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New Ambience: Temple Garden
🕑 Added 2020-04-29 16:45:02 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
I had a request from a few months ago for an 'Asian themed' garden and thought this would be a good track to work on this week.
As I started to play around with some ideas I realized that the traditional, and frankly overused, koto and shakuhachi style arrangements were making my eyes roll a bit. After all, I didn't want to make a parody of a Temple Garden.
I stripped it down to some lovely synth parts that all had a slightly bell-like quality to them. I found that the track flowed much better and also had the advantage of being more flexible for use in other types of settings.
I've included a music-only version of this track that will work as a floaty, spacey overlay to almost any environment.
Thank you all, as always for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
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Can we get an ambience only version?
Tabletop Audio
Some of the synth sounds incorporate some highly processed and manipulated field recordings, so yes, there are some natural elements to these sounds which may bleed through, but the actual straight-up environment sounds have been removed. Good ears!
Jeffrey P
Is it just me or does the Music-only track still sound like it has background effects? I might be getting mixed up with the birds outside my window ;) What are the instruments that provide the sort of chirpy sound?
James Miller
Thanks again for all the great work. (And I love the new tag line!)
Tabletop Audio
I'm sure I'll do more, but they'll never be authentic because...well, me. And, to be clear, I think the koto and shakuhachi (and guqin etc) are all fabulous instruments! They can however, often be overused as shorthand (lazy) descriptors of cultures.
This is great! Are you going to do a series of Asian inspired music then? What are your thoughts on the guqin as a instrument for ambient themed music?
