Friday, March 30, 2007

Alpha Two

With an extremely understated 18Hz beat, this week's episode is musically simple but otherwise includes a lot of experimentation. Loop-free, the whole thing was multitracked "live" and includes the first solo that I've taken on any of these podcast tunes so far. In fact, every track except the drone gets a solo moment, with the piece overall being carried by rhythmic motifs rather than melodic ones. There is a melody, but it gets pushed to the back for much of the tune. The emphasis is on texture.

Overall, I personally like it but it's hard to say how well it will hold up to repeated listenings. There is a bit of high end hiss which may detract from listening with headphones. A candidate for some remastering? Comments and criticisms welcome.

Alpha Two

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I stumbled across your work a couple months ago and have been listening to various mp3s with binaural beats in addition to a couple of your compositions. As for Alpha Two, it's one of my favorites.