Kind of a new start for me. I'm making (dark) ambient now so I've created a new artist for it.
If you like droney ambient then give it it a listen - https://aconis.bandcamp.com/album/seconds
I have a full album ready to go as well, which is much darker. This EP is mostly a collection of songs made by my friends which I then remixed into something they didn't even recognise.
sysrqer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:27 pmIf you like droney ambient then give it it a listen - https://aconis.bandcamp.com/album/seconds
Good EP! I feared an entire EP with drone would become rather monotonous, but it remained engaging until the end.
So: what were the tools of the trade?
Thanks!
PaulxStretch is the main instrument, and a bunch of huge reverbs, usually whichever I find but often the airwindows ones or SuperMassive. That's about it really, there's some of my 0-Coast on there and much more of it on the next album, but all stitched together in Bitwig.
sysrqer wrote: ↑Tue Jun 20, 2023 9:27 pmKind of a new start for me. I'm making (dark) ambient now so I've created a new artist for it.
If you like droney ambient then give it it a listen - https://aconis.bandcamp.com/album/seconds
I have a full album ready to go as well, which is much darker. This EP is mostly a collection of songs made by my friends which I then remixed into something they didn't even recognise.
I've been also thinking that should I have own artist for different genres. One for rock/blues/metal, one for electronic stuff and one for orchestral. But if I do something which is between them? EBM with guitars, is it rock or electronic? Epic metal + orchestral stuff, is it rock or orchestral?
But yeah, your EP sounds nice.
Thanks for listening tavasti.
Yeah it's a tough one to decide on and can easily get out of hand if you don't stick one or two styles. For me, it was kind of drawing a line under a lot of things and felt like it was needed to move on with things, I'd got stuck and stagnant for a few years and making this newer stuff is like a new lease of life, at least creatively.
But it's a bit of a hassle having two accounts. I was thinking about releasing it under my usual page but a new artist name but I quite liked the idea of starting from scratch with it.
Yeah, and for me it would be at least 3 totally different groups of styles, and some of those groups few separate genres.
Currently I am on conclusion 'this is hobby, not bussines, so no need to calculate'
@sysrqer I really enjoyed listening to this. I was surprised to read that PaulXstretch is the main "instrument". If I ever want to add ambient drones to one of my pieces, I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
Michael Willis wrote: ↑Fri Jun 23, 2023 8:43 pm@sysrqer I really enjoyed listening to this. I was surprised to read that PaulXstretch is the main "instrument". If I ever want to add ambient drones to one of my pieces, I'll definitely give it a try. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for listening Michael, I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it! I've come to love PaulXstretch, I use it in a few different ways but it's very useful to recycling tracks that you never finished. Also fun to render the track you are working on, put it in there and add that as a pad behind the original track. I'd recommend exploring the Tonal vs Noise section, it's surprising what you can get out of that.