Ambient
Title: Apollo Lee - Iridesce
Date: February 27, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8 + Korg Legacy Collection (Digital Edition)
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:48 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
Wine Pad on the Korg M1 (and, in this case, the M1 plugin) is beautiful and floating and very evocative.
I followed a simple chord progression (Ebm/M7 Cm7b5 Fm7b9 Bb7) in [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Cerulean
Date: February 25, 2008
Software: Reason 4
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:54 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
Reason has some gorgeous instruments, evolving pads, and luscious patches and this is one of them.
I stayed in C Melodic Minor (C D Eb F G A B C). It’s an easy key to play in, [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Quiescence
Date: February 22, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:00 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
I like the harmonic stack (Am7 Dm7 Cm7 F7). It’s consonant and still has some dissonance at the same time.
There are a few deep pedal tones, especially F.
The chords mesh together easily, no matter which [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Synchrotron
Date: February 18, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:00 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony (F Melodic Minor) is beautiful and that Fm/major 7 chord is particularly haunting.
I’m improvising on the Keystation Pro 88 in my studio and I can just meander around a normal keyboard.
I monitored this composition [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Thermatropic
Date: February 11, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:36 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony (G Melodic Minor) is lush and provides gorgeous dissonance, particularly in chords that have the leading tone or that A natural against the Bb.
The instrument plays a harmonic when a note is at max [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Chirality
Date: February 8, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 8:12 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The harmony lends itself to dissonance and consonance with the move of one finger (Em7 A7 Ebm7 Abm7).
The selected instrument makes it sounds otherworldly and haunting.
I resisted the temptation to build big stacky chords most of [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Smectic
Date: February 5, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 7:00 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The instrument I’m using is abstract and beautiful.
The harmonic structure lends itself to improvisation without much worry about clashing.
The low notes contrast nicely with the middles and the highs.
Lots of moments of lush dissonances and soaring [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Nematic
Date: February 2, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:24 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
I’m using my Oxygen 8 and playing in a two octave range, using the scale of A melodic minor (A B C D E F# G# A).
The instrument is ominous and abstract. It has gorgeous [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Ticket
Date: January 31, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 5:06 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
The aftertouch on this instrument is nice.
There are some beautiful bass note entrances.
Airy suspensions happen frequently here.
What I Don’t Like About It
Too many three-note or whole chord transitions at too high a frequency.
The train conductor interrupted [...]
Title: Apollo Lee - Verdant
Date: January 28, 2008
Software: Logic Pro 8
Genre: Ambient
Timing: 6:36 @ 40 bpm
What I Like About It
While it’s not so evident on headphones, the aftertouch on the instrument is gorgeous. I love it. It occasionally feels like a countermelody.
There are plenty of nicely haunting moments with a interestingly unexpected bass [...]
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