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Reasoner
Just a simple guy. I only contribute music to newgrounds since I have no visual artistic talents whatsoever. My influences come mostly from Vangelis, George Winston, and a heavy dose of electronica and new age.

Age 40, Male

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Middle Tennessee State

SF Bay Area, CA

Joined on 2/6/08

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EP In The Works (I'm serious this time)

Posted by Reasoner - April 8th, 2009


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EDIT:I have an urgent request for anyone reading this who might possibly be able to shed some light on a rather awesome occurrence that's happening to one of my songs. Ticking Away has just about reached over 200,000 downloads. In fact by the time most of you read this, it will have surpassed it most certainly. I have no earthly idea where the downloads are coming from. They aren't from people visiting it on newgrounds, it's apparently coming from an outside link that i've been completely failing at trying to find. If you know of anything that could be causing it, or happen to run across this song somewhere on the net...please PM me. It's literally getting around 40-50 downloads every 5 to 10 minutes and it's a bit disturbing. Thanks guys/gals

Welcome Back Everyone.

For the past few months I've been talking vaguely about my ambitions to create an actual album to be sold on places like iTunes, MySpace, etc. What I've learned is that it takes a great deal of inspiration to give me motivation so I can begin coming up with ideas and actually make some considerable progress. Thankfully, I can truly say that time has now come.

The EP (which has yet to be named) will consist of 7 tracks. I will be using two songs that have already been submitted here on newgrounds, however they will be undergoing a slight facelift. "Final Thoughts" will hold it's place within the tracklist, simply because I spent a great deal of time on it, and it serves as a tribute to everyone here who has supported me for over a year now. My brand new song "Dear World" will also be getting featured on the album as well. This song will be getting a slight extension from the one available here for download, and there will also be an electronic/orchestrated version of it that follows my style of simple, ambient, uplifting songs I tend to be drawn to.

In addition to those three that I've mentioned, I will also be working on a few electronic pieces that are more in the style of "Tracing Back", "Ticking Away", and "Morning Light". I'd like to try to make sure there are an even number of uplifting tracks, and minor electronic pieces. Knowing my habits, though, I'll probably end up whipping out the piano on more then a few occasions ;) I'm shooting for a completion date by then beginning of June, followed by the release around the beginning of fall.

So what do I need from everyone? Well, for starters, a name for this project would be nice. As my track titles suggest, I'm absolutely horrible with names. If anyone has any supporting ideas, feel free to comment below. Another item I could use some help with is possible artwork for the cover. I do have a couple friends that I'll be asking first for their help, but if anyone who reads this has some ideas based on some of the music I already have here, I'd love to hear from you.

Finally, the last thing I'd like to do is thank all of you who have been listening over the past year. I started out as just a simple guy seeing if anyone would notice my music. I'd never guess at having almost a 1,000 fans combined from here and Myspace who have had nothing but positive, inspiring things to say. Enjoy life and keep listening

Sincerely,
Ryan

Here's a really bad pic of my amateur "studio" Beat that Bjra! :P

EP In The Works (I'm serious this time)


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You have me interested, how much do you plan to sell it for?

You should keep this updated with progress so we know when it will be ready.

Thanks bro I plan on it. As fas as costs are concerned...i haven't determined what tier i'll be considered with iTunes yet for the per song cost, but for the EP as a whole, it's usually around 6.99 or so

Well good luck. I know what you mean about getting inspiration for motivation, but with me it's more the other way round. Call picture at teh bottom.

Thanks for the support :)

hey... when your album comes out pm me and i'll go and buy it immidiatly!!! oh and dear world is my favourite song you have made so far.

Will do bro!

I look forward to hearing your EP. You have inspired me over the past year, and it is my goal to make something as emotional and powerful as Dear World in the future. You were one of those who inspired me to get a keyboard and try to learn piano, and while I still dont really know what I'm doing, I've been wrtiting for it and playing. I just waanted to thank you for the inspiration you gave me.

Best of luck with your EP, though I'm sure you dont need it.

Its nice to know the music helps you get inspired to go out and create something of your own. Keep it up and write your own "Dear World" someday

Is the EP going to be free? Or will it cost me? Either way, free or not, I'll buy it anytime!

The EP will be sold on online music stores. I'll still be continuing to submit material here, however, after I've finished the album up :)

Strange thing the large amount of downloads on Ticking Away... Maybe its just because that song its damn good. However, the best for me is An End to The Universe. Its so... epic!
Anyways good luck with the EP its surely going to be some great stuff!

Nice idea about the album - just wished I had an iPod instead of a Sony Walkman. Pfffft. Anyway, will there be any kind of music like my favourite (Yes, I spelled favourite correctly :P) piece by you, which would be Instrumental #4? One more thing, either for album cover or title, you tend to make work with titles that reflect with time/distance/places - so maybe making them to reflect that? Anyway, would there be any way to get the tracks apart from iPod (such as eBay)?

i can't comment on anything being to the style of Instrumental #4, but i can say that so far the music is shaping up very nicely. I expect the tracks to be every bit as good as #4 and hopefully better then what everyone has come to expect so far on newgrounds. As far as getting the music in a different format, iTunes has recently started selling their music DRM free, which is how i expect my EP should be listed. This means you can convert the tracks into whatever format your music player supports now

Hello

Thanks, by PM me tha last ime
that, that was wonderfull
your music
and with that studio, you have,
i would like to have one like that,
and i have had a lot of ideas to newgrounds audio
but i don't have what i need to make them true,
not more than in the reality
i can not record and i don't know
how to get a good program for it
but that's an other history
what i mean is that your latest two submitions
are the two most wonderfull in newgrounds
at my see point
thanks by submithing both of them

Haha. How'd those twisters go?

It was pretty crazy but luckily they didn't hit where I was working

Eleven comments and not one name suggestion? The one that first came to mind was "UnReasonably Good Music" Of course, with all the downloads you mentioned, "Ticking Away" might get more recognition ( and thus more sales) My personal favorites are "The Last Flight" and "I'm Still Here" Best of luck with the EP!