Feb 28 2009
Unsettling Paradigm and Twisted Analogy
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I added two tracks to the WWM audio player. Unsettling Paradigm is a dive into electronic-based euphoria. The song was written around one simple motif that I played over and over until layers began to form over it. The choirs are all Omnisphere and attempt to set a large background in a cut-scene like style. This one is in dire need of some imagery to accompany it. The soft humming of the choirs and the guitar melodies strive to paint a fantasy-like world in upheaval – going in and out of memories and making quick and subtle transitions of consciousness of the main character. Then it snaps back into the main motif as the song fades out.
Twisted Analogy was actually a last minute workup I did on an old idea. It isn’t quite finished, but it took a nice little shape after some tweaking. Some of the older songs I wrote with low-quality VSTi’s as a placeholder of sorts are more trouble to re-arrange than I expected in the beginning. It’s hard to re-imagine them with better instruments, although you would think otherwise – they have taken a shape that I seem to break when re-arranging. At any rate, Twisted Analogy started as a very smooth and repetitive atmospheric piece which later included sparse guitars and Egyptian stringed instrument samples for variation. It tries to capture both a melancholic and beautiful air simultaneously while moving subversively through both.
These will be the last two tracks I make available on Walking with Myths until after I release Logos and The Darkness. With so many projects going on simultaneously, I easily lose focus on the themes of older works and can do them no justice in the later mixing and post-production phases. That’s why a musician should never try to “master” their own work. I have probably cut and twisted The Darkness beyond all recognition of its original form because of second thoughts and last minute changes that lead on forever. When April comes though – both albums will be finished and ready for the public. The demos for both will change in late March to reflect the new mixes.
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