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New Ambience: Forgotten Forest
🕑 Added 2024-04-03 17:33:03 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
One of my absolute favorite ways to begin working on a track is by simply playing around with combinations of instruments. In this case, I was using several orchestral tuned percussion instruments where I might normally choose a piano. Celeste, Glockenspiel and Vibraphone have such unique tones, metallic and pure. I did end up putting a piano back, but played softly, so it mellows out the metals.
This was originally called 'Necrotic Woods' until I wrote the 'B' section and realized it was too magical sounding and not nearly grim enough for necrosis. I think it still maintains some darkness, a hint of danger, and a bit of foreboding, so the title got changed to 'Forgotten Forest' and voila! I liked it better.
The ambience is synthetic winds mixed with field recordings and processed a bit to sound vaguely unnatural. I combined this with creaking tree limbs, rustling leaves, and ghostly whispers.
As this is in sneak-peek mode for patrons, I've included the mixed version (live on the site next week) as well as music-only, and ambience-only versions. Additionally, I added 2 'No Whispers' versions (much more apparent in the ambience-only version) to make it slightly less super and more natural.
The music-only track will work nicely for magical environments. It's dramatic, tense, and cinematic without being too epic.
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Reverend Fox
Each and every track you release just gets better and better, Tim!
Rob Leonard
Love all the elements you chose for this piece, and I appreciate the variations...all tracks are very useful. Cheers! :)
