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by vectordust 68 days ago
Despite AI starting to crowd this space, I've been spending all of my free time learning music production (doing it the old fashion way without AI). It's a great mix of technical and creative problem solving. Mostly focusing on dark ambient/cinematic composition, playing around hardware synths (Prophet 6, Subsequent 37, modular / eurorack, Digitone II).

If anyone is curious, I put out a single recently (remaster from last year): https://soundcloud.com/vectordust/ion-dunes-1

My main personal goal right now is to release a full length album this year.
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evancarter 67 days ago
Very nice listen. Perfect sort of song to have on while working. It reminds me of an album called Obsidian by Jónsi. It had a special exhibit at the museum of old and new art in Tasmania that was stupendous. (https://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/exhibitions/741-jonsi-h...)
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vectordust 67 days ago
That is a mighty compliment that this reminds you of Jónsi, thank you for that! He has been an inspiration of mine for a long time, amongst a long list of other very talented artists.

I had no idea about his Obsidian project, I will certainly be taking a look at that, thanks for the recommendation!

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gglitch 67 days ago
Ion Dunes is outstanding. Very nice work. I would be happy to hear more, and would very much enjoy a writeup too.
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vectordust 67 days ago
Thank you so much for that! I've actually been debating starting a self hosted blog (or maybe a Substack...) to capture and document my process and provide more context around the music I'm producing, maybe I'll spend some time working on that this weekend!

Edit: for anyone who may be interested, I've created a Substack for this: https://substack.com/@vectordust

I'll likely setup a self hosted blog on vectordust.com to mirror any Substack posts I make as well, so I truly own those posts.

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genewitch 67 days ago
you know the OP has "ion" and "dust" in the middle so this was hard to find.

I normally can't stand ambient, but you went a different direction in the middle there. You should put out an album, that probably no one will buy, but maybe eventually you get asked to do soundtracks for things.

anyhow, i used to write music. a lot. sometimes you just have to get it out of your skull... https://soundcloud.com/djoutcold/valley-boulevard-0237

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