A wee bit of a teaser

I wrote about a really huge project I'm working on a little while back. I'm really excited about this project and the work has started out really well but the thing is I really can't reveal what I'm working on until the autumn of 2012. It's a really BIG and long project. But I still want to share something.

This is what I've been mulling over the past weeks. This simple line of melody. Two and a half bars of notes. And hopefully I'm on the right track with it.

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Starting something big

Tomorrow. Tomorrow I will begin to write and design something big. Short but big and really frigging exciting. The concepts I've seen really are inspiring and I'm quite anxious to get work started. That's about all I can say right now.

The New Dawn

A little while back I spotted an interesting contest on Audiodraft. It was hosted by Nelonen Media. They were looking for a new sound for their brand. My suggestion did not win, but I got a chance to flex out Sample Logic's Cinematic Guitars.

The sound I went after was uplifting. I began with pads and guitar harmonics. I got some really nice and airy atmospheres created with the new guitars. But they alone would not be enough to carry the track.

So I dug out a crushed and glitched drum kit to create a driving rhythm to give the song a good momentum. I didn't want to create too elaborate of a beat so I kept it simple with just the bass drum and a fast paced glitch ticking. On top the beat I wrote passages with a massive tom ensemble.

Once these were done I turned to the orchestral elements. I used lush strings to create a melody which I doubled with french horns.

The track was kept short due to the lenght requirements in the contest, but I'm quite happy how it turned out.

The New Dawn 

5 second audio stories

A short post this time. I have a really good feeling at the moment about a bunch of IDs I worked on this week. They are to work as transitions between songs.

I didn't just want to make single sounds but rather wanted them to be mini stories. It's actually quite a challenge to create an understandable short story with just sounds. Also they needed to have a good tempo so they won't slow down the show. I think I got them sounding really awesome.

The elements I used in then I collected from things around the office and things associated with the channel. They range from monkeys to UFOs.

I'll post some of them here later.

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Pelasta Punainen Pallo - End Credits

 I finally got around to actually uploading this piece online. A detailed account can be found in an earlier post.

Pelasta Punainen Pallo - End Credits

So that's how it sounds. I'm proud of it.

The Frontier

Every now and then I start up a track just for the heck of doing something. Anything. With out any real purpose to begin with. This is a journal of one such track:

The Frontier

Like I said this started out as something to do on an idle day. I layed out the beginning pads and bleeps one day and then nothing. The track sat on my hard drive for quite a while just waiting. Eventually I just forgot about this.

Then another idle day came and I browsed through my projects folder to find this one. I gave it a listen felt I could build on the simple beginning I had in my hands. I began laying drums and strings on, but the strings began to have a little too much of an ethnic vibe, which I for some reason did not want for this track. So I dumped most of the strings and pulled out the brass. They began with a simple idea that grew.

The more I wrote for the horns to play the more I felt the melody push you towards an entrance to some unfamiliar (yet all too familiar) place. So that became the theme to carry this track. The brass melody became grand and everything felt like it was going to plan. Then I hit a wall. What next? What happens when you get to the gate?

For a second time this track was left to wait.

For a while I had no answer. I made several different versions in my head but all of them sounded wrong. I actually spent a few weeks thinking about how to go with the second half. Then yesterday I fired up Sonar and began to write without much thinking of it. And the second half kinda just wrote itself.

In the end it was fitting that writing a track to portray the transportation between two worlds was so hard yet so easy to write.

Gear I used for this track:

DAWs and editors:

• Cakewalk Sonar X1
• Sony SoundForge 7
  

Samplers, instruments and effects:

• NI Kontakt4
• NI Battery 3
• NI Massive
• NI Absynth 5
• Z3ta+ FX
• Vienna Suite

Libraries and impulses:

• MOTU Ethno Instrument 2
• Zero G Animato
• Sonic Couture Konkrete 2
• Nine Volt Audio Stickbreakers 2: Ten Man Taiko
• Kirk Hunter Symphony Orchestra Diamond
• Cinematic Strings Monster Staccatos
• VSL Horizon series Epic Horns
• NI Kontakt 4 Library