The Dream Editor

Theme submitted to IMPRESSIONS Composing Jam: Ambience #1.

You can also listen to it in streaming here.

Inspired by the image provided (The Incoming Mist by Charles Stuart (1895-1896)), I imagined a scene of an office where the workers are tasked with editing the dreams of other people, and the track tries to convey this in three parts: first the mechanical work mixed with the spiritual task of connecting with others, then the purely fantastic nature of the dream, and finally the return to reality and to mundane tasks.

Produced and mixed in LMMS with preset instruments. 

The drones at the first section are the Sad Pad (Vibed preset) equalizing down the low end, and Lead (SID preset), bassline is performed by SEGuitar (TripleOscillator preset) equalizing down the high end, and the lead voice is the Electric Oboe (TripleOscillator preset) with no reverb added. 

At the second section drones and SEGuitar are dropped and Strings Pad1 (ZynAddSubFX preset) provides the harmony. Acid Lead (LB302 preset) is used to reinforce and enrich the timbre of the last notes of the oboe.

A cushion Resonance Pad2 (ZynAddSubFX preset) is used for the transition to the third section, where Closed Hihat and Shaker (Kicker presets) provide the percussive drone while Mad Mind (SID preset) gives some kind of oral bursts. In the background there's a staccato of two Wah Choir (ZynAddSubFX preset) panned to full left and right. The piece ends with the beehive (BitInvader preset) before the Resonance Pad2 dissolves.

The panning I used can be seen at the provided image.