We're in the process of finalizing a brand new Stealth Bee Jam song, named "Distant Skies". It's a bit of a departure from our currently available songs in many ways.
First, it came together very quickly.
It was a combination of song structure, experience, and inspiration that led to Distant Skies being developed in record time. As our fifth song, we have evolved our development process (excluding the creative music-making) into a well oiled machine. Everything from creating new instrument riff buttons to selecting background images and generating the meta-data (the behind the scenes settings that controls the jamming) is by now, a well oiled machine.
Second, it's a little spacey, but with a beat.
One might disparagingly call it "New Age Music", or perhaps more flatteringly, "Electronica" (that's the genre category we're going to use.) There's a lush backdrop of synthesizers and driving percussion and some lead instruments that might surprise you. The three instruments are Koto, a Japanese stringed instrument, Pan Flute, and a lead synthesizer.
Third, almost all loops are independent.
Jamming on Distant Skies should produce some very distinctive songs as you can really customize the background track to your heart's content by turning loops on and off at key points in the songs. Want a background track that is virtually all Taiko drums? How about just some ebbing and flowing of spacey sounds? Well the possibilities are 10c9 (if my highly suspect high school math serves me correctly.)
Distant Skies will be appearing in the Stealth Bee Jam "More Songs" screen soon.
Friday, April 15, 2011
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