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Project: album
Release date: 2021 soon ish
Genre: lofi, ambient, fantasy, tape collage, downtempo
Caravan is a concept ambient fantasy album / atmospheric sound collage. This is only a limited preview of the first 2 tracks of the ~ 16 track album.
Behind the music:
I began writing this in summer 2019.
Originally I wanted to simply pay homage to Vektroid and her early works; the strange captivation by the mystery of the music,
I especially enjoyed the feeling of uncovering some strange old artefact, a remnant of a culture that's
long faded into obscurity.
I designed a few wobbly synths, got some tape hiss and ambient recordings and started actually working on some compositions.
They weren't very good and I got bored and put the project on hold and resumed work in March 2020
when I felt it was time to turn it into something more.
I started looking for some more concrete inspiration. Geography, astronomy, history and others...
I listened to ambient recordings of all kind. I added a lot of
those sounds into my music.
Somewhere along the way I decided to add various string instruments, mostly double bass and viola. I found that to add a nice human element to
all the electronic sounds.
One of the first tracks I created, which now bears the name 'The Ruin of Parthenon', used to be called 'Spirit Plane' and it's undergone a series of drastic changes to arrive
where it is now. Check out the previous versions on soundcloud:
The Ruin of Parthenon: First version
The Ruin of Parthenon: Second version (after complete revamp)
Perhaps I will write and publish the story in the future once the album is completed,
I think that can add depth to the atmosphere, but so far, I have nothing more that I can show.
Project: album
Release date: sometime in 2022
Genre: ambient electronic
(This is an early sketch)
A fleet of spaceships arrive at a planet which used to be home to a civilization that's for long remained dead.
They start exploring the planet and discover many places and artefacts - all for the sake of cataloging their technology and documenting their history.
A team of researchers use what they found to piece together a coherent memory of the place.
Project: short soundtrack
Release date: 2020
Originally composed: april
2019
Genre: ambient electronic
Collection of tracks for my ambient animations. Each one scores a different scene from the 'Metal Valley' - a decrepit industrial district inside a once booming
cyberpunk metropolis. It depicts the decay of a civilization dependent on high-tech. It was the first soundtrack that I wrote for anything.
Highly inspired by the score for Hyper Light Drifter by Disasterpeace.
I borrowed some instrument combinations and modified them to suit my needs.
Just to clarify, I didn't steal any actual musical material, only used a similar creative process to compose my tracks.
For anyone who's interested:
Empty Towers is inspired by the track Titan.
Dustcloud is loosely based on track Petrichor.
Eagle's Nest and Hydroplant are more-or-less amalgamations of all the ideas that I've been working with.
Project: album
Release date: dunno, the futurrrrr!
Genre: lofi electronic/synthwave
Collection of synthwave tracks. It might make an album in the future.
Project: soundtrack
Release date: probably mid-
Genre: lofi/dark/orchestral/jazz
Collection of edited cues from the soundtrack for Flowerized. It is now still a WIP so this showcase of tracks is very limited.
First image that I drew inspired by Moebius. It's kind of crappy, but so is everything you do for the first time.
I stole a composition from Moebius and made a joke about it
Silver garden from the industrial district dubbed 'Metal Valley', part of a larger worldbuilding project
Scene highly inspired by the artwork for The Incal
Imaginary canyon scene, perhaps worth exploring more from different angles and adding more ideas to it, idk
Abstract scene, inspired by the Incal.
The accumulation of memories and gradual loss of quality that causes memories to drift into abstraction. From the Memory Strata collage project.
The accumulation of memories and gradual loss of quality that causes memories to drift into abstraction. From the Memory Strata collage project.
The accumulation of memories and gradual loss of quality that causes memories to drift into abstraction. From the Memory Strata collage project.
The accumulation of memories and gradual loss of quality that causes memories to drift into abstraction. From the Memory Strata collage project.
The accumulation of memories and gradual loss of quality that causes memories to drift into abstraction. From the Memory Strata collage project.
The accumulation of memories and gradual loss of quality that causes memories to drift into abstraction. From the Memory Strata collage project.
The accumulation of memories and gradual loss of quality that causes memories to drift into abstraction. From the Memory Strata collage project.
Pen drawing colored in photoshop. Inspired by the video game Journey.
One of the first pixel art pieces I'd made. Created with strong reference to one artwork by Waneella
Solarpunk architecture shot with a reworked milkshake bar, this time about 110 years into the future.
No description here, was too lazy..
No description here, was too lazy..
No description here, was too lazy..
The planet's diameter is roughly 6420 Km, which is roughly a half of Earth's diameter.
Hi, my name is Štěpán Trvaj.
I'm an electronic music producer and illustrator from Czech Republic.
If you wish to use any of my existing music for your project, message me.
I accept art and music commissions as well, please write to my email.
You can find me on many social media platforms but I don't really visit any of them regularly.
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