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Prometheus

By Plantrain on July 29, 2016 8:05 am

This week I wanted to do a piece where the idea was that I would record different tones separately and gradually merge them into a chord. I decided on the Mystic chord, also called the Prometheus chord (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystic_chord).
When I started working on I felt it sounded better if I introduced some more movement into it, so although all the notes are from the chord, the oscillations and dynamics makes it a slightly different piece than I originally intended.

Oscillating tones and the opening tone are played on the DSI Mopho, the high pitched voices are from an Absynth patch.

If I had more time and a suitable sample library available it would have been fun to do this with orchestral instruments, maybe some other time.

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Ahh lovely tune smile

Nice.  And thanks for the Wikipedia link.  I like learning stuff.

I, too, learned something new.  And I dig those oscillations. 

I definitely can see (hear?) this as a piece for full orchestra!

ebb and flow

Really cool oscillations and yay for learning new chords! smile

m2K7 wrote:

Ahh lovely tune smile

Edmund Snyder wrote:

Nice.  And thanks for the Wikipedia link.  I like learning stuff.

CosmicCairns wrote:

I, too, learned something new.  And I dig those oscillations.

Jim Wood wrote:

I definitely can see (hear?) this as a piece for full orchestra!

george bowles wrote:

ebb and flow

Tone Matrix wrote:

Really cool oscillations and yay for learning new chords! smile

Thank you for all your kind comments!

Awesome track!  Haven't heard of this chord before.  An interesting harmonic structure.  Sounds great.  I might try a similar concept with the modular.  Nice work!

rdomain wrote:

Awesome track!  Haven't heard of this chord before.  An interesting harmonic structure.  Sounds great.  I might try a similar concept with the modular.  Nice work!


Thank you! This was a very interesting concept to explore, and as the track turned out different from what I originally imagined, I might try it again some other time myself to see what happens then.

Great sounds, I'm glad I learned about this! What a grand name, the "Mystic chord"

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