Amberwolf Posted October 5 Share Posted October 5 (edited) EDIT: There are now five parts to this Drywater, Mars (titles, main theme, etc, track 1) The Heist (track 2) Intercept (tracks 3 and 4; alternate versions of the same piece) Not Just To Breathe With You (track 5) This is part of a series of "cinematic" pieces built upon a few themes and sounds; some of them will use multiple themes/sounds in them to call up different "characters" or groups of a "TV series" that doesn't yet (probably ever) exist, called Drywater, Mars. I suppose the closest things I could point to that do exist that might be like it would be a cross between Firefly and The Expanse. Feedback appreciated. The first piece, the opening titles and first scenes: https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/drywater-mars Open space with stars dimming as the view pans over to a sky-filling view of a Mars that's a fair way towards terraformed, but still desert, and the pan continues to a freighter decelerating past the POV toward the planet. The ship is covered with cargo contianers poorly strapped down all over it's wide boxy "top", itself looking like it has long ago passed it's retirement party. Suited-up crew scramble over the cargo trying to re-secure straps, as the ship continues down thru the thin atmosphere, occasional bits of railing and stuff deciding they would like to land separately, toward the dusty rocky desert next to the ramshackle container town of Drywater, whose inhabitants have come out to the streets to watch the...landing... of the "traders", wondering if any of the goods will still be on the ship by the time the dust settles, or if the ship will be "landing" on the town instead. Cutscenes within all that for showing the faces of the various characters and their names/actors, etc. Edited 21 hours ago by Amberwolf 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 5 Author Share Posted October 5 The second piece, for "The Heist". https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-heist-drywater-mars-part-2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 5 Author Share Posted October 5 The third piece, for "Intercept". https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/intercept-drywater-mars-part-3 Open space full of unwinking stars; a familiar blocky ship coasting past the POV, cut to crew inside doing daily things. Alert sounds, cut to stars and an unfamiliar more modern sleekly predatory ship sneaking into view, the other ship in the distance but rapidly growing clearer as the predator decelerates toward intercept. stuff ensues, one ship coasts away, not doing so well, the other is a cloud of debris continuing the path the ship it used to be had been on..... Note: This piece is probably twice as long as it should be; I haven't been able to bring myself to cut the middle out yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 7 Author Share Posted October 7 Based on feedback from a VI Control thread, in Intercept, I dropped the whole sub range down by half, cut sub by about 75% in most places for The Heist, and in half for Drywater, Mars. Does that help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 8 Author Share Posted October 8 To help distinguish the tracks, I rebuilt the percussion for The Heist, it's still got a fair bit of elements from the first one, but I replaced much of the big orchestral drums both sonically and stylistically there with something hopefully more appropriate to the "scenes" and mood it's supposed to give, for more than the first half of it. https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/the-heist-drywater-mars-part-2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 13 Author Share Posted October 13 Updated Intercept's first minute's percussion, music, etc., to better imply the threat of the approaching ship. https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/intercept-drywater-mars-part-3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted October 18 Author Share Posted October 18 Revamp of Intercept, Mk2 as a new track, so the old one is stil at the previous link. https://amberwolf.bandcamp.com/track/intercept-mk2-drywater-mars-part-4 First two minutes have been redone, a few elements the same to link them, the last half (post-attack) is still the same as it had been. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Sunday at 03:36 AM Author Share Posted Sunday at 03:36 AM Any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Schiff Posted Sunday at 06:10 AM Share Posted Sunday at 06:10 AM I like them all. Part 3 does seem a bit sub heavy to me at the beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Sunday at 06:22 AM Author Share Posted Sunday at 06:22 AM Thanks for listening! Is the sub-heaviness continuous, or just where the "booms" are? (to make it easier to fix). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bajan Blue Posted Monday at 05:55 PM Share Posted Monday at 05:55 PM Hi I do like these, but I do think you would get more interest if you didn't post so many on one thread!! Clearly you are skilled at this and the parts play well Keep up the good work Cheers Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Monday at 07:52 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 07:52 PM 1 hour ago, Bajan Blue said: Hi I do like these, but I do think you would get more interest if you didn't post so many on one thread!! Sorry....I did this because if I make separate threads people tell me I should put it all in one, or no one views but one of them, and doesn't listen to any (or maybe just one) of them, and no feedback, etc.... Then I put them all in one, and people tell me ot put them in separate ones (and I still get the same results) so I don't really know what to do. These are all one "series" so I'd put them in the single thread. 😕 If it would help I can make new separate threads for each one...but...would it help, or just annoy people with more of my stuff? 1 hour ago, Bajan Blue said: Clearly you are skilled at this and the parts play well Thanks....I'm not sure what "play well" means? Any specific feedback? Best parts? Worst? 1 hour ago, Bajan Blue said: Keep up the good work I intend to. Well, the work, anyway, because for me it is "play", and it might not be "good" but I'll do it anyway, and hopefully feedback from here will help me make it better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted Wednesday at 06:39 AM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 06:39 AM (edited) new part five: This one is almost completely different from the others; I left a couple of bits of sound here and there, including one ending vocalization, to tie it in to the others. No huge orchestral percussion, a closer more intimate (but not really quiet) sound. Every story has it's intimate scenes; this is one between two of our hero crew, as the ship drifts in zero g on course to the station. POV outside ship, pan from station across the cold emptiness of space, turns back toward ship drifting straight towards camera, rapidly approaching the ship filling the screen until the window onto the interior is all we can see. Music pauses just for an instant as we pass thru the window into the room, where two crew are just floating into the room, one following the other. One reaches the far wall, pushes gently back, meets the other and both motions counteract and they stop, floating in the room, reaching for each other, touching each others faces, almost in wonder. POV closeups on their faces, alternating one to the other as the music swaps back and forth, this continues: Practiced nullgrav motions let them embrace, retreat, caress, clothing drifts away beyond them as you watch their emotions and sensations written across their faces, still alternating, sometimes both in view, as they rotate with the POV, all the way thru the interaction to the usual conclusion.... Not Just To Breathe With You -- Drywater, Mars Part 5 Edited 21 hours ago by Amberwolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amberwolf Posted 21 hours ago Author Share Posted 21 hours ago On 10/20/2025 at 10:55 AM, Bajan Blue said: I do like these, but I do think you would get more interest if you didn't post so many on one thread!! Ok, I split the most recent one out to it's own thread here: I guess if it gets replies, I'll split all the others out to their own threads too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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