Hey, thanks for the comment on Towards Tomorrow. It is all live playing, however the drums are on an electronic kit since I'm bad enough that I need to edit them after 😅. I find that playing the parts on the kit help express myself a lot more than using a keyboard / midi editor, and then I just suffer through a ton of manual timing touchups after. I use Drummic'a for the synth. Its a really nice sampled kit with a variety of mic options for each drum, so you can really do a lot with it.
I agree with you on the looseness. I think a lot of it comes from playing intentionally out of time at parts. Eg, the drums have a fills at the start of the B section that gradually get slower. Otherwise, I always try to arrange the instruments and use IR reverb to make it sound like you are hearing them in person on a stage. I find it adds a lot of natural feel to it.
thanks for the kind words on "raindow"!
RE: modal vs atonal
I quickly sketched it out and, just from those chords (and the fact that the key feels centered at D#), you get a mode of... the augmented scale, but flipped(?) But passing tones exclude the possibility of it being modal music, so that's moot anyway. It's a strange and interesting piece!
I agree with you on the looseness. I think a lot of it comes from playing intentionally out of time at parts. Eg, the drums have a fills at the start of the B section that gradually get slower. Otherwise, I always try to arrange the instruments and use IR reverb to make it sound like you are hearing them in person on a stage. I find it adds a lot of natural feel to it.
Anyways, thanks for listening!