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Yes ... this would probably be great on a loop to induce sleep, don't fight it - get your rest.

@@ludl01 A little more sleep, a little more sane, and I'm appreciating this more today. The buildup to that first bass note is great, sparse outlines of chords with just the right amount of spice to give it a proper modern cinematic feel. Yep, enjoying those textural variations much more today. Excellent work.

@@Bills_Place I am particularly happy with the bass part which grounds everything and keeps the music from floating away on its own air. Thanks for taking the time to listen again.

I started using the Milkdrop visualizer in WinAmp. I captured the visualization and then I passed it through a program called Magic I've had for a couple of years to create the kaleidoscope.

Looked at some chord groupings around examples of some music by Bach. Seemed to be a pattern of chord types and so the piano part came about. Getting the voices to work was a little more difficult than I thought, but seems like they do.

@@ludl01 Wise. :) When it comes to harmonization, voice leading, and multiple melody lines Bach is the gold standard to be certain.

On Soundclick in Speak Words Speak, I call this music "Free the Tiger" … but with this video it seemed right to change the name to "Warning Signs".

Actually this music is from a different video I once put up. I purchased a very good video visualizing program called Luminant Music (which I might recommend to you). The Pro / Ultimate edition is only $60. I was working on some videos, but had a few problems. I messaged the developers on Facebook (they have a page there) and got immediate responses. This piece was created as I was working on the controls for the program. I liked this outcome very much but felt the upper left sections of the video needed something which then caused me to write the text and use Sony's Movie Studio Platinum to lay out the text. In the previous video I posted you see the balloons, fish and butterflies which represent 3 scene types that come with the software … in the pro version there are 90 scenes to choose from and you get great control of camera angles and movement speed / timing. Since this is visualizing software, it is built to react to the music you choose which automatically controls the lights. You can modify the lighting to the extent that you can change the colors and backgrounds of many of the scenes. The program generates video in "webm" format, but they have instructions to download an open source encoder to generate "mp4" format. This is very easy to install because you simply take the encoder exe file and a txt file Luminant provides and drop them into a specific Luminant folder (just that simple). Rendering can take a while even with a fairly powerful pc (hmmm …. one to two hours maybe for 4 minutes at 1920 x 1080 high quality). You can generate at low quality and lower resolution to test your work + you can run an instant viewing on the camera movement for each scene you want to generate. All movement parms are separate for each scene. Really some great software for a fairly low price. I also would recommend a video converter program called "Any Video Converter" which will take an amazing number of files in one format and convert them to many others.

@@ludl01 Great info, THANK YOU! I'll have to write that software name somewhere, money is tied up with the poorly timed arrival of a second empty powered modular box from Germany. :)

@@Bills_Place Ouch, empty box???? :(

@@ludl01 The good kind of empty - a powered box to house more synth modules

@@Bills_Place OHHHHHH. Yeah good.

Better than a dose of something else for sure.

Glad you noticed about the bass … the main target of my post processing was to bring them out.

I am not sure if you remember, but Densyl was trying to create songs without the standard song format of aababab. He did a series of songs like that and usually very successful in that form.

@@ludl01 Didn't know it was a specific goal, but I appreciate that drive. Music never evolves if we just keep doing the same old same old. :)

@@Bills_PlaceThat might be what shaped the form of the lyrics and vocal, I had to fit music that was already in formed while making the theme and message seem to fit naturally.

Kind of forgot all about this song. Also, the story associated with it of a surprise when I returned to the forum to find it was all done and so well. I do miss the regulars that hung on for quite a while.

Thanks $Bill. I'm pleased that you picked up right on the point of the graphic collage. The "space" is actually internal. There are memories and then fragments that are all mixed together where they all influence each other being almost inextricable. All this going on while you carry on each day.

Thanks Jude. I really miss the Coconut Blues Challenge which always stimulated the creative process. Stop by the Showcase anytime you want to let your old fans hear some of your music.