Newfangled Hotel Ambience 3: A Plan For The Night
Notes On Newfangled Hotel Ambience 3: A Plan For The Night
TRACK DATA
Composition tool: MuseScore, Studio One 5 Professional
Recording tool (DAW): Studio One 5 Professional
Number of tracks: 46
Sound source: Presence XT, Impact XT,(All built-in sound sources of Studio One)
Composition and Recording period: Jul 5 2021 - Aug 13 2021
Concept / Composition
(TM writes:)
I composed "NHA3: A Plan For The Night" just after NHA1 & 2. I felt from 1 & 2 that we could go further for jazz-band-based (to some extent) and contemporary tracks with a consistently luxurious atmosphere, which I would love to hear in some social space within a hotel.
As I tell in the "Newfangled Hotel Ambience Series" page, NHA1 and 2, the first-released pair is something we would like to propose as alternative hotel ambience -- the introduction to the whole album. The next pair of 3 and 4 has been made groovy in a way that hotel music in general hardly is.
I often travel for work and stay in a hotel for a night or two. When you are free in the next morning, you feel very free in the evening, thinking what to do for the night. You might schedule, for example, some meeting with your old friend living in the area to have dinner and drinks. It's simply about that sort of excitement. It reminds me especially of a scene when I was waiting for a friend of mine to ring me but that was eventually very late.
I thought there are few songs on the time signature of 6/8 being played in hotels, a rhythm-and-blues-like groove in a sense. To me it felt so great and fun that I continued and developed the rhythm to "NHA4: The Drama In The Elevator".
Again in this track, I apply very FMT-esque features. It starts with strings dyads on just a little bit tricky and groovy bass and percussion, implying Bb sus2 ambiguously. A muted guitar appears next, mildly showing a poly-rhythm. In ways like these, we put the features FMT frequently and uniquely use within a range of luxurious and smooth sounds into the track.
It might be odd that I say like this but FMT's music in general is not necessarily suitable for repetitive listening; in a sense, it could well demand listeners a lot of energy and thinking. The Newfangled Hotel Ambience Series is, on the contrary, relatively suitable in me. Even before its release I have had many listens repeatedly without purposes of the production.
(TI writes:)
This track was also mostly scored by TM, with some long-tone string harmonies and accordion phrases added.
Mixing
In the mix, I only used reverb and delay to give it a live feel. I took care of the dynamics and equalization to make each note sound clean.
However, the number of tracks and instruments in this song is quite small for our music, so I only adjusted the bandwidth overlap between the tracks (in this song, it is concentrated between 300kHz and 500kHz), and not that detailed. Also, for the drums, I played the MuseScore and output each part individually to WAV to get the right balance. And that's all I've done.
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