(all)Lure

Written for Composing Jam #7 .

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(some recordings used in the track were recorded couple days before the jam)

Task: Compose an original soundtrack of any style for an imaginary game!

Theme: inside my world

Length: 4 min 22 sec

Soundcloud

cover: by me

Theme interpretation: you are lured by a Lovecraftian creature to its nest, as you sail though a misty forest river.

Software used: Recorder app, Audacity

Description of the game & what the soundtrack represents there:

Mystery horror game about some creatures luring you thorugh river in the forest area. It is cold. Heavy mist. The siren song is more of a distant echo, a feeling that hypnotizes, rather than anything audible or "song-like". 

The sound is a background track that plays on loop with occasional intense sounds (scare jumps, violin) depending on the aria: for example, a window suddenly opens due to wind) or a creak in a bad floor.

It is supposed to give a general vibe of the gameplay, while you're early in your adventure and get introduced to the story thorugh the environment interactions and object information etc.

In my devlog I have a post about references with visual examples.

genre: ambient, drone

Recordings:

* random badly played violin sounds

* local construction with occasional seagulls

* metal lid that sounds like cymbal

* rain

With mostly all recordings I changed speed, pitch and tempo. For example, I took a sound of construction (just even noise) and slowed it down to make it 4 minutes as well as lowered the pitch. In the final track it is the continuous background sound that sounds like some kind of echo in a cave. 

Due to changing the original recording format to fit DAW requirements, I also got a random noise track because the didn't converter didn't convert it properly. This sound is also added as a part of background.

The "cymbal" sound from metal lid after editing in Audacity turned into some kind of water noise in a cave.

Violin sounds lower than original. It imitates "scare jump" sounds and creaking steps on a ship board. There are multiple sound recordings that sometimes overlap. They are all differently played: loud long notes, bad mute notes, short melodies.