Forest Moon - Before Long
By george bowles on January 26, 2014 12:03 am
Forest Moon is sort of a studio project where I mostly use midi but sometimes electronic drums and guitar pedals to make soundtrack quality music, or attempt to anyway. paying attention to the process of making it sound good and work with a lot of production techniques.
so anyway, I used the provided free melody and ran it through some vst instruments and made a lot of layers, then I got carried away and came up with a piece that was over 20 minutes long, which I then made a short film for I guess lol! check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRWr1LBoEV0&feature=youtu.be .. the methodology was overlapping the midi file on itself and then giving it a variety of different midi instruments to trigger. at least in the video, I then made several iterations of variations, which kind of made the material to mutate if you watch the video.
the piece here I submitted was actually the final mix which ended up being sort of a representation of the different mutations I witnessed the melody to take with the different layers of effects I piled on to it. the end result is something crystalline and very synthesized as it was all virtual instrumentation, but it also sounds oddly natural in parts. the short film is a reflection on mortality and maybe a little spirituality. the film samples were creative commons and I am unaware of their original sources.
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