Music Composition for Impressions Composition Game jam

To get a sense of direction of what to compose for this project, the artwork by Katsushika Hokusai gave me an impression of peace and serenity with nature alongside an element of ethereal presence. 

To incorporate these aspects, I took a calm approach, with the key being in Ab (I was able to create a melodic line using notes within this chord progression using synths. I added effects such as phase, flanger and chorus to give off this ethereal energy I wanted to include. For the nature aspect, I included nature sounds with added reverb to help deliver this impact, 

For creating a rhythmic backbone, i wanted to keep the contrast of peace and mystery with a lower frequency, the bass is somewhat kept with the root notes of the chord progression (Ab, Fb and Ebm) but with added relative major notes so it wouldn't sound a couple of octaves lower than the melody hook line. 

All recorded on Logic Pro X using MIDI and Alchemy - duration of 1min 

Stream Link: https://soundcloud.com/posychmusictech7979/impressions-music-composition-game-ja...