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Hello there,

I'm happy to announce the release of my new Album "Constant Change" which contains several samples from Freesound in 3 of the 9 tracks.

Feel free to prelisten or download the work from the project page: http://www.drni.de/em/

Thanks to all Freesounders making this possible.

Regards,
DrNI

Hi there

Thanks for your additions to Freesound.

I am going to have a listen.

Did you properly attributed the sounds you used ? I can't find it on the website.

Regards

Ah! i found it ^^

forget what i just said.

cheers.

plagasul
Ah! i found it ^^
forget what i just said.
cheers.

They are also listed in the CD cover which comes with all downloadable formats.

DrNI

plagasul
Ah! i found it ^^
forget what i just said.
cheers.

They are also listed in the CD cover which comes with all downloadable formats.

That's the way.

havn't listened yet but a fine example of how people should be credited!

Oh wow... this is great! I love the music, and the attribution is perfect as has been noted. Well done!

I decided to write down my reactions as I was listening to the album so it's a bit stream-of-consciousness style.

Track 1- Short, but cool enough to get me to download the album.
Track 2- Nice and funky, reminds me of those great chiptunes from yesteryear, and staying up too late playing Sonic on my sega genesis...
Track 3- Was that supposed to sound like a toilet at the begining? Maybe that's just because I read your attribution list before playing the song. More cool synth grooves... I thought it was an old analogue synth (moog? clavoline?) before I read this was all done digitally. Cool vocals, what are they saying? Sounds like german to me, but my german is very poor.
Track 4- I'm not really a fan of dark ambient or whatever this is. Gets a bit out there for my taste, but an interesting experiment nonetheless.
Track 5- Ohhh, nice. Bringing melody back in a big way.
Track 6- Wikipedia and Text-To-Speech? Inventive. I like the typing in the background, and it's cool how the "computers" have a conversation with each other, I've never heard that done before. Digital flute? Coool...
Track 7- The transition was so seamless I thought this was part of track 6. And a female (at&t?) TTS pining for lost love? Awesome.
Track 8- Bringing back the old school synth to my great enjoyment. Reminds me a little of Wish You Were Here-era Pink Floyd, and the Blade Runner soundtrack. I hope you consider that high praise.
Track 9- And the piano comes back! Nooo, I don't want it to end.

Wow. That was beautiful! And it all tied together like a good concept album.
It's cool to see you drawing from electronic influcences and creating a fusion of modern styles... synth/chiptunes, post-rock, whatever else.
I'm glad to see creative commons helping to foster such- well, creativity. Thank you for creating this and sharing it with the world, and freesound especially!

(BTW, you can use this new license button on your next album, which indicates license conditions: http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/88x31.png )

EDIT: Okay, now I'm gonna go listen to it again!

Hi Halleck, hello all.

Thank you for your remarks. I'm happy that you like it. Let me put a few comments to what you wrote. For a quite detailed story: I'm working on a series of (English) blog posts in my weblog. Check this blog category: http://www.drni.de/blog/categories/10-Constant-Change (There's only one relevant post right now but I'm working on the next one already.)

Halleck
Track 1- Short, but cool enough to get me to download the album.

This piece actually is a kind of interlude that connects the other pieces. It is also a symbol for some milestone in my life. The record has a certain autobiographic component.

Halleck
Track 2- Nice and funky, reminds me of those great chiptunes from yesteryear, and staying up too late playing Sonic on my sega genesis...

Note that the entire beat is made of machines from a printing plant and waste paper baskets abused as drums. (Via an Yamaha A4000 sampler) The organ is a Elka E9 I bought for 1€ on Ebay.

Halleck
Track 3- Was that supposed to sound like a toilet at the begining? Maybe that's just because I read your attribution list before playing the song. More cool synth grooves... I thought it was an old analogue synth (moog? clavoline?) before I read this was all done digitally. Cool vocals, what are they saying? Sounds like german to me, but my german is very poor.

Hm yeah it was supposed to be a toilet but I think it doesn't matter if listeners don't get that. At least in my opinion. There's a truely analog pad (Roland Juno 106). The other pad is a self-made vocal pad. Solo lines were played on an Oberheim-Viscount OB3² "hammond-simulator"

The vocals say, in English (translating lyrics, uuh):
sound of waves, white sand
sound of waves, sunburn
infinite (is the) beach

Not very sophisticated, but that's on purpose.

Halleck
Track 4- I'm not really a fan of dark ambient or whatever this is. Gets a bit out there for my taste, but an interesting experiment nonetheless.

The only track that contains a software synthesizer, which was ZynAddSubFX. I don't think that the piece tries to be ambient or dark or whatever. If you find this piece enerving and disturbing, that's alright. It is not meant to please.

Halleck
Track 6- Wikipedia and Text-To-Speech? Inventive. I like the typing in the background, and it's cool how the "computers" have a conversation with each other, I've never heard that done before. Digital flute? Coool...

Contains some analog sounds from the Juno 106. The flute is from the Yamaha A4k factory sounds. Note that the melody is created from linguistic data structures! (There's a blog post about this on the site named above)

Halleck
Track 7- The transition was so seamless I thought this was part of track 6. And a female (at&t?) TTS pining for lost love? Awesome.

It is actually the same piece, sort of. But the melodies are human-created, that's why it is another piece in the end. The speech synthesizer is marvelous! It's the online demo by IBM. I was surprised to experience its high quality output. In the end a Korg Trident MK II analog beast is playing a solo. (I was gifted that synth. Lucky me. It tends to fail and the oscilloscope and the soldering iron are your companions, unlucky me.)

Halleck
Track 8- Bringing back the old school synth to my great enjoyment. Reminds me a little of Wish You Were Here-era Pink Floyd, and the Blade Runner soundtrack. I hope you consider that high praise.

You write "old school" but actually the solo line was played on a Kawai MP9000 entirely digital stage piano using the modified Strings preset. And yes, I do consider this high praise.

Halleck

(BTW, you can use this new license button on your next album, which indicates license conditions: http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/88x31.png )

Good to know. Thanks.

Also, great thanks again to all people here at Freesound. This is a great project.

Regards,

DrNI

P.S.: Did I say that this was recorded entirely on Linux using free (open source) software? Now I did.

Very interesting, thanks for sharing that information! I look forward to reading those articles.
I'm itching to know how well Ardour performed in a studio environment!

Like any good art, I find that I enjoy it more and more as the density of the layers are revealed to me...

I think that as of now (I've listened to it quite a few times through) my favorite songs are Das Meer and Computational Linguistics/I Dream of You...

I've sent a donation to you through your website for what I consider to be a fair price for a CD (although the USD/EUR exchange rate is not in my favor. )

BTW, I would like to make a few copies on CD to share with friends. I see you offer a download as one large FLAC file. How do you reccomend this be made into a CD? (I've always burned CD's from seperate files.)

Thanks!

Halleck
I've sent a donation to you through your website for what I consider to be a fair price for a CD (although the USD/EUR exchange rate is not in my favor. )

Thank you very much once again.

Halleck
BTW, I would like to make a few copies on CD to share with friends. I see you offer a download as one large FLAC file. How do you reccomend this be made into a CD? (I've always burned CD's from seperate files.)

On Linux, it should work as follows (assumming you unpacked the ZIP):
create a WAV file:
flac -d drni_constant_change.flac
then burn the CD:
cdrdao drni_constant_change.wav.cue

For Windows, I don't know. So far I didn't write CDs on Windows in this life. But watch out for software that works with CUE sheets. I have read that Nero can do it via the "Burn Image" function. Try the ".flac.cue" first - and then if your program can't handle FLAC directly, use the flac command (available for all major OS) to create the WAV file and use the ".wav.cue" file.

I know this is a bit tedious but I wanted to offer a 1:1 copy of my master CD. E.g. pauses between tracks are not just silence at the end of the previous track, they are marked as such and your player will recognize this.

Best,

DrNI

DrNI
Thank you very much once again.

You're welcome.

DrNI
On Linux, it should work as follows...

Allright cool, I will give it a try.

I actually use Mac OS X on my primary system, so I'll see if any of my burning programs (Toast, burn, shadowburn...) are able to process cue files. If need be I can install the fink package for cdrdao.
And thank you for your detailed instructions... I'm usually the one writing instructions around here so it's a nice change.
I just wanted to check and see how this is generally done before I tax your server with the huge FLAC download.

BTW, I have sent the link to a few close friends; one of them really enjoyed it. With their permission, I will forward their comments to you in private.