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The Traveler

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My (first?) entry in the "Art-Inspired Music Contest 2014"!


This song was inspired by this beautiful piece of work -


The artist is simply amazing and I highly recommend you check out more of their work!


I've never attempted a song like this before. I wanted it to tell a story (obviously one inspired by that incredible artwork). Hopefully that comes across when you listen to it! I wasn't really sure what genre to put this in.


Program - FL Studio 11

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It's a nice ambient piece.
Everything after 2:48 sounded flawless, but I'm afraid I didn't really enjoy alot of the stuff before that.
There was nothing there to keep me hooked, nothing that created tension and made me wanna keep listening to the track.
Can't pinpoint what I feel like is missing, but I'm sure you'll figure it out once you look into it.

3 stars.

This track I feel is kind of a hit and miss for the most part. While I appreciate your effort in storytelling and building a soundscape that attempts at exploring different moods and dynamics, I think the main problem is the lack of cohesion between the sections, as they feel like they belong more to a collage of sounds.

It's not even about enforcing a melody on a track like this because that's not really the main intent and it doesn't probably even need one to begin with. But the sound effects used here by themselves don't constitute enough of an immersive atmosphere, even if you strip them of effects.

I understand the experimental nature of this piece, as you said it's something rather new for you, but I feel for instance that when the melody starts after the first minute you could have used some pads or textures and build up the song from that point. Some other sparse sound effects here and there after the second minute feel rather dissonant and out of place in a relatively tranquil mood you've crafted, even in (up to interpretations) a relatively oneiric context.

Overall, it's not what I consider a bad track at all, but there are details that I think you could take in consideration for your next experiment.
//FD

Chemiqals responds:

Thanks for the feedback!

Really good work bro, nice sound design though i wasnt a fan of the wobbles at the start. You reflected the art very well.

Chemiqals responds:

Thank you! Glad you thought so! =D

really nice piece, I love those effects you used :D

Chemiqals responds:

Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it ^_^

0:00 Some nice aciddy wubs. I like that.
0:15 This track seems very atmospheric to me. I'd say I'm not very experienced in the genre, but I'll try to provide some useful feedback.
0:35 I can hear some rustling, and birds chirping... oh, there's an art piece attached to this.
1:00 Ah I see. It's very much attached to the art piece. It does feel like a time traveller discovering forests of time past.
1:30 Plucked instruments meandering their way through modulated frequencies.
1:45 A steady melody makes its way through.
2:35 The riffs are kind of getting more sweet than I wished of this piece. I wanted it to be more brooding, mysterious. I thought that was where I was being lead.
3:30 The sounds of the wind and rain surround me. It's very soothing. The piece ends before I wish it to, and it doesn't seem to have developed much over the course of its duration.

It's a piece that fits with the artwork. A calmish song of guitars, and modulating synths along with wind noises and some rain and rustling. But I feel like the song doesn't really develop into what I wished it to develop into. Sure, there are some nice sounds, but they got sort of sickly sweet towards the end, and the atmosphere that the beginning was building kind of dissipated.

I'm not experienced with this genre, but I feel like it should be a bit more swelling, a bit more harrowing given the dark and mysterious nature of the art. Spiritually deep is what I'm trying to convey, and I didn't really feel it in this one. It's still well-mixed and easy to listen to, so it gets points for that.

Thanks for the listen.

Chemiqals responds:

Thanks for the feedback! I actually went back and forth between a more dreary tone and this happier one that I settled on. I can definitely see why you'd want it to go the other way. I decided that I wanted it to be about discovery. So it starts out a bit more careful, then evolves into a sense of wonder and joy. The fact that there was still life in this depicted world was something that I felt deserved a more optimistic song =P

Thanks again for the feedback!

Credits & Info

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Listens
2,873
Downloads
36
Votes
8
Score
4.04 / 5.00

Uploaded
Mar 26, 2014
1:15 PM EDT
Genre
Ambient
File Info
Song
8.6 MB
3 min 47 sec

Licensing Terms

Please contact me if you would like to use this in a commercial project. We can discuss the details.