During the conceptualisation of this project I worked on several tracks as sketches trying to find the best sound which would fit with what we’ve been working on as a group on the Creative Sound Projects unit during this second term of the first year. My focus was to make an Ambient or Drone song because those are the genres on which I’m more focused at the moment.

As Brian Eno commented on his Ambient Music manifesto “Ambient music must be as ignorable as interesting” and that was the main objective in the beginning, to create a subtle piece which would focus on the nuances of the tones rather than create a sonically impacting composition. However, as I progressed on its composition, once again, I thought that this university exercise would demand something that would shine a little bit more and would combine different techniques, instead of a mere relaxing ambience, therefore the track featured some minimal percussion and the frequencies were stressed slightly, a bit more than we could expect on an Ambient piece.

After some trials of cause and effect, finally I found the sound I was looking for on a looped composition, this loop featured a dark baseline, a synth arpeggio and some other elements, that’s why I’d catalogue this into Dark Ambient or Synthwave genres, I will show you in the following posts how this was created.