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Southern Cross
A simple, soothing song.
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Liner Notes
A simple, soothing, song that I wrote to keep things moving. I started with the name, "southern cross", and drew a simple melody with the shape of the constellation, with notes in place of the stars. From that simple initial melody came the rest.
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Beautiful! I love the whole tone scale runs.
Really nice, I can hear the stars appearing as the blue fades to black. FWIW, I'm another Linux user, with Harrison Mixbus32C as my main DAW, and Ardour for stripped-down recording on my ancient laptop.
How clever! I took a little detour with my last song but you’ve inspired me to get back on track. Love the layers, especially when the beat comes in.
Very pleasant, fits well with watching the fluffy snowflakes falling outside my window.
I'm another Linux user, BTW. What software are you using? I've been using Audacity almost exclusively, plus normalize-audio, sox, flac, and lame for post-processing.
Nice; definitely soothing. I like the way the orchestration builds.
It starts with a music box and then it gets darker, like it was broken and nothing popped out when it was supposed to. I'm a sucker for odd time signatures, and what you were doing around the 1-minute mark made it feel a little wobbly like that. Super creative way to write a track, too. The end reminds me a little of later Radiohead.