zybor's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[WaterBear]

:O it's a shame this couldn't make it on the album. I wasn't expecting a hybrid track from reading the title. Sorry for the late review, trying to catch up every submission! Those percussion beats! This is an amazing piece, while short, it has everything an epic track would. And it's gonna go down as one of your best piece, backwardecho!

I could not thank you enough for the logistics and organizing you have done to move and gather all these awesome musicians together. And you yourself created this mind blowing piece, I would love to have this included in there. It's rich and deep on its own too.

Thank you very much for everything you have done for the friends on NG and me. Thank you for believing in me, this lump of loser that thought the sky would be forever dark. And you, and many other proved me wrong, and proved that things aren't bleak at all. You are awesome!

I hope your father doing well. And I hope you are doing well, miss. :) Take care, my friend.

backwardecho responds:

Thank you for your kind words! This song wouldn't have been ready for the album, I'd desired greater things for it so the end result of missed potential is painfully obvious to me. :3

Everyone committed to this project was eager to compose in your behalf, it takes someone special to move others that way, certainly not a loser (unless you're talking about parallel universe you :P)

I wish I had good news concerning my dad. While holding onto what hope I can, recent events have forced me to realize that I'm probably going to lose him. Still, I know I'm certainly not the only one suffering in this world, and that is one of the thoughts that helps keep me mostly grounded.

I'm really glad your situation has improved, though I worry for your health. I hope things get better for you, so please continue to take care of yourself! :) <3

[An Improv on Freedom]

Wow this is something else, so emotional... *look at the length* Mother of FSM... Over an hour of pure awesome music. I'm gonna listen to this while making fractals, for sure. :O. Opposed to Soundchris' minimal piece, this is the macro take on it. The piano plays are so full of feeling and I could feel the train of thoughts flow through every note of this piece. I don't know what to say more. This is something out of a dream. It's just perfect and deep. When I read the convo between you and Phono (sorry i tried to catch up all the 3-4 months of convos and inside jokes you guys made) about the part from mid-to-end, he talked about that moving and well-connected parts. And he was so right like always, they are the best ever!

This is just something I love about NG. This place enables and provides the best of the best musicians, animators, artists and talents of all kinds coming together to make things happen. Without NG, in my own opinion, magnanimous works like this would be very difficult to happen. And here we are, with many of the best musicians working together on a collab project. I'm sorry, I'm just overwhelmed by you all, your wonderful works and the love for each other that I have not seen elsewhere. It just happens. That's the beautiful thing about Newgrounds. (bless you Tom Fulp) And I believe this piece sums everything up so well.

Thank you.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

Hey there, dem0!
While this is 2 hours in length, it's not my longest session by the piano. That said, I've never recorded this much at once before! It was really fun and rewarding, so I'm really happy we got together on the project, which motivated me to finally record a 2 hour improv. The most difficult part, I suppose, is to keep the focus, and try to vary the playing so that it doesn't just become the same thing for the whole 2 hours. That said, there are a lot of pretty bad parts, some filled with errors that are easily audible.
On that note, I think SoundChris's track is far prettier (also, just because it's composed in a beautiful manner, with a lot of thought put into it). What I wanted to serve, instead, was something more direct and real. I haven't touched a single note; they are all exactly like I played them at the time, so I hope this improvisation stays true to how the music was channeled through me at the time of playing.
I'm really excited to hear you'll listen to it while making fractals! Partly because I am looking forward to seeing those once you've made them ;)
After all, I used your fractal "memory", for the cd image :D

As you know, I am most inclined to agree with you about Newgrounds being a fantastic place, to the point where words may not be enough to describe it. It feels great to be part of such a creative and driven community. Tom did indeed create something absolutely marvelous.

This improvisation, is obviously dedicated to you. The title too, takes into account your vision of the world, society, music, people, and thoughts. I hope you're pleased with the result ^___^
Thank you for listening, reviewing, and staying true to who you are!
And donating, dude. Holy shit! I hope you're doing well o.O

Take care!

[The City At Night - AIM]

fucking old school. if this is johnfn behind it, it's dope. if this is Peter behind it, also fucking dope.

goodraccoon responds:

BUT WHAT IF IT IS NEITHER OF THOSE PEOLPE.

IS IT

STILL

DOPE

[AIM - Chris, the Boat and the Tormented Sea]

First listen I thought about The Terminal by shadow6nothing9. The nostalgia is very deep. But this piece is a beautiful composition on its own. I am honored​. This piece is amazingly fit that art piece. I love the progression of the melodies. And the uncertainty of the overall mood. There's despair and desperate, but there's also hope somewhere in there. It's a strange feeling that it was inspired by something close to my heart. I remember something about the piece, it was a birthday present for somebody that they didn't really pay attention to. And I'm so glad it didn't lose to time.

Thank you for this work.

LucidShadowDreamer responds:

I remember "The Terminal"! So it's awesome that this piece reminded you of it :O! I can definitely hear the resemblance.

It's really the most important to hear from you that the piece fits the art, considering you're the one who made it, once upon a time. So thank you very much!

You really captured a large part of the theme, with "uncertainty". I'm glad you get it! While I definitely want there to be a slightly negative tone at parts, I want the overall experience to be a bit more ambiguous ^ ^
"Hope" would probably also fit quite well, considering who else has used the art for inspiration in the past!

Oh, was it? I'm glad that the art is still alive, and has more than one composition inspired by it. It certainly is deserving of that!

Thank you very much for creating the art, for listening, and for writing down your thoughts. And for being you ;)
Good luck in the AIM!

[Triumphal Entry]

Congrats for the frontpage. Such an awesome piece. I love the change of pace/tempo and scale through out the track. very original, especially for a hybrid track.

Phonometrologist responds:

All the picoday submissions are frontpaged-- small selection this year. Thanks for your help and feedback.

[AIM - 23069601337]

Very fitting the artwork. I wish there was more development between the parts tho. Interesting how you keep it very cinematic. That bass in the background is dope as fuck. Sad to see the ending is lack of elements to get it pumped up. This track had a lot of potential if you add transition here and there. I do enjoy this one. Good job dude.

5TanLey responds:

well I tried my best but there is still a long journey ahead of me :)

[Penderecki's Dream]

OMFG YOU JUST DROPPED DA NUKE! (no pun intended)

What you kidding me bro? this piece is going to win so hard it will knock everything else in the path. The production and quality overall is above and beyond. Thank goodness I listened to this in the noon time, else I would have all my hair on the body stood up at midnight. And I'm listening to this on loop, that's something.

I have heard Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima before this piece (in Children of Men), but I do believe your rivals that piece. Mind melting work. The amount of detail is amusing. Damn I ran out of vocabularies to describe this...

i don't want to sound like a wimp but this piece brought back some dark memories. Sometime I wish I could undo my life and start over again, erasing all these unpleasant memories. but i can't.

thank you for this mindblowing track.

Phonometrologist responds:

I actually hope it doesn’t win, because I don’t want to offend anyone if a non-tonal piece places over other tracks that are. But also, judging music in general is hard to do since it has many points of personal opinion and tastes, but by adding to it an aleatoric piece makes judging it even less quantifiable. Thank you for the endearing remarks. However, I can’t ever put myself in a position next to Penderecki as he envisioned and created this style. The laurel wreath remains upon him as the creation can never surpass its creator. At a technical stand point, I emailed 8Dio that we still need a library that could change in oscillation in realtime of the string’s tremolo like in "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima.” Also, In “Threnody…” the tone clusters has different string players resolve to microtones. We are still far from achieving complete control of what a string player can do in a performance. But then again, the argument would be that these companies are only interested in creating libraries for commercial use.