Usually I won't post early drafts of works in progress but today I'm so excited I can't contain myself and thus I have to share. Yesterday I had set aside for composing music, so I plopped down in my studio with a big cup of coffee, but before I started I checked out Phil Plaits blog and saw this amazing picture:


http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/06/mars-orbiter-catches-pic-of-curiosity-on-its-way-down/


Hopped up on caffeine with the picture in mind I started working and about 10 hours later I had come up with this:







It's so far a rough draft with few details and no fine fancy mixing so the sound is still a bit bland but I think what has come out so far has come out really well. I used Ableton Live Lite and 3 plugins to make this. Live Lite is very restricted with only 8 tracks but it is perfect for working on ideas because one is forced to keep it simple and focus on making the few elements as good as possible (as a matter of a fact most of the composing was done on post-it notes) There's actually only 42 bars of music in there but I doubled it up because I feel it's the kind of theme one usually wants to hear more than once. All the details and variations I will deal with later

Aw, that is a feel-good song!  I needed something upbeat like that!

  I would like to hear the piece, but it will not respond by clicking the play button.  Do I have to do something else to enter Soundcloud?
  Joelene

Quote from: Joelene9 on August 08, 2012, 12:00:11 AM
  I would like to hear the piece, but it will not respond by clicking the play button.  Do I have to do something else to enter Soundcloud?
  Joelene

No, all you should have to do is press play. Do you have another browser you can try?

Quote from: Maya Zimmerman on August 07, 2012, 08:59:14 PM
Aw, that is a feel-good song!  I needed something upbeat like that!

I'm glad you like it. Thanks for the favorite

Btw, I found your tracks on soundcloud. They are awesomely weird and wonderfully out of tune. I love it!

Quote from: MariaMx on August 08, 2012, 06:56:43 AM
No, all you should have to do is press play. Do you have another browser you can try?

Thanks, I got it in Chrome.  Nice start.
  Joelene

MarieMx, I enjoyed your musical tribute.

It reminded me of an earlier age:

The Ventures - TELSTAR

TELSTAR was among the first television/communications satellites.

Quote from: MariaMx on August 08, 2012, 12:35:32 PM
I'm glad you like it. Thanks for the favorite

Btw, I found your tracks on soundcloud. They are awesomely weird and wonderfully out of tune. I love it!

Thanks!  Of course, I had to favorite it so it will play when I'm listening to my favorites.