On My Way

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It's time for the theme "Time", which I found it really challenging because I'm running out of time! The weekly soundshoot theme submission due is every Monday 9am, I started planning on Friday and try to make something on Saturday, but I wasn't in the mood to make things done. In the end, I'm forcing something out on Sunday night itself, working under pressure to meet a deadline is not fun.

This is a pretty general and wide theme, being a student in University of Nottingham, the clock tower pretty much affects my idea. Thus, I'm starting the clip with clock ticking sound effect and goes to a typical clock tower alarm tone.

Trent Building clock tower in uni:

Also due to watching Japanese anime often, the clock tower sound makes me think of school dismiss time. Well, it's quite true that the end of last period in school is what we await the most, rushing to fulfill all the plans we had in mind for the rest of the day (but in reality, we're just trapped at home doing homework).

OK, it's more like... when the clock strikes, I'm setting on a journey to do whatever I wish. The whole clip is basically a variation of the clock tower alarm, with drum beat progression from quarter to eight-note, and finally to sixteenth-note, that builds up the sense of longing and rushing (it's like the journey started from walking, to slow jogging, and finally running towards a goal).

Click here to listen to:
On My Way - Adam Jong

It's a synth and distortion guitar driven clip, and I admit it really sounds like an anime opening theme. Another thing that I learnt is... to build up the emotion, it's not necessarily adding more and more layers of instruments. Muting off most of the other tracks except the rapid synth and sixteenth-note beat kinda gives an image of time-freeze for a flashback, and resume running as the instruments join once again.

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"Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do."
-Jeremiah 42:3-

I kinda agree that everyone is heading to somewhere, for a dream that how we define success. No matter if we are walking or running, we're on our way. There will be time that we are discouraged and blinded by lies, and not see the direction clearly anymore. Pray that The Lord strengthen us, just like the verse has said, guide us there, Amen.