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[Lukas]

(direct download of the mp3s + PDF: http://www.FastShare.org/download/BaronCid__s_music_July_08.rar  ~90mb)

Hi!
I wanted to open a little thread in which I stuff parts of the music I create to kinda catalogize it online for feedback and so on.
I do different kinds of music. It all is pretty much written by me and performed by me. (Sometimes friends help me, though)
I also have to note that most of the works are demos... so nothing to oveproduced here... Even the newer pieces make me want to sit down and make final versions but since I develop all the time (I guess) it's hard for me to do anything *static*.
(by the way, all guitars are played by me, so my "main profession" is guitarist)
(sorry, some music could be stuffed onto my 50mb webspace, other had to be uploaded via fastshare so there is no direct hotlink sometimes. please excuse this 15-second waste of time.
direct downloads are marked with a * though...)
(one last thing... most of the song have poor, outdated ID3 tags :/ didn't want to work them over though... gonna do it some day...)


The "archaic period"


I started creating music some 2.5-3 years ago. This recordings were made 2 years ago. I used a 10 buck headset mic, my computer's mic-in and Audacity to play around. All instruments were played by me. Including the crappy drums. (Built with CD-cases, bowls from the kitchen, pieces of wood and all kind of crap. Still can't play it right) The keyboard was a small child's keyboard powered by AA-batteries from Casio a friend of mine borrowed me (and he never got it back).
Every recording had to be worked over to get a somehow presentable sound because there was a load of noise in the background due to my microphone.

Auron
Starts with a strange/psychedelic intro... the actual piece begins at 1:40, the whole thing get's more interesting/fucked up 3:48. I still like to listen to the recording because the guitar solo at the end has this strange, offbeat feel to it and I don't remember how I got it out of my guitar.

http://www.fastshare.org/download/Auron.mp3


AddVocals
A demo for a song some guy promised me to sing over but he never did. And I'm not a good singer so I left it "unfinished". I initially wanted to call the track "RedRooms" but the new name kinda fits, doesn't it?
The vocal parts should've been: 1:28-2:40 and 4:15-6:20. There is mostly some instrument playing the vocal melody so can imagine how the thing could've sounded like. The more interesting instrumental parts are in between the vocal passages.

http://www.fastshare.org/download/AddVocals.mp3


The summer vacation sessions '06


The image is green because I initially recorded the rehearsal-performances with a video camcorder and I had night-vision on because it was pretty dark in our room.
The mp3s are extracted from the videos. Maybe I can find the videos some day... should be on some DVcassette in some box somewhere...
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This summer I got together with some friends from school. (two, to be exact)
This was my first band experience in which I could play self-written stuff. (I hate covers...)
The tracks were recorded with a video-camcorder's crappy built-in microphone and "remastered" with Audacity. We rehearsed the two tracks and I recorded the stuff the last day because I didn't want to forget about the whole thing. We had 2-3 days rehearsal time. (as far as I remember)
(note: the ~10mb-mp3s don't mean the bitrate is good. the tracks are really that long...  )


Ignis
Ignis is the latin expression latin for "fire".

http://www.fastshare.org/download/Ignis.mp3


Argilla
"soil"

http://www.fastshare.org/download/Argilla.mp3


We actually wanted to create "Aqua", "Aeron" and "Homo" too but since the time just wasn't there and we did 40-60% of the composition during the rehearsals we couldn't accomplish it. Would've been a 45 minute recording...



The summer vacation sessions '07 - c0re.soundtrack


This time I finally got a 2*175 buck soundcard+microphone equipment fix for birthday. My two companions joined me again, this time at my place. We took an empty room and stuffed a giant home-recording bunch of crap there... Everyone donated some stuff like drums, mixing boards, additional microphones, a keyboard, a bass and so on.
We created the soundtrack for a game about organisms/life I was working on at the time. The project is still "alive" but I'm not too sure if I'm going to finish it. (I'm already working on other projects)
We tried to borrow some inspiration from Nine Inch Nails, by the way.
The main tracks (Scion, Absorb, Parasite, Subcore) are all ~6 minutes long.
Absorb and Subcore are rather environmental tracks, Scion and Parasite are more... less environmental. Intro and Down are Menu/Intro-tracks.

Intro*
http://c0re.g0dsoft.com/upload/c0re%20Soundtrack/c0re_intro.mp3

Down*
http://c0re.g0dsoft.com/upload/c0re%20Soundtrack/c0re_down.mp3

Scion*
http://c0re.g0dsoft.com/upload/c0re%20Soundtrack/c0re_scion.mp3

Absorb*
http://c0re.g0dsoft.com/upload/c0re%20Soundtrack/c0re_absorb.mp3

Parasite*
http://c0re.g0dsoft.com/upload/c0re%20Soundtrack/c0re_parasite.mp3

Subcore*
http://c0re.g0dsoft.com/upload/c0re%20Soundtrack/c0re_subcore.mp3


Since I never "used" the tracks for actual "releases" I might try to take some of the material from them to build my next project on top of it...



Sohe and the Rrokked



Soundtrack for a Knytt-Stories-Level I created with a friend of mine. (Drummer of the previous projects. Drummer on this tracks. I played all the melody-instruments.)
http://nifflas.ni2.se/forum/index.php?topic=4452.0 (here the link to the level-thread in Nifflas' forums)
I guess we were inspired by the Samorost games a little bit.
(Note: Those things are .ogg-files you can play with Winamp or VLC-Media (for example) If you want them converted to mp3s... let me know!)


Inside the rrokked*
http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/knytt3_neu_mix.ogg

The surface of Gnykk*
http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/sun_test.ogg

The rrokked-airport*
http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/airport.ogg

The old vynyll*
http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/Song22.ogg


Gitarre Solo



I play and compose for classical guitar aswell. Most of my pieces are presents for my parents and relatives.
The first piece (Das Pferd) is some 1.5 years old by now. The last piece (Der Park) was finished several weeks ago.
I'm not very proud about any of the recordings and I plan to concentrate on some kind of "real, final recording" some day but I gradually improve as a player... so I pretty much dislike anything I played some years ago.
I also want to write down my pieces (in a refined version, I guess) and sell them to music publishers... I'd be fucking happy to get a little bit of pocket money for them... like... thousand bucks for all three to buy a MacBook for on-the-go-recording finally. :D But I guess I'm just daydreaming right now. 

Das Pferd*
"The horse" (about the horse's nature)

http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/Das%20Pferd.mp3


Die Gedanken*
"The thoughts" (about the "mechanism" of thinking)

http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/Die%20Gedanken.mp3


Der Park*
"The park" (about my home and childhood)


http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/Der%20Park.mp3


Der Park ("live")*
The first time I performed it in front of an audience
(= father+mother+brother+cousin) With glitches and rather... strange sound quality. (due to recording made with PocketPc... crappy microphone... I really do need to get a MacBook  )
Anyway... it is performed slightly different than in the actual recording... might be interesting.

http://home.arcor.de/baroncid/Der%20Park(Premiere).mp3

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Catalogue to be expanded...

Myself to be improved...

[Lukas]

gotta respond fast~ on the run right now...

i would actually like to hear this music in a game. that could be very special... hmm, but i didn't got that 'Knytt' level to run... is it for pc? where do i have to put that bin-file?

You gotta download Knytt Stories first. It's a great game anyway, so check it out:
http://db.tigsource.com/games/knytt-stories

then you have to choose "Import Level" (or something like that)in the Knytt-Stories-main-menu and then drag-n-drop the  .knytt.bin file of my level into the Knytt-Stories window.


Have Fun!

[increpare]

I just listened to Der Park (studio version   ).  I found it quite satisfying and well-crafted, though not startling in any sense (but then that's a particular (optional) challenge of that style of piece, to make it really interesting.  For me, the most memorable aspect of the piece were the tremolo figuration that were present during a lot of the piece.  Personally, I found those helped structure the piece very well for me (generally, in terms of its form, your piece was highly successful I think).  The ending seemed to be a little weak, but that might just be the recording: I don't know TBH. 

(I'm a biggish fan of classical guitar and lute stuff)

Auron I quite liked.  Generally rich, and the parts at the start of the 'real' piece I really liked, especially their rhythmic freeness.  At the 3:fiftywhatever mark you sort of left that style behind you.  Entirely your right, and I don't think the resulting work bad, but I felt a little bit sad that the other stuff was finished

(I haven't listened to any others yet)

[Lukas]

Thanks for your inspiring and honest opinions.

Well, I guess it's kinda overwhelming that I stuffed some 90 minutes of different stuff in here.
But maybe you can come back and listen to different tracks later on.

c0re actually was meant to be an multiplayer RTS but it's kinda "on ice" right now.
I might think about an "interactive music album" now, I guess. That could be interesting.

Thanks and I'm happy about ever comment, BaronCid

[Lukas]

I decided to fully ID3-tag the mp3s and add slightly new covers to the mp3s.

Then I quickly wrote the catalogue down and created a PDF out of it.

Then I stuffed all the mp3s and the PDF into a folder and uploaded it.

You can download the (~90mb)-rar-file with all the music here:

http://www.FastShare.org/download/BaronCid__s_music_July_08.rar


I hope this makes accesing the music easier.



BaronCid

[dmoonfire]

I like the c0re stuff, specially scion.

[mjau]

I liked everything, but specially the c0re stuff was great.  My favourite is probably parasite.

Not as enjoyable in headphones though.  It feels a bit "flat"?

[Lukas]

I liked everything, but specially the c0re stuff was great.  My favourite is probably parasite.

Not as enjoyable in headphones though.  It feels a bit "flat"?

Well, thanks. Thanks you all, by the way.

Yeah, it may feel a bit flat, especially when you listen to it directly/closely (like over headphones). But I guess that's due to the sub-optimal mixing/mastering (and the bad microphone in the "archaic period")
I mixed over non-great monitor-boxes back then so I didn't really have an opportunity to check out what it really sounded like.

Speaking of mixing and mastering...
By the way, I'm actually doing a new "album" right now (slightly, slightly inspired by Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV ) I'm not trying to give out too much right now. I'm co-laborating with 2 pretty close friends of mine on this one (known drummer included) and I'm trying to include tiny bits of mini-colabs with all kinds of people I know or meet over the internet.
The album will include 19/20-tracks of instrumental and experimental tracks. Mostly short ones (0, 19 secs to rarely ~4 minutes) that should go well with added music videos of all styles. I'm even thinking about doing some kind of little "film festival" on Youtube if the album turns out well. So people will be able to download the album for free and then I ask them to choose their favourite track and make their own music video to it. If I'm able to collect a few I might try to represent it somehow... but that's pretty far away from now, I guess... it would be awesome to release a very, very small amount of DVDs containing the contributed artwork, movies and music.
I'm actually going to take some of my "unreleased" stuff (including AddVocals, Argilla and parts of c0re.soundtrack) and "cut" bits out of them. The ones I think should really be preserved and fit into the whole album idea.
I already started remixing and recutting those tracks.
I use Cubase LE now (way more powerful than Audacity!) and have good AKG in-ear-plugs for really exact mixing. So I put them into my ears everytime I want to be really accurate with the frequencies etc.
So I especially took some of the c0re stuff (I took ~7 minutes out of ~28) and re-arranged here and there, also adding new compressors/dynamics and a whole equalizer-runover. The tracks don't sound all different now but they are more pleasant to listen to and if you listened to the old recordings a few times you will make out a difference. At least I hope so.

I can actually tell a pretty precise release date: 5th to 19th September 2008.
I hope I do a good job. It's my long vacation right now (and for the next 4 weeks) so I'll really try to pull this off nicely.

[Problem Machine]

I've listened to most of these now I think, and so far I like Auron best. The others aren't really bad in any way, but in a lot of cases they just don't hook me in, whereas overall I just really like the sound of Auron. I've found in my own work that as I get more knowledgeable about what works in music I tend to lose a lot of the spontaneity that makes it fun. It feels like maybe to some extent the same thing happened here, but that's just my take.
I'm curious about the sound of the new thing you're working on, because I've been somewhat inspired by Ghosts myself. I must say that in a few places in the Core soundtrack you really nailed the NiN sound to the point where I was briefly forgetting which I was listening to. Anyway, can't wait to hear the new thing 

[Carnivac]

Auron's pretty cool.  I'll listen to the others in the morning but I do like that one particularly near the end.


And yeah Ghosts I-IV is great too.