[Album] only a parsec from here (mp3)

[cubaxd]

Hey ppl, this is my second album which explores the universe a little (BTW: do you know my first one?)
The genre of the album is chillout, ambient, or the like.
Some tunes might sound nervy, experimental and "hard to digest" (especially the first one) :lol:

Title: only a parsec from here
Tracks: 10
Format: MPEG ADTS, layer III, v1, 128 kBits, 44.1 kHz, JntStereo
Duration: almost an hour

01 - born in cyberspace    // 9:14, voice: festival TTS
02 - solar explorer    // 5:02
03 - irgend ein lied    // 4:58
04 - last year on mars    // 5:28
05 - may i think of her    // 2:14
06 - loopme    // 8:29
07 - liquid silicon    // 5:25
08 - verona rupes    // 7:25
09 - stones in motion    // 1:24
10 - stell die zeit ab    // 7:26, voice: txt2pho | mbrola

[KrazyKatz]

Oh, good.. I like your albums.. looking forward to listening after the download.

[Sam_Zen]

A bit too much for a quick comment, so I picked at random.
05 - Enjoyed. Quite a 'tender' atmosphere. With an elegant question mark at the end.

07 - Nice impression of the materials involved.
At the end it looses a bit of strength, because the rhythm becomes somewhat too 'march-like'

09 - I like this one. Could be called nervy, but it's a choice for the real impression, ugly or not.

10 - As usual, a strong intro. And you take your time to build it up. Good use of more 'quiet' passages.
And the finish is excellent.

Afterwards a bit of a doubt about the voice-part. It's brave to use it a single time in the song, but after
that, while listening, I felt a growing logic to hear it once again, which didn't happen.
So the voice maybe should have been more 'impressive' in that single part.
Btw : is that an application, 'txt2pho' ?

[cubaxd]

Wow. the complete album has been downloaded 5 times already, whithin one day, a million thanks to you guys.

@Sam,
thank you for commenting

in track 10, i already had the voice part playing twice, but later i wanted to omit the second part and make the first part longer, the problem was that i didn't know what she could say in addition, and the voice herself had no idea, too :lol:

Btw : is that an application, 'txt2pho' ?

txt2pho converts (german) text into a .pho file, which can then be converted by mbrola to a .wav file. For example a text file containing the word "haus" will be converted using

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txt2pho -i haus.txt -o haus.pho -f (the -f is for female voice) to a rather cryptic file, containing

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_ 10   0 160
h 94  20 157  41 156  63 154  84 153
aU 126   4 152  20 151  36 150  52 148  67 147  83 146  99 146
s 79  24 145  49 144  75 144 100 160
_ 483   4 160   8 160  12 160  17 160  21 160  25 160  29 160  33 160  37 160  41 160

i bet, some of these values are responsible for wheter a voice sounds more or less impressive

[Sam_Zen]

Nice. I indeed found an application, a screenreader in fact.
And this needs an interpretator like MBROLA.
http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html
A direct link to the text-converter:
http://www.ikp.uni-bonn.de/dt/forsch/phonetik/hadifix/txt2wav.zip

[Saga Musix]

hi cubaxd, really nice album liked it alot.

[bvanoudtshoorn]

I too enjoyed your album, cubaxd. You've got a talent for producing well-connected pieces that are nonetheless unique.

[cubaxd]

Thank you Jojo and bvan, i'm glad you liked it

[Sam_Zen]

01 - Great start. Almost organic. Delicate positioning of the sounds.
Nice, on the moment I started thinking 'this is getting too long', the piece makes a change.
02 - Enjoyed. The heat is on.
03 - You obviously prefer a consistent kind of 'crispy' percussion. Maybe this one has a little bit too much hall.
Some instruments could have been somewhat 'closer'. A bit of an abrupt end.
04 - Nice drone. And quite unpredictable in sounds.

[cubaxd]

Hi Sam
You're right about track 3. Thus i changed it a little, added a fadeout and reuploaded the piece. I think it sounds better now.

Nice, on the moment I started thinking 'this is getting too long', the piece makes a change.

Hehe. Good timing

[Sam_Zen]

Nice changes of track 3 imo. Significant improvement in a subtle way.

06 - Great. I fancy reversed sounds. A 'floating' basic rhythm. It has an organic feel like track 01.
Again the fade-out at the end is a bit short. Ok, it's smooth in the cut, but here it could have started at least 6 secs before.

08 - What should I say? This is electronic sound art, or as I call it, MUX, in its true form.

Hehe. Good timing

Sure. But this moment still depends on whether the composer wants to please/relieve the listener or not.
If it's intentional as an expression, it could be 'too long' as well, e.g. to create some tension envelope.

[cubaxd]

Thank you Sam for taking the time.
I think the short fade out in track 6 is only a minor issue.
What do you mean by MUX?

[Sam_Zen]

Agreed, the fade out is a minor issue.

MUX.. I'll try to keep it short, because there's a theory behind it.
It's a name I made up (short for 'multiplex') to indicate another 'tree' of sound art, besides the huge oak called 'music'.
You can find a description of this here