Midnight Landing

[hummingbird]

Here's a good reflection of what goes on in my mind Midnight Landinghttp://www.mixposure.com/song.php?songid=36409 feedback welcome

[arkjack]

Thaz coo...... great instrumental imagery..... it fits a lot of scenes and very suspensefull..

[mazz]

Very creative use of the instruments. I like the rhythm of the little sounds at the beginning and the insistent clock like "groove" that you play the other instruments off of.My only concern is the trumpet sound. It sounds obviously sampled, which I'm not sure fits in with the aesthetic that you are going for in this piece.Sampled solo brass is a very difficult thing to pull off, particularly in isolation, as you are doing here in this piece. One thing that can help "reality-ize" sounds like this is to give them some ambience, set them back in the room a bit, with some reverb. No one listens to a trumpet up close (hopefully). We're used hearing things with some ambience around them. Even if we don't consciously register it, we know something sounds false if that "roominess" isn't there. A big explanation for a small problem. Your piece is cool. Keep up the good work.Mazz

[davewalton]

Quote:Here's a good reflection of what goes on in my mind You have a strange mind... My basic feedback would be to try to have those synth rhythmic sounds (like in the first 3 or 4 seconds) be the basis for the basic groove of the track. It needs an underlying, modern groove for support if things on the top are going to be sparse. When it started, that's what I was expecting but then rhythmic synth stuff turned out to be random and incidental rather than providing a cool rhythmic groove foundation. For a similar reference, I was exposed to a track of music from Timmo Maas recently ("Slip In Electro Kid") that incorporates the elements that I'm talking about. It has a rhythmic foundation based only on a rhythmic kick drum and synth sounds. Other than that, sparse, slow moving strings on top are the only other thing that makes up this whole track. HTH,Dave