I check out Cuphead, but man do I suck. I still recommend this game! Check out the video!
The game is a shooter in the style of a 1930's cartoon and I love that! It can be a bit hard but after a little practice it's a lot of fun. Don't forget those power-ups!
It's an album of instrumental tracks with calming sounds and guitar. I recorded it to help stressed out people calm down. I use it at work every day. It helps me calm down.
Here's the youtube video playlist:
That's pretty much all you need to know about "atmospheric".
If you're at all like me in that you like to know the story behind things like this album keep reading. The rest of this article is going to be just that. I'm going to go on and on about this album because I really like it. I'm proud of this album and want to talk about it.
It all started with this:
This is "Lynn Monologues". A 5-song EP of solo guitar I recorded a couple years ago (2015).
After that I decided to do a full album of that kind of song.
I decided to give myself a couple of restrictions because... I guess because I keep hearing that having limits helps fuel creativity. I did the same thing with my comic "IMPENDING DOOM!" which I thought was pretty neat, but I'm biased.
Restriction 1: The background sounds for each song (except the bonus track) had to be natural sounds that I didn't doctor too much.
Restriction 2: The only other sound could be guitar.
That was it! With those limitations I recorded 12 more tracks like the first two (and one weird bonus track).
I think it's pretty good. But I'm biased (as I've said).
I tried to make all of these tracks soothing. I picked noises I thought could help whoever listens to them calm down, fall asleep, meditate, or whatever they want to do with calming music. (Just... you don't need to let me know what you do while listening to it...)
As I recorded I realized that I wanted to make music that could be on a loop in the background of a level in a video game:
or in the background at a section of a theme park:
Or anywhere that needs a bit of atmosphere.
I ended up using a lot of water sounds. I have a few other ideas that I didn't include... maybe I'll make a sequel album.
For the guitar parts I tried to write riffs that sounded nice, weren't too raucous or loud, and could help soothe without distracting too much from whatever was going on. (again, I don't need to know)
Huh... I thought I had a lot more to say about this album, but I think that's all I got.
This is the first in (hopefully) a series of articles I plan to write about things that have been worn, broken-in, and loved into something much better than the original items.
I am fascinated by this concept. So much so that I wrote a song about it (see the above video). That song is the theme song for this (probably) ongoing series of articles.
For this first "The Worn" article I'm going to focus on the first time I remember noticing the concept of things wearing down over time. Scrooge McDuck's Worry Room!
Whenever Scrooge got worried about something and needed to think he would go into his worry/thinking room and walk in a circle, wearing a groove in the floor.
I wanted one of these!
I went so far as to try to walk around in a circle in my basement to try to start my own rut. I gave up soon after.
This idea has stuck with me since I first saw it on DuckTales all those years ago.
On another episode Scrooge had a Lazy Susan Turntable thing he walked on in his worry room.
I liked this idea too, but I prefer the idea of doing something so often it changes the environment you do it in.
This was the beginning of my fascination!
In elementary through middle school we had neighbors who would walk through our backyard every morning on their way to school. They stuck mostly to the same path. By the time we moved into that house there was already a path worn where they walked.
This path reminded me of Scrooge's worry room.
Now that the new DuckTales is coming out soon (I really enjoyed the first episode!) I decided to start reading through the collections of Scrooge McDuck comics that are in the public library.
They have pictures of his worry room too!
(pics taken by me!)
I guess the second picture isn't the Worry Room, but it's the same concept.
I still love this idea and would still like to have a Worry Room of my own! Since I doubt I'll ever get to swim in a ball pit money bin, maybe I'll have to figure out a Worry Room...
It's a huge store that has pretty much anything I could ever think of or want from a grocery store, plus it has animatronics and other weird decorations!
I was too overwhelmed to even know where to begin taking pictures. So check out the website and if you ever find yourself in the Cincinnati/Fairfield Ohio area I highly, highly recommend, can not recommend enough that you check it out.
It's about 1 hour and 45 minutes from my house, and I will definitely be back.
I've started working on another album (besides the one I mentioned a sentence ago)! This one is going to be all instrumentals over soothing background sounds!
The video above is one of those songs.
And here's another!
A couple of the songs from my post about Instrumentals will be on it too!
I finished the second of the 3 albums I've been working on! (neither of the other two albums I mentioned).
This one is all music box songs made with the software to create 3D printed records for the Fisher-Price Music Box Record Player!
Since I can't get the 3D printing software to communicate with the song-writing software, this is what will be available for now!
