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I got this started today after an afternoon of sight-seeing on Bastille day in Paris. I'm here for two weeks just hanging out, and it's been pretty darn relaxing so far.
The real question is what kind of piece is this, where is going, and how do I get it to go there? When you hear it, what do you expect? What is your vision for it? Where does it seem to be leading you? I need a bit more insight than what I have already gleaned, which is that I like the way it sounds.
Ok, problem with the file extension when I uploaded. I usually check the file, must have forgotten this time. It works now.
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Well, for me it sounds like background music for a machinist's hallucination. It seems kind of ambient and metallic at the same time. Reminds me of traffic but less chaotic and more structured; it's the sound of an assembly line whistling to itself as it drives by.
It doesn't generate for me any expectation or tension, though. (Which is kind of why I say it sounds ambient.)
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Weird that I was watching "who killed the electric car" the night before I made this.
That and I was walking around in Paris 15 last night, at around 10:30, when Paris has that beautiful preternatural twilight, and the metro's elevated platforms take on that look of toy trains, or fake scaled down set pieces, owing to the lighting being so perfect. I'll say, Prague is a beautiful city, but the way light works in Paris is hard to beat- Prague is too spread out to make an impression in contrast the way Paris does in the evenings.
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quote:Originally posted by scifibum: It doesn't generate for me any expectation or tension, though. (Which is kind of why I say it sounds ambient.)
I must say I've been shying more and more away from tension and release based structure over the past year. I don't know why, but every time I try to build a theme or a movement in that sense, I always start banging my head against the wall and feeling childish and corny. My music has structure, but it's never had the kind of ABA1 structure I learned in school- not even my string quartet really had that.
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