Very cool pieces. Always a treat to listen to your live playing on the lyre. I felt the improvisational nature of the tracks worked well with the theme and for them being ambient, but I would also have loved to find a bit of direction compositionally to transition to the second track or make some build-ups and create more tension for the "secret" part of the theme and keep the tracks more interesting. Also, and of course this feels intended, the tracks deviate from the Japanese vibes of the picture, and I felt right into Viking territory or a Scottish lake.
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The Secret Lake [Host Submission: Disregard Placement]'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #3 | 3.965 | 3.965 |
| Listenability | #3 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Correlation to Theme | #3 | 4.176 | 4.176 |
| Execution | #4 | 3.824 | 3.824 |
| Vibe/Atmosphere | #6 | 4.118 | 4.118 |
| Composition | #9 | 3.706 | 3.706 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Description
The Secret Lake is a set of two ambient tracks. The first represents the water, and the approaching to this flame. It would serve as background music to a scene like the one I painted for this image.
The second track is the power of the secret fire on an altar in the secret lake.
I used my historically replicated Trossingen lyre and a historically replicated amber bridge from the Viking Age, both made by me, with gut strings.
Track 1: a soft track, playing the lyre, using a Duduk sound to get a sweet sound. This is the softness of the night as one approaches this altar in the middle of this hidden lake.
I actually put a piece of leather on top of the holes to match portions of the instrument where there was no wear, like there was some sort of covering on the holes, like it was maybe adjustable.
To my absolute shock, when I did this experiment, it made the sound of the instrument far more delicate and sweet.
Track 2: This was born purely out of improvising on the lyre, I really liked this particular improv. I basically struck the lyre with my hands somewhat like a flamenco guitarist, and plucked between the strumming. I really got emotional when I was doing the improv to this track. I don't know how well that translates, but I really felt this one as I was doing it.
For modality, I oscillated between Phrygian and Lydian. Both drones are in the second track.
DAW Screenshot - Demonstrate that this is your own work
https://i.imgur.com/wWZxzIV.png



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