my weird little tune

[beder]

This piece started with background vocal harmonies, the drums, a bunch of Triton tracks including the bass, melodica, and eventually goofy vocals done after dinner with the folks and a little wine.

I hope you guys enjoy it and have some sort of feedback. Say whatever you want; I'm not really looking for feedback on anything specific. Thanks a lot!
-Brendan Eder


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[Carlo]

I enjoyed it...but I can't think of a single thing to say...wait til the acid wears off...I'll be better then!:Confused:

[archtop]

yeah but it was '86 that you did the acid, how long we gotta wait?

[beder]

please give some feedback next time while you're at it!

[mousdrvr]

please give some feedback next time while you're at it!

Dude you can't post something like that and be impatient :lol:

But ...Cool!

You know that Tom Waits song "what's he doing in there?"
Well..whatever it was I think it must have sounded like that.

As for more specific feedback, I can't really say cause I don't think stuff like this is "supposed" to sound any particular way.

Sure is effective though.


-mous

[dikledoux]

I hope you guys enjoy it and have some sort of feedback. Say whatever you want; I'm not really looking for feedback on anything specific.

please give some feedback next time while you're at it!

Your posts indicate that your intentions are unclear even to you.

I took some photography when I was a senior in art school and in a particular class we were discussing where great photographs come from - what's the process that caused a particular piece to come into being? My professor mentioned something that struck me as simply genius - she said "you realize that I can load my camera with film, stand in ANY location and turn in circles, pointing my camera in random directions as I snap off shots. When I develop the roll, there'll be 10-20% of the pictures that are interesting and maybe even incredible in some way. But that doesn't mean it's art."

Art has the element of intention. What about "found art?" you may ask? Well, with "found art" the intention is in the "presentation" of the object rather than in the creation of the object itself.

With this "weird little tune" you've got a thing that's interesting, right? I listened, I wanted to find some deeper level of something there - an intention by the artist to elicit a response from me. I didn't find it. There's some whimsy, a cool beat, some random sounds. But my mutt was yawing and making this funny noise in the house the other day while the dryer was going "ga-jung, ga-jung". All the same elements were there but no one would've mistaken it for a piece of music. Musical? Maybe. Music? No. It's just a thing. A set of circumstances. Can I be delighted by them? Sure.

But it ain't art.

dik

[mousdrvr]

Art has the element of intention. What about "found art?" you may ask? Well, with "found art" the intention is in the "presentation" of the object rather than in the creation of the object itself.
dik


Uh Dude..........that's deep. Really, I'd never thought about it like that but there it is. :Thumbsup:

I think the reason I like it is I'm curious about what the intention is. I want to know.


-mous

[dikledoux]

I think the reason I like it is I'm curious about what the intention is. I want to know.
To clarify - I didn't say I didn't like it. I did, but I like a LOT of stuff in passing - like the way peanut butter looks in a freshly opened jar... But it doesn't stop me from digging in and forgetting the image.

In the same way, the song didn't "get" to me.

dik

[mousdrvr]

To clarify - I didn't say I didn't like it. I did, but I like a LOT of stuff in passing - like the way peanut butter looks in a freshly opened jar... But it doesn't stop me from digging in and forgetting the image.

In the same way, the song didn't "get" to me.

dik

Dik, you are being postively poetic Today :lol: The Japanese Have a word for the concept of transitory beauty, "Miyabi" I had never thought to apply that to freshly opened peanut butter, but it fits. One could even argue that the implicit knowledge that it's about to become a gooey mess is at the heart of that beauty.

-mous

[Carlo]

The song is like a flashback...here I go again...I promise to say something about the piece...as soon as..as...woo, the stuff is strong!

Ain't that a critique?

[beder]

You guys smoke more pot than I do.
The intent of the artist. Who doesn't wonder?
It's really just experimenting and having a good time.

[beder]

Perhaps someone has some feedback about the mix. That would be great. Thank you.:D

[dikledoux]

You guys smoke more pot than I do.The pre-employment hair test I just took for my new job would indicate otherwise, but you're the expert.

The intent of the artist. Who doesn't wonder? You missed the point about intent. Your audience doesn't just wonder at your intent... They come to a conclusion about it. If they don't, your work is then classified as "who cares" material. You got responses from "hunh?" to "cool?" to a discussion about whether or not the piece has any merit as art. Now that I actually read the choices in your poll listing, I realize you just wanted a stroking. You're in the wrong place for that.

The thing is, right now there are probably 6000 people around the world turning on their various samplers, goofy synths and pirated recording software and just moving shit around and marveling at how amusing it all is. Well, maybe not right now, because where I am it's before noon and most of those slackers ain't even up yet. But you get the point. Some of them make the mistake of thinking they're creating something unique. They're wrong because anything that 6000 people do simultaneously at any given time is (by definition) NOT.

There's another group about the same size that are taking those tools and (with a sense of purpose and intent) making real art. Any of those 6000 people will take your ass and mine to fucking school in a heartbeat. They have a pile the size of your dirty clothes stack full of distracted musings that they've already done, discarded and grown out of... And they're halfway through the next three stages of work because they're driven to do it.

It's really just experimenting and having a good time.Then you shouldn't have posted it in a crit forum as though it was a completed effort. Or at least realized from the responses that what you got was a non-reaction, then spent some alone-time to figure out why. At this point, people will be reacting to YOUR feelings about your piece rather than the piece. That's not a good place to be.

You have awakened my inner grump. :lol:

But since you finally asked a specific question... The mix is pretty well balanced. But it doesn't go anywhere.

dik