I've recently joined the @8dio.productions / @Soundpaint demo team. It's a real honour to have been chosen as a composer for this role, especially as there were so many applicants for the opening. 

I wrote Per Ardua Ad Astra as a demonstration piece for the beautiful textures and ambience included in the new sample library Ad Astra Ambiences by Soundpaint.

Ad Astra Ambiences is a free library, so if you'd like to write something using these textures, head over to the Soundpaint website and download a copy. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this piece.

Per Ardua Ad Astra

Another Soundpaint only track.

1) Upright: Soundpaint Broadwell Piano
2) Strings: Soundpaint Adastra Ensemble Strings
3) Sax: Soundpaint Baritone Saxophone

Reverbs:

Instrument spatialization: IRCAM Spat
Liquidsonics Seventh Heaven on strings
Relab Development QuadX on sax
Eventide SP2016 on upright
Audiority Ursa Major Space Station on stereo bus

A Sad Thought

The unsettling space between light and dark.  An exploration of sound design and a temporary departure from using orchestral instruments.

The Space Between - Demo for Soundpaint Dunescape

OK. I've reverted to unmastered file... In my opinion that what automatic mastering done was horrible... Nevertheless, you can listen to it here and form your own opinion:
https://on.soundcloud.com/4FZJcJWpyocL1aPx7

No A.I. involved. Only me, keyboard, recently bought sustain pedal, free Soundpaint Piano with built-in shimmer reverb, some compression and Ozone 9 Elements on master channel set to jazz.

Little theme I've conceived on evening May 27th after watching the last episode of "The Devil's Hour". Simple melody and chords... a draft. Let's say it's a version 0.5 ;) Half improvisation, half interpretation of something that came to my head 30 minutes earlier. Lots of hesitation, a bit mistakes, two edited notes on ending of first part... and the double ending ;) I'm still human, and a bad keyboard player ;) Recorded in one take.

Picture in thumbnail from Freepik
https://pl.freepik.com/autor/freepik

The Longing

The Longing (Unmastered)

For all lovers of bees and other pollinators, esential beings.
Para todos los amantes de las abejas y otros polinizadores, seres imprescindibles.

Careful With That Stinger Eugene

Soundpaint have just launched sampled guitar plugin called Instant Acoustic. There are a lot of strumming patterns and arp settings, but for this, I concentrated on a solo setting and another solo setting that incorporated some synth sound. The recording took about 10 minutes in total.
As we are experiending some rather windy weather today, I have called the track "Windswept" and included a photo of the beach, taken during lockdown.

Windswept

I started this track with an atonal vocal effect that drifted between tones. This created an ambient noise bed that I then layered tonal sounds on top of, creating an unsettling chill groove. From there, I sent the track to Brian Nutwell to add his signature guitar work to, while I worked on some synth solos that might work. His guitar tracks came back and I did my usual re-amping and rearranging of the parts to end up with what you hear here - ambient rock?, heavy chill?. You decide.

Technical details:
Atonal vocals - Francesca by Soundpaint
Drums & Percussion - Deep Pool & Shimmer, Shake, Strike by In Session Audio
Synth pad - Pigments by Arturia
Bass - Studio bass by Logic Pro X AI
Waterphone - Imogen Heap Box of Tricks by Soniccouture
Guitars - Brian Nutwell
Lead synth - Pro Soloist by Cherry Audio
Everything but guitar, written, arranged, produced, mixed and mastered - Unbard Gates

Soundpaint referral link: https://soundpaint.refr.cc/default/u/greggd?s=sp&t=cp

The Key

The Key (featuring Brian Nutwell)

The Tunnel Of Light

Here is a chord progression I've been playing and developing for quite some time. I applied it with a slow tempo and analog ambient sounds to establish the base of the tune. I then added solos over the progression, including a wonderful flugelhorn sample from Soundpaint for the first solo. Finally, I thought this one needed a real signature/icing on the cake final solo, so I brought in my good friend, Brian Nutwell to add guitar to take the song out. I think the results speak for themselves.

Technical details:
Rhythm track - Deep Pool by In Session Audio
Base pad - Model 15 by Moog
Secondary pad & string pad - OP-Xa & Solina by Arturia
Bass - Session Player by LogicX
Flugelhorn & whispers - Flugelhorn & Barbary by Soundpaint
2nd Lead - Ethereal Lead by Unify
Guitar - Brian Nutwell
Written, arranged, engineered, produced, mixed and mastered by Unbard Gates

Soundpaint referral link: https://soundpaint.refr.cc/default/u/greggd?s=sp&t=cp

Dreams That Sleep

Dreams That Sleep (featuring Brian Nutwell)

This track is quoted from the album 'Persistent Change'.
In order to listen to all tracks of the album, you are required to become a subscriber on bandcamp.

https://gallerysix.bandcamp.com/album/persistent-change

粘り気のある毎日の中で 
変わらず光り輝く真緑の苔 
その瑞々しさは生気そのもので 
瞼を閉じてなお 
静かな息遣いが聞こえてくる 

In the midst of persistence every day 
Blue-green moss shining brightly as ever 
Its freshness is the very life 
Even eyelids closed and still 
Quiet breathing can be heard

All tracks are produced by Hidekazu Imashige 
Cover Photo by Hidekazu Imashige

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Books and A Quiet Room

I had something inside that must fly free.
NeoClassical
Modern Classical
Soundtrack
OST
BSO
Not Quite Classical
And ….  Prog rock. 

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I do not support the use of generative AI in music creation. I will not support people who use such technologies nor will I use them. The two songs I posted only serve to raise awareness of the existence of such technologies and as a warning.

At the beginning I would like to sincerely apologize that I am responding to comments late and I am sometimes unable to keep up with listening to your work, but I still work full-time in a profession that has absolutely nothing to do with music and I have my duties towards family and home.

To everyone who flew into my corner on SoundCloud: I am grateful for your support with likes, shares and thank you for the great comments. Please don't hesitate to suggest changes to my music in them. Thanks to this, the next songs will be better and better.

All my music is MIDI (except some drum loops), played/created by me and edited in Ableton Live.

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Born in 1970. Music fan since 1985. Now heaving fun with making music. I'm self-taught, playing everything by ear. Started in 1990's but due to certain circumstances left in 1998 until April 2022. My music is created in Ableton Live 11 Intro (until december 2022) and 11 Standard with mostly free plug-ins. Fan of soundtracks (my personal heros are John Williams, Clint Mansell, Philip Glass, Thomas Newman, Hans Zimmer and much more), world music (Dead Can Dance), chillout (Bent, Zero7, Groove Armada, St. Germain, Air, Röyksopp, Kosheen and more), trip-hop (Massive Attack, Portishead), acid jazz (Us 3), fusion (Pat Metheny Group, Dirty Loops), progressive rock (Porcupine Tree), classical (Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Debussy, Orff, Mussorgsky) electronica (Imogen Heap), IDM/House (Moderat, Apparat, Plaid) and electronic music (Vangelis, Kraftwerk, Isao Tomita, Marek Biliński, J.J. Jarre).

Still learning how to produce music.

Home recordist playing anything. Live bass player.

Greetings, my name is Joff. I’m a musician, composer, professional daydreamer and passionate advocate of the arts, smitten by making music for games.

I am also a founding member of the post-progressive band Sanguine Hum.

20-Mar-25
AU REVOIR
I joined SoundCloud in January 2010, the same time I took delivery of my hand-made Harrison Custom Merlin guitar. I have been paying a full subscription since then. Each year, when renewal time comes around, I weigh up whether I should continue paying for an ever diminishing set of tools. Nothing works now: stats (insights) don't add up; I am not informed of likes or comments to any track more than a few months old; the total stats only go back a few years - the first ten years or so don't count.
The platform, over the years, has changed from being musician oriented to listener oriented: in other words, a Spotify wannabe. The final push for me came this week, when, for the first time in sixteen years, my subscription charge was increased by 25%, so I have pulled the plug.
I have decided that I want to move to YouTube and post music with images and maybe animation, if I can figure out how to do it.
As a start, I have posted this - https://youtu.be/-lu0-L_zNHc .

Producer of electronic, ambient and experimental music from the North coast of Italy. Subscribe to the channel, like, share. Thank you. 

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