. find the beauty in a piece if kit, and let that shape what you do. that’s all

bandcamp friday bump

flashback was dope. never beat it as a kid tho

i think that is his o-face. ron double-Deeeeesantis

cloudflare has a lot of defaults that are overzealous. watmm just needs to turn down the security settings in their cloudflare account and it should solve this sort of thing

no one is signing up for this shit lol

hihihi

i’d delete my watmm account

bought (yesterday) thanks for the reminder

bandcamp friday bump

I totally agree on the hard rules. I definitely don't want to come across as saying I think you should have to do follow any of my suggestions at all. At the end of the day it is up to you how you write your music and it's totally fine the way it is. I was under the impression you were looking for some constructive criticism so I just said what I would do to change those songs to fit my impression of what I would want those songs to sound like if I were working on them. I totally agree with what you are saying about not needing things to change too much. My tracks are probably way too busy so I'm coming from the opposite angle. I do enjoy long ambient pieces though, including AE stuff like perlance range tracks. Totally subjective and I might even have a different opinion while listening to your track in a different mood etc. I was just thinking about it from a perspective that if I was working on it, I'd probably trim it a bit or add more variety. In any case keep up writing stuff and posting it here. Those tracks are nice as they are ?

i’m exited for this album as well. really enjoyed mnestic pressure. fwiw here is a track i made with nonsensical vocal synthesis. https://exit-only.com/track/internal-speaker-2

Thanks! I'm open to feedback as well ? There is a thread for that album over here - There's a lot of ways to define "musician". You're writing music, so I'd call you a musician. Lots of musicians can't read music. With regards to writing melodies,I'm no expert either. However there are some basic guidelines of repetition and variation that work well. You can build melodies with structure such as a simple ABABACAB format or something like that. So, make an initial melodic line (A), then one that responds to it somehow (B). Then repeat that AB format at least once to make familiar, then you can introduce a secondary responding melody (C). Then when you return back to the AB format, it feels familiar to the listener. Variations can be either through pitch, rhythm, loudness or texture (which encompasses so much). If you have an initial phrase that starts out slow, using maybe quarter notes and then speeds up using 8th or 16th notes, just experiment with altering that so it starts out fast and then ends slow. Same with notes rising or failing in pitch etc. Then its just a matter of copying/pasting copies and making variations and then picking the best ones. To me, one of the quintessential examples of this in modern electronic music is this - The structure of that melody is so crystal clear, you can hear all the variations and the feeling of "returning home" so well. Then it just drills that melody into and used all the textural/rhythmic elements for variation and interest. The B part with the bassline is not quite as strong of an idea but still follows similar rules. I look to this song for inspiration a lot. Anywho, probably overtalked this one ?

Definitely hearing the BOC influnce on Metatron. Sounds more like old school BOC-tapes BOC which is cool. I'm digging the drums quite a bit and the over aesthetic My feedback on that one is that I don't think there are enough ideas in it to last 4 minutes. I'd recommend either shaving it a bit or introduce a bit more variety. Also, I think there is a lack of phrasing in your melodic composition. The melodies just kind of meander. Sometimes that can be good but at least in this case I feel like that want to be coherent, but just aren't. Vector Equilibrium - This one reminds me of a mix between Dayvan Cowboy and some older boc material. From a compositional standpoint, I think this one is more developed. It sounds nice! I don't have too much feedback on this one, other than the melodies do wander a bit in this one as well. There is an overall feel to them, but they arent something I'm going to remember later. Outside of that, sounds to me like it is delivering on what it's trying to accomplish. The mid section switches up the track quite a bit and keeps it interesting, while still maintaining enough familiarity and consistency. Nice job on this one.

not watching manbun guru for a fucking second

rip kevin mitnick https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/kevin-mitnick-11371668

ya saw yiyi a few months back. really good.

yep looking forward to this. always enjoying new SDEM and psyched about any skam release

Thanks! Keep in mind there's a whole album there if you click the "Security Through Obscurity" link. ?

https://klangmag.co/lifers-dayjobbers-and-the-independently-wealthy-a-letter-to-a-former-student/ good article

my main motivation for getting on a boat would be to get away from people. cruise ships are like giant shopping malls that you can leave. on the plus side, more cruise ship people will be in the ocean vs possibly walking somewhere near me

digging all the braindance vibes here. nice stuff