(I wonder when @DSound comes back online.)
I am such a nerd...
As soon as I find something interesting, I need to try it out.
This time it was the digital audio workstation, or "DAW" called LMMS. Yeah, I have tried it out a couple of times before, but never have I done anything worthwile on it. At least not something I would ever post online.
Anyway. I have been listening to Leo practice his piano studies while we have all been confined from our friends and relatives for about a year now, and I've been thinking I am absolutely jealous at the fact that he can learn something that I can probably never do, that is to play the piano.
I used to study music when I was a wee laddie and in school. 30 and some odd years ago. I never took hang of the theory part, but I for sure liked singing. I attended the school choir.
Later when I was deciding which high school to take, I was having a depression, and music didn't feel my forté, so I chose a school with a visual arts programme.
So since then I haven't had anything to do with music, other than occasionally listen, and in my later years starting to play the recorder again (badly).
Latey I have taken an interest in watching educational videos of the musical kind from people like Adam Neely, Charles Cornell, and others. And while I really don't agree particularly with Adams views about music theory having anything to do with white supremacy, I have still learned quite a lot of things about music from him, and for that I am very thankful.
From Adam's and others' videos I have learned, that there are different modes of music, and they all have to do with the interpretation of the music. Yep, I didn't understand much of it, but it was really exiting stuff.
Did you know, that all the different modes aren't really that difficult?
But after I watched that video, and having earlier seen one by Adam Neely (and others) about the exact same subject, I just had to try it out.
After learning something exciting and new, I want to try it out. That's why I got into photography, playing go, and I even tried out coding.
Anyhow. I wanted to create something in the locrian mode. Something that actually resembles something that one might call music.
With my bad skills with DAW's like LMMS, and shoddy knowledge of music theory I didn't believe I'd ever get anywhere. But in the end, I did end up creating something.
Here it is:
Visuals are from a Linux app called projectM, you can also find and install it from the Steam gamestore
The project file for the song can be found on the LMMS Sharing Platform under the Creative Commons Attribution license.
You tell me.
