Transparent - Prelude from A Tale by Dicedead
Hey there! Sincere thanks for joining me in this ride.
This track is not the beginning of the Tale, despite being the opening of the album. It's only here to set a nice, calm mood before the eventual 'storm'. It also introduces the one rhythmical concept that'll be used pretty much throughout the whole thing: polymeters.
Skip this part if you don't want to dive in my annoying explanations of musical theory: A polymeter occurs when two or more musical phrases are played at the same tempo but with different lengths (= number of beats). For example, in the first part of this, the piano plays in 7 while all the other instruments are playing in 4. Consequence: you get this push and pull effect, piano being ahead there then slacking behind afterwards, and everything meets up every few loops.
It's an underused tool, because it's not mainstream enough. Sounds quite odd to the non musician ear. Shame, because it's a world of possibilities with very diverse effects created, all discovered yet barely unexplored. It's quite calming and airy in this example, but it gets wilder deeper in the album.
As for the genre, it's obvious that I've been listening to a lot of Radiohead lately. Their signature strong yet restrained sound is phenomenally zen-inducing, and it's something I've tried to get as close as possible to with this prelude, only to make the contrast with the deranged majority of the album more efficient.
Tracklist
| 1. | Transparent - Prelude | 8:00 |
Credits
License
CC BY-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
Hello there!
I'm a computer science student, been playing drums since the age of 8 and although my current studies don't allow for much time to be put into music, I'm still very much looking forward to get back more seriously into it someday. Leaving this page of some of my compositions open for memory's sake.