Week 18.1

Context*:  Robots becoming self aware
Emotion*:  strangeness
Other:  flashing lights, dancing subprocesses

Week 17.1

Context*:  The ionosphere plotting against humanity

Emotion*:  Dread, fear of the numinous

Other:  Something beyond human understanding

We seem to be on a space-oriented binge lately.  This one is full of strangeness, lots of synthesis.  Sort of in e minor, sort of e synthetic.  Some kind of starspawn, an abominational offspring of the two.  This one went better.  Working on the actual website et all.

~græy

Week 16.1

Context*:  Space pool!!!

Emotion*: Supremacy

Other:  Cosmic shattering of planets for my enjoyment

Space Pool!  Well I started out trying to make it enjoyable and fun, but then I realized that this is 'cosmic shattering of planets'.  Slightly sinister.  Just a bit.  So I went with some crashy dissonance, this one is mostly synthesized to make it more in the science-fiction vein.

~græy

Week 8.2

Sorry for the delay

Context*:  Sick in the hospital
Emotion*: creeping anxiety
Other:  Sterile machine beeps

Seems like all I'm doing is atmospheric.
Went with a glitch approach.  Delays on everything, except the square heart rate monitor noise.  Did a lot of additive synthesis.  I tried to think of noises you'd hear in the hospital, and a far away radio came to mind.  So that's what the filtered violin is, playing some happy, half-remembered music somewhere else.

Again, not my best, but all these 'out there' submissions are making me work to come up with something.  Not saying I wouldn't appreciate something that I could take a more melodic approach to.  Like 7.2.

~græy

Week 1.3

Well I'm just on a role

Context: forest/jungle/tribal

Emotion: Happy, but a little detached

The piece starts out with instruments peeking in a little disjointedly during A. I imagined it as the forest coming alive with noises after some kind of disturbance. B lights up with an ostinato phrase that carries the expanding width, filled with little flourishes and expressions, to a simple, warm ending. I tried to keep reverb and echos on all the instruments to give a little etherial quality. Without that hint of expansiveness, I think this piece would be too upbeat. There's just a little bit of longing floating in there.

As usual, let me know what you think, ask questions, etc etc


~græy