A Lover's Lunch

it isn't my speakers. I checked. is there a random distortion/clipping on the keyboards?

Yes there is. It's intentional and done by using a vocal pitchshifter which cannot cope with the wide sounds of the piano. It's the same as with 'Exit Love', but there it starts clean and gets messed up as the song progress (as does the drum there, it falls out of sync slowly). The sound is vital and cannot be done cleanly for both these songs without losing what it is about. The drums here are also through a fat fuzzpedal and with noise/cracks added.

thanks for the info. I understand the concept, but my ears find it uncomfortable.

Heh, that's a discussion I have with my pianoteacher every month: I don't think music should always be pleasant or the experience be enjoyable, just like not every painting should be 'pretty'. He thoroughly disagrees and feels that music that is not pleasing to the ear should not be performed or recorded. It's an interesting discussion for sure. Anyway, thanks for giving your honest opinion! Maybe not what I want to hear but definitely what I should hear. :lol:

Interesting and I have to agree with your piano teacher LOL My angle would be the one of distraction in that when I listen to music, if there is the sound of scratch or or anything that effects the sound negatively; then I focus more on the defect than I do the music.

FX's are great but the need to add to and not subtract in my opinion but that's just me. Bottom line there is something hauntingly attractive about this track. Like to hear the cleaned up version like a before and after just to compair them.

As always an original and that my friend is something I really appreciate.

Gerry

Hey,
Was just perusin' Hear Here lookin' for something different to listen to....
Guess I came to the right place!!!! :D

Reading the lyrics, I thought; has Arjen made a 'Normal' song???? :shock:
Ha! You didn't let me down Bro!!!! 8)

As it first came on... Very pleasant.
Then the lyrics came....
Still, I closed my eyes, sat back and relaxed....

At first, it struck me as a sort of Negative Utopian Brainwashing program!

As I got deeper into it, I had this perverse feeling of being on the table watching the pretty images on the screen as I 'gave' my life in 'Soylent Green'!

And I had a good laugh as the line - There's no such thing as a Free Lunch - was repeated :P

A good time....

Thankx Arjen!

Ken

Gerry: I think that in a way I'm not so much a musician but more a 'soundician'. If a picture can say more then a thousand words then some sounds can say more then a thousand notes: footsteps in an dark corridor, crying people, a marching platoon, they all say so much in so little time. The same I try to apply to the instruments: chopin on a CD sounds so different then Chopin on an old rundown vinyl record. Neither is better then the other but the 'feeling' is just different. I'll upload a 'clean' version tomorrow so you can compare the two.

Btw: one of my favourite tunes: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBDsNiCCNM

Ken: Thanks, glad you liked it. 8)

*sigh*
*cough*
Okay, I've been doing some things and it does seem to be that change is needed. :oops: I've now have the piano start clean and gets glitchy as the beat takes over. It only gets noticeble after the beat stops, the final seconds. This way the 'feeling' of the broken sound is still there but during the spoken word bits the piano is clean and less distracting.

Thanks for the usefull critiques folks!