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Dark & Stormy

By gunnbr on January 23, 2022 5:54 am

My writing cue for this week was "Start with whooshing wind" and I ended up with this atmospheric tune. I don't entirely love it and wanted to develop it more, but couldn't figure out how. I actually had some ideas to make a companion video again this week, but I spent a bunch of time trying to make the flute melody longer and better only to just kept making it worse. Perhaps with more practice over the rest of this challenge, I'll build up my skills to be able to come back and make this better in the future.

No samples were used. All instruments are from the synth engines built into the Dirtywave M8 Tracker.

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ah, so cool to read these are from the M8... i love that main synth under the flute(got a beautiful slight ripple to its texture), and that crunchy noise, nice! smile

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

got a beautiful slight ripple to its texture

Yeah, that's one fo the tricks I learned from the C64--varying the pulse width to give it that texture!

RajaTheResidentAlien wrote:

that crunchy noise, nice!

If I had time to make the video for this, that probably would have made more sense. I visualized sitting next to a fire for this song, so that crunchy sound is suppose to be the fire crackling.

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

The melody works as a theme, and the sparseness of this works.

With a tracker. Nice. It is a good atmosphere you created.

Hey, I think this is pretty cool! I imagine the "challenge" you were facing with the melody was what it was accompanying, which was a tritone leap. the first note was treated as the root of the "scale", but the only scales that work with both notes are either very dissonant, or (if you went for major instead of minor) lydian. In other words, you had sort of painted yourself into a corner with those note choices. Regardless, I think you handled it well.

ModalModule wrote:

Hey, I think this is pretty cool! I imagine the "challenge" you were facing with the melody was what it was accompanying, which was a tritone leap. the first note was treated as the root of the "scale", but the only scales that work with both notes are either very dissonant, or (if you went for major instead of minor) lydian. In other words, you had sort of painted yourself into a corner with those note choices. Regardless, I think you handled it well.


Wow! Thank you for the insight! Now I'd like to go back and play with this some more. Too bad it's already time to start my composition for another week. :'(

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