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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by zerbaman » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:11 am



Here's my experiment.
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by JBE » Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:46 pm

I don't experiment as often as I probably should. I mean I experiment with different sounds in a track as I'm working on it, but 90% of the time those experiments go unused or just get deleted. The last few months I've been trying to really work on using pads more. Which has spawned a few ambient tracks I've made specifically for my own learning purposes. I even put them up on a secondary soundcloud mainly for some friends and stuff to listen to. The one I think I like the most is this one:

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The "beat" was created specifically from cutting up the recording of the train. I ended up doing that a second time and it became the beat for "In Motion" in my sig. Some of the stuff I did with the pad in night train also went into the pad in "In Motion" as well. I think it's the first time the experimentation of one track lead directly to me creating a second track.

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Hurtdeer » Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:54 pm

Basic A wrote: This is awesome, Im really color deficient and have generally horible eyesight so visual shows and stuff never really do it for me, but this is really cool, it reminds me of lightpaintings... You should team up with Sarah Nicolls haha, be a performance match made in heaven.
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oh neat one of my lecturers just got namedropped

didnt expect that on this forum

and yeah hankerins that video/performance is wicked

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by jstick » Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:21 pm

Some crackin stuff in here.

Most of the experimental stuff I do is under my other project called Chuggin Petrol. It's more hip hop sounding, but with weird grooves and sounds, have a listen.

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If you dig it, theres more on my soundcloud.

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Basic A » Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:28 pm

Hurtdeer wrote:
Basic A wrote: This is awesome, Im really color deficient and have generally horible eyesight so visual shows and stuff never really do it for me, but this is really cool, it reminds me of lightpaintings... You should team up with Sarah Nicolls haha, be a performance match made in heaven.
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oh neat one of my lecturers just got namedropped

didnt expect that on this forum

and yeah hankerins that video/performance is wicked
...The sarah nicolls who used to do the ambient jam stuff with Tim Exile? Where i know of her from if thats who you mean, exile's youtube channel is fuckin awesome
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Hurtdeer » Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:31 pm

Basic A wrote:
...The sarah nicolls who used to do the ambient jam stuff with Tim Exile? Where i know of her from if thats who you mean, exile's youtube channel is fuckin awesome
yeah. she was my performance lecturer while i was doing the uni thing. i enjoyed those classes a lot


she also got a good friend of mine some lessons with tim exile too the lucky BASTARD

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by alias123 » Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:13 pm

nice to some hip hoppy experimentatoin. attempt of my own

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by indika » Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:26 pm

I love static, white noise, and sampling from strange sources. Check the tune in my sig :)

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by hankerins » Fri Apr 29, 2011 5:38 pm

Thanks hurtdeer and Basic. There's no love like DSF love.

The background track on that clip is an original tune called Heavy Air:

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All of the music in the piece is by me. Heavy Air is probably the most traditional dubstep tune in the performance, so I'm glad you thought it was far out on its own. I've never heard of Sarah Nicolls but I'll be sure to check her out. I'd really like to collaborate with more people, but (as you can imagine) it's pretty uncommon to find artists doing similar work. In the long run that fact will hopefully set me apart, but right now its kind of a pain.

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by tavravlavish » Fri Apr 29, 2011 6:01 pm

The track "spinning" on my soundcloud is me experimenting. Peep it.

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by nowaysj » Fri Apr 29, 2011 7:17 pm

paradigm x wrote:
I've committed to building something like this before the year is out. Think I'll be really busy in December!
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by hankerins » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:51 pm

nowaysj wrote:
paradigm x wrote:
I've committed to building something like this before the year is out. Think I'll be really busy in December!
looks cool, whats it do?

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Siderealdb » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:54 pm

I'd say I'm pretty experimental. Mostly because I have chord progression. :lol:
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by mcpable » Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:09 pm

I like this thread...

Built this track around an improvised guitar jam I recorded the other day... it's a bit of a trip
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Basic A » Mon May 02, 2011 4:59 pm

hankerins wrote:
nowaysj wrote:
paradigm x wrote:[]
I've committed to building something like this before the year is out. Think I'll be really busy in December!
looks cool, whats it do?
simple tone generator/synth/whatever you wanna call it, it makes neat noises.
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Karoshi » Mon May 02, 2011 9:12 pm

Good idea for a thread! some deece pieces in here! i have a few experimental pieces but i wont upload them, they are not worth anyones time haha. i got a Korg Monotron and tried to make a complete track just with sounds sampled from that and processing. sounded alrite but i couldnt manage a snare tone haha.
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by nowaysj » Mon May 02, 2011 9:25 pm

An experiment, is an experiment. The results don't have to be "good" to be useful. Put 'em up!
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by hankerins » Tue May 03, 2011 12:49 am

hankerins wrote: Also, I just finished my senior thesis project at University and I think anyone interested in this thread would dig it. It's a dance performance set in a pitch dark room with infrared lights hanging from the ceiling. The infrared light (combined with an infrared camera) allows me to follow the dancers' movements in the dark and project abstract silhouettes of them directly onto their bodies. I then process these silhouettes even more in real time, merging them into one another, diffusing them across the room, etc. Also, we have a segment with no projections, where the speed of a solo dancer's movements controls both the playback speed and pitch of a saxophone recording, as well as generating midi notes to play samples and synths from logic. Its hard to explain, but this (very low quality) video of one of our rehearsals might give you an idea:


When I have a high quality video of the whole performance I'll come back to share that too.
Our show performance debuted last week so I thought I'd come back and share it with you guys. I made a new thread for it, check it out here:

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=197197

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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Shum » Tue May 03, 2011 12:50 am

Siderealdb wrote:I'd say I'm pretty experimental. Mostly because I have chord progression. :lol:
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Re: Who's Actually Experimenting?

Post by Electric_Head » Tue May 03, 2011 7:48 am

I have some 90 BPM, more Dub inspired tunes that shift up to 180 BPM 4x4, atmospheric, psychedelic stuff.
interested?
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