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Messines

By Beefpounder on April 28, 2024 12:03 pm

A time crunch of a track, but I'm actually quite happy with it. Played around with reverb a pitch shifting a ton on this. Ended up with a rather sinister radio signal sort of thing.

I've been slammed with life and work these past couple of weeks, haven't been great at replies and comments. But I appreciate everyone who listens and all the feedback I've gotten. Gonna try to be more active on here again.

Cheers.

This sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack for Signalis, which is game that's like if silent hill met blade runner. There's a bit in the game where you're using the beeping sounds of a radio tower to decipher a message. Anyways, point being, it's definitely big mood and eerie. Makes me feel like I'm stranded on a planet. But given the title of the track, I could also see this fitting into something like Amnesia: The Bunker.

There is this album called Soft Rains by Zarelli which is rendition of Ray Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains.  Basically it is the story of a house AI that is still running after a nuclear blast, doing it's daily tasks unaware that everyone is dead.  I'm unsure why but your track this week really brought that to mind, I found the music you wrote to be a weird combination of meditative and at the same time unsettling. I really liked it

ViridianLoom wrote:

This sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack for Signalis, which is game that's like if silent hill met blade runner. There's a bit in the game where you're using the beeping sounds of a radio tower to decipher a message. Anyways, point being, it's definitely big mood and eerie. Makes me feel like I'm stranded on a planet. But given the title of the track, I could also see this fitting into something like Amnesia: The Bunker.

I need to play more actual horror games.

lament.config wrote:

There is this album called Soft Rains by Zarelli which is rendition of Ray Bradbury's short story There Will Come Soft Rains.  Basically it is the story of a house AI that is still running after a nuclear blast, doing it's daily tasks unaware that everyone is dead.  I'm unsure why but your track this week really brought that to mind, I found the music you wrote to be a weird combination of meditative and at the same time unsettling. I really liked it

Glad you like it. That album sounds rad, I'll check it out.

Man I love this texture.  I get a very, "moment between intensity" vibe.  So in something like the game ViridianLoom mentioned, but like specifically while in a "safe" quite space... maybe while listening to audio clips that detail the messed up history of the location or something... like an area that is meant to give the player a breather, so as to not dull the effect of the more intense/scary sections... but also keeping them mildly tense and unnerved... beautiful sound design, well done. 

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