What I mean is, some artists like to remain associated with a particular style or genre.
Sometimes this is a good thing.
Sometimes artists (and I thinking of Steven Wilson as an example) do what they want, within a broad sense of a genre, and to hell with their fans.
What I am leading up to here is, in my own case, I am doing a lot of jumping around at the moment.
Prior to joining AO, just over a year ago now, I tended to stick to one particular "style" (I use that term loosely because even now I am not sure what that style was). But then I started to dabble more in what I think could be termed "ambient" things.
Okay, that's just personal development, is it not? And, let's be honest, it's not as if I have any fans to upset and lose along the way (not strictly true... An old colleague of mine appeared to really enjoy listening to stuff I created around the 2000 ~ 2003 era and he hasn't liked anything I've done since...).
BUT...
Something has been bugging me a bit now, while exploring the "Dark Side," helped immensely by the OSD challenges, and hearing all the many different and varied stuff here. I appear to have been switching regularly between the lighter side of things, with guitar based droney tracks then doing darker, more spacey noise stuff.
Do they fit together? I don't really think so.
One thing I have been thinking about is creating one album which has the guitar and sequencer stuff on, and another with the darker stuff.
I have been naming some of my darker tracks after those Iain M Banks "Culture" ships, so it seems obvious to me that they do, indeed, fit onto one album and should work together.
And then I have a load of stuff that have names of astronomic "features" and are generally a lot lighter in terms of sonic content. And more recently I have been naming tracks after Greek mythology characters, which, again, are generally lighter.
So, I have two sides developing. Dark, and light. Sounds a bit corny but, there ya go :D
One thing I could consider is having two different identities. One can do all the dark stuff and one the light stuff.
And perhaps I should dump the "synkrotron" moniker. That would be a really hard thing to do...
If you got this far, thanks for reading my ramblings. Probably more difficult than listening to one of my toons :canthearyou:
cheers
andy :D
Sometimes this is a good thing.
Sometimes artists (and I thinking of Steven Wilson as an example) do what they want, within a broad sense of a genre, and to hell with their fans.
What I am leading up to here is, in my own case, I am doing a lot of jumping around at the moment.
Prior to joining AO, just over a year ago now, I tended to stick to one particular "style" (I use that term loosely because even now I am not sure what that style was). But then I started to dabble more in what I think could be termed "ambient" things.
Okay, that's just personal development, is it not? And, let's be honest, it's not as if I have any fans to upset and lose along the way (not strictly true... An old colleague of mine appeared to really enjoy listening to stuff I created around the 2000 ~ 2003 era and he hasn't liked anything I've done since...).
BUT...
Something has been bugging me a bit now, while exploring the "Dark Side," helped immensely by the OSD challenges, and hearing all the many different and varied stuff here. I appear to have been switching regularly between the lighter side of things, with guitar based droney tracks then doing darker, more spacey noise stuff.
Do they fit together? I don't really think so.
One thing I have been thinking about is creating one album which has the guitar and sequencer stuff on, and another with the darker stuff.
I have been naming some of my darker tracks after those Iain M Banks "Culture" ships, so it seems obvious to me that they do, indeed, fit onto one album and should work together.
And then I have a load of stuff that have names of astronomic "features" and are generally a lot lighter in terms of sonic content. And more recently I have been naming tracks after Greek mythology characters, which, again, are generally lighter.
So, I have two sides developing. Dark, and light. Sounds a bit corny but, there ya go :D
One thing I could consider is having two different identities. One can do all the dark stuff and one the light stuff.
And perhaps I should dump the "synkrotron" moniker. That would be a really hard thing to do...
If you got this far, thanks for reading my ramblings. Probably more difficult than listening to one of my toons :canthearyou:
cheers
andy :D
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