Today’s #MusicalMinute revisits the meditative melody from a few days earlier.  However, the accompaniment has evolved to encompass a soundscape of energetic calm!  In the 21st Century, it appears that you get what you focus on most.  Was it always thus?

05 Jan 24 Calm Focus

Response to #musicweeklies challenge

I challenged myself to make a track with no KICK that still sounds THICK!

Challenge Zone

Learned it: Saturation, Lazy Drums, Grain Delay, Atmosphere

For All The Wicked Things

Chill Indeed

It is fair to say that I really love creating these tracks on a daily basis.  Is it easy?  No!  In fact, the increase in content creation and productivity that occurred during the pandemic has sometimes felt overwhelming.  However, I have always enjoyed a challenge, and value the self-imposed lessons of persistence and perseverance.

09 Feb 24 Guilty Pleasure

A racetrack racing track for #MWMusicPack2 featuring everyone's favorite cheesy SNES guitar

Razzmatazz Racetrack for #MWMusicPack2

@MusicWeeklies challenge for "Dungeon"
Game music isn't really my thing, but thought I would give it a shot.

Dungeon 2025-02-16

This was a collaboration with Cuy. (https://soundcloud.com/cuyguy)

The challenge was to start a track off with one musical element and then send it to your partner. Partner would then add a musical element, edit the previous element, and send it back. Rinse and repeat until finished.

Overall, this was a really fun experience and it was interesting to see how the track evolved in ways that I would not have expected to based on another person's own ideas. The resulting track is something that is pretty wild and unique that has both of our own musical "signatures" on it.

#Back&Forth #MusicWeeklies Challenge April 2025

This was a collaboration with Multiverse Rift Music (https://www.youtube.com/@multiverserift) 

I started things off with a pretty dynamic drum track, which MVR matched well with a wild prog-rock esque bassline. We didn't have a lot of time to work on it much after, but the track is pretty short, sweet and complete as is!

#Back&Forth (alternate second entry) #MusicWeeklies Challenge April 2025

Potion seller, I require your strongest potions.

image by sirartwork via tumblr (probably) https://www.tumblr.com/sirartwork/99356087358/fucking-potion-seller?source=share

Musicweeklies Challenge May 2025 - Potion Shop

* VGM Enthusiast/arranger/remixer
* Aspiring Game Developer, Career Composer
* secretly a metalhead, but appreciates all genres

I started composing daily pieces and posting them onto SoundCloud at the beginning of 2013.  By posting daily I am tweaking, experimenting and developing a thought, idea or event in time.  I am endeavouring to show that there is no limit to that creative spark that lies within each of us.  So much of what we do nowadays is about instant return, I am about evolution not revolution (although each month starts with a clean slate).  Join me on my journey to 10,000 (18 May 2040!!!)

Over the years I have found the Soundcloud community to be extremely supportive and encouraging.  It’s great to have a Global Mastermind of musical adventurers.

Thank you!

Tonal Drift is the solo project of producer/composer Mark Hollomon mostly focusing on Melodic Ambient and nearby genres.
https://tonaldrift.com

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