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Long End Stutter / guitar knots piece 3

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sincere effort from me on this one. every day i am grateful for expression. thank you for listening, i hope it resonates.


noisescape / weird thing; i tried to incorporate elements to unnerve

2 samples used (recorded on my cellphone lol)

acoustic guitar

audacity

happy halloween i guesss lol!! be safe!!!

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I can hear the disquiet growing as we move further and further into this piece. At 1:01, that is some very creative sampling. I appreciate that by and large the volume is pretty level throughout. Very much reminds me of avantgarde, atonal, cinematic creep music.

Also, due to the stuttering nature, it loops rather properly here on Newgrounds.

Whatever the textures are between 0:09 and 11, including that near piano sound, I particularly like that. The mix is also very much improved since last I heard from you, with the recording fizz minimal. I still think there could be a bit more done to subtract it, as on quieter sections it is audible, but for this particular piece, it works.

Something I think that could be improved upon, a better stereo separation of guitar parts playing at the same time, perhaps oscillating panning for extra psychedelic effect, adding some reverb here and there for atmosphere, and applying modulated FX for progression.

What you do very well, distorting, stuttering, and glitching your instrument to sound utterly new and different. I really think you would be well served to grab a daw such as Reaper to import samples into and further mangle them there, now that audacity has a tempo/bar feature. It would work well in your favor. Especially at the sample around 54 seconds in, this could be turned into an all encompassing atmosphere with simple pingpong delay and some plate reverb.

The longer I listen, the more I grow to love this piece. So outside of my typical listening sphere, so foreign, but also organic and familiar. Thank you as always for sending me something to chew on!

JimmyTheCaterpillar responds:

the piano sound was just part of the guitar sample pitched and sped up, but to differing degrees :) thank you for mentioning it! it was one of the first little bits of the sample that i built from, when i was more poking and prodding at it before any sense of composition came into play. i almost nixed it out but thought it was fun and a good odd thing to hear early on in the track.

i agree with the more defined guitar separation, it can get a little muddled at times, huh. plate reverb and pingpong delay are awesome names i'll have to look into those

thankyouthankyouthankyou!!! above all else, i'm so grateful that you're willing to go this far in-depth on the work, and i'm even more grateful that you like it haha

It does sound sinister in parts... Have you ever heard of John Cage?

JimmyTheCaterpillar responds:

i had heard of him vaguely in conjunction with other artists in the vein that i know,, but thanks to you i looked over him a bit more today and listened to a number of pieces! I loved [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrUhbnrxZ4M&ab_channel=FloraledaSacchi-Topic] in particular!!

Super awesome vibe. Definitely getting some spooks here lol.

JimmyTheCaterpillar responds:

yo that means a lot!! I loved your black moon piece, so i'm really happy this resonated all the same!!! thank you :)

That shutter effect is so cool. This is very atmospheric. I think it's amazing if you treat it as an atmospheric piece instead of a song that you listen to on a loop.

JimmyTheCaterpillar responds:

Thank you so much for the response! Really cool you've been going through the Halloween playlist for everyone :) I've been kinda doing the same thing,, there's so much variety!!!! I remember thinking about Halloween approaching earlier this year and thinking about how a.) I wasn't very excited for it, and b.) it felt a little tired this year. but honestly, as we've gotten closer to the holiday, i've found myself a bit reinvigorated. the season is alive.

that was um,,, mad tangential but i am curious as to what you meant by the shutter-effect!! it's all guitar and some clips of my roommate's voice ! thank you for listening, regardless!

This is definitely something I'd not listen the second time, especially on its own.

The overall atmosphere here is incredible. I can see you tried to put the listener in a state of disquietude and it really did its job well. It did put me into the state of unneasyness. The guitar strings compliment the overall texture and atmosphere of the track.

All in all: A very good experiment, but not something I'd listen to occasionally.

JimmyTheCaterpillar responds:

i am really grateful you listened and that it resonated even though it's not traditionally your jam! be careful -- noise is one of those bugs that kinda just bites you and b4 you know it all your normal genres are replaced with "hauntscapes" and "atmosphere" and "speedcore" lol!!! have a great day Looper!

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Acoustic Strings

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Score
4.41 / 5.00

Uploaded
Oct 18, 2023
6:52 AM EDT
Genre
Experimental
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4.7 MB
2 min 3 sec
Software
  • Audacity

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