Hi to all!
I've recently been asked to write a theme for an unofficial Star Trek podcast.
Obviously I'm not allowed to quote any of the original themes, but the brief was: James Horner!
Its supposed to evoke "Star Trek", without actually quoting any copyright material.
So this is what I came up with.
Think my percussion needs a bit of finessing (especially at the end), and I still have some work to do on the balance of the mix, and the mastering.
(Sorry about the score: it's designed for midi rendition only, as I don't expect this will ever be played by real life musicians!)
@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
Thank you very much man, I haven't gotten such compliments in a long time wow. 😮 I agree, the tritone leap at the local climax from the start sounds like it comes from a Mahler piece, it has the same type of expressive nature (this choice was intentional). The harmonic exploration I did at the start is something I want to study in detail for future compositions, it feels atonal but grounded in tonal harmonic structures.
Thank you! For me the central climax feels like watching a movie scene where a man has lost everything in war, or something similar.
The Christ comparison is too much in my opinion haha, but I do try to transform my personal suffering into something people can enjoy. 🙂
@Luis Hernández
Thank you! Yes, I used a similar idea, this is achieved by delaying the C# minor resolution for the very last chord of the composition. All the time I avoid a pure C# minor chord like in measures 2, 13 and 20.
@Thatguy v2.0
Thank you! I wasn't expecting to express so much in less than two minutes, I guess my body was craving expressing itself after months of creative silence.
@PeterthePapercomPoser
Thanks. 🙂 Yes, I made some little experiments in this piece and the results seem interesting. I do hope this helps me get the courage to compose a small symphonic poem in the near future.