A Foreboding Sense of Reality
By rdomain on February 20, 2022 1:55 am
Music for Pulsar 23 and strings.
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zpeisman wrote:
top notch cinematic soundscape
Yeah, I could see one of the edgier indie directors using this in their latest crack at Stanislaw Lem.
Pretty spooky, I'm ready to get off the reality train haha. In all seriousness, really cool atmosphere going on here. Really like that waterdrop-esqe synth 2:34 slathered in verb followed by warping string song, just tickles my ears.
excellent sounds tell an exciting story. The warmth of the subbass creates an important ballance to the cold and frightening higher frequences. Very good stuff.
Foreboding is definitely the theme in this one. The dark atmosphere has a nice cinematic feel too especially when those strings come in. I feel like this would go perfect with a suspense/horror film. Perfect for witnessing the killer's day to day activities before he does his thang. I can't tell if that's a campfire sample or the synth but it really adds to the track 
zpeisman wrote:
top notch cinematic soundscape
ineff wrote:
zpeisman wrote:top notch cinematic soundscape
Yeah, I could see one of the edgier indie directors using this in their latest crack at Stanislaw Lem.
hent03 wrote:
Killer atmosphere. Really like it.
ViridianLoom wrote:
Pretty spooky, I'm ready to get off the reality train haha. In all seriousness, really cool atmosphere going on here. Really like that waterdrop-esqe synth 2:34 slathered in verb followed by warping string song, just tickles my ears.
Q-Rosh wrote:
excellent sounds tell an exciting story. The warmth of the subbass creates an important ballance to the cold and frightening higher frequences. Very good stuff.
Tone Matrix wrote:
Foreboding is definitely the theme in this one. The dark atmosphere has a nice cinematic feel too especially when those strings come in. I feel like this would go perfect with a suspense/horror film. Perfect for witnessing the killer's day to day activities before he does his thang. I can't tell if that's a campfire sample or the synth but it really adds to the track
Thanks everyone! Yes, the only sounds used are the strings and a 'drum machine' which is the Pulsar 23 (campfire came from this).
I like how this one is built - it is really a lot of drones that play D but with different textures and variations. The evolution of this track is not based on melody but really on all the way textures move, evolve, fade in and out. This is inspiring!
a big compliment coming from me: this easily sits next to Ben Frost's best work
The bass around 0:44 is remarkable (and again at 1:35). Kind of sits in this strange place where there's a hint of intensity without becoming intense, a semblance of cadence without feeling cadential: sustained in struggle, a remarkably difficult thing to achieve. 
Kedbreak136 wrote:
I like how this one is built - it is really a lot of drones that play D but with different textures and variations. The evolution of this track is not based on melody but really on all the way textures move, evolve, fade in and out. This is inspiring!
Great to hear! There's some minimal shifts in harmony but always returns.
orangedrink wrote:
a big compliment coming from me: this easily sits next to Ben Frost's best work
Oh! Well a big compliment indeed! Ben does some fantastic work. I've seen him live several times too which is a great experience.
orangedrink wrote:
how do you do the strings?
I use Spitfire for a lot of my film score material.
ilzxc wrote:
The bass around 0:44 is remarkable (and again at 1:35). Kind of sits in this strange place where there's a hint of intensity without becoming intense, a semblance of cadence without feeling cadential: sustained in struggle, a remarkably difficult thing to achieve. <3
That's awesome. I love working on the precipice of musical elements. I particulary love working with tones which are on the edge of totally exploding but they're balancing on the edge of a minimal tone with only hints of the chaos it's holding back.