You know, I love both your guitar1 sample and your electric piano sample. The thing that always amuses, me,though, is that when I load the wave file of your guitar into my little synth, which can sample 7 seconds of a wave file, the guitar sounds like an electric piano (as here) while the electric piano sounds like something almost baroque. I’ll bet if I read up on sound modulation, I’d understand, but in the meantime, I’ll just enjoy having that guitar 1 to use.

Thanks for the sample, and for your kind words!

That reminds me, too, that I’ve got to go check out that new release you posted about in the forum.

It’s been years since I’ve thought about Joe’s Garage. That’s a really unexpected take on this spoken word track to make its narrator the scrutinizer, but it does fuel my imagination, in that I took the narrator as clued-in, but what if she is an unreliable narrator? Years of a marital relationship may have dulled my wits, but I do recall vaguely that the flights of fancy inherent in these emotions sometimes lead one to mis-judge the facts at hand.

But I must be a romantic, because I am rooting for the romance and the power of this narrator all the way. It’s sensitivity without vulnerability, and I think it’s grand.

Thanks very much! I tailored my description down in light of your “by the word” comment :). It’s good for me to try to practice concision, which sounds like thrift in a good way, and may one day make me the strong, silent type.

Quote: Gurdonarkmay one day make me the strong, silent type.

don’t think the silent thing’s happening anytime soon, not judging by what I’ve seen :-] :-] .. but by all means keep trying :-] :-]

Thank you!

Thank you very much. This one seemed to me to be one for a minimal approach.

I could imagine you taking the little melodic theme from the first 30 seconds or so of the instrumental and turning it into a kind of jazz trip-hop, with your gift for orchestration.

Thanks for the praise—I appreciate it.

At first I was getting a melody more simple and structured, which would have been a different, probably instrumental song. But when I was able to “find” the flighty jumps I knew it would fit this vocal. I like working with spoken word because for me the music subordinates and creates scenery and atmospheres for the ‘pella. That makes your comment about the film festival make me feel pleased. Thanks.

Thanks, Marco. I think her vocal track is a fine one with which to work.

Thank you. I like them a bit minimal sometimes.

Thank you for telling me that. I’m glad that you enjoyed it.