'20x6.//-.//1936' - New Original Music! - Noise/IDM - Exercise/Challenge Using Nothing "Tonal" + Walkthrough!
I gave myself another little challenge
last night, decided to try and write a short song (30 seconds to ~ 1 minute) using no harmonies or melodies essentially, only rhythmic tones or anything noisey and weird that isn't particularly tonal. While this may not be particularly 'pleasing' to your eyes, it's a lot of fun to try and write something this way, purposefully avoiding any chords or tones and just working with noisey stuff. Let's get into how that was done!
Listen to '20x6.//-.//1936' here.
Basically we have 2 drum kits
in Tracks 4 and 5, which I will get into in a bit. Track 1 is some strange synthy noise that really just fades in at the very end of the song when everything builds into a crescendo. Track 2 is our main "noise" that plays for the whole song. I just held a C for the whole thing, but then screwed with some settings, including the "type" of noise built into this instrument, which gives it that glitchy, radio tuning sort of sound. You can see those changes happening below.
Track 2, described above.
Track 2, described above.Trak 3 is a heavy, distorted synth
that also fades in at the end of the track then fades off pretty quickly. Track 4 is where we get the strange bleeps and bloops in our percussion. I initially just had this as the beat, 3 hits every 5 beats, which gave the song a cool rhythm, but when I added Track 5, which has some "real" drum tones, it wound up fitting together great so I left it as is. I also tweaked some of sounds in Tracks 4 and 5 to make them weirder, some delay, some phasers here and there, some velocity changes etc.
Listen to '20x6.//-.//1936' here.
This is a short song/walkthrough, since I couldn't imagine 2 minutes of noise like this hah. However, I think it works as a short little filler song, or an intro to something perhaps? While this started off as a random exercise for me personally, it wound up being pretty cool, so I am definitely considering using it somehow. Hope you enjoyed the walkthrough!
||| EP 1 - Bandcamp | EP 2 - Bandcamp | EP 3 - Bandcamp |||
||| EP 4 - Bandcamp | EP 5 - Bandcamp | EP 6- Bandcamp |||
Very intense, I like the heavy part of it, it's really a wild ride.
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This sounds like something from a chase scene in a movie. Like someone running away from a giant alien trying to eat them. I dig it lol.
hah! thanks, it's definitely a noisey weird one, but I dunno, I liked it too for that same reason, kind of sci-fi weirdness.