Daniel Ottini is a Canadian Electronic musician, sound designer, and field recordist whose work explores the intersection between sound, art, and music. His work has won competitions and has been featured on college/internet radio, podcasts, film and video, video games, the Web, compilations, and as demonstration audio for music hardware and software companies. Daniel has made significant contributions to the compilations "Haunted Garden," Vol. 2 and "Narrow Escape," Vol. 4, including the tracks "Nightcrawler" and "Room 1501.
Calmly intensifying with a repeating (Ostinato) piano pattern and subtle tempo shifts, this orchestral/electronic hybrid features Bass, Cello, Piano, Percussion, Brass and organ combining to create a tense sense of forward motion/movement/travel. Instrumental, Dramatic, Hectic Music
The sound of lake waves on a rocky shore (on a particularly turbulent day), recorded using three microphones (a hydrophone and a cardioid stereo pair (in ORTF configuration) to capture both the ambience and the action of the waves against the rocks. Water, Lakes
Pulsing and bright, this piece in the style of the “Berlin School” of electronic music features sequenced synthesizers, burbling electronic beats, and flute which evokes the feeling of the 1960’s/70’s with an optimism towards the future. Instrumental, Corporate, Corp. New Age Electronic
Dark and introspective, featuring cold electronic textures, industrial drones, feedback/sound design, and orchestral effects creating a bleak, isolated, solitary mood. Instrumental, Dangerous, Dark Music
A slow, driving, rhythmic piece with distorted electronic and sampled percussion, piano, and synthesized sound design creating a building, moody, grey atmosphere. The main versions of the track are quite heavily mastered (in keeping with the musical style). Instrumental, Dramatic, Mechanical Music
Slow and eerie, featuring string ensemble, glassy (struck) idiophone, violin, viola and piano textures, creating an introspective, sorrowful, haunting mood. Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
Mysterious and solemn (with bright patches), featuring Circle/Sleigh/Tubular Bells, Choir, Bowed Bass, Timpani and Sound design, this darkened Christmas composition creates a tense, escalating atmosphere using traditional sounds associated with the holidays. Mixed Vocals, Christmas, Christmas Horror
Recorded with a three-microphone set-up at 24 Bit/96kHz, these recordings capture the low end “grunt” and stereo ambience of a Toro gas-powered snowblower during start-up, operation, and shut-down. A full recording and/or individual files capture these various stages. Mechanical,
Jarring and gritty, featuring choral voices, driving percussion, metallic pads, and low frequency sound design that create a brooding, ominous, frantic mood. Vocal Samples, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Dark and menacing, featuring swooping strings, bass booms, choral effects and orchestral crescendos, that alternate with quiet cello parts, creating a mood of dread and the slow realization of danger. Mixed Vocals, Horror, Horror Edgy
Light and airy, but tinged with nostalgia and a feeling of “what could have been”, featuring reverberant piano, ethereal vocal fx, and quiet orchestral/electronic textures creating a mood of remembrance and, perhaps, regret. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
Gritty and Dark featuring low throbbing bass/percussion, high strings/ orchestral FX, and cold electronic textures that create a foreboding, tense atmosphere. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
Slow and Elegiac with electronically distorted vocals and FX, Dark orchestral strings and electronic pads and and low rhythmic bass, creating a disturbing, claustrophobic, hopeless mood, Instrumental, Dangerous, Mysterious Music
A Techno style track with a slow build, understated "four on the floor" beats and a quick, reverberant fade out. Suitable for a contemporary sounding transition. Instrumental, Dance, Techno
A call and response between forest birds and a simple hemlock flute. This soundscape combines the relaxing sounds of nature with the calming tones of an ancient flute to bring the listener back to a simpler time. Instrumental, New Age, Meditation
A dark, building electronic soundscape which swells twice - first at a moderate volume and then in a loud crescendo. Suitable for a suspenseful film where there is a growing sense of fear and then a jump scare (either real or false). Instrumental, Horror, Horror Edgy
A sound design work simulating the sound of a large ice chunk breaking off and sliding from of a glacier, iceberg, ice shelf, or crevasse (this is called "Calving"). Instrumental, News, News Music
Antique steamship whistle (single blast) as the ship leaves port. The recording captures the sound of the whistle within its ambient environment and contains some reverberation and very faint background noise. Alternate versions have had background noise attenuated and reverberation reduced. Industrial,
A slow, aleatoric piano melody with ghostly reverberation tails (in several flavours) which would be suitable as underscore/sound design for the quiet period before the build-up/stinger in a horror scene. Think our heroes exploring that dark basement before they turn on the lights to find... Instrumental, Horror, Horror Piano
A dark, building, soundscape which ends in a distorted stinger - reminiscent of a build that would take place in a horror movie when that door that should have stayed closed gets opened... Instrumental, Horror, Horror Torture Music
A short stereo recording of a walk across a frozen pond on the Bruce Trail in Ontario, Canada, featuring the sound of footsteps in the snow/ice (moving left to right). The low howl of the wind can also be heard in the background. Water, Lakes
A sharp stinger with a metallic texture, a short build, and no reverb tail. The style is reminiscent of the sound design in the movie "Gravity" in which the sound builds and then drops suddenly, usually as the scene cuts. Instrumental, Dangerous, Edgy Music
A looped, binaural recording of an Industrial Air Conditioner; the recording has been "performed" in that the binaural microphone has been panned physically by the recordist. This results in a natural panning between left and right channels which keeps the sound interesting and non-static. Mechanical,
This piece mirrors the current penchant for combining processed orchestral instruments with sound design elements in a style which is simultaneously electronic and organic in nature. Alternate variations on the main theme are included as well. Instrumental, Science Fiction, Ambient Soundscape
A calming, atmospheric piece, casting an aura of being peacefully disoriented - suspended halfway between the dream and waking world. With piano, synthesizers and female vocals. Female Vocals, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
"Ghost Stories" Music Packs contain everything that you need to score your TV/Film/Video Game Horror productions by combining musical cues, sound design, underscore, loops and variations of these four elements into a rich palette with which to bring your story to life. Instrumental, Horror, Horror World Beat
Native American drumming and flute, haunting spectral voices, sound design, and electronics combine to make this piece suitable for your ghost story... why do they always build those houses on ancient burial grounds? Instrumental, Horror, Horror World Beat
A suspenseful track combining atmospheric electronics with dark orchestral colours; picture a killer pursuing his victim across dark city streets, our hero one step behind on the trail... Instrumental, Horror, Horror Chase
A short piece which starts gently and builds - with Piano, Trumpet and Strings - great for signifying positive transition. Think of a forest being planted and then years later bursting with green leaves, shade and life; OR Winter turning to Spring; OR leaving on a great journey, with one small step. Instrumental, Dramatic, Regal Orchestral
Binaural recordings of an Olympic sized swimming pool from the viewing area - sounds include: (unintelligible) conversation, water lapping, the diving board, swimmers splashing. The 2nd set of "Diving Board" recordings feature the sound of the diving board more prominently. Ambience,
An electronic piece with a dubby beat and very cold digital sounding synthesizers. The variation features the original repeating sequence on which the piece is built (from the Yamaha Tenori-On) and is a stripped down, beatless version, Instrumental, Electronic, IDM
A chaotic piece with a repeating, modulated, gritty synth sequence/drums with calm chords/bass underneath. Conveys an atmosphere of stability in the midst of a harsh, changing background. Instrumental, Electronic, IDM
A slow, elegiac piece with a slight hopeful quality. The initial version contains an atmospheric opening with processed piano and strings in the latter part; the alternative version (Piano & Strings) contains the unprocessed latter part with only the Piano & Strings. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
Three recordings of Match/Candle flames being extinguished by water, increasing in intensity from first to last. The first recording is that of a match, the next two a candle. Recorded underwater with a hydrophone. Water, Sizzle
Several Flying Saucer flybys (including panning) as well as hovering; this item has a very "50's" sci-fi feel and is suitable for projecting that vibe, or for use in animation where a more whimsical suggestion of Alien spacecraft is desired. Cartoon, Fly-bys
A mid-tempo, energetic piece with a sense of forward movement and a blend of Orchestral samples, synthesizers, electronic tabla percussion and a jazzy lead piano/synth line close to the end. Think gazelles leaping across an open field (Aerial view) or sleek automobile on the open road. Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
A slow moving piece with subtle electronics, a Tabla beat, Electric Oud (Glissentar) and distorted electric guitar which give it a slightly exotic feel (in a western way). Think of watching clouds float by on a sunny day from a hilltop in India. Instrumental, New Age, Atmospheres
A slow, ambient piece with a repeating motif and an atmospheric, reverberant feel meant to convey the sense of a large modern architectural space, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
An Electronic-orchestral piece with a steady 3/4 rhythm and a marching feel with a dark, sinister underscore. Instrumental, Dangerous, Dangerous Droning
An industrial noise piece which is atonal, incorporating both electronic sounds and processed field recordings for a more organic feel. Although the piece has no rhythm per se, a low throbbing sounds acts as an anchor to propel the music forward. Suitable for productions with a darker tone. Instrumental, Electronic, Dark Ambient
A somber ambient wash of synthesized sound with an organic feel and a slow electronic percussion pulse in the latter part - the aural equivalent of moving slowly through an overcast/foggy Autumn dawn landscape. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
A short recording of nature ambience featuring the sounds of a small river, birds, and insects; the stems of the bird/insect and water recordings are available as separate tracks. Note that the tail end of the recording features some brief background noise of a bird of a different sort! Nature,
A short piece featuring a Glissentar (an Oud like stringed instrument) as the lead voice and some snatches of orchestral textures. Despite the lead instrument, it does not have a Middle Eastern feel. Suitable for a transition scene in a film or documentary. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music