The lesser mabinogion
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And now for something completely different!
This one nearly didn’t happen….I spent about four hours messing around and ended up with something so dreary and uninspired, and that so stubbornly refused to gel into anything complete that I gave up in disgust.
Then an hour later, after having listened to some of NIN’s Ghosts I I went back and managed to get something out in less than three hours.
It’s short, and it’s minimal – but I’m rather happy with it, as it very effectively embodies the principle of this excercise – to actually get something done, no matter how short, unpolished, or just plain bad, so as to stop the stifling effect of obsessive perfectionism.
Incidentally, the first few hours weren’t a total waste, as the piano is based on what I came up with the first time round.
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goddamn, that’s bloody excellent! the variety of volume and intensity of the piano makes it really atmospheric.
maybe it’s a bit cliche but while I was listening to this (fairly loud) in my office at work someone went down the hallway with a trolley full of stuff, and the rumbling of the wheels reverberating off the walls/ceiling made for an interesting background to the track. Tried anything like that? eg. a sweep of perhaps some kind of strings instrument, with an really slow volume and pan sweep, kinda like the way a loud car passes a stationary listener, except not sounding like a car. Visit my office next week and I’ll play an mp3 that demonstrates exactly what I mean.
I also liked how it didn’t try to get too melodic or complex. Simplicity is great for this kind of “ambient” track