tabletopaudio
patreon
New Ambience: Ghosts of Appalachia
🕑 Added 2023-05-31 15:09:00 +0000 UTCGreetings Patrons,
This week's track evolved rather organically from a simple breathy vocal ambience to a derelict mountain shack in wintertime. As I played with the vocals - both melodic and non-melodic I created kind of a 'sound bath' - meaning there's nothing distinct in terms of melody, harmony or rhythm. Things just exist, and then don't.
I planned that this was going to be ghost related - or adjacent - because it seemed like a natural fit. But, it wasn't until I added the meanderings and scratchings of various acoustic instruments (mandolin, banjo, guitar, plucked violin) that the idea of a derelict cabin in Appalachia came to me.
The ambience is from the interior of this cabin. My thought was that a traveler came upon it looking for shelter and built a fire in the old stove. Soft winds blow through the mostly broken windows, shutters knock about, and floorboards creak.
As this track is in Patreon-only sneak-peek mode (live on the site next week), I've included the mixed-track, as well as ambience-only, and music-only versions at the bottom of this post. Additionally, I amped up the wind and tree activity for a 'storm' version of the track. I've included both a storm mixed-version as well as a storm ambience-only versions as well.
As an aside, the very breathy nature of the vocals in this track is often indistinguishable from wind (I liked that) so you may feel like a bit of ambience has snuck into the music-only version - and, you're technically not wrong!
Thank you all, as always, for your continuing support.
Best,
Tim
Comments
Anthony Falk
This is spot on for my next Holler Gamer (Savage Worlds setting!)
Yay! Waiting on my old gods of Appalachia and this is perfect!!!!!!!!!!! 🤩
