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Waiting Room

By Napear on July 11, 2024 4:57 am

I am a little bit enamored with floaty ambient pieces at the moment... and am finding them very cathartic to produce. So this track is in many ways a companion to last weeks.  Last weeks was dark, and ominous... and this weeks is light and ethereal.  If last weeks was a reaper moving through a misty grave yard collecting souls, this weeks is very much those souls shuffling through limbo, waiting for their eternity. 

Another non-trivial portion of doing another soundscape, is I will be traveling this weekend, and won't have time to go through my normal process... and these tracks are much less evolved in production, so I was able to squeeze it in during the week... I may do a third (and maybe fourth) in this series to complete this "Afterlife" sequence that's emerging... but ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ who knows...

Again if anyone what's to use this for a background/texture/sample fodder/etc, its in C Lydian, and is 85bpm, and if you're looking to beat map the glockenspiel is (mostly) on 16th notes near the middle. 

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goodness i needed that
thank you for making these
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What a lovely atmosphere! Really enjoyable listen, thanks.

Beautiful and serene sound that def conjures up that in limbo feeling.  Love the sound of those deep woodwinds sorta blowing in and out with the wind.  The strings add to that tension/hopefulnesss.  The glockenspiel gives me some Spielberg/Williams vibes.  So cool how it just calmly percolates around the drone and winds like it's hanging outdoors.  Bravo heart

This is so relaxing and gentle, with a hint of mystery. Pliable too; maybe I'll take you up on that offer.
- Raioh

Feel like I just reached the singularity, kinda like that scene in Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey is in the black hole.  Such a peaceful and blissful feeling listening to this.  At first I'm hearing all the various elements going into this, but then it all gradually coalesces into a tranquility of oneness.  Excellent mix.

jwh wrote:


goodness i needed that
thank you for making these
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For sure, it's been awesome to just get lost in soundscapes... though I may be developing a serious ambient habit... `(๑ △ ๑)`*

Cursory wrote:

What a lovely atmosphere! Really enjoyable listen, thanks.

I'm glad you liked it, thanks for the kind words.

Tone Matrix wrote:

Beautiful and serene sound that def conjures up that in limbo feeling.  Love the sound of those deep woodwinds sorta blowing in and out with the wind.  The strings add to that tension/hopefulnesss.  The glockenspiel gives me some Spielberg/Williams vibes.  So cool how it just calmly percolates around the drone and winds like it's hanging outdoors.  Bravo heart

Oh man, yeah it does have a windchime quality to it... I'm glad you picked up on on that tension and hopefulness... I was trying to kind of create a liminal space that wasn't obviously unnerving... but with an undercurrent of unease or slight apprhension.  I'm glad some of that came through. 

Devieus wrote:

This is so relaxing and gentle, with a hint of mystery. Pliable too; maybe I'll take you up on that offer.
- Raioh

Awesome I'm glad you liked it... let me know if you end up doing anything with it. 

Bunjigram wrote:

Feel like I just reached the singularity, kinda like that scene in Interstellar where Matthew McConaughey is in the black hole.  Such a peaceful and blissful feeling listening to this.  At first I'm hearing all the various elements going into this, but then it all gradually coalesces into a tranquility of oneness.  Excellent mix.

Thanks so much, the mix was suuuuuper tricky with this one... there is a LOT happening in the high mids... like right in that space where things can get very grating to the ear... there was some VERY aggressive EQing happening on this track. 

Check out our song this week, you'll see
- E

Devieus wrote:

Check out our song this week, you'll see
- E

Will do (still playing catch up on listening to folks music after travel)

wow what a stunning piece - just beautiful

Nice - definitely feels like crossing a threshold. the "bells" and "strings" are providing a tranquil, dentist's lobby narrative while the "pan flute" is extremely conflicted about what comes next.

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