What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

So I've been making my own tracks for a while now, and you can hear em here - https://soundcloud.com/pluwa. Not really sure how to describe them (which I know sounds super-pretentious), some are a bit Balearicy or ambient, some are a bit moodier...

the end of an era.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 1 April 2019 00:07 (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is good too! Neu-style vibes...

Thank you for listening!

I like your stuff too, paolo. It's very skeletal and atmospheric.

Ta!

some melancholy piano for this melancholy life

https://pimm.bandcamp.com

Pretty! Mind if I sample any of that and use it for other stuff?

please do!

really nice, esby

my bandcamp was getting out of hand, so streamlined my it over the weekend. now the singles and non-long playing stuff have their own artist listings:

austinato*singles

the proper austinato artist page is still there; less massive now though.

[url=https://austinatosingles.bandcamp.com/album/second-wind-for-jamie]this is the latest thing; was posted yesterday.[url]

whoops. you get the idea.

I think I (with former (?) ILXor ESOJ have written a bit of a non-standard pop hit, and a really nice video was made for it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfvdGNWSvJI

Lovely stuff!

S-, that is indeed a very beautiful thing you have done there!

new release from me: 'brooke's theme.'

also, i've been posting covers and oddball stuff on my soundcloud. apparently i do prince-sampling happy mondays covers now.. i'm actually pretty okay with this.

Thank you very much paolo and Austin!

There's a whole album now!

https://constantlight.bandcamp.com/album/approach

I don't visit this thread as often as I should, but just listening to the Constant Light album now and it rules.

mixtapin` 'an shit: https://soundcloud.com/austin-anderson-337534977/dee-jaye-life-presents-the-schnazz

really lovely stuff, austin!

the 4th track was playing out of my crappy laptop speakers (sorry!) and for a second i thought i was listening to cleaners to venus!

you are a saint for listening!

thank you for the feedback — i am always simultaneously embarrassed and honored when my music gets compared to, like, actual music. i have never heard of cleaners from venus before; a quick google tells me that i have some investigating to do this weekend. double thanks!

Some new weird stuff from me:

HEP LAD - EP LAD H

Cool stuff, guys! I've been working on a bunch of electronic tracks, just need to master a bunch of stuff before putting it out as Balboa Park.

esby - I made a trip-hop version of your track that I'm pretty into, but I'm waiting on my cousin to finish some rapping for it, for which I have high hopes.

I've been having a blast with Max4Live MIDI LFOs in Live, attaching them to all sorts of stuff. My latest fave is attaching a random LFO to an arpeggiator Type parameter, so that the arp type changes every couple of bars. This makes for some neat, ever-changing apreggiations.

New recording of a classical guitar duo I wrote last year. The two guitars are in different tunings and mostly play harmonics, with some investigation of the acoustic effects you can get from slightly detuned pitches:
https://sund4rsubramanian.bandcamp.com/track/warp

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I like that one, I love harmonics and muted string scratches. Also, you probably don't want to hear that it would make good horror soundtrack music (to the laymen's ears).

I take that as a compliment, actually. I like a lot of horror film scores.

So thanks!

Horror soundtracks are the greatest!!

Ok cool, I just assumed that anyone ensconced in the world of 12 tone/new music/etc would be sick of people hearing their compositions as dissonant horror movie music :)

good enough for colin stetson!

:)
i think horror music is the best. i even started a thread about it! horror soundtracks

Ha, there was a new person at orchestral rehearsal tonight who I'm suspecting is not that used to playing new music. At the end, she commented that "it sounded a bit like a horror movie soundtrack". I asked "the last piece?" She replied "all of them".

Sund4r, I love that stuff. It reminds me of some of that really odd "American primitive" stuff from the late 70s. There was an album by Peter Finger that I recall having a lot of that really sparse harmonic exploration in it. I have no idea about the logistics of that stuff, but I absolutely love the tonality of it. I don't think of it as "horror film" music (probably because I don't watch many films and never have); more like "overcast sky" music — which is a mood I like very much.

As for me, everything else is gone, but don't worry.

wow Peter Finger has got to be one of the grossest names I've heard in a while

https://www.discogs.com/artist/370643-Peter-Finger

Oh wow, thanks. Glad people are enjoying it. I love a lot of American Primitive guitar so that connection is cool. Don't know Peter Finger, though, so thanks for the link.

Although I can be very affected by instrumental music, what I get from it often has to do with abstract sensations and images, not necessarily something that I can associate directly with specific and concrete irl experiences, unless, of course, I have been listening to something for a long time, when I do connect the music to memories. I'm happy to see listeners make connections to moods or scenarios that mean something to them.

I just listened to "don't worry" and enjoyed it. Pleasant mood and grooves, nice guitar tones.

I just listened to "don't worry" and enjoyed it.

You are an absolute model human being and I owe you something significant.🤟

doing the soundtrack for another exhibition tonight, this one is titled "The Aesthetics Of Decay." I don't know if I'm going to do another collaboration like this again - they're a wonderful bunch but their vision is a lot darker and bleaker than the music I want to be making. But I'm really happy with how this has turned out - it would have been really easy and obvious to make a Ben Frost/Tim Hecker rip-off, but instead I've made 24 minutes of spacious ambient music that sounds like this.

That sounds cool, love all the bell tones and delays, and that it's not all drones and pads.

https://austinatosingles.bandcamp.com/track/unnecessary-consent

Catching up: I enjoyed that, boxedjoy! I expect I will listen again.

thank you very much for your kind words!

This is really good boxedjoy

The album that I wrapped back in January is finally out today :)

https://astralplanerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/seven-spheres

SPOILER ALERT: it bangs

Jordan made it, of course it does!! No spoilers there :)

fair

enjoying it at my desk right now! the chair of another department asked me if i was having a party :)

:)))))

Finally done with this monster:

https://thesnickersonbrothers.bandcamp.com/album/peaches-n-sour-cream

goofy folk/garage/jangle pop with some noisy rock n' roll bangers thrown in

a little bit of me jamming out here (insta page also has me doing some acoustic stuff)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Fvgi7BEpd/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Nice

i recorded a little melodic doodle of me singing + playing drums because i wanted to hear what i sounded like singing and playing at the same time. definitely borrowed melodies from alex chilton & neil young so i named it accordingly https://soundcloud.com/marshmallowy/outofthepool

idk i am posting because i was afraid to, which was a sign to me that i should do it?