Jeff Hijlkema | For Those Who Wait // Ryan Leach January 2024 Composing Competition @jeffhijlkema | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 11 minutes ago.
My entry for the Ryan Leach January 2024 Composing Competition: composing max 90 seconds of music, scoring the given image 'Cyberpunk Love Story' by Hardy Fowler. I went for emphasizing a loving feeling of her waiting for him to come back safe.

Artwork: Cyberpunk Love Story by Hardy Fowler.
Music: For Those Who Wait by Jeff Hijlkema.

My palette:
- Full Strings (BBCSO Pro, with tweaked mic setting).
- A couple of soft synth patches (out of Kepler Orchestra and Albion One).
- Mosaic Synth Bass (Heavyocity).
- Sub engineer Bass (Kontakt Factory Library).
- Guzheng (Orchestral Tools, Phoenix orchestra).
- Zen drum (Fracture Sounds).
- Grand Piano (The Grandeur, Native Instruments).

All composed, mixed and poduced using Cubase 13 Pro.
Mixed and mastered using these plugins on my auxes and stereo bus:
- Avalon: 737 & 747.
- Manley: Massive Passive EQ.
- Solid State Logic: Fusion Stereo Image.
- Fabfilter: EQ, Compressor, Limiter.

Reverb chain:
1. Scoring Stage - Seventh Heaven, Liquid Sonics.
2. Hall & stage - Cinematic Rooms.
3. Black hole - FabFilter Pro-R.

Be well,
Jeff Hijlkema