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As promised, here is the third installment of my Western trilogy. I didn't start off wanting to create 3 tracks but while working on the first one and I would get sidetrack...
2024-07-24 16:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Edit: The attached audio files were updated on July 27th with better versions (I made some silly mastering mistakes that heard when I re-listened with fresh ears!)
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2024-07-17 16:11:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear...
2024-07-15 14:22:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Years ago, when I was doing contracts for corporate clients I had a golden rule: 'leave the guitars on the wall'. I was brought into so many jobs where the previous compose...
2024-07-10 16:48:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's a fairly calm, peaceful track that combines a breezy summer's day with some slightly odd plant life. I toyed with calling this "Alien Flora" but I didn't want to imm...
2024-07-03 15:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear...
2024-07-01 15:09:45 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sailors have always been a superstitious bunch. Life at sea in a confined space can do that to a person I suppose. Nothing spooks a sailor like a ghost ship though.
...
2024-06-26 14:59:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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The music for this one felt kinetic as I was working on it. Not in an action cue way, it had more of a 'bodies in motion' vibe. It reminded me of walking around in a big ...
2024-06-19 17:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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I had posted previously about my early experiments in surround audio but I realized that it didn't make much sense unless I could deliver them via the web. So I've mocked u...
2024-06-13 15:56:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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As many of you know, I'm always interested in minor locations and liminal spaces. Most of our time in games happens outside of combat. I love an epic set piece as much as ...
2024-06-12 16:23:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear...
2024-06-10 12:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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This track falls solidly into the action/adventure category. It's got a bit of suspense that leads into action and back again. You and your party have discovered a way thro...
2024-06-05 16:54:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was playing the excellent Hellblade video game this week (the first one) and loved how immersive they made the atmosphere. Everything seemed alive, and dead at the same t...
2024-05-29 18:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
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I was experimenting with some extreme audio processing of organic sounds this week. I had a few recordings of me playing a ney flute (ok, playing may be an ex...
2024-05-22 15:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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After a terrible attack, mystical calamity, storm, or quake, a town gathers for repairs. That's the idea behind this track. It's about positivity in the face of adversity....
2024-05-15 17:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear...
2024-05-12 17:11:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've been working on this track for a few weeks. It's fairly complex so it was something that I kept going back to, making changes, tweaking things, etc. My original plan ...
2024-05-08 16:17:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear...
2024-05-03 14:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here's an urban noire, surveillance, cyberpunk, underscore mashup. In my constant quest for liminal spaces and environments, I've always enjoyed a good stakeout. Stakeouts ...
2024-05-01 14:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post
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Here is a fairly quiet, meditative track featuring a large reverberant space, populated by mages and other students of the magical arts, deep in research.
The ambienc...
2024-04-24 16:46:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear...
2024-04-22 16:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
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I've always loved the film Jason & The Argonauts (1963). My favorite scene was when Hercules and his companion encountered the giant statue of the titan, Talos...
2024-04-17 17:24:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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Or should I say, Ahoy! This week's ambience takes us to sea in a fast, sturdy ship. This is one of those tracks where the music decided what the eventual ambience was going...
2024-04-10 18:24:18 +0000 UTC View Post
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One of my absolute favorite ways to begin working on a track is by simply playing around with combinations of instruments. In this case, I was using several orchestral tune...
2024-04-03 17:33:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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The working title for this ambience was 'big things moving slowly'. I was going for a feeling of weight and inertia. I knew it was going to be sci-fi, but like all my favor...
2024-03-27 18:31:02 +0000 UTC View PostGreetings Patrons,
As many of you know, I didn't always create bonus tracks for ambiences. That came about organically when a few people asked for small changes (no rain, no footsteps) and I ...
2024-03-22 15:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
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Like many of you, I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3. The problem I have with video games (aside from being quite bad at most of them) is that a) I don't have much time to p...
2024-03-20 17:21:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Greetings Patrons,
I'm continuing to remaster these early SoundPads, and making them available as Patreon exclusive downloads.
Please don't share these files. They are for you, dear...
2024-03-18 15:55:34 +0000 UTC View Post
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What's better than a cup of strong ale, and a warm fire after a hard day of pillaging villages? I suppose you could be a community of pacifist Vikings who just built a scho...
2024-03-13 17:41:22 +0000 UTC View Post
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Sometimes there's a reason that it is the road less traveled.
I was dreaming up this scenario where a party has a long distance to cover, and one member (we all know ...
2024-03-06 18:23:12 +0000 UTC View Post