Return to the Glass Cliff (Seismic Placidity)

[jancivil]

excellent sound design, quite accomplished.
this is pretty in yer face to be "ambient". whatever, genre tags are for sorting record store bins.

[seismic1]

Nice relaxing and meditative tune full of presence.
Clear recording, your production is evolving very nicely.
The drums are very nice, both musically and sonically.

Excellent track!

This one seemed to turn out better than I had any right to expect. It assumed substance once I added the drum and bass elements

Thanks very much for the kind comments, PatchAdamz, and thanks very much for listening. Glad you enjoyed it

[enroe]

Ooops, the song is almost old - April 2023: "Return to the Glass Cliff": The title
sounds like fantasy - and that's how the song starts. An expansive synth breath pad
provides the sound basis. And yes: the bell always rings here and there.

All in all, the song is a kidnapping into a fantasy world for me, maybe even with a
glassy abyss. Beautifully made - one can revel in it.

I don't know if anyone has already said that: the bell bothers me a bit anyway.
In the last quarter the track becomes a bit more dynamic, a rhythm is indicated
by bongoes. Even a hihat is added.

Beautifully done - very relaxing and inspiring!

[seismic1]

I like this a lot Tim. It has great space to breathe. The infrequent bells add nicely to the feeling and add some tension with their dissonant harmonics. The human sounding pad is gorgeous. The percussion is just right too.

Well done!

I think the impression of space here derives from my recent practice of using less instrumentation than I would have employed six or seven years ago. The slower pacing probably helped too.

The bells were an Absynth factory preset. I had to select the notes carefully, 'cos some of those harmonics didn't sound quite right. The vocal contribution to the pad originally came from a heavily reverbed SampleTank preset, which I PaulStretched in Audacity, and loaded the processed audio into the project via Iris2. I'm probably guilty of an over-reliance on that sound. The bongo/tom sound is all PM synthesis (Chromaphone), and the hats/castanets are a combination of Tremor/Microtonic.

Thanks very much for taking the time to listen and comment, John. Glad you enjoyed it

[seismic1]

Very nice atmospheric vibe and the "New Age" flavor is really pleasant.

Enjoyed

Cheers

Glad you enjoyed it, sbj. Thanks very much for listening and commenting

[seismic1]

I just uploaded a new mix, with the bell-synth panned more towards the centre, and a -5dB volume cut. I think it's a little less jarring.

Bells in original mix =
Bells in new mix = Perfect

Thanks very much for letting me know, Frantz

Make the most of it while you can I have some new stuff on the way in July which is almost certainly less "mainstream" than this one.

Oh noes, more parallel sequences??

Nope

[Allomerus]

Had another listen to this awesome track Tim. It's so lovely to listen to.

[seismic1]

Beautiful. I loved listen to the pad with the bell, and then the percussion kicked in. I really enjoyed it.

Thanks very much for taking the time to listen and comment, Jeff. Glad you enjoyed it

[seismic1]

excellent sound design, quite accomplished.
this is pretty in yer face to be "ambient". whatever, genre tags are for sorting record store bins.

This was a casserole of synths, samples and whatnot. It took a little "brute force" to put the sounds together, but seemed to work out ok.

When I had completed this, I realised that I had inadvertantly strayed into "New Age" territory, but was somewhat reluctant to admit the fact by incriminating myself

Thanks very much for listening and commenting, jan. I hope you enjoyed it

[seismic1]

Ooops, the song is almost old - April 2023: "Return to the Glass Cliff": The title
sounds like fantasy - and that's how the song starts. An expansive synth breath pad
provides the sound basis. And yes: the bell always rings here and there.

It's surely not as old as me

The song is written for the Temple on the Glass Cliff. You can see a picture of it on the first page of this thread, and it is certainly a fantastic/fantasy location.

All in all, the song is a kidnapping into a fantasy world for me, maybe even with a
glassy abyss. Beautifully made - one can revel in it.

I don't know if anyone has already said that: the bell bothers me a bit anyway.
In the last quarter the track becomes a bit more dynamic, a rhythm is indicated
by bongoes. Even a hihat is added.

Beautifully done - very relaxing and inspiring!

I had some comments about the bell being too loud in the original SoundCloud upload. I remixed the track on the 14th of May, and the SoundCloud link is that updated version. The Bandcamp upload is the original.

Thanks very much for taking the time to listen and post your thoughts, Andy. Glad you liked it

[seismic1]

Had another listen to this awesome track Tim. It's so lovely to listen to.

Glad you're still enjoying this, John