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Wow, that's rad Xorkoth ! If you happen to put the tracks online on soundcloud or bandcamp, or whatever, be sure to post them here

 

[perpetualdawn]

I would ride Falkor the Luckdragon™

NSFW:

Then I would ride some kind of dinosaur, maybe a triceratops.

Then I would put a saddle on Donald Trump, ride him into the ground and put him in the stable wet.

 

[Xorkoth]

I will do that when they're ready. It's been a long time since I posted anything but I've been wanting to. So many good jams too, nothing has been getting mixed down because of the EP work. It's come a long way since I last posted anything. But here is something I've posted before, it's not exactly what we sound like now but it's still one of the better things we've recorded, from when we had our old bass player and a harmonica player from his band playing with us, this is from our dress rehearsal for a show we played the next day:

https://soundcloud.com/intergalacticpropulsionmodule/9-1-16-ipm-jazz-funk-into-jiriki-jam-1

This second one is the whole set, although the last track is messed up and my part wasn't mixed down in it. This second one is the same thing but it starts with another song before going into the stuff from the first link, and then we do a cover of Down By the River (Neil Young). We sang in that, but these days we're doing all instrumental because none of us feel like singing and we want to focus on the instrumental aspects. We still do Down By the River, but now it's a lot more cool, minus any singing: https://soundcloud.com/intergalacticpropulsionmodule/9-1-16-ipm-row-prem-set. The first link above is just part of the set but a different take, I like it better for the most part for that song (it's actually a mashup of 2 songs technically).

The sound has evolved since then but I still love this, we actually can't play this song (we call it jazz/funk, very creative I know) anymore because it really requires a bass player and we have a 3-piece now of keys (that's me), guitar and drums.

If anyone cares, here is a jam we did with Crashing, when he came to visit... it's our first time playing together so it's a bit rough here and there but I really love it (it's also 30 minutes long): https://soundcloud.com/gornto/10-1-16-ipm-w-justin-jam-3

Also a jam we did right when our guitarist got a new guitar, also really nice. I wish we had more recent stuff but this one is really cool (only 10 minutes long): https://soundcloud.com/gornto/11-29-16-ipm-sg-jam-3

Shit now I want to play piano. Guess I should do that. I love my job, working from home means I can play whenever I have time and want to.

EDIT: Fuck yeah, Falcor!!

 

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Yeah, I remember hearing that before, with the cool harmonica effects and all



Riding a triceratops sounds awesome. When I was a little kid I was obsessed with dinosaurs to the point of verging on insanity xD. Now that I'm at my mother's place I found out that she still has one of the dinosaur toys I had from when I was like 5 years old. It was a bit of a mindfuck laying my hands on them again.

 

[Xorkoth]

I edited in some more tracks, you may or may not have heard them before.

I was so obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid, I had all these books and I knew more about dinosaurs than anyone I knew including adults. Remember the movie The Land Before Time? That was my shit. I saw it in the theater, first movie I remember seeing in the theater, I cried when Littlefoot's mom died and then I pretended I wasn't crying because for some reason I was embarrassed for my mom to know.

 

[Cream Gravy?]

Remember the movie The Land Before Time? That was my shit.

We had a VHS of this when I was a young kid (3-6yrs) and it was apparently my favorite. It's the only tape we had that we ended up breaking the tape on.

I love all the Jurassic Park movies. Scientists have discredited much of what made dinosaurs cool in the 90s, and I'm glad that the Jurassic Park (World) series is still keeping the fun lies alive. I don't normally like cheesy summer blockbusters, but dinosaurs are cool, man!

 

[Xorkoth]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhgh, I just played this classical-style piano improv, I don't even know where it came from, it was otherworldly, I'm buzzing so hard right now from it. I really need to get recording capabilities for home. And like, something to auto-transcribe it into sheet music. I never really was into sitting down and writing music out on staff (I used to do it a lot as part of my education), but sometimes the shit that comes out is a really complete idea that someone could play or I could play again. It's just... so much. I have to go with it at the speed it's happening, if I try to stop and write it all down it's gone, the moment has passed.

I really should make a recording device that can record through the output a priority...

 

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I was so obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid, I had all these books and I knew more about dinosaurs than anyone I knew including adults.

LOL, same here ! In fact it was my obsession with dinosaurs that got me into reading haha. I think I could go as far as blaming dinosaurs for my interest in science and consequently my career choice xD.

 

[Solipsis]

you can pay me to transcribe it if you have a recording, i did that for kettel based on the sound of the recording:

I have some midi files from other tracks of his but it's a lot of work, I never really feel like doing that and also when he plays super rubato I'd have to come up with the tempo structuring myself..

https://kettel.bandcamp.com/track/my-goldberg-variation-2012

https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&rct=...m_qltqZJZX7DpK62Q&sig2=CF8SITZtKAlAQ7uHh0HEZA

It's so wonderful to improvise and really hit it, but somehow I get cramped when I record it on digital piano, and it always happens when I don't record... still, I should have some nice material exported as midi to usb memory stick but I haven't really paid attention to Ableton and stuff to import it.

Midi can get turned into sheet music but you would have to quantify everything by hand since people usually don't play perfect tempo.

Music is very important in my life

 

[Xorkoth]

Gotta get a recording device then. There are some that I would pay to have transcribed. But damn that one was 30 seconds, mine was like 30 minutes and had a lot of unusual rhythmic patterns in it. Do you do it manually, just listen to parts over and over?

Also I guess if I think about it, it's really more romantic period-style than actual classical period-style... with some jazz and blues.

LOL, same here ! In fact it was my obsession with dinosaurs that got me into reading haha. I think I could go as far as blaming dinosaurs for my interest in science and consequently my career choice xD.

Damn dinosaurs, see what you started??

 

[vortech]

Xorky, if you send me stems I can try my hand at a proper mixdown to use as you wish.

 

[Solipsis]

I did it manually cause it was really time consuming, some parts are kind of questionable like the arpeggio'd parts there in the end. I also know he edits his music even if he bases it on actual recordings and some things are ultra hard or impossible with 2 hands I think. like this: https://kettel.bandcamp.com/track/cooked

Bach like stuff I find predictable and well-structured, I guess my ear is trained on that and I can sort of improvise Bach style although with less polyphony... but I'm not good with other styles especially the further away from baroque and classical you get i guess. I used to do jazz like 20 years ago, switching completely to classical and Bach was when I was adult.

I'd certainly like to hear some of your solo piano jams :D I don't identify with many of my own piano recordings anymore, like improv etc.. I have taken a liking in trying on more Nils Frahm and perhaps Lambert types of playing but that is sometimes more difficult than it seems.

https://soundcloud.com/listentolambert

 

[Xorkoth]

It's so wonderful to improvise and really hit it, but somehow I get cramped when I record it on digital piano, and it always happens when I don't record...

It's the best feeling in the world. For me it's variable, sometimes the best stuff is when we/I record, but I miss a lot of things because I feel the most relaxed about it at home. Also my electric piano at home feels just like a real grand piano, and responds mostly the same as one (not exactly of course), whereas my main keyboard at the band house is semi-weighted. I really like semi-weighted too, but I am finding myself getting the most out of the sound when it's fully weighted. My semi-weighted is a Nord Electro 2, it's a nicer instrument than the one at home, but the one at home has the best piano sound and feel. So there's that too, two different instruments and I pull a little bit better piano stuff out of the one at home that I never get to record.

I do it so much now that it's starting to get pretty consistently good and without noticeable mistakes. I've had a lot of practice taking moments where you're not sure what's coming next and smoothly transitioning into something else. It used to be that I was always trying to get my hands to do what was in my brain but couldn't, and now sometimes my hands are doing things that I hadn't thought of before and also are doing whatever I think for them to do, except for increasingly more difficult technical stuff.

It's cool to work at something hard and improve. Makes me feel good.

Music is very important in my life

Me too man, me too.

 

[Jabberwocky]

That was great Xorkoth, thanks for sharing your tunes! Maybe one day Bluelight will have a live jam feature and we can all play.

 

[pharmakos]

June and i'm still waiting on Medicaid to approve my high-dose chemotherapy. looks like it's going to end up overlapping with the concerts i wanted to see this summer. =/

my doctors started talking about doing this back in February. starting to get really frustrated.

 

[swilow]

^I would be too Government wheels spin slowly but fuck... What's happening in the meantime?

I wish I could do something.

 

[Solipsis]

Haha




Damn man that is fucking unreasonable that they will let you wait so long... Let them wake the hell up and expedite that shit
Hang in there

X, listened to your jams n stuff really liked it well done all of you.. your guitarist really goes nuts sometimes doesn't he? you only have a singer some of the time?

 

[Xorkoth]

June and i'm still waiting on Medicaid to approve my high-dose chemotherapy. looks like it's going to end up overlapping with the concerts i wanted to see this summer. =/

my doctors started talking about doing this back in February. starting to get really frustrated.

That is so fucking evil, what the fuck? That really pisses me off. Approving life-saving treatment for cancer patients is no time for bureaucratic bullshit.

X, listened to your jams n stuff really liked it well done all of you.. your guitarist really goes nuts sometimes doesn't he? you only have a singer some of the time?

Thanks, yeah he does. That was him singing lead and me singing backup, these days we don't sing though. Trying to do an instrumental thing. Maybe one day we'll add vocals back, right now we're writing songs that are all instrumental although one of them is actually originally a song with lyrics and we did it with our old band with lyrics. Personally I have a hard time singing and playing at the same time, it amazes me when people can do both fully, especially when they're significantly different rhythms or feels.

Our 5 songs for the EP are different from any of the things I posted yesterday, they're succinct songs, the longest one is almost 7 minutes, shortest is 3 and a half. I'm looking forward to them being done, gonna do some more work on them tonight. Also gonna jam with our old bass player and the guitarist from his band who is a fucking beast. We'll definitely record it too, maybe I'll manage to get those mixed down to share. Possibly. Thing is I'm not the sound guy even though I know how to use the program pretty well now and can mix down just fine, but our guitarist (who is the sound guy) gets pissed if I mix down without him because he always wants to do post-production on it first, and he's a slow mover with stuff.

 

[psy997]

Xorkoth does your digital piano have a USB/MIDI out? If so just hook er up to your PC, install Ableton, and you're pretty much ready to go.

If it only has audio out and you need an actual interface, I'd almost recommend getting a Zoom H4N Pro - or a cheaper model, but the H4N Pro is really the solid buy - which is an AMAZING field recorder that also has 4-track recording capabilities as well as XLR and 3.5mm inputs. It's got a really low noise floor and awesome built in mics so you can get really good quality recordings, but then if you want to go all out, you can hook up instruments/mics/whatever audio sources to it and record from there as well. MP3 as well as WAV recording, 24bit/96Khz.

https://www.zoom-na.com/products/field-video-recording/field-recording/zoom-h4n-pro-handy-recorder

My good buddy that does filmwork as well as music for a living has one and uses it for everything. A local friend of mine just got one recently as well that I've played around with and damn... it's a quality piece of hardware.

 

[Xorkoth]

Not my one at home, no. We have a really fucking nice interface at the band house, I don't want to spend my money on it because I still need some other things. My guitarist was telling me about how he used to have a recorder that had 2 small mics, but also had a quarter inch input, and stored onto a memory card or something.

Actually yeah the link you posted seems like the kind of thing he was telling me about. But maybe a little nicer, he said his cost $100. Yeah come to think of it I think his was just a recorder, not a 4-track interface. That's awesome, thanks.