Link to Streaming Service
https://soundcloud.com/grunt7517/memories-turned-to-dust

Description
My goal for this jam was to create a piece of ambient music that acts as an audio recording depicting what everyday life was like from a distant time period in this lost city . I want the listener to get a sense that they've discovered a time capsule of sorts, but it's in a condition that makes it difficult to identify many of the events that are depicted. These events are represented in the various melodies throughout the piece. Some are more prominent than others, and even then it can be difficult at times to hear them with clarity. This is intentional, as it's trying to represent the effects of time on the recording itself as well as the decay of any identifiable features of the city itself.

My interpretation of this jam's text and picture theme was a city that was lost to time, and the only things that are left are old, crumbling structures and some audio recordings that have experienced a significant amount of decay. This was a very experimental submission for me, and I'd like to think that I've come close to what I was trying to accomplish with this submission. I also feel that I've learned a lot about the way I record guitar parts and use some slightly unorthodox instruments to convey a particular feeling or bit of information to the listener.

Description of Setup (Optional but recommended)
I used a pair of electric guitars drowned in reverb & delays, as well as some virtual instruments such as a worn tape piano and a mellotron flute. While the virtual instruments are not of the highest quality, I felt that it was appropriate to use them in order to capture this feeling of a distant time period and of something that once was a grand accomplishment now brought down to rubble. Also, I experimented a bit with longer reverb & sustain effects to create a pad with another electric guitar part to add a bit of texture underneath the other instruments.

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