More or less the finished draft soundtrack for the 4 (5 including the tomb intro) scene's of the Journeyman game. The "songs" are played one after the other, fading into each other, hopefully as they would on the game. The order goes as shown:

Ambience > Civilisation > Mountains > Tomb Entrance > Tomb Interior (puzzles I think)

Hope you enjoy, feel free to comment and help me achieve the sound you think it should more be like :)

Home mix.

Journeyman Demo

This is my final piece for my ambient assignment. It is a mixture of multiple effect-sample combinators, me playing guitar and samples of children/men laughing. I based the guitar tone from John Frusciante who's album, "The Empyrean" was a big influence. The sampled laughter is due to the nostalgia that the track contained for me, influenced by Boards of Canada. There's also a bit of Aphex Twin and of course, Brian Eno influence strolling about the place. Enjoy!

Home mix.

Project Ambient Music

Messing about alongside heavy delays + reverbs.

Guitar Harmonics

The finalised version of the theme tune for the game Mrs Nesbit, that I based my final year project on. Originally this music was going to be for a cinematic, however the developers decided there wasn't enough time to create it, thus me reworking this for the theme tune (title music).

I was asked for hints of an apocalyptic future with elements of emotion so that the user could connect to this seemingly distraught world. Using a variety of sounds and instruments, this is the final piece I came up with.

Rain sample from http://www.rainymood.com/

Mrs Nesbit Theme Tune

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This was my final piece for our minimalist project. Started with me wanting to sample Bjork's "All Is Full Of Love" into a song.

The song features the piano and xylophone playing the same melody over a number of octaves for 4 minutes before the outro. At the start the piano is panned hard right, unfiltered, however the xylophone is panned hard left with a high pass filter on it. Gradually both instruments swap their places with, at 4 minutes, the piano panned hard left filtered and the xylophone panned hard right unfiltered.

The bass follow's Bjork's chord progression and was made through Reason's Subtractor synth alongside a compressor. When I mixed it in the studio it seemed fine however in class through Alesis monitors it seemed quite prominent, much to the dismay of myself, yet the class, including the tutor, were extremely positive about it.

As for the vocals I found a rough a cappella and used the song's title lyrics. Gradually the phrase "All Is Full Of Love" is said. At the start of the assignment I planned to use phase but it annoyed me too much however I liked the outcome. During the vocals the word "Love" sometimes appear, almost interrupting the main vocals as if to "answer" the statement. Also at the end of the song you can hear the outcome of the phase better as the vocals start to repeat and repeat.

Studio mix.

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