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A jam submission

Sunken - OST Composing Jam 7View project page

My submission for the 7th OST composing jam hosted by Lone Rabbit
Submitted by RoosterSharp — 8 hours, 59 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Correlation to theme#1623.7854.125
Quality#3233.4413.750
Impression#3523.2693.563
Overall#3553.3383.638
Composition#4003.2123.500
Creativity#5422.9823.250

Ranked from 16 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Description
FL Studio was used for both of these songs. The songs were made by fiddling around with some samples, some midi work, and a small amount of recording of my own voice (mostly to use as a sample).

Tidal Drift:
This song was meant to be a sort of area theme type of song. I used a lot of bubble sounds to imitate the feeling of water, and went for an almost whale call type thing for the lead. This song also includes quite a lot of reverb/delay, which is meant to depict the vastness of the ocean.



Siren's Garden
As the name suggests, this is meant to be a theme for a garden cultivated by a siren (the mythical creature). For this song, I used several arpeggiated synths to imitate the rising of bubbles, as well as a few samples of my own voice as the "siren's call". Some of the instrumentation for this song was actually inspired by "Uwa!! So Temperate♫" from the Undertale soundtrack.

Message from the artist
I would have liked to make more than only 2 songs, however this jam fell on a week when I was quite busy. Regardless, I still wanted to participate, so that's that.

Theme

Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
For there songs, I wanted to go with somewhat of a "watery" sound. I used things like rising arpeggios imitating rising bubbles, as well as samples of bubbles and things to achieve this.

For both of these songs, I wanted to have some sort of means of having them be connected, but I didn't feel like going with leitmotifs, so instead I gave the songs very similar chord progressions. Both progressions revolve around starting with a major 7th chord, then playing that same major 7th chord a semitone down, creating an almost tide-like back and forth that I think really sells the ocean vibe.

Link(s) of the submission on streaming services
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL00LQBjDeQ2yaNG0mW_3aJ2y3zzxNbbAk&si=huLQ-pAx8qLpAieG

Number of tracks
2

Genre

Electronic
Synthwave/Retro

Soundtrack use permission

Yes (CC BY-NC)

Any non-commercial project

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Comments

Submitted

Really good submission! The soundtrack perfectly conveys that the game is water/ocean-themed. The melodies are also really ethereal in a way. I can envision it being for area exploration which is great. I personally liked Siren's Garden the most. The melodies were just heavenly.

Overall, really good submission. Keep it up!

Submitted

The siren like vocals in the second track reminded me of the Terraria Calamity Mod boss fight with the leviathan.

Submitted

You nailed the sinking feeling of being underwater with that first song with the chord progressions. the utilization of those simple instruments makes it stand out without being too repetitive. those arps are carrying the ambient tone, great job!

Submitted

Super interesting vibe, eerie and melancholic but still beautiful with ominous half tone steps. Great Job!

Submitted

Amazing tracks that are interesting to listen! Really loved the melodies!

Submitted

These sound like I'm underwater alright. Using a similar chord progression to tie the 2 tracks together works surprisingly well and even with that property, the track still evolved throughout and wasn't repetitive.

Submitted

Great underwater tracks, that eq work well to get the underwater effect^^

Siren garden was really cool with thoses little synth voices ;)

Submitted

Great chordal choices for underwater stuff, that progression is a classic! I would have loved to have heard a sub-bass in the first track to really fill out the low end.

I like the effects you went with for the arp in the second track, contributed to the overall sound perfectly.

Developer

Ooh that's a good idea actually. I'll try that out.

Submitted

The arpeggios at 0:10 in "Siren's garden" are 🤩

You've done a very enjoyable OST! Keep it up!!

Submitted

Is it cute? Yes. Is it atmospheric? Yes!

Tidal Drift - it feels like I'm drowning, but at the same time... Am I happy?

Siren's Garden - oh... CRABS. I LOVE CRABS! Heh...)

Good job, man. It was very vibe!

Submitted

The leitmotif for your 2 songs is simple yet it works well for your theme. I loved the first track since it has this ascending and descending feeling with the use of a simple key change

Submitted

Pretty solid sequencing job on Tidal Drift.  I'm quite happy.

Developer

Thanks!