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Old 11-10-2017, 11:58 PM   #1
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Default please post contemporary classical/experimental/conceptual pieces here

Hi, I have noticed since jeranx did a post a few days ago that some Reaper users are making more contemporary classical / non-pop / experimental / conceptual / whatever and so on music rather than heavy metal / blues / grungy stuff etc. But that sort of music does not get much exposure here - in fact I did not think anyone here would make or like such music until jeranx's post. So I thought it might be a good idea to collect such music in the music subforum, under a single thread so that it does not get lost amongst the other music posts. Hopefully different people will post, that is the idea. I hope it is not just me this one post But if it is then that is fine.

I start with a short piece of mine for guitars from about 10 years ago. I used two guitars - one classical and one electric. Both use non traditional playing techniques (although I started playing prepared guitar 40 years ago so they are not so non-traditional for me It is not the most moving or brilliant piece ever, just a few simple gentle miniatures for guitar run in to each other


https://soundcloud.com/user-39965900...tar-miniatures
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Old 11-11-2017, 05:22 AM   #2
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Hi, I have noticed since jeranx did a post a few days ago that some Reaper users are making more contemporary classical / non-pop / experimental / conceptual / whatever and so on music rather than heavy metal / blues / grungy stuff etc. But that sort of music does not get much exposure here - in fact I did not think anyone here would make or like such music until jeranx's post. So I thought it might be a good idea to collect such music in the music subforum, under a single thread so that it does not get lost amongst the other music posts. Hopefully different people will post, that is the idea. I hope it is not just me this one post But if it is then that is fine.

I start with a short piece of mine for guitars from about 10 years ago. I used two guitars - one classical and one electric. Both use non traditional playing techniques (although I started playing prepared guitar 40 years ago so they are not so non-traditional for me It is not the most moving or brilliant piece ever, just a few simple gentle miniatures for guitar run in to each other


https://soundcloud.com/user-39965900...tar-miniatures
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Old 11-11-2017, 02:47 PM   #3
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This is a fun piece that is great to perform in concert - not done in Reaper, but I have performed this - though I am not part of this performance


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER4KENdkVlg
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Old 11-11-2017, 02:50 PM   #4
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This is a fun piece that is great to perform in concert - not done in Reaper, but I have performed this - though I am not part of this performance


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER4KENdkVlg
Experimentable ..?

Nice way to get semitones down

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Old 11-13-2017, 08:53 AM   #5
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Mostly Reaper!

My YouTube Channel:
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My SoundCloud:
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Individual:

Keengloam - Halloween 2017, all in Reaper even the video editing. The video loops are from my own Python program, "Phaseflower:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIdllHNMqyw

Progrest - Almost entirely composed w/ MMA - Musical MIDI Accompaniment, arranged in Reaper natürlich:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84qwpGY1K0

Doll Sky - my entry into the KVR OSC for U-He's Podolsky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ1ErmCa1A8

Observable Turning - retro video from MilkDrop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCyDm1S9sk

Psychopompous - I did this within months of discovering Reaper, a three-part proggy thing w/ the third part featuring my Space Angel Choir. (And apologies, I know the middle section should be *at least* 30 seconds shorter, sorry):

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/psychopompous

Indexed - I try to enlighten a friend about FM synthesis, 100% done with Dexed DX7 replica by Digital Suburban:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/indexed

Nome - I play around with a "Glass change" (pivot around the third):

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/nome

Tranya - I hope you relish it as much as I:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/tranya

Buescher - this is the Small Mice track from Tranya w/ ranch video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDSN9OlHe1o

Guitarabesque - more of a 3rd-world rockish thing goin on:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/guitarabesque

Forondar - a tone-poemey soundtrackish adventure in Central Asia. Vocals by Virtual Singer:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/forondar

Drumby - there's a little green rubber drummer in all of us:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/drumby3-6

Spiders on Acid - loopy thing, do ya know where the Nimoy clip is from!?

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/spiders-on-acid

(I felt bad about lifting so much from The Sopranos until I was reminded they probably got the joke from Night Court.)

Glide - taking some synths for a flight:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/glide

Clavicytheria - there's a chick stuck in the sampler,

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/clavicytheria

Bloom - experiment with an algo composer includes a speaker test:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/bloom

The Inner Nut - if someone asks what the hell you're listening to, say "The Inner Nut:"

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/the-inner-nut

Pre-Reaper:

Shimmer - 100% from Myriad-Online's excellent Harmony Assistant:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/shimmer

Gnamma - Goof Rock. Again, 100% written and recorded with Harmony Assistant:

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/gnamma

Interior Dasein - just some floaty stuff, featuring my Space Angel Choir (Virtual Singer by Myriad-Online.com):

https://soundcloud.com/todd-hartmann/interior-dasein

Aaand from long ago! Part II of the Pull Your Hair Out suite, called Make It Stop:

https://app.box.com/file/2504827085
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Old 11-13-2017, 09:29 AM   #6
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I really liked "Tranya".
Nice Star Trek TOS reference.
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Old 11-13-2017, 03:30 PM   #7
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Toddhisatva 😀

Away for a few days and a bit netless most of the time. Glimpse of vids look interesting. Very glad you posted, look forward to a listen in a couple of days
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Old 11-16-2017, 02:46 AM   #8
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working through these with a lot of enjoyment - reminds me of Eno circa Another Green World and Here Come the Warm Jets - taking standard forms but you arent standard Not the sound of course, but the approach
Around that time Eno wrote his lovely and witty lyrics using a technique he adapted from performing Kurt Schwitters - this reminds me of that

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Old 11-17-2017, 12:06 PM   #9
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Smueske from this forum would fit here, he's posting alien sounding microtonal pieces from time to time. Almost sane sounding, but folds your brain like an origami. Can't find working links though .
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Old 11-17-2017, 02:27 PM   #10
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Hi Eddy and Zee. This Steve Mueske ?

https://www.jamendo.com/artist/484354/steve-mueske
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Old 11-17-2017, 05:45 PM   #11
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Hi Eddy and Zee. This Steve Mueske ?

https://www.jamendo.com/artist/484354/steve-mueske
nice sounding but fairly conventional
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Old 11-27-2017, 11:05 AM   #12
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D. Shostakovich. Quartet No. 8 (I think it's classical enough )

Score was created with MuseScore 2, performed with XSample, edited in Reaper.

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Old 11-27-2017, 12:51 PM   #13
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D. Shostakovich. Quartet No. 8 (I think it's classical enough )

Score was created with MuseScore 2, performed with XSample, edited in Reaper.

Nicely done - I bought X-samples recently and think it very impressive, more useful than many of the libraries that seem more designed for commercial film music.
You've done a great job, very musical. Must have taken a while to get all the articulations! I'm actually enjoying having this run in the background like it were a concert broadcast!
Shostakovitch has been getting increased plays on the radio in my country over the last few years for some reason - it is interesting that he is considered a composer of contemporary or modern music when of course he died about 40 years ago. Once all that art was labelled "modern" and "contemporary" as genre terms it really created some problems for everyone after. "Current" music just doesn't have much cachet

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Old 11-27-2017, 02:18 PM   #14
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Hi Eddy.

After all, I do some too.

https://hearthis.at/thierryvastel/new-classik/

My type, my taste, not everyone's.

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Old 11-27-2017, 02:41 PM   #15
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Hi Eddy.

After all, I do some too.

https://hearthis.at/thierryvastel/new-classik/

My type, my taste, not everyone's.

Bye
great driving rhythm from the start!
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Thanks Eddy, still trying...
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Old 11-27-2017, 05:37 PM   #17
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You've done a great job, very musical. Must have taken a while to get all the articulations! I'm actually enjoying having this run in the background like it were a concert broadcast!
Thank you, Eddy.
Actually this is a remix of a piece that was completed in 2012 with Sonar 3.1.1 with XSample for Kontakt 2 (that was quite an expensive investment those days). Not all articulations worked as advertised - I had to edit "play" instruments myself. So, if you encounter something that doesn't work, let me know. I have edited versions of the instruments for Kontakt 5.
Reaper was exceptionally useful for synchronizing video (captured with Debut) and audio.

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