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New Ambience: Stagecoach Heist

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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 sidetracked with other ideas and start a new project sketch. In fact, I had all 3 basically fleshed out when ...

New Ambience: The Stranger

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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Here is the second installment of my (apparent) Western trilogy. I've never done this before,...

SoundPad: Wasteland (Remastered)

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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 patrons, and you alone!

The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the t...

New Ambience: Frontier Town

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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 composer had been a frustrated guitar player (aren't we all though?) and this gig was going to be how they ...

New Ambience: Magical Flora

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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 immediately cast it as sci-fi (which it absolutely could be). "Magical Flora" seemed more genre inclusi...

SoundPad: House on the Hill (Remastered)

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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 patrons, and you alone!

The website versions will most likely stay as they are for the t...

New Ambience: Ghost Ship

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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.

Technically the term "Ghost Ship" means two things: The first is phantom ship, like the leg...

New Ambience: The Madding Crowd

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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 city (something I'm quite familiar with!).

There's a positivity here as well. Like when you go...

Surround Experiments Part Deux: Online Testing

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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 up a page and included a few of the test ambiences.

The page is currently unlinked in any of th...

New Ambience: Counting House

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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 the next gamer, but it's the simple locations and quieter spaces that often invite us to do the best...

SoundPad: Age of Sail (Remastered)

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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 patrons, and you alone!

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New Ambience: Hidden Passage

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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 through, around, or into some other place. How's that for specific? It's dark and narrow and doesn't see...

New Ambience: Pagan Woods

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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 time. I started by sketching out drums and the drone/guitar noise. I debated removing the guitar bit ...

New Ambience: Mainframe

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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 exaggeration) which I sent through some granular synth engines and then mapped a few parameters to MID...

New Ambience: Rebuilding

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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. It's about a community that rolls up its sleeves and gets down to it.

The music here is quit...

SoundPad: The Tavern (Remastered)

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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 patrons, and you alone!

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New Ambience: Jungle Bunker

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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 was to have it done by May 4th (Star Wars Day) but sadly, that did not come on a Wednesday. (who do ...

SoundPad: Combat (Remastered)

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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 patrons, and you alone!

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New Ambience: Stakeout

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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 are a lot like fishing in that the activity is a pretense for the real purpose: A proper get-to-know...

New Ambience: Collegium Magica

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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 ambience was the first thing I began with. I combined recordings of library reading rooms, room tones of em...

SoundPad: Olde Towne (Remastered)

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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 patrons, and you alone!

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New Ambiences: Tomb Guardians

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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. When the statue turned his head for the first time, well, let's say it was a pretty powerful momen...

New Ambience: Ship of the Line

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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 to be. A few days into it I began thinking it sounded vaguely militaristic, and more specifically, ...

New Ambience: Forgotten Forest

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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 tuned percussion instruments where I might normally choose a piano. Celeste, Glockenspiel and Vibraphone...

New Ambience: Docking Procedure

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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 favorite sci-fi music, it didn't have to be.

The ambience for this is a bunch of sounds, metallic a...

Samurai HQ (2014): Bonus Tracks

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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 thought that if I planned the projects better from the start I could offer these types of variations...

New Ambience: Nautiloid Escape

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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 play and b) I only play an hour, max, before either 1) the guilt sets in, or 2) something in the game...

SoundPad: Starship (Remastered)

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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 patrons, and you alone!

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New Ambience: Viking Tavern

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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 school for children, but, I wonder,  would the thirst be as fierce? Alas, these are existential que...

New Ambience: Treacherous Path

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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 it was the bard) pipes up and tells everyone he knows a shortcut. This is the first part of a tale i...