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• toneman88

  February 26 edited February 27

  Aha, a fellow BBC Radio 3 listener? A timely broadcast given the current “planetary parade” which the BBC News site has been getting excited about for a few weeks now. 🌞🌍🪐 etc. I’ll give the track a listen later.

  Edit: Well I finally got around to listening at 2am when everything around me was still, and I must say I enjoyed it very much. The haunting dissonances are very effective and I felt I was “drifting” along with them, if that makes sense? I can understand your connection with Holst’s “Neptune, the mystic”. Thanks very much for posting this.

  I’m not familiar with SoundBox - I’ll have to investigate.
• PapaBPoppin

  February 27

  Oooo beautiful and ethereal! Aaaaand just the push I need to check out SoundBox! (Not like I need more sound makey thingies 😅)

  Thanks for the constant flow of inspiration (and amazing music)!
• GeoTony

  February 27

  Cheers @toneman88 , yes R3 is the default in the car. Classic FM is a bit too safe and the adverts drive me mad 😠
  It was a happy coincidence that I worked on this after listening to the Neptune programme but obviously saw the connection.
  Been out tonight and seen 5 out of the 7 available planets so not a bad haul !

  Thanks @PapaBPoppin for the kind words

  Nothing to lose with Soundbox as it’s free and there are three free sound packs.
• MrStochastic

  February 28

  One of the nicer examples of soundbox I’ve heard.
• GeoTony

  March 1

  Very kind of you @MrStochastic , can’t really complain for nothing 😊
  For anybody interested I used the Soundbox Demo Vocal Phrases driven by the 3rd Track of a Piano Motif motif.
  I then manually transposed the input by a semitone every bar to get the variation in phrasing / notes.
• michael_m

  March 1

  Lovely! It really captures that feeling of entrancement that is associated with sirens.

  Glad I wasn’t driven by my car when I listened to it or I probably would have driven towards the source until I crashed into some rocks…
• GeoTony

  March 2 edited March 2

  Cheers @michael_m … the title was a no brainer once the track had started taking shape.
  I wonder of Tesla’s have a Siren avoidance subroutine ?
• AndyHoneybone

  March 2

  Found myself conflicted between hoping it would develop and being lulled by its hypnotic irresistible static charm. I think you chose the most interesting of the 8 demo presets and it’s a great example of how to make something out of not very much. Shifting the similar but different phrases is what draws the listener in. Clever.
• michael_m

  March 2

  @GeoTony said:
  Cheers @michael_m … the title was a no brainer once the track had started taking shape.
  I wonder of Tesla’s have a Siren avoidance subroutine ?

  😆

  If not, I’m sure it’s an option on Apple Maps. “Siri, avoid highways, tollbooths, and Sirens.”
• craftycurate

  March 3

  Hi @GeoTony it’s a yes from me. This vocals are hauntingly beautiful, and I can see the Holst references there. The dissonances are reminiscent of some of John Tavener’s microtonal works (speaking as another classical music and R3 fan!). I love the interplay of the vocals and the ambient bubbly pads in the background,

  PS. Do you ever listen to Late Junction on R3? It’s such an eclectic mix of world music, jazz, and curiosities which are hard to classify.
• GeoTony

  March 3

  I know what you mean @AndyHoneybone about development vs repetition, I chose the easiest one but I think it worked.
  Thanks for the nice comments 👍
  Agree about the presets as well. I found a lot of them uninspiring , including the ones from the other 2 free preset packs.
  I guess it’s a bit churlish complaining about free sounds but it’s not persuaded me to buy any of the chargeable packs.

  Appreciate you listening @craftycurate … I do like Taverners work, particularly The Protecting Veil.
  TBH I tend to listen to R3 in the car rather than at home (too busy creating 😊) but I’ll try the Late Junction on BBC Sounds.
• craftycurate

  March 4 edited March 4

  @GeoTony said:
  Appreciate you listening @craftycurate … I do like Taverners work, particularly The Protecting Veil.
  TBH I tend to listen to R3 in the car rather than at home (too busy creating 😊) but I’ll try the Late Junction on BBC Sounds.

  I heard his music live at an arts festival many years ago, and it included a microtonal piece for string ensemble which I very much enjoyed, and at the end, the composer appeared on stage in his usual white suit, to much applause, even though one of the pieces, a kind of operatic aria to a dead dog which had gone a bit smelly, seemed awfully pretentious and unintentionally funny, but most of it was very enjoyable!

  I managed to find a reference to the dead dog piece here, in the second paragraph, so I'm reassured I didn’t imagine the whole thing! https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/oct/09/artsfeatures8
• rottencat

  March 4

  This is primo, @GeoTony.

  I particularly like that each iteration, although very similar to the others, is unique. At least to my ears.

  I’m not a churchgoer but if there were a church that had this kind of music, I’d be there every Sunday.🙂
• id_23

  March 4

  Hypnotic …
  Very nice work…
  I might check soundbox out….
  These voices and ingenious technique may well have steered my onto their rocks!
  
• GeoTony

  March 4

  🪦🐕👍 @craftycurate
  Many thanks @rottencat and @id_23 , this was one of those tracks where the result far exceeded the effort that went into it 😊
• rottencat

  March 4

  @GeoTony said:
  🪦🐕👍 @craftycurate
  Many thanks @rottencat and @id_23 , this was one of those tracks where the result far exceeded the effort that went into it 😊

  Those are the best kind!