December 2009 – Page 2 – chunter music collection

A garbled wall of happy ambience, made for the Battle of the Bits’ Ann Arbor 8 mix contest. The samples for this mix were very lush and large. The lesson I take from this round is that the lush samples can do a lot of work if you leave a lot of space in the mix for them, otherwise, they have to be filtered, thinned, and chopped down so that the big sounds don’t beat each other up. Just as a composer should work with a variety of sounds and styles, a good mix should have a good range of sounds- small. medium, and large.

Congratulations to µB who won the contest by creating a very fun song from the same pallette of sounds.

Compo, Single Tracks, SounDevotion Competition

Found, At the Edge of the Forest

December 1, 2009March 20, 2013 chunter

Download courtesy of archive.org

This came in second in SounDevotion competition, round 44!

A snow flurry invites a walk, but a devil lurks in the woods.

A semi-orchestral progressive background music kind of piece.

This time around I accidentally rediscovered something I read somewhere a long time ago- slight delay can help individual parts (especially unison parts) stand out in a mix where playing the parts dead-on exact may make them disappear into each other, even when panned apart.

Enjoy!