barryvan

Tag: Music

  • Can’t get through

    Can’t get through

  • Not enough to feel

    Not enough to feel

  • Roads that lead apart

    Roads that lead apart

  • Tribulation

    Tribulation

    A lot of my songs recently have been about mental health, anxiety, and depression. This song explores what it feels like to be “trapped by your own mind” — when you feel as though you’re your own enemy, and have to fight against yourself to just get through the day.

  • [Music] Lament

    About a month ago, I was playing around on the piano, and I came up with a fragment of melody that I couldn’t get out of my head. I played with it, twisting it around, pushing it in different directions, seeing what I could do with it. Ultimately, I turned it into a full piece of music, and this is the result.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Lament.mp3]

    Like this track? Buy it at thesixtyone, and help feed an impoverished (well, not really) programmer.

    You can also listen to one of the (early) improvisations I played on this theme by downloading the recording I made on my phone here.

  • Komplete

    I am so excited, I’m giggling like a schoolgirl. I just unwrapped a package that I received from Germany: Native Instruments’ Komplete. It’s installing now.

    In the (large and encouragingly heavy) box, I found the following exciting items:

    1. Eight (yes, eight!) DVDs full of awesomeness
    2. Seven hefty printed manuals (in a boxed seat, no less)
    3. Four large (5″x1″) ‘Native Instruments’ stickers
    4. Ten small (2.5″x0.5″) ‘Native Instruments’ stickers
    5. A neck clip thing, with a very shiny stainless steel clip and detacher thinggy

    In terms of software, Komplete means that my Native Instruments collection now comprises

    • Kontakt 2
    • Kontakt 3
    • Kontakt 4
    • Battery 3
    • Guitar Rig
    • FM8
    • Reaktor
    • Massive
    • Absynth

    I am SO EXCITED!!!

  • Terminal

    My first track in quite a while. :/ This one is a bit of a different from my usual stuff (although I tend to say that a lot nowadays… Hmm…). Not quite sure why I had such a long hiatus, but hopefully this track spells the end of it. We’ll see.

    I made use of some of the samples that my friends at ModPlug Central gave me for a wedding present, as well as mutilating some of my other sample libraries.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Terminal.mp3]

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  • Dauntless

    As you might have noticed, if you listen to much of my orchestral music, I really like writing epic, syncopated scores with great big horn melodies (and little flute ones) that float above rapid, percussive strings and brass. Well, here’s another example of that. 🙂

    This piece is a rondo in D minor. Let me know what you think!

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Dauntless.mp3]

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  • Songpack #1

    [Download archive]

    I’ve uploaded an archive of my music for easier download. This archive currently contains eighteen tracks, eight of which are no longer available anywhere else! The tracks included in this pack are:

    I may well create other ‘songpacks’ for download, so keep checking back. There’ll always be a couple of exclusive tracks in each pack, so it’ll be worth your while. I hope. 🙂

    Download all eighteen tracks now!

  • Clockwork

    This track is rather unusual for me; it doesn’t really fall into any of my usual styles. I personally find it quite relaxing, especially when I listen to it with headphones. Perhaps it’s a bit too relaxing: my wife had to go and have a nap after she heard the complete piece. 🙂

    Let me know what you think about it — any and all opinions are, as always, more than welcome.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/Clockwork.mp3]

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  • Just to say

    I would die a thousand times,
    cross the deserts, tear the skies;
    oh I would do it all

    I would do it all for you
    just to say that I love you,
    that I love you.

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/JustToSay.mp3]

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  • Twelve Nineteen

    This one’s actually been sitting on my computer for a month or so now — I just haven’t been able to render it to wave, because my system just wasn’t fast enough. Today, though, I got a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM, and everything just purrs along, barely touching the processor. Very Happy

    Anyway, about the music itself. This piece is basically me having fun with Kontakt — each of the eight instruments has fairly complex insert effect chains, a couple of send effects, and a couple of modulated group inserts, too. Smile Basically, lots of effects, for some nice sound degradation.

    Because I’m still not a fan of OpenMPT’s automation handling, I managed to find a nice little workaround, that I used on a couple of instruments: I modulate various effects using the MIDI volume. This means that working with the modulation is much more immediate, and it also means that I can modulate a couple of different effects simultaneously completely independently.

    The piece is, hopefully, quite fun to listen to — it was definitely fun to write. Let me know what you think!

    [audio:http://www.barryvan.com.au/music/TwelveNineteen.mp3]

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