AJ Stewart's submission for OST Composing Jam #7 (July, 2024)
Artwork by @kawaakar

Shallow

"You're approached by a dweller of the crystal caves"

Caustic 3 - Mobile music creation app
Slowed-down recording
Reverb and other effects

Mixed and mastered in FL Studio

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04 - Tako - Zone 2: The Ravine

The City Under The Bubble

"There's nowhere quite like home to begin a new adventure!"

Instruments:
Volca Modular (x2) - Tiny modular synthesizers
Deep Mind 6 - analog polyphonic synthesizer
Valhalla Supermassive and other effects

Produced, mixed and mastered in FL Studio

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03 - Cherries - Zone 1: The Reefs

The giant tortoise is one of many that traverse the industrial dessert. Sofia bands with a group of researchers and adventurers. along the journey, they are attacked by bandits.

Quantus DT83

for more information, see my submission to the jam.
(link will be available shortly)

Delivery Flight

A young girl named Oma must rescue her mother who is trapped at the bottom of the sea by an evil mermaid Yell. Oma, armed with the Shell Clock, a blessing from good mermaids that allows her to breath underwater and see how much time is left to save her mother. Now Oma must traverse the treacherous depths of Deep Water and rescue her mother from Yell within four days or her mother will become one with the sea and disappear forever.

Made for #OSTCompJam
https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-7/rate/2846779
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MarchenMusic - Oma Of Deep Water - Seaside Castle

Our character is a space traveller whose ship got damaged after colliding with a cloud of space trash. Trying to avoid more serious damage the character got under the influence of some unknown planet's gravity resulting in the ship's system shutdown and a rough landing on the planet.

Milestone Seven - 2. Spaceship Crash (OSTCompJam#7)

This is an orchestral/electronic composition! For the vision of the hypothetical game that this OST would be made for, I envisioned a game where you would be a "Worldwalker", someone who would walk between the fabrics of reality and shape them how you see fit, somewhat of a cross between what Aslan does in "The Magician's Nephew" and what Atrus does in the "Myst" games. Possibly you would be walking around in an isometric or fully 3D environment, but the idea would be that you would start in this kind of formless void hub world, and then you would walk up to different unmolded worlds in the form of floating bubbles and choose one to sculpt. The protagonist should be as ambiguous as possible, sort of a "VIvi-esque" presence, with the vast majority of the body hidden beneath a large, billowing hooded cape.

Each of these tracks is intended to be loopable. There is one leitmotif, which is intended to belong to the protagonist, but can certainly be interpreted differently.


Track 1, "World of Worlds", is meant to be simultaneously one of those anime FMVs that were so prevalent in the PS1 era, as well as a lead into the title screen. You get kind of a taste of the awe-inspiring, reality-bending power that the protagonist has, but you get the sense that the protagonist is using this power in creative ways rather than for any real desire for power or control.

Track 2, "Torpid Plains", showcases the first world that our protagonist chooses to shape. It is a dry, lifeless plain, perhaps once full of grass and fauna, but through some unfortunate events has become barren. Our protagonist walks around this place, interacting with what little life remains here. Maybe there are beings the protagonist can communicate with, but more likely it is clear that without intervention, this world will wither and fade away like so many others.

Track 3, "The First Change", follows the aforementioned first change that the protagonist makes to the chosen world. Life begins to stir in the air, and grass begins to bloom at their feet. As the protagonist moves around the world, the wind follows at their back, and the green of the grass begins to spread at each footfall, until at least the whole plain is covered in long, flowing grass buffeted by the wind.

Each of these tracks was composed in Logic Pro X, using a variety of instruments from the Nexus, Spitfire, and basic plugins.

If you've made it to the end of my blathering, thank you so much! I hope you enjoy the tracks!

MarchenMusic - Oma Of Deep Water - Seaside Castle

MarchenMusic

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