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Thank you to everyone who took some time to comment on my post last night. I was in a dark rotten place. (As you can see if you read through the comments.) I’m still there, to be honest, but at least I’m still able to write about it.
Here’s the music I mentioned. (Headphones recommended so the bass can come through better).
I wrote it in just a few hours, to distract myself from not being able to get online. For me, when I’m stuck here in bed at home, not being able to get online is a big deal, because it sort of feels like I’m “stranded”.
Right now I’m still partly stranded, since we’re having a big blast of ugly winter weather, and I’m not going to be able to get out for another day or so.
Anyway, here’s the music. I called it “Testing The Waters” because I was testing to make sure my new composition/notation software worked on the laptop.
Instrumentation:
Piano
Harp
Cello
String Bass
Electric Bass
57 comments
This is one of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard. You are really talented, Cordless. Thanks for sharing this.
🙂 it gives me calm… and as it is mentioned on the title I feel like playing with water … during a sunset time in a lake.
Sorry I didn’t saw your comment last night.
Glad you got online today.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for listening!
The harp does give it sort of a “water” feel, doesn’t it….?
I have a harp in my living room right now but I haven’t played it in a while.
The computer does a better job. 😉
I support Hazy, some time you got to let us listen to you playing the FH and now the harp.
It reminded me it was my dream as a kid, to play the harp (I cant belive I didn’t remembered that before)
🙂
I am sending you some fuel
I will listen to it only to never make another comment again.
Nope just kidding, lol. I do like it, but i feel it’s a bit disperse, as in a… lacking a natural progression. I have to admit that i’m pretty clueless when it comes to instrumental/symphonic compositions, so take that with a grain of salt. I did really like the first part, because it did felt like a build up, but again, completely different musical tastes over here, lol.
And yeah, i’m guessing the 38 people from last night just forgot to comment or something.
Hi Mf
🙂
Hi 🙂
It has no forward-sense of motion?
Maybe that reflects how I felt when I wrote it.
That might be it, don’t get me wrong tho, the first part sounded beautiful to me, but i’m just used to the typical beginning -> verse where instrument build up -> chorus -> mid -> final chorus -> end. LOL. That’s what i get for trying to imagine a vocal line with everything i listen to.
Music doesn’t have to be that rigid honestly…… Instrumentals aren’t always meant for having vocals in it, Mf. 😛
Video game themes and orchestral pieces are wonderful examples of that. Just lovely standalone instrumentals 🙂
That being said I haven’t listened to it. Lol, maybe I should.
Ah.
Yes, I definitely see how the structure differs from something which was made to contain verses to sing.
It has some repeated motifs, but for the most part it’s very free-form.
The unpredictability definitely mirrors how I felt that night.
Deceptively calm on the outside, with chaos and empty frustration on the inside.
I know i know, i’m just explaining my reasoning man, haha. What i wanted to make clear is that i have another pov of music, which is why i commented what i commented, which in no way is a criticism, just a personal view. I’m usually pretty brutal with my comments regarding music (which often gets me in troubles), so trust me, if i didn’t liked it i would have said it clearly (which isn’t the case).
I do listen to videogame themes that are a lot closer to orchestral pieces than “regular music” and yup, the structure sort of reminded me of that.
Listening to it now. This belongs in a minecraft game. It’s so relaxing and calming. Like this a great instrumental to diffuse someone after a really tough day. So glad I decided to listen. If I had this kind of skill perhaps I wouldn’t have gotten all that depressed and tried music college.
Great work 🙂
I must admit I’ve never played Minecraft!
I know it’s popular, though, so it must be a nice compliment it you feel that this music belongs there. 🙂
Im sorry hear that you have been in a dark place. I know how that goes. I hope some goodness comes your way and you get relief. Im glad you were able to get online today. Thanks for sharing your music. Its really good. Its very peaceful and dramatic. I like it. I listen to that type of music when I want to relax because its relaxing. You must have some really cool music software on your computer. Well your putting it to good use. You should consider making a YouTube account and then uploading your music there. That way you can share it with the world and receive comments and if you get a lot of hits you can make money too. (just a thought)
thanks for posting your music.
Thank you for listening. 🙂
I think I fear criticism too much to put things on YouTube… I crave approval so much that one “Thumbs Down” would devastate me, even if there were a hundred “Thumbs Up” next to it.
Irrational and illogical, I know.
And yet there it is.
😮
The software is an older version of Finale.
I got the older version because (1) it was cheaper, and (2) I already knew how to use it.
It’s good therapy for me to distract myself with projects like that.
Maybe next time I’ll write something which doesn’t put everyone to sleep.
Or….. I’ll just write whatever comes to mind. 🙂
People on YouTube are brutal. You could disable all comments but you’ll still see the likes and dislikes. Tho…if you did out it on YouTube, I’d favorite your sons 😀
Can you put up another audio file of your songs on loop? I’ve been listening to your other song a lot but I have to keep getting up every 3min 30sec and re-clicking play. Would be so awesome if you had one up on loop 🙂 or have it play as long as the upload limit allows 😛
Typing on kindle so lots of typos. I meant Put not out and songs not sons.
If only I knew how to do that.
On Windows Media Player, it’s as simple as right-clicking on the top part of the frame and selecting “repeat”, but I don’t know how to create a file that loops on its own.
I’m glad you want to listen to it over and over, though! 🙂
Thank you.
This sounds like Highlander music….THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!
I have no idea why I think of the Highlander when I hear this. Very calming. Reminds me a bit of Enya’s Watermark album.
I love Enya!
Thank you. 🙂
I have dusted off her Watermark album in the last few weeks. I dusted off Kate Bush too but haven’t really listened to it. I got sidelined by a new XX album I bought. OH well.
@hazy day subflower..ive been listening to kate bush lately.. he song dont give up.. with peter gabriel is a good sp theme song… plus he name reminds me of my sweet lady..
Your typos are cracking me the hell up sportsnut. LOL. I haven’t listened to any new Kate Bush. I’ll have to check it out. peter gabriel is awesome.
Nice that you have a lady to love. Little sunshine on a foggy night.
lol freaking auto correct is a bugger.. and that song is probably 25 years old.. yes it is amazing.. never thought i would come here and meet my match.. life is quite ironic..
LOL crazy as fuck in love. Hallmark is spinning their wheel to write a card for you two.
And i made it happen with my stealthy techniques of getting him the email, so i’m expecting some hallmark royalties check at some point. LOL.
thats a great way to put it.. crazy as fuq in love…
And I assisted by telling them to get a private email room. So I need half of your royalties Mf.
@mf you will definately get a copy of the book im writing for sure.. we will both autograph it for you..
Hoping that is the PG version there.
hazy i will give you a shout out in the thank you portion at beginning of book
One hundred and fifty shades of sp. Already gave the idea, someone make it happen!
@ hazy…pg 13
@Mf: cast of 57, only two are left in the end….
But there can only be one! so i guess that won’t work, lol.
But it is a love story, so there has to be two.
@mf im workin on it
Sorry I’m late Cordless. Very nice. I really like the ascending higher notes. It gave it an uplifting feel. Reminds me of like, a calm after the storm.
Thank you!
The irony of it all is that it SOUNDS like the calm after the storm, but as I was writing it, my dark inner storm was actually getting worse.
Still in a pretty nasty rotten place.
Not doing so well.
Me either Cordless, me either. Maybe just maybe your “inner storm” is a hurricane and this piece came from the eye?
That’s a fascinating thought…. and hey, for all I know you’re exactly right.
A lot of “triggering” issues have been happening for me lately.
I am in one of the darkest moods I’ve had for awhile.
It even pisses me off to call it a “mood”, since that doesn’t come anywhere near respecting the depth of it all.
On the bright side, you can’t truly appreciate a sunny day if you’ve never weathered a storm. It gives you depth, perspective.
Music, to me, is audible emotions. So you have quite a range to work from. There’s no way I can understand your struggles physically. I have no basis. I do understand the emotions. I appreciate your gift of music.
I do think mood over simplifies the state of existence. Alot of words to say you’re pretty OK in my book.
OK, let’s put Pandora back in her box.
I sort of chuckle at the post that seem to shit rainbows all over. I mean sure it’s a spectacle to see, but it still smells like wide open ass.
I tried composing again tonight, just to capture some of this awful horrible angst and dark boiling acid.
After a few hours, I deleted everything I’d worked on.
Nothing came close to resembling a photograph of the ugly inner pit. I was frustrated with everything and just wanted it all gone.
It’s the music equivalent of writer’s block.
The strangest memories come back… In high school my English teacher knew I was going through a suicidal time, and she politely asked if I would leave the room while she told the rest of the class about how Ernest Hemingway had shot himself.
Plenty of rock musicians have killed themselves also…
My brain is pudding right now and I can’t remember if any famous composers have killed themselves.
I’d love to be the first, but I don’t seem to be famous.
Well get famous first. Side thought I had. I could give you some guitar riffs to work with. If your interested in rock/symphony blends like Apocalyptica…
“I sort of chuckle at the post that seem to shit rainbows all over. I mean sure it’s a spectacle to see, but it still smells like wide open ass.”
😀 That is hilarious and TRUE.
Hallmark needs to start making cards that say that.
Just imagine the picture they would use.
And the fancy script lettering.
Thank you for the mental image there.
I actually smiled.
I can’t believe it…
Wikipedia has an entire category devoted entirely to “Composers Who Committed Suicide”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Composers_who_committed_suicide
And heck, I haven’t heard of most of them, so maybe I don’t need to wait til I’m famous after all.
It’s your call. I’ll just say, you’re not on my list of people I wish would off themselves.
You’d be sadly missed. Especially since I think it’d be on the local news. Then I’d have to pretend I didn’t recognize you. For fear of giving away my alter identity. So please don’t make my life more complicated… Last line is meant joking. Kind of.
Meh.
I doubt the local news would name me as “Cordless”.
So you could honestly say you didn’t recognize the name they mention.
It probably wouldn’t be on the news anyway unless I exited in some unusual spectacular fashion… like something involving a pressure cooker, a dozen scented candles, and 24 sticks of dynamite.
Wearing a toga.
In the middle of Burger King.
Singing Broadway show tunes.
Then I would HOPE they put it on the news.
Because that would be a lot of work.
I’d recognize your face though. And if your where I think you are, everything makes the news.
Side note, after I was admitted to a psych ward for cutting my wrist the therapist asked if I was serious about suicide. I told him if I was “serious” I’d cut off both my arms set myself on fire and run around inside Walmart naked.
He asked how I would manage to cut both arms off? Then ignite myself while armless?
I told him, when I figure out the logistics, I’m sure it’ll be on the news.
Being armless would also make it really hard to drive to WalMart.
It would also be hard to get naked.
Funny thing he released me an hour later with no follow up. I think he wanted to see how I’d do it.
Ok, here’s the plan.
Get naked.
Drive to WalMart naked.
Douse self in flammable liquid from the automotive section.
Go to the power tool section and use the buzz saw, (hopefully you can just sort of lean against it).
Hopefully the sparks from the saw will ignite the flammable liquid.
Start running.
(I recommend the fresh produce section.)
(Apparently I have an organized mind AND a highly disturbed one as well.)
(yay me!)
OK, but I think I should use 2 pneumatic presses for arm removal. The presses are foot controlled, I could do both simultaneously. Hopefully the pressure would limit blood loss. Long enough I could canvass the store
Be sure to bleed on the organic produce.
Vegans HATE it when people do that.
Hahahahaha! That’s funny, Cordless.
By the way, I’m a vegan! Nearly 30 years and counting.
But your comment is still funny.
Jack