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thank you vegangelica for listening and commenting. i did not expect such a strong critique, but i guess that's what music banter is for.

firstly i'd like to say that aside from being a drummer, i am a novice at all the other stuff. i really enjoy experimenting, but like you say with Canvas 3005, cohesion is sometimes hard to achieve when i don't have an idea of what i want before going into it. canvas 3005 was one of my very first attempts at purely synthesized music. honestly, i think i'm going to rip the whole first 1.5 minutes out of it... or i might, anyway. and as for the panning, i've since learned to use the effect of it in a way that is much less hard on the brain. i still like the dramatic shifts, but if you go to far left or right too quick with certain sounds, as you say, is not good for headaches.

"left open" was the first song i ever recorded (and maybe wrote) using my own voice, a guitar, and protools... and some finger-played percussion.

"shoot sprout" and it's flute are synthesized, meaning that the rasp and flutter were generated via lots and lots of time spent fiddling with parameters to get a certain timbre or tone or phase or whatever. i would love to have real instruments, but they are expensive, hiring people to play them is expensive, and quite frankly there are things you can do with synthetic sounds that can't be done with physical instruments, things i'm rather fond of.

Maude Generic Tester. the chanted vocals on that track are the bane in the history of my recording. it's actually called throat singing. that sound is achieved by vibrating both sets of vocal cords at two different (but harmonizing) rates. the reason i call that song the bane is that i really like throat singing and don't think it should be over-used, but when i finalized that project something happened and the chant went out of sync with the rest of the tracks. i think it's like two beats ahead or something. i would correct it, but i make my music on a desktop computer not quite geared for sound, and shortly after i finalized that track my computer crashed and i lost all the data which made up that song. this happens to me all the time, and is why in my MB profile it says that i want a record deal, so as i can spend some money on solid gear and not have to worry about all this sh*te.

twiddophile is currently my favourite synth music that i've made. it took a very long time to make, because the glitch sounds that came out weren't made with some automated plugin which rips sounds up for the user, but rather i actually had to program every single little micro sound to achieve a less "algo-rhythmic" feel and a more random or organic sound. i can't recall if i used a slide-whistle-type VST, but that's definitely possible. as far as low tones, i'm currently doing a bit of research so as i can properly "seat" those kinds of frequencies. as it stands, i find them entirely difficult to manage. i also have this tendency to get too "notey" with the "bass" end, resulting in my never finding lines that i like.

i like that you find my music soothing. not what i expect to hear, but nice to hear nonetheless. i do plan on adding vocals to some newer electronic stuff that i'm doing. well, i'm actually working on it, but find it hard because the sort of sound scape that i create synthetically is one i find hard to mesh with the way my voice works, but like i say, i'm working on it anyway!

the current work that i'm most excited about is actually composed entirely of vocals. lots of chanting and swells, plus a little bit of my voice turned into a synthesizer... inspired to a certain degree by Bjork's album Medulla. i look up to bjork in a really big way.

i hope that answers your questions sufficiently.

and yeah, THANKS FOR YOUR TIME!!! MUCH APPRECIATED!!!

EDIT: i just noticed you said in "left open" that i am singing WITH myself. you are indeed correct. i don't have a good microphone, so i layer the vocals, which gives a little more depth.