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By lament.config on December 1, 2024 11:46 am

A lesson in understanding that sometimes a piece of music is going to be what it wants to be, not what you want to make it.  No matter what I did, no matter the creepy shit I threw at it, this track wanted to be a calm slowly evolving drone.

I went with a synthesized base for the drone this week which is unusual as I will typically start with an organic/acoustic base.  For the higher drone it was a ambient guitar in Kontakt.  Given that the tracks I've written over the past few months have mostly been under 2 minutes it was nice to stretch out a bit with this one.  Some calm as we enter the final month.

Made in Ableton 

If it’s any consolation, I found the first half to be quite unnerving. Those opening sounds particularly were absolutely eye opening.

I liked how there seemed to be an emotional shift about midway through - that calmness you talked about started to come though (in spite of your best efforts LOL)

It’s almost like it’s a message told through a drone - it looks bad right now, but it’s going to be ok heart Even if it wasn’t what you were aiming for, you hit the target with this. Well done.

Fantastic atmosphere.

Ahhh some years ago I'd be writing for a couple hours every night and it was Cryo Chamber's compilations based on the Elder Gods that would provide the soundtrack and create this wonderful cocoon of drone and reverb that would gradually extend its tendrils into the rest of the workd around me until the line between the music and thr environment blurred completely - the ultimate usurping of reality by musical means in my books - and your track just achieved that in a few short minutes and it was amazing and I am envious lol. This is fantastic. If you can build a whole EP from this I'd listen on repeat (and you should send a demo to cryo).

I would love some behind the curtain details on how you build your drones and compositions (also what kontakt ambient guitar?)The Cryo Chamber compilations have always been music I've wanted to make myself but never known how to approach or where to begin or even understanding how those artists build some of their sounds (and I like to think I'm not terrible at sound design lol).

This is a triumph. Sometimes the music becomes what it needs to be, and not necessarily what you wanted, but being sble to recognize that and let a piece become what it needs is a challenging skill in itself. Fantastic work.

+1 finding the start unsettling (that high pitch/frequency!)

But overall yeah I get the vibe this piece apparently had inherently! But I think it works. I have a sense of floating in space. I think this piece would be well suited for long, slow, silent reflection.

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