Entry for the October 2014 KVR One Synth Challenge Contest, featuring the VST plugin Synth 1.

Pulse Width Modulation - Looking Out Looking In

Music.
Technique.
Laboratory.
Experiments.

Welcome to my music page.  Here you'll find a variety of my music recordings, from ambient and guitar, to retro and electro.
Check out my Set pages to see my contest entries for KVRaudio.com's One Synth Challenge, or "Improvisations" for live recorded space music.

Music, Sound and Programming are old time passions. I'm posting various things here. Some recorded nearly 30 years ago, classical guitar with Roland D5 multi tracked with two tape decks.

Modular pieces are recorded live without editing ... pure impro and tweaking.

Aleatoric Journeys are generated programmatically with an application I'm working on. Output is a midi file.
The tracks are rendered in LMMS with free plugins.

Meditation tracks are produced with the current version of my application.
Midi file is now much more elaborate.
It's just rendered with timidity. Effects are added in audacity. It's based on a mutable sequence concept I'm working on.
The sequences are periodically mutating at a given frequency and level giving an ever changing sequence. For recent pieces the sequences can be set back to the original periodically and then will evolve again.


Meditation Three is another improvement in the process as all tracks are rendered individually, then mixed in audacity.

When creating this application I always tried to make things sound like they were actually played. The purpose for me is to be able to work at a concept level to capture the ideas before they go away and in a way try to compensate my ADH.

When I'm composing I carefully pick the right ensemble -electronic or acoustic- that will give me the perfect texture.  With the years I've developed my own style consisting in simple memorable phrases inside more complex orchestrations, plus attention to detail.  My main focus is EXPRESSION, knowing that the visuals set the action, while the music enhances the emotions of any game, film or circus act.  Yes, music for Performing Arts is also my big passion and objective.

I feel blessed of having my work praised on almost every project.  It's taking me some time but I'm glad to continue learning a bit every day, and I KNOW I´m getting there!  Hopefully you´ll like my tracks and I will be glad to read any comments.  Thanks for your time!

Sincerely
Renato Navarrete

Genres:
Symphonic, hard rock, electronic (industrial / ethno chillout / new age / 8-bit ), world (latino / pre-columbian)

Early influences:  Chopin, Thomas Dolby, John Williams, Jean-Michel Jarré, Jeff Wayne, Jorge Reyes...

Current influences:  Hans Zimmer, Infected Mushroom, Michael Giacchino, Benoît Jutras, Vince Dicola...

Fan of:  Amon Tobin, Henri Mancini, Antonio Zepeda

Lover of house, real deep house and hip hop since the late 80's.  Spinner of vinyl.  Producer of whatever's going through my head.

Pulse Width Modulation - Looking Out Looking In

Paul Mehlhaff