Epic World

Hi everyone!

In addition to the other things I've been working on lately, I have had the great pleasure of helping to promote a library called Epic World by Eduardo Tarilonte. It's truly a fantastic tool for organic ambience/sound design work and I highly recommend it to anyone needing evocative sonic textures in their music.

The following is a set of demos I produced for the library, all made using nothing but the library itself of course. No external processing either so what you hear is what you get:

Epic World Demos

I hope you enjoy them...they're the kind of ambient thing it's nice to just fall into and see what imagery pops up. As always, if you're reading this from the network, you need to click the link in this post to get to the music — the attached file is just a placeholder. Let me know if you have any cool responses, and otherwise you're welcome to just listen. I've also enabled them for downloading if any strikes your fancy. :happy:

God your mixes are so beautiful Marius, it's really an art. As for the piece, I love the groove you have, and you create such a great emotion with ambiance. Great job!

Edit: Just realized you had four demos!

Second piece: Loving this piece. You got my head moving. Are all of these just from the library, or are you using some spectrasonics pads?

Third piece: Such an interesting assortment of sounds. Its amazing how you put it all together to flow so well. The mix on this one is blowing my mind.

Fourth piece: Gave me goosebumbs, great job Marius!

as usual marius, you don't keep us bored, everything is fresh, crisp, and emotional, i'm not talking about the mixes and the professional level you've reached, because, well you know why.

i really like those sounds also, and the way you panned them especially the last track, its got such a real sense of room in it, the mix is so good, i'd love to hear what kind of effects you put on those samples.

i'm ashamed to put my pieces when i hear those, but i think i'm not the only one so its ok!!!

Thanks, guys!

I'm thrilled that you found the emotion in them. Sometimes I find it hard to communicate emotion to folks used to my richer orchestral stuff through ambient works...to me it's a consistent musical language, but sometimes folks are trained to recognize sophistication only in technical complexity. Tough stereotype to defeat.

Anyway, since it clearly doesn't apply to you two, life is good! :D J, to be honest there's actually no effects put on the tracks...what you hear is just the library instruments blended, panned, and mixed together straight-up. There's no extra reverb and no EQ, let alone anything fancier. It's just about recognizing the shape of the sounds and putting the mix together like a big beautiful tangram of sound. In any event, you shouldn't be ashamed to put your work up...it's important to be able to measure your progress, and if you like my mixes then getting yours to sound similarly crisp is a useful milestone to have handy I think. I do the same, obviously.

Really appreciate the responses!

all the pieces are awesome! you always astonish us marius! i love the percussions you do ! each time i hear your work i know im going to hear a great percussions work! great pieces all of them and yes there are emotions in a ll of them , i even think some of them could have worked in Avatar the film!

Very nice indeed! Only thing I did not like was the flute instrument in the 'approaching the altar' piece, which has the same swell every single note and became a bit annoying to me. But considering these are just demos (and even when not considering that), they are nontheless definitely great!

Abdullah: I certainly try! And I love my percussion, so it's nice when I get an excuse to use more of it. I'm honoured that you think some would have worked in Avatar, though I'm sure if I had gotten that gig I would have put more creative effort into it! :)

Roy: I definitely hear what you mean about that flute and, as you probably guessed, it's because the sample didn't allow me any control over that so I was just doing my best to keep it sound natural with the phrasing...more or less successfully. The library is more geared toward ambiences than multi-sampled instrument patches, but I liked the tone of the flutes so I wanted to use them.

[though I'm sure if I had gotten that gig I would have put more creative effort into it! :)

I understand your pain...

Wonderful samples, ambient music is a tricky one- it can be easy to make something ambient that sounds good but much harder to write four tracks of it, each with a distinct sound and a shape to the music.

Hey Marius,

As always this sounds great! I like what you have done with the library, although I am not really the type of composer that uses these recordings in my work. However, I do like listening to that kind of music once in a while :). I guess there isn't too much to say, you did it all fine, and the production end was good. I think it is just good as demo.

Greetz

Thank you for your thoughts, gentlemen! You are correct that ambient music is tricky to write and especially to write in an interesting manner over several different tracks, but in all honesty part of the challenge with these was actually managing to keep them so short (for hurried consumer consumption). I find that when I'm doing ambient work, having some room to breathe and develop is good. Not necessarily ending up with 20-minute snoozefests, but still having a bit more room to work with. Anyway, I am actually quite happy with how these individually turned out and I look forward to incorporating the library into new tracks where I can use my other libraries too!

Man Marius. I love this stuff. Great meditation music. I wouldn't even know how to go about throwing something like this together - there's too many melodic themes running through my head haha. :P Anyway, sounds great as always!

--Jake