GAVONYX — "OLDIES"
Oldies is the title of the album containing some of my first pieces of music I ever made. I used an app called "Auxy" to compose and produce every piece on the album.
While these pieces are not ground breaking or fantastic, they do have some amount of charm to them. At this point in my life I had only had musical training at the high school level. These pieces were composed around 2016 or 2017.
I chose the order of songs for the album mostly on a whim.
Loink to full album on spoopify: Oldies
The opening piece to the album. I quite enjoy it actually. The piece starts solo with a synth as drums join it. The part that makes this piece interesting is that the rhythm being played by the first synth is shifted by a beat at after the break in the ostinato. Other than that the only thing I play around with is modulating the ostinato every repeat in the last half of the piece.
The seconds piece was revolutionary when I first made it. It was unlike anything else I had made. Timeline wise, this was one of the last pieces I made for the album. Blue Lion was inspired by the Voltron remake. The initial rhythm of the drums was supposed to be very close to the drums heard on the intro theme to that TV series. Out of all my old stuff, I enjoy this one the most.
This piece is one of the longer ones on this album. I honestly don't have much to say about it. It's just a fun little tune with an interesting form to it.
This begins with a harsh synth sound with the main groove coming in soon after the drums enter. The most notable thing about this piece is the rhythmic nature of the bass.
On Auxy there was a demo project included to showcase some of the things auxy could do. I edited it and added a free form melody. It doesn't exist on spotify nor other music stores because I haven't determined if it infringes any copyright. I'm 99 percent sure it doesn't. You can find this on my telegram channel t.me/AuxyMusic or by contacting me on telegram.
This piece starts out with a simple melodic idea that comes about later in the piece. In general this piece has a darker tone to it than any of the other pieces so far. This piece would probably be considered techno because of the way it's composed.
A nice tune with a nice rhythmic melody to it. The first piece I made with use of panning. This piece also has a "drop" in it at around the 2/3rds mark and ends rather uprubtly.
This piece is on the faster side and like most of my pieces in this album establishes a groove, breaks the groove with some chords, and then returns to the groove with some of the elements of the break incorporated into it.
This piece uses only three instruments; a fantastic synth sound, drums, and a background synth. When I made this piece I actually really enjoyed it. There's a sweep effect for the snare sound that is a little overbearing at times but I've since lost the file to this piece and can't change it. This piece uses recurring themes and modulation to keep it going. It's also the second longest piece on this album
This piece has quite a bit of charm to it. The interesting initial rhythm in the drums mixes surprising well with the initial melody. It soon evolves into quoting a nursery rhyme using the bass before launching into probably the best groove of all the pieces on the album. Then the initial melody and rhythm from the beginning come back with some semi-ethereal type chords. Then the bass joins with a quicker line, then a counter melody comes in. The original melody falls away and the piece ends with this counter melody playing.
The main theme for this piece actually uses the lick. In the beginning it starts with chords, bass, and drums. Eventually multiple melodic lines come in and play together. I enjoy this piece because there are so many different things going on and it's balanced in a way where one can shift focus on the various parts with relative ease.
This piece is inspired at the beginning by a theme from Narnia. After the groove is established an interesting melody takes over and a loud drum enters. Eventually there's a break in the music ushered in by the bass and drums. The groove returns in full force and the piece ends soon after. An interesting piece but not the best in my opinion.
Each title except "Demo Project" is a link to the song on spotify. If they don't seem to work, please contact me. t.me/GavOnyx
This page is a list of all pieces on the album and comments on those pieces are written by me, GavOnyx, the composer/producer.
I plan on doing this for all my albums. In later albums, my musical know-how and skills are better and so instead of simply giving a run down of how the piece progresses and my opinion of the piece, I will provide more information surrounding the purpose of the pieces. For Oldies, I was just beginning and so these pieces are more of figuring out how to use the program and dipping my toe into the water of musical composition.
