New Track: Our Hearts Beat

patrickwoo · Our Hearts Beat

Our Hearts Beat is the title of my latest track for Enigma, the latest sound-set for Sonic Underworld Enigma. Instead of creating something mysterious and perhaps dark, I ended up with a track with an upbeat and a somewhat positive feel.

There is also a "naked" version with just the Enigma presets. https://soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/our-hearts-beat-naked

Find out more at the product page: https://www.luftrum.com/enigma/

https://soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/our-hearts-beat

New Track: When Darkness Stares Back

 

patrickwoo · When Darkness Stares Back

My latest track on Soundcloud.

Here's a dark track with a disturbing lead. When we stare into the darkness, sometimes it stares back. This track features Sonic Underworld's latest sound set, Axion for Dark Zebra.

Listen to the naked version featuring just the sound set here:

https://soundcloud.com/.../patrick-woo-when-darkness...

This cover art is my own CG creation in Houdini based on a photograph as texture. I will show the piece in its entirety soon.

Here's a link to the naked version of the track with just Sonic 

Underworld's Axion for Dark Zebra.

https://soundcloud.com/patrickwoo/patrick-woo-when-darkness-stares-back-naked

Creating a Camera Frustum in Houdini

Creating a Camera Frustum in Houdini from Patrick Woo on Vimeo.

In this newest video tutorial, I show how to quickly create a camera frustum in Houdini.

Having a polygon geometry that outlines the camera frustum is useful as a visual indicator of the camera's direction and shows immediately which objects are inside or outside of the camera.

It also allows for a geometric image plane and opens up visualisation options for clipping planes and projection mapping operations.

Addendum: I have discovered my mistake months after I published this post. I have posted this in my music blog. It should rightfully belong in my VFX blog. If this is first time reading my blog post, please access my VFX blog here.

New Track: Ancients Lived Here (for Sonic Underworld Synchron)

patrickwoo · Ancients Lived Here

Ancients Lived Here is written for Sonic Underworld's Synchron for U-he Zebra.

This track brings me to the remains of a place that holds secrets to a civilisation long-forgotten. Her people are long gone and their ways of life but a faint memory.

The inclusion of a live violin part in the arrangement marks the first collaboration with Huisze, a dedicated musician and a long-time friend of mine.

I hope you like it!

Also, do check out the "naked" version from Sonic Underworld's Synchron demo tracks playlist.

Sonic Underworld · Patrick Woo / Ancients Lived Here (Naked)

This naked version is the track with just the synth sounds without the orchestral elements, to show off Sonic Underworld's sounds in their playlist. It also serves as a kind of breakdown or behind-the scenes for the track, peeling off a layer of selected instruments and having a peep at what's underneath :)

Update: My First Release on Major Streaming Platforms

I am super excited to have taken the first step getting my music out there in major music platforms under my own capacity as a composer musician.

Winter in May is now available on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, Amazon Music, Google Music/Youtube, QQ Music, KuWo (and a couple more).

I'm thankful and inspired.

Please let me indulge myself and post all the captured images of where I spotted my track. :)

New Track - The Alternatives (for Sonic Underworld Atrea)

Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all of you, my valued readers!


To end off this year, my last track of 2019 is entitled The Alternatives. This is a demo for Sonic Underworld's new sound-set "Atrea" for Uhe Repro 5.

The sounds in this track are solely from the Atrea sound-set and I find them to be very useable. Unlike many of their previous sound-sets, a cursory glance across the sounds category will reveal that the familiar percussion section does not exist in Atrea this time round. Upon auditioning the sounds, I found that there are many sounds that can be used in a percussive role in a composition to fill up that "gap". It serves to remind me that labels and classifications are really just names we give to things in order for us to make sense of the world and things around us.

The track is going in the direction of a cinematic, movie soundtrack, something that can be used alongside a visual narrative in film or TV.

There's something different in the style of this piece. Personally, I feel that it is the instrumentation on the mid-high ranges in the track.

I hope you enjoy it!

New Track: Mind Meld

Here's a new demo track I wrote for a new Kontakt library named Meld.

The library has quite a lot of pad sounds, so I played it slow, give it space for the pads to evolve. At this time I was longing to use some orchestral sounds in my work, so I had some of that at a later part of the track to drive the intensity of the mood to a high point at the end.

Here is the Core MeldDown version.
This Core MeldDown version of Mind Melding has just the Meld instruments and light percussion, without the orchestral instruments from the fully arranged version. This arrangement is re-mixed-down and re-mastered.

I will post a link to Meld when I have more information.