So, Tropers can do music too, right?

I tried to emulate Arca's sound, but failed. It was pretty fun to make though

https://soundcloud.com/strigidaw/black-sclera

New album out called Selfdiagnosedmasculinity. A lot of lo-fi, post-rock, and singer-songwriter on here.

An experiment in improvising on instruments I don't know how to play, then trying to make the results semi-musical-sounding via looping and effects. The harmonica is way too loud, and I'll fix that if I end up using this for an album.

https://trevorwhatevr.bandcamp.com/album/widget

new compilation EP of rarities and old orphaned singles from my vault! check it out check it out

Acid Olem. Idea lovingly stolen from a youtuber: I made a rhythm track first, reversed it, played over it, then reversed the whole thing, resulting in a song where everything but the drums are backwards. Mine pales in comparison with its inspiration, but I might try again using a more complex structure/more instruments (this was mainly melodica with some scatting vocals). Acid Olem = Melodica backwards with some punctuation added, by the way.

Edited by MikeK on Aug 31st 2018 at 3:46:21 AM

I have a Soundcloud but I'm still recording my first track so no songs out yet

First new song in a while, and it isn't really a new song - it's based off loops I made some time ago. Warning: Gratuitous Panning.

I wrote this when I was 16, with some help from someone I met on a forum. The vocal track was done in the Virtual Singer. I'm still not 100% satisfied with the percussion, but I still think this is one of the best songs I've ever done. The lyrics are from an E. E. Cummings poem.

If anyone needs a bass line for a song, my soundcloud right here.

My symphoprogpowermetal album: https://dioctrium.bandcamp.com/album/the-unfortunate-celebration

And my ambient EP: https://dioctrium.bandcamp.com/album/inextensive

Edited by Dioctrium on Feb 20th 2019 at 1:43:24 AM

How May I Help You?. So, I started trying to make an RPM album this year, forgot to actually sign up, and figured I'd work on music throughout February and just release whatever I had finished by the 28th without worrying if there's enough material to qualify as a true RPM album ^note I believe the qualifiers are 10 tracks or 30 minutes. While I still haven't worked up to making an album primarily featuring singing and/or rapping like I hope to one day, I've put my own voice in songs more often these past couple albums - this time there's four spoken pieces, one scatting/weird mouth noise experiment thing, and only two fully instrumental songs.

Is anyone else here on Metapop? My tracks are at https://metapop.com/jj-mickey.

Never heard of it.

If you make music, it's a great, supportive community. They have contests where you can win software & hardware (usually whatever is the latest thing from Native Instruments).

I did a lot of composing earlier this year (nearly all instrumental stuff save one in-character comedy number, all instruments MIDI-generated since I only play piano and I have pitiful recording equipment) during my hectic school life which I put up on a SoundCloud. Then I finally graduated and found myself with way more free time, and...I haven't really written anything since. I'm finally getting myself back into the composing groove, but now I feel like I wanna talk more with other composers for inspiration.

Edited by TropesForever on Dec 17th 2019 at 8:34:19 PM

"5u4k810n" by PURG4T0RY CH45M. So, this isn't supposed to be "good" but I felt like sharing anyway- it's royalty free Witch House loops with autotuned improv nonsense for vocals. I just did this to quickly test out a music app on my phone but I had fun. If PURG4T0RY CH45M were real, their main influences would be Skinny Puppy and Farrah Abraham.

Edited by MikeK on Dec 29th 2019 at 10:07:57 AM

I'm on an app called bandlab where people can collaborate with each other online - it's where I got the loops from the last song. Now I did a spoken word Alanis Morrisette cover over someone else's backing tracks. I also tried singing my own lyrics over someone else's original instrumental.

Edited by MikeK on Jan 9th 2020 at 10:15:41 AM

So long story, but basically I turned a Yelp review into thrash metal. Again I didn't do the music, just vocals and lyrics (inasmuch as I cherry picked the most "metal" sounding sentences from the review)

More singing over other people's music - the instrumental is labeled a "Drake type beat" but I was going for more 808s And Heartbreak. Loosely autobiographical, also the autotune-ish effect they have in the app is freaking fun guys.

found a video of me singing Born To Be Wild at an open mic.

I keep hogging this thread but I wrote a Led Zeppelin parody about coronavirus for some reason. It's pretty ridiculous. I did the singing/lyrics and not the music- weirdly I was inspired because the instrumental someone posted was a little off in places - by the end it accidentally turns into a Noise Rock/ avantgarde version

Edited by MikeK on Mar 25th 2020 at 9:53:43 AM

I'm the only one who posts to this thread anymore and I'm just gonna own it.

I just recently did my first fully original song with vocals that came out like an actual song. It's called "Do The Stay In Bed". I was trying to do LCD Soundsystem, but a friend compared my singing to a mix of Fred Schneider and Ian Curtis.

Edited by MikeK on Jun 22nd 2020 at 9:26:25 AM

Fight A Mountain. I envisioned this as a 90s indie rock song, but don't know how to play guitar. If someone here were to join the bandlab app and add real guitar to this I'd be grateful. Also, to me 90s indie rock and Word Salad Lyrics go hand in hand so a lot of the words aren't really supposed to make literal sense.

I have an ongoing thing I call the "Fake Band Project", where I try to do songs in different styles and credit them to nonexistent artists, who I then give a brief fictional bio - these tracks are presented in chronological order, with the last two being things I did in the past week. I might make it a goal to get this to full album length (at least 30 minutes) by early 2021. I'd also like to get other people involved - collaboration or even just full on recording a song on your own and giving me permission to upload them to the playlist. Basically I really want this to play like a various artists compilation and it would help to have other people's voices and instrument playing on there.

Because someone else needs to post in here: I made a thing for V-Tuber Mori Calliope's remix contest. And another one just for fun.