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A jam submission

Once Upon a MirageView project page

Ambience soundtrack
Submitted by VeliasMusic (@VeliasMusic) — 10 hours, 51 minutes before the deadline
Rated by 17 people so far
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Description
First time making an ambience track, not sure if I'm going at the right direction.
I tried making the pad by myself in serum and I'm quite satisfied with how it turned out.
For this track, I focused more on the vocals and pad, with backing percussions for embellishments.

Any feedback is welcomed, thanks for listening!

Photo by Vyacheslav Argenberg from Wikimedia Commons

Description of Setup (Optional but recommended)
VST used: Serum (Pads), Ethereal Earth (Piano and Sitar), ShamiKoto (Lute), The Spellsinger (Vocals), SpitfireLABS Percussion (Tambourine and shaker), Darbuka-Nut (Goblet Drum)

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Submitted

Sweet middle-eastern vibe, for me you are going in the right direction as for ambiant track. I love the vocal motif, I wish you would expand more on this somewhere else in track. Maybe also add some more prominent bass at some point just to keep the texture going. Same for percussions mix it up a bit more would help to have a different feel from time to time. Good job :)

Submitted(+1)

It's a beautiful music piece. You are very clear on what tools to use to achieve the right atmosphere. The ambient came out wonderful! I like the way the sounds are mixed, I like that there is nothing superfluous and yet you can feel the volume and fullness of sound and content.
Cool, thanks for giving such a vivid picture in my head with your music!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the comment! I was a bit nervous because I rarely make music in this genre, so I'm really glad that you enjoyed it!

Submitted

Great job!

Submitted(+1)

Cool composition, makes me having flashback about desert.

Developer(+1)

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

This track creates quite an interesting picture....

I see in front of me a small relaxed family, a large Central Asian family that has stopped somewhere in the canyons, living in a portable yurt and just relaxing while the already trained youngsters walk the terrain.... The grandmother, along with her daughter, granddaughter and young son are just paying tribute to tradition - playing a little tune that echoes throughout the neighborhood... At this time, the old man falls asleep to the music of his relatives...

...The camera slowly passes through the shanyrak, flies upwards and stops in a close-up over the whole area....

Cool track! I love it!

Developer

Wow that is some amazing cinematographic directive shots! Really glad you liked it!

HostSubmitted(+1)

Good work overall.

Constructive feedback:

I think maybe it falls into the kinds of some of the common things that pop culture does to depict middle eastern music, but I used some of those things myself, using a similar vocal VST in mind.

Heh I only recently watched this video on the topic too:

But I also used a little bit of that kind of thing in my second track I'd say with the female vocalist drawing on that sort of thing. But, it also just sounded correct in my mind to put that vocalist there so I did it anyways!

That's kind of a side critique that's more of a stylistic choices of modern composers type of thing, which is ultimately subjective!

I will say this - if you spend time acclimating yourself to Middle Eastern music, it really hits different, and it's really refreshing because they use more notes than the west - microtonal notes between the notes.

Anyways, you still mixed this well and it still sounds good, but I had to go on that tangent! Heh. I'll probably end up doing that with a few other submissions if I had to make a prediction based on theme I picked.

Great work, thank you for submitting! :)

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! 

I agree, I think a lot if the stereotypical Middle Eastern has really buried itself deep within our subconscious. It makes me wants to compose and arrange in a certain way that "sounded correct" as you put it but may not be objectively correct. I guess our biases will always drag us into a certain stereotype when composing a music that we don't have a lot of real experience in haha, and the only way forward is to expose ourself more to the real things.

With the amount of submissions in this jam, I think you will be writing essays for the rest of the week haha. Godspeed brother!

Submitted(+1)

I liked it