@amberwolf - When you create for yourself, who the hell cares what anyone else thinks?
I care because I would like my stuff to be heard. If I literally only made it just for myself, I wouldn't even put it up anywhere or let anyone else hear it.
Though I will still make it even if no one ever heard it, and anyone that did hated it, it's a lot less fun knowing those things, and rather pointless and depressing. (show me any artist that says they don't care what anyone thinks of their creations, and has no audience, or insufficient for their ego, and I bet you will find they are extremely unhappy, depressed, probably abusing some or several substances or other people or themselves, or have ended or will end their existence because of it).
If no one likes it no one will hear it.
If I don't know why anyone doesn't like it, or why anyone does like it, then I can't do anything to increase the chances more would like it and thus listen to it.
I already know almost no one hears it (the sites show how many listens I get, along with some very basic info on where the aggregate listens "came from" and how much of it they listened to--nothing like the detail YT shows), and I also know that most of the people that have given me feedback on any of my music over the decades were almost certainly lying to make me feel better about it when they told me it's great, because if they really thought it was great they'd be getting everyone else to listen to it, and lots of people would hear it.
There are probably a few that honestly like it, but I can't tell who these are.
Back when i made physical things (props, spaceships, drawings, 3D stuff, etc) it was easier to get some sort of feedback on those, because it might take seconds out of someone's day to "see" them, while sounds take minutes or more for them to hear and process, and it's pretty obvious from my daily interactions with the world that most people are not willing to spend any more time than they absolutely have to dealing with me or whatever I create (it took me a long time to realize this, but once I did my attitude toward the whole world began to change to what it is now that I know the reality).
Seems he experiments with noises, creating them over time and amassing a large collection, however using whatever the heck he uses (some noise making devices he makes himself), and then arranges the samples using a player, before programming or otherwise adding beats. On the other hand the video could be a red herring, and he could be doing it all within one particular DAW or DAWs, and holding out for paid sponsorship or something before revealing which DAW or DAWs he prefers and why?
I have created assorted sounds for various things, including percussive stuff, and sample-warped them in various ways. I did that much more back with my old Ensoniq ASR88 and EPS16+ keyboards than I have since then (but I also make far less music nowadays than I did then; not enough time or energy for it).
Nowadays I do just about all the warping in the computer, using whatever software happens to have a function I need. I don't usually build instruments with them anymore like I did in the Ensoniqs, just drop them as samples into the tracks and place, copy, and further manipulate them there as needed within a particular song.
The recording I used to do with decent to good mics, either directly into the Ensoniqs, or directly into the computer. Almost anything I do these days I record with the crappy celphone mic and then transfer the wav file via USB into the computer to process from there, just because it is FAR easier to do, and rarely do I need any quality better than that once they're warped and in the mix anyway.
Thought I recognised a drum rhythm similar to a particular artist's in one of your tracks, and a bassline similar to another artist's - what music do you listen to?
I would not listen to anything by anyone else if I could avoid it. It drives out what I have in my head, and what I've had to listen to over the decades has destroyed a fair bit of what I might have created if I hadn't.
At work I am forced to hear the repetitititititititititiive overhead music which varies among the decades from the 60s to presumably "now", with "themed" multi-hour "sets" repeating over and over, driving whatever was in my head out. (this is pretty much how it has been for me since I had to start working in retail in the mid 90s, and that's about when my musicmaking seriously began to decline, both because of that and because of my lack of sleep from the stress of that and other bad things accumulating in life)
When i was much younger, before I discovered the music in my head and not too much after that, I used to listen to whatever was on the radio (not purposefully, but because my family members always had to have such things playing, or other people I was around), so I am probably influenced by the sounds and whatnot of the time (the 1970s and 1980s).
Then I discovered a radio show called Musical StarStreams with "new age" music, with Ray Lynch and Yanni and Andreas Wollenweider, etc., and that I sometimes listened to on purpose myself. This influenced me enough that at some point I found enough used reel-to-reel machines (originally acquired to record what I played and edit it by splicing (which was more disaster than success)) to be able to use them for assorted effects (delays, flangers, phasers, choruses, though I had no idea these things were "actual" effects or what their names were, only that I was "inventing" ways to make my stuff sound more like some of the things like I had heard, more rhythmic and less totally boring to any listeners that might be around when I was playing.
There is also the music from whatever movies and tv shows I have seen, primarly scifi, primarily orchestral scores, that has influenced me; and the orchestral classical stuff my dad would sometimes play at full blast regardless of what anyone else wanted or needed (like everything else he did). The sound and style of orchestral stuff shaped how the music in my head sounded.
Whenever I listen to random tracks continuously for about 6 hours while doing other things, noting how the notes build tension - plateau - relax - break down etc. within melodies,
I can't really analyze music like that. (or stories, experiences, etc....) I just experience them. When working on music (or other art) I just do what "works" in that moment, with whatever changes I am capable of doing, playing things, editing them as midi or audio or whatever. I can't really truly plan out doing something; that never works out. I just have to work in the moment with what's going on, even if it is loosely based on a "plan".
Most plans I make come to nothing, either because some stage is impossible for me, or something is unavailable to me, or because my brain has changed and the plan no longer makes sense or else doesn't work with what's in there now, or because so much time passes between the plan and the implementation (usually because of time required in acquiring knowledge, skills, or stuff required to implement the plan).
Same thing for almost everytihng else I do, including communications; even life itself. I'm relatively good at improvising (whatever), and terrible at planning and designing and executing (anything I plan I then improvise upon as I attempt to execute; I can't help it as it is the way my deformed broken mind works).
and go to sleep but keep myself awake slightly to lucid dream... I dream of new tunes rhythms and melodies... which are difficult to remember when I fully wake up (or as fully as I'm capable of being awake). Still, they've been worth trying to emulate later, leading to new directions I would never have considered. I keep an audio recorder next to my bed, which contrary to all reasonable expectation is incapable of recording my thoughts, forcing me to whistle or hum the notes and tunes. Might buy a stylophone, and attempt to translate brain memory noises into annoying buzzy noises temporarily to record, before dream memory quickly fades.
I can't sing, write music, hum, whistle, etc., I can only attempt to use my fingers to play out the sounds in my head, and that doesn't work very well most of the time (far less well now than it used to as there is too much garbage in my head that gets in the way).
(Any "singing" you hear in my songs is assembled from usually many attempts on each word, sometimes sound by sound, just like my guitar playing often is; usually retuned manually by chopping it up into bits and pitch shifting as required. Sounds terrible if soloed, but is tolerable in a mix. )
I use lucid dreaming to solve all sorts of problems, very useful when my fully conscious mind hits an impasse. There's all sorts of weird shizz expressed when one lucid dreams, and it can throw up a good solution after you've been obsessed for days or weeks trying to solve a stubbornly unsolveable problem. Edison, Nikola Tesla, the director David Lynch... many people have lucid dreamt up stuff, using various methods of getting there. "Sleep on it", they say. I say "Sleep lightly on it".
I used to use lucid dreaming a lot for this, but I cannot really intentionally do so anymore, and haven't been able to for a long time. (again, starting after I went into retail, but getting much worse the last couple decades with all the losses and emotional traumas I have had that I simply don't have the luxury of working thru (I could only do that if I could *just* do things when I needed, wanted, etc. instead of having to deal with the world whenever it chooses to intrude on me, having to work, etc...and that will never be possible).
Occasionally I will manage to dream about something I intend to, but it will always always be interrupted by nightmares of various kinds, which happen during every sleep or nap I manage.
But my brain still does problem solving on it's own continuously, without conscious thought, and sometimes offers up a useful solution to one of these problems (technical, musical, etc.). So,
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