Western Wasteland

Hey Guys,

I participated in a competition. The task is to compose an original piece of music about this artwork below. I tried to evoke the atmosphere of "spaghetti western" films. What do you think? I'm curious about your opinion. I've been working on it, so feel free to give me some advice or ideas! 
Thank you!
(I almost forgot, the time limit is 90 sec, so this is the reason why is so short this piece of music.)
The artwork itself: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XnXOEa

Here's the piece of music itself. The embedded player disappeared for some reason... It could have been some kind of bug. The funny is, let's take a look at the height of this post, without any content. These are not line breaks, this is the size of the SoundCloud player...

https://soundcloud.com/olivercomposer/western-wasteland

Edited July 2, 20232 yr by olivercomposer

Hi Oliver! The artwork is good but where is the sound? Have you made something temporary that you want to share with us? Until then, I will suggest that you should use a combination of a couple or more clean guitars to compose the main melody with effects that promote depth, clarity and a lot of reverb!

3 hours ago, Nikolaos Dimopoulos said:

Hi Oliver! The artwork is good but where is the sound? Have you made something temporary that you want to share with us? Until then, I will suggest that you should use a combination of a couple or more clean guitars to compose the main melody with effects that promote depth, clarity and a lot of reverb!

 

I really don't know. Last time I saw this post, there was a SoundCloud player on it.

Yes now the SoundCloud link is visible. You have indeed captured the dramatic and suspenseful atmosphere of spaghetti films. The first thing that came to my mind is Clint Eastwood preparing for a duel! It also reminded me the movie "Once upon a time in the west"! I love the sound of the guitar and adding the vocals at the end gives it an epic feel. For that short duration I think it's perfect because you managed to compose a pleasant melody which has every potential to become widely known. It could easily become the soundtrack to a video game trailer like Red Dead Redemption! Good luck with the competition!

Hey @olivercomposer,

I agree with @Nikolaos Dimopoulos on the instrumentation. This makes the music fit for western films.  I think the music does match the artwork.

Again your hallmark vocal in 1:05!

Thx for sharing!

Henry

wow I love the guitar and the choir ambience the track capture the wild west essence gives me some The good the bad and the ugly theme vibes

On 7/3/2023 at 6:37 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hey @olivercomposer,

I agree with @Nikolaos Dimopoulos on the instrumentation. This makes the music fit for western films.  I think the music does match the artwork.

Again your hallmark vocal in 1:05!

Thx for sharing!

Henry

 

Thank you for you comment! 🙂 This is not exactly my "hallmark" vocal, it's almost standard in spaghetti western films. 😄 I try to use less the "aah" vocal nowadays. I think I overused it a little bit. 😄

Wow, this soundtrack fits the artwork for sure! I like the choir near the end, and I wish you all the best in the competition!

Intense! I love the music and it goes well with the Western style. I know the requirement called for 90 seconds, but It's still WAY too short 🙂 Good music can't be this short, can it?

My only feedback for you would be to balance your strings and horns a little better. The electric guitars were very overpowering, and the strings felt like distant background music. The brass is even more distant and as a result, they sounded a little lackluster to me. But that could be fixed by bringing them out a little.

The other instruments though felt well balanced. Choir ahhs are perfect, wooden blocks, maybe slightly louder, but overall, very well done.