Some time ago I got another vocal track from Midicrash Serge, sung this time by "Pirate Maya", and asked me to do something with it. Again, I didn't know the original song, I had nothing but the vocals. First, the tempo, quite tricky but I got it. Then the scale. Wow, that was difficult, because I heard some scale changes. I didn't want to make things complicated, so I used some auto-tuning.
I did one rough version, pitched the vocals slightly up to get a clearer sound, sent it to
Serge and he sent me back a new version of the vocal track, with a higher pitch. I wasn't really convinced by this as you can hear the singer reaching her limits. Eventually, after much try and error, I build this
electro-pop like song:
Only recently I got to listen to the original song, and was quite surprised how it sounds:
Enjoy!
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Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Thursday, 11 September 2014
"Don't let them" and other news.
Almost a year has passed without giving you some news. I am still working on a new album, I already released some tracks on Soundcloud, some videos have been uploaded on YouTube and I got a surprise from the Hubble Space Telescope.
But first, I uploaded my album Wormhole on Jamendo:
Why, you may ask, because I wasn't happy about their site for various reasons. I realized that not many people go to http://elvenheim.bandcamp.com/ to listen or download my music. I got the most public on FreeMusicArchive (FMA), but their site seems dead to me. I uploaded only one track from the album on FMA with a link to bandcamp in the description, but nobody seemed to care about it. So now I wanted to upload the rest of the album on FMA, without success though. The tracks are pending, and stay pending forever no matter what I try to do.
Then I looked back to Jamendo, their site seem to work now and I still have an audience there, much more than on bandcamp. So I decided to upload the album also on Jamendo.
That's it about my last (and already old) album. Now for the new stuff. Yes, I am still working on a new album, but I have no idea when it will be released (it will be released once it's finished).
I won't tell much about the next album, there will be new things, maybe some surprises, but overall I think it will be a nice easy to listen-to experience.
Here is a video of "A fantastic journey", a track for the new album:
Two other new tracks, maybe not for the album : "Glistering Sun" and "On the move again" :
Midicrash Surge sent me a recording of Tinna singing and asked me to do something with it without giving me anything else, not even the tempo :). So this is what i came up with: "Don't let them ..."
Surge did a video for the song:
And now for the surprise : I was watching the video "Clash of the Titans: Hubble's Universe Unfiltered" on the YouTube Channel of Hubble Space Telescope when I suddenly realized that my song "Stars" from "strolling through electronic spaces" was playing during the visualization of the Andromeda galaxy approaching and slamming into our Milky Way (starting at 16:14). But they forgot to mention me, so I told them I was very pleased to have my music featured in the video, and asked them to give me credit. They did, and I got even more happier.
That's about it for now, I hope you enjoy listening!
But first, I uploaded my album Wormhole on Jamendo:
Why, you may ask, because I wasn't happy about their site for various reasons. I realized that not many people go to http://elvenheim.bandcamp.com/ to listen or download my music. I got the most public on FreeMusicArchive (FMA), but their site seems dead to me. I uploaded only one track from the album on FMA with a link to bandcamp in the description, but nobody seemed to care about it. So now I wanted to upload the rest of the album on FMA, without success though. The tracks are pending, and stay pending forever no matter what I try to do.
Then I looked back to Jamendo, their site seem to work now and I still have an audience there, much more than on bandcamp. So I decided to upload the album also on Jamendo.
That's it about my last (and already old) album. Now for the new stuff. Yes, I am still working on a new album, but I have no idea when it will be released (it will be released once it's finished).
I won't tell much about the next album, there will be new things, maybe some surprises, but overall I think it will be a nice easy to listen-to experience.
Here is a video of "A fantastic journey", a track for the new album:
Two other new tracks, maybe not for the album : "Glistering Sun" and "On the move again" :
Midicrash Surge sent me a recording of Tinna singing and asked me to do something with it without giving me anything else, not even the tempo :). So this is what i came up with: "Don't let them ..."
Surge did a video for the song:
And now for the surprise : I was watching the video "Clash of the Titans: Hubble's Universe Unfiltered" on the YouTube Channel of Hubble Space Telescope when I suddenly realized that my song "Stars" from "strolling through electronic spaces" was playing during the visualization of the Andromeda galaxy approaching and slamming into our Milky Way (starting at 16:14). But they forgot to mention me, so I told them I was very pleased to have my music featured in the video, and asked them to give me credit. They did, and I got even more happier.
That's about it for now, I hope you enjoy listening!
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
First things first - part two
When I was around 16 or 17, I was in a boarding school and came home only on weekends. Some students brought their guitar with them and I found myself fascinated by that instrument, whether acoustic or electric. Some friends let me play sometimes and I learned the basics quite quickly. I think I got my first guitar (an acoustic one I still use to play) when I was 18.
I joined the formation "Junk Food" as a keyboarder. The band was composed of a singer, a guitarist, a bassist and a drummer. We were all, except for the bassist, from the same school and knew each-other well. The guitarist of the band ("San", as he likes to be called) is still a close friend. Through this band I met "Surge" since he was playing the bass. Sadly I played on one concert only, my second three manual organ was too bulky to get it out of the rehearsal room. :)
After school the band came apart and we went our own ways. The drummer continued to play in various bands like MiAirMiEau or Zap Zoo."Surge" entered later the realm of electronic music as Midicrash.
"San" and I started the project "Sansara". That's when I bought my first real syntheziser, the Kawai K5000W. This synth is using additive synthesis, a not very common technique as it is quite complicated to use. Contrary to the subtractive synthesis where you start with mostly rich waveforms like a sawtooth, the additive synthesis lets you build your whole waveform from scratch by setting each (!) harmonic from its level to its ADSR envelope, and more. With a maximum of 64 harmonics it quickly gets a confusing task.
"San" and I did experimental ambient-like songs that we collected in an album. It got never published though. Shortly I left the project and continued to work alone.
to be continued...
I joined the formation "Junk Food" as a keyboarder. The band was composed of a singer, a guitarist, a bassist and a drummer. We were all, except for the bassist, from the same school and knew each-other well. The guitarist of the band ("San", as he likes to be called) is still a close friend. Through this band I met "Surge" since he was playing the bass. Sadly I played on one concert only, my second three manual organ was too bulky to get it out of the rehearsal room. :)
After school the band came apart and we went our own ways. The drummer continued to play in various bands like MiAirMiEau or Zap Zoo."Surge" entered later the realm of electronic music as Midicrash.
"San" and I started the project "Sansara". That's when I bought my first real syntheziser, the Kawai K5000W. This synth is using additive synthesis, a not very common technique as it is quite complicated to use. Contrary to the subtractive synthesis where you start with mostly rich waveforms like a sawtooth, the additive synthesis lets you build your whole waveform from scratch by setting each (!) harmonic from its level to its ADSR envelope, and more. With a maximum of 64 harmonics it quickly gets a confusing task.
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| My first real syntheziser: K5000W from Kawai |
"San" and I did experimental ambient-like songs that we collected in an album. It got never published though. Shortly I left the project and continued to work alone.
to be continued...
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