A Spooky Soundscape

This track is also available for free download here: https://jessicatomlinson.bandcamp.com/track/a-haunted-soundscape Please be sure to give me a follow on Bandcamp while you're over there. Ever since I was a tween, I have loved experimenting with audio. One of my favorite times to experiment has been spooky season! Back then, I would record large groups of classmates in the halls, in the gym, or in the bleachers, and then change the speed while playing them back on my tape deck. This often painted a picture in the listener's mind of monsters growing restless! Now that I have fallen deeply in love with creating sounds using synthesizers, I have a much broader sonic pallet to work with! I am becoming more comfortable with less traditional and more experimental styles of musical composition, and this is the latest outgrowth. You may wish to play it for trick or treaters as they troop to your door. This is what I plan to do. The bat image is an acrylic painting on canvas that I created several years ago. I like working with acrylic because opaque, high-contrast colors can be created. I also added puff paint for the details so that blind people can touch the painting and feel the shapes. The image shows a dark bat against a blue background with a yellow moon behind. credits released October 25, 2025 Composed, recorded and mixed by Jessica Tomlinson Field recordings by Jessica Tomlinson - vocal samples used by permission of the people she recorded. Soft synths used include @surge-synthesizer-team and @ArturiaOfficial Minifreak V. Several presets for Surge XT were created by bscross: These patches inspired this composition: github.com/ironcross32/Surge-XT-Patches Reverb on the vocal samples is from @airwindows : www.airwindows.com