Sunday Synth Jam: This video captures a modular synth + vocal performance, by Slope114, of the Les Brown/Ben Homer/Bud Green standard, Sentimental Journey.
Technical details:
All instrument sounds from the Serge Modular, clock & trigs sent from DIY Drum machine.
I didn’t think this could work, but you provede wrong! Cool arrangement!
Nicely done!
Why is it rare to hear vocals in the modular world? Good to hear this.
thats pretty sick. nice one guys
good god that is awful, lazy synthesis, boring beats and dreary obvious vocals, why bother buying all that gear just to do that.
This is music, maybe you don’t recognize it? For an example of a waste of gear, watch any Richard Devine video.
The guy working that modular synth built that entire synth by hand. Handmade the panels, circuit boards and soldered the components. http://www.coa-modular.com/
He hand made it, so now we have to like the music he creates? Bad logic there.
>This is music, maybe you don’t recognize it?
So all music is binary. It exists, so like it? I agree with the poster above that this felt like a train wreck. Either part on it’s own, with some help on those flat sung notes, could have worked, but together it made me reach for the stop button.
> For an example of a waste of gear, watch any Richard Devine video.
Often true there! But let me be the butthead police and point out that you slammed a guy for his musical preferences in sentence one, and then stated yours in sentence two as if that was totally ok.
I think he was referring to the first rude person’s comment in which he said “buy all that gear” when in fact, the gear was built by hand. So, he was pointing out that your assumption was wrong. You don’t have to like the music, obviously. But you also dont have to write rude comments on something. If you dont like it, Why bother? Bored? Have no life? Obviously. I smell a troll- must be you.
The components were free then?
I listened again after being accused of being a troll, and watched some of the other videos on youtube. The music is still awful even if the hardware is impressive.
All you did was prove you are a troll. Good job.
“I feel like being an ass hole abd criticizing music that I dont like publicly, for the sole purpose of being rude. When I could really just ignore and not listen to it again, but I prefer to be negative instead. ” = troll
Alexander, my sole purpose, my aim was to accurately convey how hideously poor this music was, this I feel I have succeed in, this is not trolling, you may not agree with how I went about it, and to be fair It probably did come across a little harsh – but this music is really really bad so I stand by it in the hope it will dissuade them for perpetrating this crime again. Your comments however are a truly exceptional example of trolling in that you’ve not only managed to do exactly what you’ve incorrectly accused me of doing but also have made no comments of your own about the music – you’ve simply inserted yourself into someone else’s conversation for no good reason – trolltastic.
Actually, I went out of my way to thumbs up their video personally and I also commented on other avenues to let them know how much I enjoyed their music. It’s a pity you have such negative feelings toward their music, which is actually only your opinion. I have noticed so many people giving them compliments and only you have decided to stay negative. You are right, you came off very harsh and I believe it was uncalled for. Their music is not a crime in anyway, and it is not up to you to decide if they should continue making. It also seems the fans they have would like them to continue doing so.
Really awesome stuff. It has a great vibe. I want more!
nice job!! well done!!! serge modular never die !!!!!!!! 🙂
Points for weird overall charm, a great vocal and musical use of a Serge outside the usual academic squonks. I’m all for anything that more obviously humanizes synths. This piece just kept getting, um, “funkier” as the percolation developed. Acoustic counterpoints are one of the best friends e-music has, even if its the work of a sampler. Here’s an excellent example of how to blend the two and hit the mark.