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Here's my 10+ minute ambient piece.
I think it's ambient in that it's lengthy (16:31) and doesn't have many notes. It progresses slowly and creates a kind of ambient space for itself.
It's titled Equilibrium.
It's still beautiful, and I already gave it a like after my first two listens back when I listened, but the challenge is to create a new piece of Ambient that lasts 10 or more minutes. 😉 And yes, "Equilibirum" is Ambient.
Sorry about that. I didn't realize that it should be new (which does make sense, being a challenge).
How about this one instead? It's brand new -- uploaded and posted today. Still possibly ambient.
It's titled The Island.
Hehe, I did indeed comment on your thread that it is indeed Ambient, and very lovely at that. I'll accept this as your entry. ☺️
Here’s my entry. I think this is the first track I’ve ever recorded over 6:00 minutes. 10 minutes is a long time!
This was done in NanoStudio 2 with SynthMaster One. One single live take, no edits, pretty much all improvised.
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That was really lush and beautiful! I'm so happy you participated in this challenge. ☺️ Not gonna lie, I created this month's challenge simply to listen to new Ambient creations and how everyone here defines Ambient as a genre. I really love this improv!
That said, man, I really need to learn Synthmaster 2 inside and out and then prepare myself for Synthmaster 3! I know International Drone Day isn't coming up until May, but I want to learn the ins and outs of Synthmaster 2 so I'll have a head start learning Synthmaster 3. Then I can do all sorts of interesting shit with a drone.
@jwmmakerofmusic Thank you so much! This was a great relaxing way for me to finish out the day. Thank you for keep putting up these forum challenges. I had a bit of trouble getting the SoundCloud player to show. Serves me right for trying to do the whole dang thing from soup to nuts, including posting to SoundCloud and copying the link, on an iPhone. It's there now.
Excellent, lol. Well, that's me on a good day, can't tell my right from my left. 😅 So don't sweat it mate.
And yes, I agree. Producing Ambient is absolutely relaxing, whether live improv, or producing it in a DAW, or however one wishes to churn out a piece.
There's also no right way or wrong way of producing it either. Okay, there is a wrong way, and that's not mixing down the Ambient proper (but that's the wrong way to produce any genre of music 
). But, there are no rules with Ambient. You can do chords. You can do single notes spaced out over time. You can do a field recording. You can take a short snippet of audio and stretch it out to ungodly lengths in PaulXStretch. You can do a combination therein. Or you can simply record little blips and bloops for hours and play that back at an installation. So many ways to make Ambient as I've come to find out.
“It seems necessary to me that the music must be generally constant but specifically unpredictable. Watching clouds form, change and dissolve is a good analogy. The overall nature of the experience is constant but the details of it are unpredictable.”
I try to keep these words of Brian Eno in mind as I go about fashioning something like this.
And many thanks to @jwmmakerofmusic for the inspiration. Sometimes all I need is a challenge.
I love what I'm hearing so far. Ambient has a special place in my soul - it's like a brain massage.
@rottencat gorgeous and ethereal and haunting. Feels like the Elven voices whispering from LOTR
@DavidEnglish I love that piano and strings.
@McD Fantastic layering and evolution / movement in the sounds. That was wild.
@jwmmakerofmusic Very cinematic. I love the small touches of rhythm and movement, and that bass is awesome.
This is so wonderful, peaceful and serene. A wonderful entry! ❤️ I feel all the better for having listened.
@jwmmakerofmusic gave me the OK to make a second post.
This one is even more “eventless” than the first one. 🙂
@peanut_gallery thanks very much!
Listening to the great soundscapes above, I jumped into Loopy Pro and threw this together. Some sound textures and abstract thoughts along with the amazing Kim Polinder (counselor).
Will listen to everyone's soon
Here's one I did another time that's over ten minutes but probably stretches the meaning of ambient. It does however evolve and tell its own story, so hey....
Great job. What would have made it perfect for me is it fading into a signal at the end then a voice saying something eerie lol
Thank you @Fruitbat1919 .
This was definitely outside my comfort zone.I appreciate the feedback.
I like the melodic elements of your track combined with the different effects. Really good sound design choices.
It's funny. This thread has really changed what I had considered "ambient". I guess there a multiple subgenres. Much like "rock and roll" I guess it covers a large amount of music with diverse styles.
I'm definitely enjoying learning more about it.
My ill considered theory is that genre was only designed to make neat selling boxes. I don’t sell my music and really don’t think the constraints of genre help music. That’s probably why I like listening to music here, as there are a lot of people here that just make music for the love of it and they don’t tend to think in genres much either.
Good job getting out your comfort zone and just making music
@rottencat Really nice and relaxing soundscape. As you said, very eventless, but that's a good thing in my honest opinion.
Thank you again for entering. ☺️
@tubespace This was very otherworldly in all the best ways possible! 😃 I felt as though I was chilling in a lounge, but somewhere in outer space. Thank you for entering.
@Fruitbat1919 I think the point of this challenge is to create something new rather than post older works, but that said, I really enjoyed this piece. It indeed stretches the definition of Ambient, and reminds me a little more of Jean-Michel Jarre than Brian Eno (which is a good thing of course as I love JMJ), but it's still an excellent piece and I'll accept it as such for the purpose of this challenge.
Alright friends, let me update one thing. If you want to enter more than once, that's legit, but make sure the piece(s) are new creations. 😂 Not much of a challenge to post older works you've already done, is it?
I’m in
I was hoping for:
1. everyone gets the same sound source.
2. You can only use any fx. Resample etc.
3. And it has to be in one take on a livestream
4. The sound source of today is: a toilet flushing
5. And we are live in 5 4 3 2 1.
Or just a flushing toilet and SAMPLR.
I will do it if anyone sends a unique flushing toilet field recording. 😆
😂🤣 freesound.org is your friend.
Sorry.
One more.
I’ll stop now.🙂
I was listening to this on my iPhone as I was uploading my latest piece to SoundCloud on my iPad. So relaxing, calming, wonderful. I do hope you post more 10+ minute pieces here bestie.
I'm really loving what you're doing.
https://forum.loopypro.com/discussion/63741/jwm-bending-reality-30-minute-ambient-in-cubasis-3#latest
I'm sure this piece can count as my second entry to the 10+ minute Ambient music challenge.
My adhd is getting the better of me, it’s went a bit…orb.
It’s starts of ambient, atmospheric, layered up and weirdly glitchy but after a few minutes I just can’t help but kick out the jams!!! Even at 98 bpm I’m writing dubby bass (might play my bass) and drum parts.
I did sample a trip to the science centre with my kids last week. So most of the drums are from that.
It’s getting ridiculous though. I’m writing electric violin parts drowned in weird guitar pedal reverb set ups.
I’m only 6 minutes in for crying out loud, by 8 minutes I’ll have learnt to play a French horn badly and by 9 I’ll have made and sampled (and stretched, filtered, gated, reversed & then sampled again) a full oompa band!
A challenge to challenge my challenges. But I am enjoying it.
OK @jwmmakerofmusic your hope is realized.🙂
This piece is a 1 minute loop in Koala repeated 10 times, with small variations, of 9 small piano samples.
The pad is provided by my beloved Dusty Ring Keys in Decent Sampler.
Again, please let me know if I’m flooding the thread. I may not be done.