A radio segment from 1995 about ambient music, featuring guest Richard D. James (Aphex) reacting to some ambient pieces by other artists. Great listen!
sábado, 30 de setembro de 2017
Polygon City featured on "#Oscillator 6"
My ambient music project, Polygon City, was aired on a portuguese radio, on a segment of ambient music! 4 weeks ago, it seems. I was stunned. =) Here's the full segment from MixCloud. It's called "Oscillator" and features a lot of other ambient music from very cool people:
The 2 tracks are "Synesthesia", a small experimental melody made manipulating a sinewave on a html5 browser app, and then sampling it on Renoise. The other is "Occlusion", a percussive melodic piece, very muddy and buried in reverbs and delays.
The naming of all the tracks from the EP come from terms used in game development, specifically associated with the engine Unity, where I make most of my games.
You can find the two tracks featured here on my POLYGON CITY bandcamp page. Check it out! =)
Also here's the 2 tracks cut from the mix, as presented by the radio host:
The 2 tracks are "Synesthesia", a small experimental melody made manipulating a sinewave on a html5 browser app, and then sampling it on Renoise. The other is "Occlusion", a percussive melodic piece, very muddy and buried in reverbs and delays.
The naming of all the tracks from the EP come from terms used in game development, specifically associated with the engine Unity, where I make most of my games.
You can find the two tracks featured here on my POLYGON CITY bandcamp page. Check it out! =)
Also here's the 2 tracks cut from the mix, as presented by the radio host:
Thanks Oscillator! Obrigado =)
#3 - "En Route" [30/09/2017] - breakcore, ambient
TITLE: En Route
GENRE: Breakcore, Ambient
Made with Renoise 3 and some glitch plugins added to the drums. I really really like this track. I love the pianos on this thing. The percussion just wows me as well. But it's an old track from this month. I had it on my phone, unmastered and everything, and I was just finishing a jog of 2 hours in the wilderness when this played and I was really glad with the track. Hope you like it as well. Reminds me of ZiggomaticV17, of Aphex Twin.
sexta-feira, 29 de setembro de 2017
#2 - "Sinewave T-2" (29/09/17)
TITLE: Sinewave T-2
GENRE: Ambient, Chillwave
Made with Renoise 3. Has a chillwave vibe to it. I added lots of drum layers to it. Feels very filled overall. I really like how all the textures blend in. Hope you enjoy it!
GENRE: Ambient, Chillwave
Made with Renoise 3. Has a chillwave vibe to it. I added lots of drum layers to it. Feels very filled overall. I really like how all the textures blend in. Hope you enjoy it!
quinta-feira, 28 de setembro de 2017
#1 - "Whitesmith" (28/09/17)
TITLE: Whitesmith
GENRE: Ambient, Chillwave
Made with Renoise 2.8 somewhere around April 2017, before my trip to Ireland. One of my favorite ambient works, very inspired by "Weathered Stone", by Aphex Twin, from his "Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2" album.
And remastered now, september 2017. =)
Hope you enjoy!
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And here's the "Weathered Stone" track from Aphex:
Electronic Music Lover
WELCOME, my dudes and dudas!
This is André Fernandes. That's a portuguese name right there. And so it happens that I am from Portugal, a very beautiful and very shy country, nested in the heart of the atlantic. A country filled with a long history (over 1000 years of history, man. that's no small feat), amazing poetry and very unique art over all. If you need proof of our talent for the arts, just go to Lisbon and you'll see how unique (and picturesque at times, in that uniqueness) our culture is.
But anyway, I'll go over how great and peaceful it is to live in Portugal (and Lisbon) in other future posts =) I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know what this space is for.
So I'm a Video Game Development graduate student. I've been making games since 2008, when I was 14. I used RPG Maker until fairly recent, when in 2014 I switched to Unity, and learned how to code and make 3d art. This days, I do everything by myself. I'm both a programmer and a 3D modeller, and you can check out my games here.
And check my college projects right here, in this showreel, featuring Aphex Twin's brutally beautiful "Xtal":
My love for electronic music is fairly recent. I only started to listen to the genre in April of 2016, when I found the "Richard D. James Album" on Youtube and listened to it all. It blew my mind completely. A few months later, in August of the same year, I downloaded Renoise 2.8.0 and I have been making music in it every day since then.
So I set up this space for my musical works, but also to talk a bit about electronic music in general and my favorite artists, and also to post about new artists and music I came across on the interwebz.
I'm also taking this space to set up my "A Track A Day" challenge, where I will post an original track of mine every day (or as close to that mark as humanly possible), starting 28th of September 2017 , hopefully running until 28th September 2018 . It's quite a commitment, but I'll try to stick to it.
I'll be posting all things about electronic music, starting now! Be sure to check on this space regularly.
If you have a track you'd like to send me, hit me up at: polygoncitymusic@gmail.com | Same if you want the Renoise files for any of my tracks (you'll need Renoise 3.1 to open the mid files).
Thank you for your attention! See you in a bit!
This is André Fernandes. That's a portuguese name right there. And so it happens that I am from Portugal, a very beautiful and very shy country, nested in the heart of the atlantic. A country filled with a long history (over 1000 years of history, man. that's no small feat), amazing poetry and very unique art over all. If you need proof of our talent for the arts, just go to Lisbon and you'll see how unique (and picturesque at times, in that uniqueness) our culture is.
2015. Lisbon. Castelo de São Jorge in the distance.
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2014. Before electronic music, I used to play a lot of guitar. I don't play much these days.
But anyway, I'll go over how great and peaceful it is to live in Portugal (and Lisbon) in other future posts =) I just wanted to introduce myself and let you know what this space is for.
So I'm a Video Game Development graduate student. I've been making games since 2008, when I was 14. I used RPG Maker until fairly recent, when in 2014 I switched to Unity, and learned how to code and make 3d art. This days, I do everything by myself. I'm both a programmer and a 3D modeller, and you can check out my games here.
And check my college projects right here, in this showreel, featuring Aphex Twin's brutally beautiful "Xtal":
My love for electronic music is fairly recent. I only started to listen to the genre in April of 2016, when I found the "Richard D. James Album" on Youtube and listened to it all. It blew my mind completely. A few months later, in August of the same year, I downloaded Renoise 2.8.0 and I have been making music in it every day since then.
Aphex Twin - RICHARD D. JAMES ALBUM | This album blew my mind the first time I heard it.
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Renoise 3 | Best thing since sliced bread.
So I set up this space for my musical works, but also to talk a bit about electronic music in general and my favorite artists, and also to post about new artists and music I came across on the interwebz.
I'm also taking this space to set up my "A Track A Day" challenge, where I will post an original track of mine every day (or as close to that mark as humanly possible), starting 28th of September 2017 , hopefully running until 28th September 2018 . It's quite a commitment, but I'll try to stick to it.
I'll be posting all things about electronic music, starting now! Be sure to check on this space regularly.
If you have a track you'd like to send me, hit me up at: polygoncitymusic@gmail.com | Same if you want the Renoise files for any of my tracks (you'll need Renoise 3.1 to open the mid files).
Thank you for your attention! See you in a bit!
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