Slow Drift Toward Hope [Final Version] [Project: Stranded in the Universe]

jo92346 · February 2023

This is the 8th draft for "stranded in the Universe". It is basically the final version.
Still two to record and I will start finalizing this project.

Lossless 48-24 audio in my band camp backstage: https://josephbalson.bandcamp.com/track/slow-drift-toward-hope

Edit Feb 28th:
the final release is here: https://forum.audiob.us/discussion/54542/exodus-album-release/p1?new=1

EDIT Feb 21st:
I Finished all the drafts for this project, You can find them in these topics. Now I'm working on finishing the album.

- Under a Full Moon
- Calm Waters
- U237
- Chasing Lost Planets
- Slow Drift Toward Hope
- Starry Night
- In the Void
- A New Home
- Plotting the Last Course
- The Last Departure

MadeofWax · February 2023

Forgive the pun, but this is stellar.

ReneAsologuitar · February 2023

Hi @jo92346 ,
Stellar, indeed!
And I love the path we are win, full of hope!!!
Enjoying this beautiful creation.
Thank you!
Rene

jo92346 · February 2023

Thanks for listening @MadeofWax @ReneAsologuitar

Svetlovska · February 2023

Hope, not my usual emotional state, but I can go with it here. The escape pod of the lone survivor of the extra terrestrial catastrophe which took the rest of her crew drifts, it’s sole surviving occupant deep in cryo sleep, toward the asteroid mining outpost she never thought she would live to see again. Rescue drones, manoeuvring jets flaring soundlessly, detach from the massive station, and make their way gracefully toward the tiny pod, their manipulators reaching for it.

She is saved…

Great work! Interested to hear the whole project!

jo92346 · February 2023

Wow @Svetlovska ! That is freaking close to the images I had in my head when I wrote it.
I tried to make the IA draw a drifting astronaut in the image but I never was happy with the end result. The less worse looked like this :

I’m also not really into hope (one the biggest cause for disappointment and depression), but that is the story and images I had in my head when working on this project.

Thank you for listening.

ervin · February 2023

I like your music. Again. Congrats.

One technical note: that long, "helpful" animation on how to subscribe, like and share around 1:30 is a bit of a rude visual interruption to the wonderful music. It may be put there automatically by YouTube idk, but if you can remove it, please consider doing so. It brings the listener back down to the ground from space, so to speak. 🙂

jo92346 · February 2023

I feel you @ervin I don’t like it either. But for some reason totally beyond my understanding, if it isn’t there people don’t like and / or subscribe. Didn’t want to do it but it is working. Maybe when I have a gazillion subs it won’t be needed anymore. (I doubt I’d even reach 500)

LinearLineman · February 2023

I relate to your doing large thematic projects. Look forward to hearing the whole assemblage.

ervin · February 2023

@jo92346 said:
I feel you @ervin I don’t like it either. But for some reason totally beyond my understanding, if it isn’t there people don’t like and / or subscribe. Didn’t want to do it but it is working. Maybe when I have a gazillion subs it won’t be needed anymore. (I doubt I’d even reach 500)

Ouch. Sad to hear this is what you need to attract subscribers. These intrusive gimmicks have the exact opposite effect on me. But thanks for the reply, and I wish you a lot of followers, your music deserves it. 👊

Ps. I just hope that, in the quest for subscribers, you won't have to subscribe to the "look like an outraged imbecile on the cover image of the video" school as well... I read that that works, too. Which is scary, if true. 🙂

jo92346 · February 2023

@ervin said:
Ps. I just hope that, in the quest for subscribers, you won't have to subscribe to the "look like an outraged imbecile on the cover image of the video" school as well... I read that that works, too. Which is scary, if true. 🙂

I’m pretty sure I won’t do that even if it really seems to work for reasons I totally don’t get.