There were a lot of great songs submitted in the MAC and this is one of my favorite ones. I don't wanna write a long review, but I thought the track was fantastic and wanted to let you know I enjoyed it. Great work.
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Greetz NG!
This piece was ridiculously fun to write. It effectively acted as a composition to help break in my new MPK88. The controller is a beast to use. All the lines are improvised and touched up on the keyboard...a practice I haven't had in a while due to lack of gear funding and a broken midi controller.
I was most inspired by Elfman's scores for Edward Scissorhands and Nightmare Before Christmas. I had this idea of playing with and borrowing the diminished fourth chord in lydian and teetering that with the minor fourth chord in aeolian to give a more unexpected and blues influenced voice leading without actually getting a bluesy sound at all. It made for some really fun melodic improvs over it.
In case you're wondering, the tools I used were as follows:
- EW Orchestra
- EW Storm Drum 2
- EW Hollywood Strings
- EW Hollywood Brass
- 8dio Epic Frame Ensemble
- 8dio Requiem Pro
This piece is also for the MAC13 orchestral competition. Thanks for listening and best of luck to all my competitors!
Cheers!
- Mike Breed
Good to see some videogame by the traditional NG'ers. :D
A thoroughly creepy yet enjoyable piece. If only you could find a Glass Armonica sample... that would sell this. Also, consider waterphones. Gorgeous little bastards for creepy music.
Strange dissonance at 2:39 in your trombone line... doesn't seem fully right even with a strange piece like this.
Amazing work as always!
Keep compos(ed/ing)!
-Samulis
Breed responds:
Hey Samulis,
Looks like we were both last minute submitters to the contest =)
A glass harmonica is a cool idea. I do already use tons of metals and upper register instruments though so im not sure where I'd fit it. I was looking for a smoother resonant instrument like that though, so maybe it coulda been a good legato line to counter the crotales.
I thought of waterphones and I avoided it for one main reason. That being that I was trying to maintain a tonal feel to the piece even considering the dissonance of the progression and melodic lines.
I thought about changing the melody at 2:39 but it kinda grew on me so I ended up keeping it. A little strange here and there is ok as far as my style is concerned =P
Thanks for the compliments and your time to review the piece.
Cheers!
- Breed
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