Nice ambience, I had the feeling that it reminded me of something, then I read Japanese Ambience and it was clear. I was into Hiroshi Yoshimura some time ago and this track triggered that memory. The moments of silence are a good addition, and I find interesting the parts in which you switched the low-high octave pattern with the high-low. It's a stronger twist than I would expect. The mix is great
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Thank you!
I'm glad the Japanese ambient influence came through, I absolutely love Hiroshi Yoshimura, if you wanna check out a couple related artists who were more of a direct inspiration for this one have a listen to Fumio Miyashita & Shiho Yabuki :)
I'm glad you found the 'rule-breaks' effective, I thought this would be an easy challenge as I often use a lot of notes outside of the key but for some reason this one really wanted to stay in A minor and I could only fit in an occasional Bb with it still sounding good, so I had to go through the list and try out various others, I was also surprised at how a lot of the more subtle changes could be quite dramatic and effective!
I felt very similarly about this challenge before as well as during. I can definitely relate to struggling to derail my composition with certain types of changeups. The "rule breaking" sounded very much like decisions I would be making anyway while experimenting but my end result had me questioning how impactful the changeups I went with really were lol