Ah Shoe,

I always love to listen to fellow Nexian tunes and are currently downloading it.

(Big file btw, 96.1 Mb !! It's either gonna be a half hour in 320 kbps or an hourish at 192 kbps.... time will tell but that's my guess)

I will listen to this while doing some philosophy work.... hopefully conjure up some inspiration

Will report back,
ElusiveMind

EDIT:

224 kbps, all right

okay, so I listened to almost all of it but I do need to be getting to bed soon so skipped a bit here and there. Now note I was being a critic here and all critics have their biases... mine particularly being that outer-space is the place to be ....

Here are my in depth comments:



Okay, so my overall:

- view of this work is that this has a good sturdy base to build upon, but there was no particular direction IMO. No signs to which way to turn or where I should be.

- It was hard for me to "visualize" the different landscapes. The ones that I picked up on the most was nighttime, space, and sorta a jungle-ish bath in lake. For me there were no clear transitions to another place until I was dropped in the middle of it. I like the concepts of the different places you are trying to create, but the lack of transition and direction take away from it in my opinion. Maybe you should try a more linear transition... the most successful in my opinion imitate nature

Example:
START --> morning --> day & water --> night & crickets --> build in synth for space amazement --> traveling the universe --> rocket feeling of coming back to earth --> feeling of sleep --> START

- Ah, there seems to be too many crickets in this song... and a little..wouldn't say too much but the water audio sample did have some good vibes but I didn't feel apart of it... I felt I was an observer on the shore and not the person enjoying it...

- The astronaut audio sample was a nice touch while in space.... I believe there should be some stars though... I felt like I was in space... on the moon.... but there was no twinkling stars...or planets.... could say it is the "dead of space" I am envisioning but I like to think there is some mystical awe about space and being on the moon


Overall a good solid concept Can't wait to hear more or other revisions.

Take care,
ElusiveMind

P.S. I would like to hear your vision of how the transitions and such take place too

Hey Shoe,

Read through the thread and I'm in the process of downloading now. From the idea of the project, I'm very excited to take the journey you've created. I'll let you know how it goes as I work with it a few times and definitely give you some feedback.

Thanks for sharing!

Wow Elusivemind, That's all I can say - WOW. Thankyou so much for the notes...

Yes, I thought the whole thing is a wave so, there should be structure there. I appreciate you're saying we could script it, I did encode regions in to it, like you suggested. The other option was to make sure it was completely pure, almost entirely ambient, but I thought some character in there....

This took me almost no time (2 sessions, of about two hours each) I know what you're saying about the dark parts which sound annoying. unfortunately there's no way to beat the fear / love / fear / love pattern... unless, we pick a perfectly neutral part in the middle (bhuddism/ middle way.)

So, Yeah Dane Spotts and other meditation tones are available and some of them are much 'sweeter' as in a simple tone - which makes for a smoother ride. But actually I see things in the astral when i'm sleeping/meditating listening to this. with your hands, in time to this... and so - on. Everything is a perfect manifestation of the highest and most abstracted plane of reality... the bhuddic plane. (here, now).

Just such an improvement over the mark 1 - I almost lost my *mind* to that one.

ElusiveMind: Did you notice correlations between your meditative posture and the sounds? Everything is connected.... The idea is if everyone is one, this thing is a perfect manifestation from the bhuddic plane (It can't NOT be) and then it should provide insight, and for you to explore consiousness; as It does for me.

Fearlessly pursue the darkness, eradicate greed and ignorance, and I know you will find light.

Sorry if I was a little TOO harsh at times



I will eventually try listening to the full song this time (no skipping) and instead of analyzing it, which may be the reason why I wasn't fully engulfed in it , I will be one with the song with a meditation session. I wasn't able to do so the first time I listened to it cause I was a little too analytic of the song and also was energetic after a good workout

Looking in retrospect, I do see the constant waves of love/fear/love/fear pattern you speak of. I've always meditated to neutral, ambient sounds so to try this out will be interesting.

I will report back once completed, not as harsh this time. All works of art are like hidden gems, and it takes the right mindset/eyes to see the true beauty and power behind it.

Pce,
ElusiveMind

Nice one, Thanks

To get the sound 'pure enough' to really voyage with, as I said, took a bit of research. You didn't want to be on that first ride... LOL...