Discovery - Synlyfe
Thumbnail is the Jam's artwork theme, originally created by @kawaakar._
Was super pumped to join this jam but unfortunately sustained an ear injury the night before it kicked off. After a couple of much needed quiet days, I finally got a chance to start on my submission approximately a day before the jam was ending.
There's very little post-work done and all in all I'm decently happy with the composition but I would have liked to have taken it much further and developed the concepts within a lot more. I feel as though the chord progressions in particular are lacking, as is a general sense of substance.
Playable in browser via my Simple Music Embed widget; toggle on Commentary (Speech bubble button below Play/Pause) if you want some insights into the composing process!
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OST Composing Jam #7 details:
Chosen theme: Both the image and "inside my world" conceptual text.
I wanted to focus more on the spirit the child is speaking to and what it represents, so I opted for a minor key and left some of the child-like visuals, joy and expression to the instrumentation. I used short, delay and reverb soaked synths in Massive to represent the bubbles and wrote primarily for piano, strings and woodwind to set the tone; slightly sombre but with hope on the horizon. Marred happiness and fond memories are two keywords I kept in mind while scoring.
Genre: Ambient / Electronic
Runtime: 03:21
DAW: FL Studio 21
VSTs: Native Instruments Komplete, select Heavyocity VSTs, XFer's Serum and some stock plugins.
Audiomack/streaming link: https://audiomack.com/synlyfe/song/discovery
Contact: DM or Comment here on itch and we can go from there.
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Really nice piece of music. I feel like it's nostalgic of the nineties and early 2000's ambient synth lines. It's really cool how you're using the arps in the background to keep a pulse going and the drums are really great. The kicks were especially well crafted. I usually appreciate a good effort on the drums and a lot of reverb and this delivered on that front. It's very much a style that I choose to listen to regularly, so I'm a really big fan. Thanks for the submission!
Beautiful piece. This song has a nice blend of orchestra instrumentation with synth textures. I really liked how the square wave synth mixed with the flute and how the bit crushed drums bookended the transitions in the middle. Great job on this one!
The ear candies are really beautiful. I enjoyed the breakdown and even choice of chords, good going on the mix, it sounds balanced and even the instrumentation is perfect.
But that PIANOO!!!!! Loved it.