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Saffron Slumber - Glade

from Ember Music - Volume 1 by Ember Music Label

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Back in late 2005, a friend of mine asked me to compose a soundtrack for a computer game that he was working on. The project fell through for various reasons, but I ended up with a few pieces of music that I was happy with. Glade began to take form in 2009 when I was going through my old compositions to make loops. One loop that I made was a 6-second clip of marimba from one of the compositions I had done for the computer game. After playing around with it for a few days, I hit a wall and decided to shelf what I had. It wasn't until I had been asked to submit something for the Ember Music compilation that Glade really became what it is. I initially played around with a number of orphaned tracks, but this one really grabbed me.

In its original incarnation, the piece had a rhythmic, non-melodic drum beat, but once I began work again, I found it muddied the sound and weighed the piece down. Around this time, I had been listening to a lot of gamelan music, so I had a bunch of ideas floating around that rapidly took form in this piece. The original six second loop can be heard during the intro as the initial four repetitions that continues through the piece. Each new "layer" (for lack of a better term) that comes in was processed from that initial sound. The primary goal this song was to maintain clear rhythmic aspects while creating sounds that, while still recognizable as marimba, have a sort of timbral uniqueness - for each individual "layer" to be distinguishable in rhythm, timbre, and pitch, yet to blend seamlessly into a singular, whole sound.

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from Ember Music - Volume 1, released January 1, 2011
Composed, performed and recorded by: Kevin Stephens

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Ember Music Label Seattle, Washington

Ember Music is an international artist-run label that focuses on electronic composition and production and was started in 2010.

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