The Vodoú Queen Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago (edited) **TERTIARY AUDITION TRACK** This is equal parts an "audition thread" and "a record of progress / WIPing" until the due date arrives. :D This is the source: Also called = 'Tenderness in the Air'. INFLUENCES: Bardcore / Neo Soul / R&B MAIN REFERENCES: An Example of Bardcore ??? ??? The Town Theme / Tenderness is the main source utilized for this remix, transposed from the Key of C to A Major. Track's purposely minimalist, to try and encapsulate the very essences of Lo-Fi with Renaissance Faire / Bardic aesthetics, paired with R&B rhythm section goodness. What I tried to do here was imagine there's 5 bards playing (for each of the main characters you are in the party with: Bartz, Lenna, Faris, Krile & Galuf), and have--what I felt--were songs closely associated with them that weren't their direct theme, but were a big part of their character development and were the songs I remember them for at very important plot-points in the game (no spoilers here: IYKYK). Each of the 3 supporting source choices I made sure were material already used in the previous albums, as well (as callbacks to them after so many years of the remaining 3 albums in this series being on hiatus) whilst also ensuring I'm not snatching away songs not yet covered for future audition pieces. Plus, two of these I really wanted to do, but were already done, so. . .lol. :D [It's 5 AM here, and I am still working on this -- fuck it, can't configure and am frustrated with trying to mash a bunch of sources together, but I will stick to the idea of the 5 main characters of FFV playing different instruments that can be interpreted as representative of their characteristics in-game.] This one is a bit more...aimless and free-form (hence why I don't have a usual 2nd and 3rd reference right now), because I am still trying to figure out how to formulate the direction for this, but I'll probably be pow-wowing with people like Bonnie, Colorado and Dyluck to see how I can shape this bad boy into something lyrical and appeasing in that sense, whether or not it's me singing it or writing said lyrics. That said, for the moment, I'm just diving right in, and seeing where the river current, booze, shimmering starlight and warm camp fire near the village takes me; (I've drowned in said river, help me). :P I also might struggle with super pretty, melodic content, in such a short time (took me ***absolute a g e s*** to write new stuff for tracks like Premonition from the FF8 album and Zoness from the recent Star Fox stuff), so please bear with me -- especially juggling 4 different sources, trying to make them unique and fit the genre bill (ex: Bardcore link sounds mega exciting and textural due to all the organic instrument sounds with lots of arpeggio runs and chord play because of the source itself, and I've barely scratched the surface of writing for real instruments with those things in mind, despite previous remixes I've made). Getting super deep and complex on melody and harmony lines takes me a bit, so if it sounds barebones for now, that will be why. But the concept'll be there. :) WIPs will be down below, as usual. Thanks for checking this out and giving the opportunity(ies) to try. Edited 4 hours ago by The Vodoú Queen Changed my mind / CBA with trying to mash a bunch of sources together... Can't wrap my brain cells around it even after taking a lot of time on the concept and, simply put, it fell through and I give in on it, lol. I'm "narrowing the scope". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Quote
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