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Pretty ambient music, no? You folks seem to respond better to the ugly pieces than the pretty pieces, but that’s not stopping me. Nyeh.
This is bit #1 of Project Codename: Vistas. Essentially, I decided one day to create an ambient album, and thus far I’ve completed one track and done a lot of work that’s not done yet. This is it. It’s not fully mastered, and the beginning and ending times have issues, I know. Deal.
If you can come up with a name for it, I’d greatly appreciate any suggestions you can come up with. This whole “pretty, reassuring” phase I’m going through is fun, but I’m totally out of my depth.
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My most recent project, more or less, has been the production of Scouts, Remastered, written by Nobilis Reed. The short version of events is that he’s doing a full-cast, full production redo of a novel he wrote a couple of years ago, and I’m the idiot who offered to do all his editing and sound design and mixing and stuff. It’s fun, and also a lot of work.
So, I’m editing voice tracks the other day, and one comes through completely mangled. All noise. I don’t know what happened, and neither does the guy who recorded it, but once that was resolved, I listened to the ruined track again. It was interesting noise, if you can believe that. (If you listen to this podcast, you’ll probably believe anything.) So I says to the guy, I’m keeping this track for Braindouche!, it’s interesting noise and I’ll make something out of it.
This is the result.If you’ve been listening a long time, you’re probably familiar with Instant Space Orchestra, an ambient piece I did a couple of years ago. This piece is essentially the same sort of music, using the same techniques, but with a couple of extra years of experience and some additional tools at my disposal.
Oh, the title? The original source track is a bunch of lines for a character named Shirley.
Also, I realize the track is probably a little too long, and I didn’t trim the silent lead in. Considering this is basically a one-note fugue, I’m just going to call it minimalism and move on.
All in all, I’d call this a couple of hours very well spent.
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