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A first glimpse into the soundtrack for my now-in-development adventure game about frogs in pre-Columbian South America!
If you enjoy this track, please consider liking, reblogging, or otherwise sharing it with your friends; it would really mean a lot to me!
The nature sounds you hear are from real wildlife around the world. While I’ve altered them significantly in this context, all the original recordings are public domain and available for free download. I’ve included links to the recordings used in this track. Special thanks to these recording artists for their contributions to the public domain!
A first glimpse into the soundtrack for my now-in-development adventure game about frogs in pre-Columbian South America!
If you enjoy this track, please consider liking, reblogging, or otherwise sharing it with your friends; it would really mean a lot to me!
The nature sounds you hear are from real wildlife around the world. While I’ve altered them significantly in this context, all the original recordings are public domain and available for free download. I’ve included links to the recordings used in this track. Special thanks to these recording artists for their contributions to the public domain!
A first glimpse into the soundtrack for my now-in-development adventure game about frogs in pre-Columbian South America!
If you enjoy this track, please consider liking, reblogging, or otherwise sharing it with your friends; it would really mean a lot to me!
The nature sounds you hear are from real wildlife around the world. While I've altered them significantly in this context, all the original recordings are public domain and available for free download. I've included links to the recordings used in this track. Special thanks to these recording artists for their contributions to the public domain!
As most of my tracks do, this one started with a piano sketch. I don't usually publish these, but I think it's nice to see how far a track can come from its initial concept. Without the full arrangement, it sound much jazzier!
Instrumentation was a major challenge for this piece. My game is inspired by ancient South and Central American cultures, but unfortunately much of their musical traditions have been lost over time or buried under Columbian influences.
I went back and forth quite a bit on this, but decided to address both musical styles, Pre and Post-Columbian. Before colonization, most South and Central American music was wind and percussion based. The ocarina was one of these instruments, as well as the Andean panpipes!
I chose to make these winds the core of the sound. I took a basic panpipe sample and layered it with other instruments and synths (including the ocarina).
The conch shell horn was also very important in Mesoamerican rituals. I was able to find real conch recordings (links later); I processed these samples and built a virtual instrument around them! They're very low and mellow, and make up the bass layer for most of the track.
These cultures used more traditional drums as well as percussive idiophones, but it's tough to find a lot of information on them. I ended up layering marimba, xylophone, and lithophone (a stone xylophone!) to create something that could fit into both ancient and modern contexts.
As for Post-Columbian instruments: I made most of these arrangement choices based on the lack of treble in the piece thus far. I built a "classical guitar" sound using nylon stringed guitar samples and combining them with mandolin and ukulele.
I also included a chamber string section, a brass quartet (Flugelhorn, two treble and one bass trombone), piano (because I have no self control), timpani, cymbals, and snare. And for the final bit of this thread: nature sounds!
I started gathering wildlife recordings for another project last year and was very pleased with what they could accomplish musically! I created tons of custom instruments out of different frog croaks and owl calls; I have many more that will be used in other tracks.
The best part of these samples is that they are entirely public domain and free to use! If you are looking to use any of these wildlife recordings or that beautiful conch horn, the links are posted above.
Okay, I think that about wraps it up. If you've stuck around for this whole post, thank you! Was it interesting to learn a bit more about my process? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I'm also happy to respond to any questions you might have!
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I know this isn’t what you wanted, but I never give anyone what they want, so whatever.
