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Sharing my music with Tildes
hey there folks!
a couple of friends have been encouraging me to share my music online. it’s hard for me to share things i’ve made because self-promotion mostly feels weird and out-of-place but tildes has felt like a welcoming environment, so i figured i would share it here.
i checked the code of conduct for tildes before making this post to make sure it was acceptable, so i hope this is alright
my music
i make slow, moody instrumental music and sometimes ambient music. no vocals but there are samples of dialogue from film and tv. it’s not “fun”/upbeat music, but i hope you enjoy some of it.
recent releases
if possible, listen with headphones for the best experience.
share your music
i would love to hear what music other tildes folks make. also curious what software you like using (i use Logic).
Do you recommend headphones or a conventional stereo for listening? Sometimes the music is made to felt just as much as heard
headphone if possible! some of it is very quite. shit, i didn't think to include that info -- thanks for the reminder!
Glad I asked and happy to help. I'll hit you back sometime during the weekend with my reaction
10 minutes into your "vulnerary (a mixtape)" on Spotify, I very much like your work.
It reminds me of some slow-build/no-build sounds that I've recently discovered. Invercauld and Boards of Canada are two such. I'm sorry I can't recall more. It also reminds me of the early 90's The God Machine, to which I believe this genre owes much of its heritage.
Do continue musicking, you're doing it well. :)
thanks for listening and i’m glad you liked what you’ve heard!
i’m excited to check out invercauld and the god machine. ive always loved boards of canada.
Cool stuff! Not a musician myself but one of my favorite atmospheric moody albums is cEvin Key - The Dragon Experience. It's faster paced with more instrumentals but feels like it has a similar vibe.
that’s a great recommendation i’m enjoying it so far—thank you!
I just listened to some of 'vulnerary' and that it was pretty good. Reminds me a lot of Martyna Basta or Peter Knight. I especially like the detuned piano in the track 'dog song', which has some Matt Choboter vibes. Were you approaching the tuning of that track in a conceptual way or was it more just 'free intonation'? In either case, very creepy - good enough to be on a film soundtrack.
I've recorded some microtonal music myself, much less ambient than your stuff but perhaps in the same overall category of low-key, electroacoustic music. I used FL Studio to record it, though the software is less important to me because my instrumentation is more bare-bones. Pretty much I just used a combination of AAS Lounge Lizard electric piano, Serum bass synths, and basic 808 style percussion with a few samples as well, and a handful of basic effects. I admire the amount of craft that went into the sound design and instrumental balance in your music all the more because it's something I was never really good at.
thanks for listening to my music and i’m happy to hear you enjoyed it, too! the detuned piano was a choice. the song was suppose to have vocals but i couldn’t make it work so the version you heard had the the violin and bass. i recorded a friend going hard on his violin in my kitchen for hours. my neighbors probably hated me but i like how it turned out. i’ve gotten that feedback about it sounding like it could be on a soundtrack before and i’m all for it—i would love to score for a film. kind of a dream.
i haven’t heard of the artists you mentioned — excited to check them out!
your music is riiight up my alley, thanks for sharing! i am technically a certified audio engineer, so if you wanted help with the mixing/masterinf, i’d love to! for free of course.
hey there! i’m happy to give it go. shoot me a message and ill see what i can do.
Listening to the EP miles away and I find this very interesting! Very much dark and nocturnal, it's almost in alignment with artists I've listened to before like nuages! Wanted to listen to vulnerary but wanted a taster of your music first. Might just listen to vulnerary after this!
The first track, "paroxysmal", is my favourite. no wait.... "exhaustion of will" is giving the opener a run for its money.
Man this is awesome. Definitely listening to vulnerary after this. Pat yourself on the back; it's not every day you come across things that genuinely cool! Would even love to collaborate in some fashion or form!
I'm a musician; software; music + self-promo
I am a classically-trained percussionist and drummer, and have been a part of my high school's marching band my entire time there. I am also a ""producer"", fledgling multi-instrumentalist, noisehead, and boundary-pushing audio engineer that specialises in mixing and sound design (For anyone out there, I am available and am p affordable. I would like to live, but no hard feelings.)
I love Ableton. It's the DAW I specialise in and my personal favourite — especially because of Max for Live, its integration with the visual programming language Max; it has led to awesome plugin-like devices that you cannot get anywhere else (which is a blessing and a curse). I would love to learn FL Studio, but its trial version and obfuscated workflow have turned me away from it. I have also used Renoise, but stopped using it due to it inhibiting workflow. I plan to use it again at some point.
The other piece of software I use is called ppooll. It's an open source environment/suite of programmes built on standalone Max for live DSP, ambisonics, etc. It is so cool and without it, I wouldn't have done some cool sound design and improvisational, formless composition. I plan to use it a lot more.
Something that isn't "software" but counts since it runs software is Clover, the name of my norns shield. A norns shield is a hardware/software extension of the Raspberry Pi that becomes a norns, a Linux-based sound computer manufactured by a boutique partnership called monome. Both run a Linux-based OS that can load scripts, dedicated programmes, for multiple kinds of things — sampling, synthesis, granular processing, looping and sound manipulation, sequencing. I plan to build a version of the programmable 16 x 32 "grid" so I can use scripts like mlre (an extended version of mlr — a live four-track sampling script controlled by a grid), cheat codes 2 (a three-track discrete sequencer-sampler in a script), and concréte (a spiritual interpretation of the Make Noise Morphagene)
My pride and joy is being part of the band/project called ルーシー LUCY. I started this with my best friend c. 2015 and so far, we have only released a few things. We are.... well, a bit of everything.
Thematically and lyrically, we are a yin and yang band. Order and chaos; life and death; fundamentally, the relationship between the unfathomable darkness and the purest beauty you just know. The core identity behind LUCY came from both my light research into LaVeyan Satanism and my love for emotionally complex stories with a Gothic tinge — I wrote many short stories while in high school, and eventually started to just... write lyrics of my own.
I always wrote lyrics and imaginary albums w complete tracklists and concepts since middle school. Being a fan of Pink Floyd since I was way younger, I always loved the idea of concept albums and intricate arrangements. High school opened me up to a lot more independent, experimental, and even noisy artists.
This ties into our sonic identity. You could technically call us prog or art rock, but it's not that accurate. Originally, I proposed a mix of electronica and psychedelia — "psychetronic" — but my best friend suggested we just switch it up every release. That's what we do. We pull from sooo many influences and sounds it's hard to keep track. "Experimental rock" also alienates us; nowadays, I find that genre isn't tied to our identity, never needed to be, and is taken too seriously. Ergo, LUCY is a pop rock band.
LUCY is named after the titular character from Elfen Lied. I would say the manga is much more intense, but either the manga or anime best represents the band more than anything I can say.
This is the best song we have out right now. It's not dissimilar to what I've heard on miles away, and it features very dark themes and depressive lyricism. Not to mention... it's a p good introduction to our sorta sound.
In the meantime, I'm currently working on our debut mixtape that's been in-dev for three years. Plan to release next year, but we are broke lol. If you really like what you've heard and can, please consider donating monthly. Internet marketing is hard because it's unethical (in order to be successful, you have to step over the musicians in your same position bc that's how the game works). There are other reasons but it would take too long.
Sorry for the self-promo but seeing as I don't usually do so, I saw this as my opportunity to shill us. Self-interest is funny.
wow thank you for the compliments and i’m really happy you liked it. i made music videos of every song on miles away if anyone is interest to check those out. though i do think there’s a compression issue with the audio in a shift. you can check them out on my website if you want.
i haven’t heard of nuages and will definitely check them out. i’m loving all the recommendations from you all!
i just listened to your song film and i’m super into it! the atmosphere is incredible. also, thanks for the extensive write-up. i would love to talk with you about all of this and would absolutely want to collaborate in some way. i’ve been really into remixing and also mixing/mastering. if any of that sounds interesting to you, lets fuckin do it!
PMs are absolutely open.