Behind You Lie Many Unseen

[Amberwolf]

Behind You Lie Many Unseen

https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/behind-you-lie-many-unseen

Evolving cinematic track, 3:42 long.  The Elven rock hard in the last minute. 

04-25-25: 042425 000001 1000034n -- First public version

Edited 16 hours ago by Amberwolf

[Amberwolf]

This was built almost entirely using Ghosthack's Shymer, Ultimate Composer Bundles 1-3, and Ultimate Cinematic Vocals, though almost none of the pieces are used wiht any other pieces of the same 'kits" or "stems" they were intended to be. As part of the experiment and learning process, I deliberately went thru Shymer's "song kits" and picked only one piece at most from each one.  Some are "loops" of patterns of sound, some are just individiual sound samples.    

The Elvish speech comes as spoken phrases, with English versions as well, in dry (no effects) and "wet" (effects applied), but I like the sound of the elvish versions better so I use them, and I use them for how they sound rather than what they mean (unlike in Gareki where I chose them for their meanings).     Later when I care what's being said and have something to say, I'll use the English ones in some other song.  I did leave most of the phrases intact in their order, but I stretched or squshed them in time to fit the beat of the song, and pitch shifted some of them for variations in ones used more than once. 

The sung syllables in the rockin' Elven section in the last minute of hte song were individual syllables of the chants in FunctionLoops' Ethnic Voices bundle.  I just picked a phrase at random, and split it up, and it turned out to work; almsot none of the syllables are in the order they were sung in.  These were also time-altered and pitch shifted in some cases.  

Similar things were done to choose and modify the staccato strings, the cellos, the long vocalizations and elven phrases, as well as the percussion, fretless bass, etc.

The only piece in there that is nearly unmodified is the pulsing bassline in part of the slow beginning and middle part of the song.

So, while I'm using existing recordings, it's not really much different in principle from playing a keyboard that uses samples of sounds to make it's instruments (which very very many of them do), except it is a bit more like creating that instrument in the first place (editing the samples for playback).   Or like paying an artist to record things for you that you then edit down into a recording....the main difference being that htese are recorded by such artists so that any other artist that wants to (and buys them) can create whatever they want with them, instead of being recorded to my specifications.