New SoundPad: Alien Starship (Patreon)

Greetings Patrons,

This is a sneak peak of the new SoundPad - it is unlinked from the main menus for now. The direct link is below. Please don't share with the Internet at large until it's live :)

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I've been wanting to do another pure sci-fi SoundPad and I got the idea for this one while I was working on the Nostromo ambience.  This is a 36 sound, classic sci-fi horror/action simulator with a number of possible scenarios and locations.

I see this as a companion piece to the original Starship SoundPad, in which we take things in a darker direction. My creative brief to myself was that this was either an alien craft, or some kind of derelict ship or facility that had been inhabited by hostile creatures. Obviously my inspiration comes from the the original 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien - and somewhat from the James Cameron 1986 sequel Aliens. I also watched films like Pitch Black, Europa Report, Event Horizon and others. The subject of the film is often not as important as a single scene or situation that i can recreate with a few sounds.

The sounds here are split between high tech and organic. All the wind and drone sounds, and even the thunder were created on a synthesizer to give them  that slightly 'off', other worldly feeling. I also wanted the sounds to feel less polished in keeping with the period the movie was made. For the alien creature sounds I went the opposite of synthesized/artificial and started with organic sounds and twisted them just to the point where I felt like I was losing the original source. 

Jerry Goldsmith's score for Alien is a masterpiece and has been imitated countless times. In an era of romantic and melodic cues, he instead chose tone, timbre and dissonance to create a disjointed unease. The musical track 'Tension' is a deep (apologetic) bow to Jerry's score.

In addition to the 2 musical tracks there are 5 tone tracks which can be combined to create subtle underscore.

I'll release this to the general public in a day or two and you can expect these sounds to be added to the Custom SoundPad sometime next week.

I've included the track Tension for patrons. It's only :53 seconds long but you may find it useful in other scenarios etc.

Thank you all for your continuing support.

Best,

Tim

Alien Starship SoundPad Preview