I’ve found some time in an increasingly busy life to put together another track for the Original Novel Soundtrack tied into my novel When Winter Calls.
This track continues my explorations into hardware production and particularly the eurorack modular format, whilst adding on the sampling capacity of an Elektron Digitakt and the editing capacity of Bitwig Studio 2.
It’s a difficult track to categorise, falling in between glitch and ambient, and perhaps a bit slower than the scene in the book warrants… but I think it does capture the building sense of tension, still at this stage on the positive side of excitement rather than the ominous tones that develop soon after this scene which occurs early on in the book.
Tiny flashing lights lingered in the air.
It had started to snow.
Falling snowflakes spun around one another, the wind providing the rhythm to their mesmerising dance. As they came down in greater numbers, Jared found himself transfixed by the movement. Intently watching the rapidly shifting pattern. His mind tried to work out some causal relationship, a hidden geometry beneath nature’s dance. There was a pattern there, he knew, but one that relied on so many factors not even perceptible to the human eye.
“Maybe one day we will see it clearly,” he thought. “One day soon. Before too long people might look upon this tapestry and not see something mesmerising in its beautiful complexity, but something mundane in its predictability. Every aspect calculated and tracked through whatever future versions of the interface would keep propelling them forward. Will we still see it as beautiful? Will there be any sense of mystery left?”
Track created with: Digitakt / Mother 32 / Lifeforms SV-1 / Batumi / WMD Ultrafold / Disting Mk4 / Eventide Space / Bitwig Studio 2
