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New Ambience: Yōkai Forest
🕑 Added 2022-11-16 19:38:40 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
I had a specific request for an ambience last week that took me down a bit of a rabbit hole (usually a good thing!). I was vaguely familiar with the Japanese spirits, known as Yōkai, but I didn't know how interesting and varied they were.
As I've done my share of creepy woods scenarios - and honestly, there are infinite permutations on this - I was intrigued by the Japanese twist. Not knowing much about the rules and forms of Japanese traditional music, I did what I usually do, and take the Hollywood approach - I hint at it via the use of traditional instruments and various musical tropes. I think it came out quite well.
For the music portion of this track I've got some classic taiko, shakuhachi and koto, mixed with assorted hand percussion, which I played live. The addition of vocals and other instruments as drones helps keep it dark but still rooted in the natural world.
As this track is in sneak-peek mode for Patrons, I've included the mixed-version (on the site next week), as well as ambience-only and music-only versions of the track. Additionally, I've added no-spirits versions to both the mixed and the ambience-only versions. This essentially makes it nighttime forest track.
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Anthony Falk
These are just so good! your talent continues to amaze me :D The full track is wonderful but have to agree w/Rob that AMB only one is super flexible too! You spoil us Tim!
Rob Leonard
The AMB_Only with the spirits is fantastic! The subdued, slow-paced music you did for this is excellent as well. These can be mixed well with many other tracks to create various suspenseful situations and encounters. The other tracks are useful as well, but those two are my favorites. Cheers Tim!
