Below are the 17 most recent journal entries recorded in baphometmethod's LiveJournal:

Friday, September 19th, 2003
5:29 pm	The Truth New track! http://www.vexen.co.uk/baphometmethod/tracks/the_truth.html Very stompy! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 10th, 2003
6:48 pm	A Demon is Ushered in http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/tracks/demon_is_ushered_in.html This is the first track using the demo software of Fruity Loops 3, when I actually purchase this software, the quality of music I produce will increase vastly. Combine that with actual growing talent in the areas of music, percussion, vocals (slowly getting there) and the prospects look good! Except that Fruity Loops costs a bomb! Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
11:56 am	A Synthesis of Friends New track online! A Synthesis of Friends. Download from: http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/ Details: Length: 6min 40 BPM: 180 (but feels very slow) Software: CakeWalk Pro Audio, ReBirth, and Cool Edit. An Unforgiving Circumstances track, but mostly a completely happy one! It is most similar to Long Walk, only less repetitive and more flowing. For the percussion I have mostly used features that I would otherwise associate with noise industrial tracks, but I'm falling in love with this combination of background fast percussion, and slow foreground music. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 23rd, 2003
2:36 am	Das Leben Ist Grausigkeit New track online! Das Leben Ist Grausigkeit. Download from: http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/ Details: Length: 6min 10 BPM: 180 Software: Rave eJay and Cool Edit. I struggled with the vocals/samples on this one, and (like many tracks) plan on releasing a later version which is more perfected in that area. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, March 22nd, 2003
6:38 pm	Fruity Loops 3 I am considering investing in music production software... baphometmethod is going really well, with many exciting behind the scenes developments. "Das Leben Ist Grausigkeit" is going to be the best track yet, when I get the vocals/samples sorted. So I am playing with demo version of Fruity Loops 3, and it is really really good. Very easy to use, it made me superbly productive and enthusiastic from the word go, but 'cos it's a demo version it's not letting me save anything I do. Biggest problem seems to be with the instrument/affect browser... sometimes, when trying to set one channel to a yummy-looking instrument, the thing I've actually clicked on is a entire instrument-deck. What then happens is that it automatically erases all my existing channels and noises, and replaces with a completely blank pre-set set of channels. It seems to be hard to predict which "clicks" on the instrument browser are going to merely set a channel, and which are going to erase the whole song! The UNDO function doesn't seem to operate when you change channels/sets of channels like this! (Comment on this)
Friday, February 7th, 2003
5:39 pm	I am currently working on: Velvet - this track scares me. It is harsh, bleak, stormy.</p> Therapy - not sure if this one is going anywhere. It's a melodic droning meditation style dance track, but I'm not sure I'm capable of writing a suitably flowing synthline to go over it.</p> Rave - I haven't given up on this one yet. It's an out an out massive rave track, but I can't think of enough developments to bring it beyond two or three minutes in length, or to make it interesting enough. I have mastered drum beats, bass drums, snare drums, the percussion. I can't write solos, and only sometimes come up with tunes that can be applied to a track. I've learned how to use my mini software synth much better, and have also got to the stage where I can write melodic sad tunes of a certain kind. My skills are getting wider, but bear with me! To avoid things always sounding the same, you have to wait for my skills to expand even more! (Comment on this)
Friday, January 31st, 2003
3:26 pm	Ragnarok http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/tracks/ragnarok.html (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 25th, 2003
7:26 am	Currently working on: Velvet (working name), a more disturbing minimalist electronic storm. (Comment on this)
Monday, January 20th, 2003
11:10 am	Converter New track online! Converter. Download from: http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/ Length: 4min54 Software: Rebirth, Cakewalk Pro Audio, Cool Edit Pro More noise influenced than other tracks, and I definately plan on doing more excitingly stompy (power?) noise tracks in the future. (Comment on this)
10:29 am	Bass Getting bass to sound right is difficult. ( Read more... ) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 15th, 2003
7:04 pm	Things to do On Lex Talionis, fix the cymbols. Just before mastering, all the MIDI symbols went haywire and they went out of step, and their decay/attack rates changed and I couldn't get them to go back, meaning they didn't hit on the beat. On Flesh, re-render to see if I can get rid of the jitters that occur on one or two of the explodes. I have already tried, but will try again. I may need a more powerful computer to render it without defects. Learn to sing, or quit trying! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
8:31 am	Child's Memorial New track online! Child's Memorial. Download from: http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/ Length: 3min43 Software: CakeWalk Pro Audio and Cool Edit I done it during the night, I think the actual music is the most qualified piece of music writing yet. Also, it has the most prominent vocals. Ragnarok has vocals, but they are editted, whereas here they are mostly unedited. It is a sad one. I produce two basic types of music, it seems. One is the digital dance music, Baphomet NRG! The other is the more musically-inclined stuff, which I associate with the Unforgiving Circumstances mentality. Child's Memorial is an Unforgiving Circumstances track along with The Long Walk and Ragnarok. Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
5:54 am	New Tracks I am presently working on two new tracks. "Child's Memorial" is sad! It's the best piece of music writing I've done, though. I feel I don't want to spoil it by adding anything to it, yet it is too introspective/basic to be a track on it's own right</p> "Evil Dance Machine" is plain out fun! It's some kind of wierd happy acid low key dance track, I've got such fun vocals planned for this one!</p> Current Mood: happy (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 14th, 2003
11:42 pm	Musical style So far the tracks have quite a diverse range of sounds about them, don't they! I'd like most tracks to be stompy beautiful EBM, but it's a bit random how things turn out, sometimes. I've thought about running two music projects, one for slow instrument & string tracks like Long Walk, and another for the stompy/synth dance stuff. I still may do that, but for now Baphomet Method suffices as an experimental combination of the two. If I ever produce a CD, maybe the first CD will be bouncy EBM, and the 2nd CD will be ballad stuff. (Comment on this)
3:24 pm	Lex Talionis http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/tracks/lex_talionis.html (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 29th, 2002
3:30 pm	Flesh http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/tracks/flesh.html (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 25th, 2002
8:22 am	The Long Walk The Long Walk was finished today. Download from: http://www.vexen.co.uk/BaphometMethod/ Length: 5min48 Software: Cakewalk Pro Audio A comment about The Long Walk by a friend was: ""Long Walk" is nicely spontaneous. :) It starts out almost like a dirge, but then about 3 minutes into it, picks up and gets a little more perky while lending a feeling of suspense--just like taking a long walk to... somewhere! To me it does sound rather melancholy because most of the chords are in minor, but I like the footstep-like percussion added toward the end; that really worked! :) " (Comment on this)