I have a new track I've been working on that I'm quite excited about.  I've been experimenting with new styles for my collaborations in Acoustic Data.  A big difference in this new material is the composition method.  In most previous tracks I've been completed, it's all been written and produced with a mouse.  It's quite exciting to be using live instruments to blend in with an electronic track, as well as recording actual keyboard performance rather than using a point and click composition method.  It's also a lot more technically challenging to produce great sounding instrument recordings versus simply dialing a patch in on your VST synth.  This is where composing with just a mouse and keyboard really shines.  It's much easier to come up with something that sounds reasonably polished in a short period of time.  It's also much less organic sounding.

 

Here is a sketch of my new track, Si.  I find it's a cross between a typical Acoustic Data track and something from Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient works 85-92 album with a dash of Hangable Auto Bulb thrown in for good measure.  Any feedback is appreciated.

 

I'm itching to get some new material formally released on CD as it's been over a couple of years since I've done that.  It will be difficult to make the distinction between which tracks will be published as Dent, and which tracks will end up being a collaboration under the Acoustic Data moniker.  My whole approach has changed so much that I don't know if I can write another track that sounds anything like my previous work.

 

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