Sunday, June 18, 2006

Rambling Librarian's Podcast: "Electric Rain Dance 8"

I hope that you enjoy this. I had loads of fun making this -- bit by bit, track by track, layer by layer. Took me maybe 2 weeks. Not grammy material but I'm pretty darn pleased with it anyhow.

"Electric Rain Dance 8" - 4mins 32secs
Genre: Rock

powered by ODEO

The drum beats and sound effects were mixed and matched from generic loops from GarageBand. The guitar rhythm and melodies were played from a 'live' instrument -- specifically this baby here:
My guitarI had this guitar for more than 12 years. Mucking around with the Mac gave me a reason to give the good old guitar a good wipe down and a new set of strings.

The rhythmn and melody is based on the Em (E-minor), D, C and G chords. Pretty basic stuff.

Oh, don't ask me to play it again 'cos I didn't write down anything. Thinking about it now, I guess how I create music is a lot like how I paint -- each piece is an original and hard to duplicate. That's because I've never been formally trained in music theory. What I learnt about up about the playing the electric guitar has been from friends and from library books (in that order). I probably could learn music theory from library books but nah, I'll pass.

For me, each musical piece is like an original painting -- once I finish it, it's done. I enjoy it for what it is, and for the learning process, and start over.

My Odeo Podcast

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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous4:27 am

    Ivan
    This may coma s much of a shock to you as it was a surprise to me listening to your Electric Rain Dance. I maybe an old foggie of 59 and I cant stand Garage, but was a great follower of heavy rock...I loved what you have created. I really mean that I think it is great. I have listened to it twice so far and a few words come to mind but nothing concrete. I will listen to it again a few times but if no words come then the music will remain its own space in life.Well done Ivan.
    Allan S
    YK

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  2. The multi-talented librarian is back! :)

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  3. was clearing mail when i saw a mail that had your link... cool stuff... ever thought of switching career paths? lol... more pls...

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  4. Love your Electric Rain Dance 8. Thanks for sharing it.

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  5. Real time comments:

    -Dig the thunder FX at the start of the track
    -Like the sound of the guitar at 0:49
    -Strings work well
    -Wish the drums kicked a little harder
    -ahhhh rain at 2:20!
    -structure flows nicely
    -lots of texture in the track

    I really like this Ivan, I'm not big on vocals (and there are none!) and better yet, you free styled it which I'm a big fan of. I can picture driving to this kind of sound alone through the prairies in Canada or something.

    Nice work,
    Comatosed

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