I was given a few songs on free music archive which I used as my basis for this track, a lot of them were not super score-y and were also generally beyond my skill to create. I am, ultimately, not a musician and much of the most ‘musical’ pieces I make are done so with a lot of help from generative processes or midi samples which I then mess around with. In the case of this track I placed the random function on a 35% chance of playing something different from the note I input and made it play within the major pentatonic scale, the overall intended tone is a positive sense of letting go, and so it felt like it had the best sound for the job. The rest was just an improvisation I went for. What I did record felt a bit too fast for the tone and so I slowed it right down, having a reverb with a long tail end on top of this helped to create an ambient sort of feel to the whole thing. I also played some very basic Cello draws underneath to fill out the mix a bit.
I think overall it needs something more active. Whenever I try and add anything though it either turns the whole track into something quite creepy or just doesn’t match it at all, I will see what the MA students think and maybe ask some of my class mates in my group what they think.