.(The production team humbly apologizes for the lack of smiley faces).
-please enjoy anyhow-
THE LAST VERGE by Eterman
(3 min)
Monotonous techno pop. I don't care.
If someone likes this, it's good.
(Turn off your brains and leave your taste outside.)
Leap beyond the last verge, over the ultimate
threshold. Float above space and time and forget
what their artificial meaning once was.
Don't try to understand.
Control it. Want. Be. Touch the existence.
Where once was dust, there is now the ocean.
No colors. Thoughts.
Energy. waving.
Finally. You will swim.
and You will swim in ocean.
then You will swim in ocean of comprehension.
you will
Finally you know.
find In that ocean.
You know that you but want.
it You swim.
And that's the only purpose.
is
What you once called learning, is no more.
you You know but creating.
Inspiration credits:
-Elliot Goldenthal and his master score for movie Heat;
the end of the movie where Pacino stands next to deNiro's
dead figure as the view is elevated and the awe theme music
emerges in the background.
(The music in Sphere is also good)
-Mike Oldfield and his music. No particular piece, actually,
but rather the way his does the thing no-one else can. The
method is enormously inspiring.
-Lauri Erlamo and his tale of Myriad Alpha. I'm sorry about
the beat I added. I'll mix this again some time and make
it more to your taste. Somehow I owe you that.
(The melody, the idea, the chords, the themes,
might fit in (the rhythm would be abandoned). I hope you
know what I'm talking about.
-Countryside of Savitaipale. The nature is quite beautiful.
This music:
No conscious copying here. All music presented here is original.
I recall no music so similar to this that I might be expecting
someone to accuse me of musical robbery.
Hokay. Now, there is a techno bass in this tune. I've always said that
a techno bass but cheapens any song. No good melody needs a techno rhythm
behind it. Making techno is the easiest way in producing music. It's not
much art for me. But. Well. Now there is a techno bass. Here. In my song.
So what's going on? Have I sold my taste in music?
Basically, this was a test. It began on a though of making a song
without using NNA's. Why, Impulse Tracker allows up to 64 actual channels
at a time and it should be enough. So I tried. No NNA's. Making music
like FT2-lamers. Wow. Cool.
I made pattern 00 and started thinking it sounded quite good to start
with (not necessarily to be the beginning of the song, but rather the
beginning of working on the song). Then I went on to another pattern and
cut off most of the instruments only leaving a few: Cello, xylophone and
that "high sound"-thingamajig. I had an interesting start after taking in
that three-chord progression (then later with Ab added to the end). So.
What should I do then? What about a techno bass?
Sounded ridiculous. Me using techno bass? Or any techno-pop-dance
rhythm. I don't like ABC's (already been chewed). But I gave it a try.
Added a techno bass and then hi-hat and tambourine. That was it. It
sounded quite good. Hope someone likes the result.
Do I like it? Well. It works okay. But it's no phenomenal piece of
music. Techno or dance influences are not bad, but neither are they the
purpose itself. The melody is. The chords etc. Of course accents are
important, but I don't think there are such in techno. Or in dance. Or in
this particular tune.
Perhaps it's a bit lame. Perhaps it's ABC. Perhaps it's cheap.
But at least it works.
-But how do you know
if I'm really serious?
How do I know,
if I ought to be.
...so much bull that no-good new-age/modern/techno/wannabe-poem
at the beginning... It's no problem for me creating art. As easy as
visiting the toilet. The result may very often be the same.
As in here. Perhaps.
You tell me.
But first, as always,
think about it.
-Harri Kivisto
eterman@writeme.com
