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NG-Xp is experimental music created by naldo & guillaume
https://soundcloud.com/naldeau/tracks
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Musician/Composer/Sound Designer/Producer
Owner/Operator of Sound Source Fundamentals

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
-Albert Einstein

War broke our lives to BEFORE and AFTER its start... Russian aggression has no boundaries, it's Universal. Our house happened to be on the war front line so our family had to leave behind our home and escape just to save our lives. We had spent 8 days in hell being under Russian missiles and bombs...
 In my "previous" life I used to create music and still have got some unreleased works.
 All the tracks are played, recorded and mixed on Yamaha Clavinova CVP505 without using any software.
Now I have no piano, no more chance to record music. The only sense of life is to survive. If you're Russian please don't follow me. We have nothing in common anymore. We'll never forgive you this disgusting bloody war against Ukrainian children. Each of you is GUILTY. 
  Any support from musical friends would be much appreciated on www.patreon.com/syntaleta and now you can PayPal me to to_scorpiette@yahoo.com
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Please follow Syntaleta on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NGoMdnTju2t25gnnnFPoD, YT and YT Music where you can listen for free to the 3 albums in a good quality. 
"A Distant Star" 2016
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nVPUPCq3T4atZr6lBZZGT3STqbih5nk_o
"In Solitude" 2017
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lacFkqQrvuZBYbwsGhXZ_8LPrx9k3nbfA
"Flying in the Dream" 2020
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mF15v_U9hJoVv07vk6sfIo72ljSwDQzbg&app=desktop
A huge thank you to Patreon supporters!

Main account:
 https://soundcloud.com/syntaleta
Follow me on www.patreon.com/syntaleta to have my support and show yours!
Free listening to my albums:
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I am a composer and producer of instrumental music in several genres, including ambient soundscapes, electronica, orchestral and chamber music.  

Musical influences include John Coltrane, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Tangerine Dream, Robert Prince, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Heinrich Ignaz, Franz von Biber.

My Method of Composing and Producing
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I'm sharing my method of composing and producing music recordings in case other composer-producers like me might find ideas worth exploring in their own work. I use this method for Classical, Avant-Pop or Neo-Folk Instrumental genres, not for Ambient and Soundscape pieces. Non-composers might find this explanation interesting, but having a bit of music theory background will definitely help. I consider myself a humble learner when it comes to music theory. 

I owe a debt of gratitude to British musician and educator Gareth Green, whose Music Matters online courses and free YouTube lessons have taught me so much over the past few years. Thanks to his instruction, I’ve moved from struggling to compose music by trial and error to something more enjoyable and productive. The knowledge I've gained has taken my work in new and expanding directions. As the saying goes, “Theory is not a cage — it’s a map. It doesn’t make the journey for you, but it keeps you from getting lost.” 

When I start a new piece, I begin by choosing a key, and picking a scale drawn from one of these sources:
 
1) Western Tonal / Functional Harmony - major or minor chords I II III IV V VI VII
2) Modal Harmony - Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, etc.
3) Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns" 
4) Messiaen’s "Seven Modes of Limited Transposition" 

For many pieces, I also decide on a progression, one as a simple as I IV V, or something more elaborate.  

Next I create a "scales and progressions" piano track in my DAW (digital audio workstation software) and enter the chords I to VII in my chosen key. These harmonized scales serve as a basis for writing multipart harmonies and finding pivot chords for key modulations. 

At the start, I know what instruments I want to use, making adjustments along the way. I tend to write chord parts first, then melodies created through a mix of improvisation and direct input in the DAW. Sometimes I start with a melody.

I develop melodies and variations of a phrase by some combination of: a) passing it from one instrument to another, transposing it by an interval that sounds pleasing, b) reversing it, c) inverting it around the tonic (first) note of the scale. These are well-known methods. 

After completing a section, I choose another scale and maybe a new key and repeat the process until I have a draft of the entire piece. Then I export a recording and listen to it “offline”, take notes of errors and new ideas, and incorporate them back into the piece. Often this “compose / listen / compose” cycle is repeated many times. These iterative cycles include adding new ideas, polishing transitions between sections, changing the arrangement, and incorporating expressive details like accents, and articulations (staccato, sustain, portato etc.). I’m often working several different pieces at once. 

Last is mixing and mastering: balancing the loudness between instruments and adjusting elements like reverb, compression, and equalization. I tend to mix as I compose, even though many producers frown on that approach. I find mixing as I go helps me envision the completed piece and make adjustments to the choice of instruments; it self-inspires me when the piece is starting to sound good.  At the end I do a final mix, but as the saying goes, “A mix is never finished — it’s surrendered.”

In the end, this method gives me a basis for exploration and creativity and helps me stay focused. The goal is always to make a piece of music that feels expressive, cohesive, and emotionally resonant.

Main account https://soundcloud.com/syntaleta/tracks. Please follow me on www.patreon.com/syntaleta to have my support and show yours!

Let the music tell you a story...
and make it your own.         ☯️

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All Tracks  written and produced by
Me, myself and eye.

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Tim Paul is a solo piano performer today but was a member of several bands in the 70s and 80s including "The Four of Us" and "Crossroads". Tim also performed as a Ballpark Organist for the Quad City Cubs and the Clinton Dodgers for several years. He is also checked off a bucket list item playing the Wrigley Field Organ post game in August of 2022 first of Chicago Cubs Organist John Benedeck. Now he is one of the Owners at PIano Trends Music Company with his wife Bobbi Paul and he serves as  Board President at Raue Center for the Arts. Tim hosts a daily Livestream on Facebook called Lifting Spirits through Music performing on his Baldwin Blue Grand piano live on Lifting Spirits, many times with special musical guests and guest hosts when Tim is off. check out the group page
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Lifelong keyboard player and composer and synth programmer. Perhaps, I hear things just a little differently...

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Bobby Nelson