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Civilization

By Jim Wood on April 26, 2018 6:30 pm

A continuation of last week's approach. Simple syncopated I IV chord progression. Vocals: English as a Second Language podcast #1091 "Punishing Children." C Major.

I got images of a fragmented world of prisms and lights going through my head while listening, really love the chopped n screwed approach you went with. The synths and voices mingle together quite beautifully smile

Gab Manette wrote:

I got images of a fragmented world of prisms and lights going through my head while listening, really love the chopped n screwed approach you went with. The synths and voices mingle together quite beautifully smile

High praise indeed. Thanks!

Love the vocal chopping. human and robotic at the same time. Is it autotuned into a melody? btw, "Punishing Children" is best done in e minor.

NWSPR wrote:

Love the vocal chopping. human and robotic at the same time. Is it autotuned into a melody? btw, "Punishing Children" is best done in e minor.

Not if you want a major behavioral change ::)

This is ear candy. I love it

Major-key corrections seem to work the best. This is like lying on a beach and having your toes occasionally bathed by warm grains of speech sounds.

If robots could sing it might sound something like this.  Really awesome stuff.

Really fun use of the vocals and the overall vibe is very nice

wow, I love this!  reminds me a bit of Pogo

Hell yeah this rules. Great rhythmic consideration going on with them vocal chops.

Oh! Weird in a good good way! The synths are lovely. Sounds like a mix between DVA and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

mikememo wrote:

wow, I love this!  reminds me a bit of Pogo

Was gonna say this as well, definitely has a bit of a Pogo vibe going on, it's a nice vibe. Absolutely wonderful tune, really lush and beautiful.

mikememo wrote:

wow, I love this!  reminds me a bit of Pogo

Parallelis wrote:
mikememo wrote:

wow, I love this!  reminds me a bit of Pogo

Was gonna say this as well, definitely has a bit of a Pogo vibe going on, it's a nice vibe. Absolutely wonderful tune, really lush and beautiful.

I'll take that Pogo comparison with a big smile.

cfurrow wrote:

This is ear candy. I love it

onezero wrote:

Major-key corrections seem to work the best. This is like lying on a beach and having your toes occasionally bathed by warm grains of speech sounds.

CosmicCairns wrote:

If robots could sing it might sound something like this.  Really awesome stuff.

LydiaPrimate wrote:

Really fun use of the vocals and the overall vibe is very nice

bc likes you wrote:

Hell yeah this rules. Great rhythmic consideration going on with them vocal chops.

??? wrote:

Oh! Weird in a good good way! The synths are lovely. Sounds like a mix between DVA and Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith.

Have to check them out. Thanks.

Thank you all for listening and commenting!

lovely and heartwarming. enjoyed every millisecond of it. did not find the link: how to punish children with english as a second language.

Q-Rosh wrote:

lovely and heartwarming. enjoyed every millisecond of it. did not find the link: how to punish children with english as a second language.

Danke sehr! That podcast was from 2015, so it's probably long gone (but still on my hard drive) ::)

Hypnotic and gives me some good mood... Don’t feel punished at all wink
That voice processing is surely one of your best!

Excellent soundworld... I like the twitchy progress with the chords, works nicely with the chopped voices.

Love how the vocals are human, but still not entirely human. And the chopping gives it a very cool rhythmic feel.
A strange topic for an english lesson put to good use here!

theGuen wrote:

Hypnotic and gives me some good mood... Don’t feel punished at all wink
That voice processing is surely one of your best!

Ashen Simian wrote:

Excellent soundworld... I like the twitchy progress with the chords, works nicely with the chopped voices.

Plantrain wrote:

Love how the vocals are human, but still not entirely human. And the chopping gives it a very cool rhythmic feel.
A strange topic for an english lesson put to good use here!

Thats what I love about language podcasts; they often deal with fairly bizarre material.

Thank you all for your comments!

Really cool use of the voices but those nice soft underlying pads fading in and out really bring it together.  Nice work!

Really warm vibe to this.  Like a pop record melting in the sun.  Maybe it's because of that I IV progression with the pop comfort hidden there subliminally.  Nice work.

really enjoyed this, love the back and forth between the chopped voice samples and those warm synth chords its like a dialogue

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