#269

Done and submitted mine :smiley:

In essence, the track is about making a journey starting inland to the sea. I thought about the Australian Wheatbelt while I composed the sections - from the ephemeral rivers that run through the region, to the open fields and lashing summer storms, to the abandoned buildings creaking in the wind, and finally to the tempest of the ocean.

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#270

Whoa - weā€™re on similar wavelengths. I thought a lot about the ocean, at night, when putting together the second half of my piece. I also read Gerald Murnaneā€™s The Plains while working on it, so Iā€™m sure a hazy, mysterious sense of Australian landscapes seeped its way inā€¦

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#271

There must be something with long-form ambient that triggers water related associations in brain because I was thinking a lot about the sea when started working on it. Ending to my song contradicts any water related associations but I like to think about my song as a two parted: the first one is a dream when you are in water and look at the waves and water filled horizon and the second one is more down to earth after you woke up.

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#272

working on my 3rd ambient record right now, and there is an ā€œocean 3ā€ on it, so I completely agree, hah. I think water is so inspiring in terms of ambient stuff, especially gigantic bodies of water like the ocean, because they can be visually limitless (both horizon-wise and depth wise), but can also have so much complexity in them (ripples, sea life, etc.). They also have extremely slow cyclic/tidal movement which I feel like can be interesting to try to invoke in a longer form piece.

EDIT: released this before the comp on my last record, but here is one of my long-form slow moving takes on the ocean if anyone is interested:

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#273

Submitted! 22 minutes! Would I win the shortest competition?

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#274

@maf sorry to sayā€¦mine clocked in 18-19 minutes.

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#276

Me too!! I was working around some quotes from Wallace Stevens, all to do with water. My piece is in three parts. Parts 1 and 3 represent morning mist, while part 2 is supposed to feel like being submerged in the ocean.

#277

submitted! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#278

Thanks for all the recent contributions. Iā€™ll download them all and confirm with each of you asap. As these are so large I need to download at work, in batches.

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#279

Iā€™m in the last stages, just listening through to catch little things. Of course, with folksā€™ posts about their process, it makes me want to go back and change stuff in keeping with these great ideas, but I will resist (and hopefully incorporate them in the next works).

I, too, found myself working ā€œin water,ā€ but got there via a different route: the piece is inspired by another piece with water in the title.

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#280

Finished the 90 minute piece that had been sitting incomplete on my drives for over a yearā€¦ then took my usual three day break before listening again to be sure I wasnā€™t lost in some overtonal jungle that wasnā€™t nearly as ambient nor interesting as I thought andā€¦ yup. It wasnā€™t. Have two sessions scheduled to try turning it into something worthwhile before the end of friday, so weā€™ll seeā€¦
This is a challenge with ambient work for some of us who are easily hypnotized by a single note or a 20 minute ever so slightly different than usual feedback howl. I realized it when I first started piano at age, oh, 7 or 8? As excited as I was to learn to play, I was utterly hypnotized by putting my ear against the wood while listening to a single note decay until it was completely gone, revealing the other sounds around it. On one hand, that can help me embrace subtlety and let go of ā€œcorrectnessā€ when composing or playing. On the otherā€¦ it can lead to the equivalent of releasing an album where each track is just a single piano note decaying to its end. Overtone fetish? Iā€™ve become much harder on myself about this as I age, which is usually a good thing for the musicā€¦

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#281

alternately, we could choose next to no change ever, just repetition for a long time

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#282

Iā€™ve never really been brave enough to let simplicity really take over, but as a listener (of music & in life) I really gravitate towards the unadorned ā€“ which with listening being the creative act that it is requires some degree of erasure of the self from the composition to really be successful sometimes. My ego wants to say hey! I touched every second of this, look at my vision and cleverness or whatever. But I think sometimes its much more difficult to allow a thing to be a thing, erase yourself a little bit, and as a composer take the perspective of the listener: focused on the sound rather than the composition of the soundā€¦

All that to say, maybe itā€™s done?

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#283

Life has been very busy lately and I havenā€™t had time to make something for thisā€¦ :disappointed:
Next time hopefully.

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#284

The deadline for this is tomorrow suddenly! My track is 80% there. Just need a few more hoursā€¦

29 tracks in the bag. Thanks everyone for putting so much effort in.

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#285

Just bounced my master. Length 66:10, file size 1.15 GB, SR 48kHz 24bit Wav. Thatā€™s the format I usually leave it at when uploading to Bandcamp. As mentioned earlier BC has a file size limit of 291MB and 600 MB after you have made sales totalling more than $20. I converted the file to FLAC but the file size was 658 MB. I resampled the Wav to 44.1 and converted to FLAC and got the file size down to 616MB. I did a test on my Bandcamp and it accepted it as an upload. I tried the 658 MB file, but got an error, so they must leave a small margin.

Submitted!

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#286

Mine is here:
First time I ā€œmasteredā€ my own thing.
Iā€™m assuming we can post our work elsewhere?
I broke mine up into acts.

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#287

gonna miss this one, but Iā€™m excited to hear what you all make!

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#288

submitted! thanks for the opportunity ā€” it was a lot of fun putting it together.

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#289

@_mark how much time should I be budgeting to set aside to listen to this? :rofl:

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