what mk66 said
mk66 is my enginneer. but he hates everything that i do.
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****warning: the following mail contains highly negative comments about the practice room**** (but bear in mind i always know what i don't like before i know what i do like. so maybe a positive appraisal will be coming soon...) well, my first reaction was, it sounds like philip glass did when i stopped buying philip glass albums. my second reaction, if you really insist on using those "real" sounds, why not find some people to play the "real" parts live, over which you could overlay the "electronic" parts. do something electroacoustic. that would be a lot more special. get a koto player, shakuhachi player, whatever you need. advertise at the community center. find closet hobbyists who would be happy to play for free. or, plan B, cheaper and easier than recruiting musicians, is to simply *find new sounds*. find *gann* sounds. (and this means, oh no, rolling your own). no matter how much effort you put into composition, arrangement, movement, pan, position, logic, sex, or midi magic, if the sounds don't move (and i mean japanese "kandou" move) then people like me just can't abide. i can't stress this enough. i can't listen to the whole practice room. i can't even make it thru two songs. as it stands, i think your audience will be limited to (a) new age nuts of no discerning taste (b) rock guys who've never heard a cd without guitar and who are thus likely to be blown away by anything (c) a few of your loyal friends who would applaud at anything anyway. third reaction, probably a limitation of recording analog to md, but there are a few points of (i'm sure unintended) distortion on the album, which may prevent any remix work for the time being. but i'll try. i like light and passing shadow. i also think you've made some progress in arrangement and composition. but #electronic# music is notes plus sounds. the music is contained in the things that move as well as the things that don't. it's the old enlightenment gann, plodding forward with squares and circles, but electronic music is a mystery cult that will escape your logic everytime.
