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Serialism is over 100 years old. Forget dat old poo. Honestly, my opinion is that by creating it today, no matter how indebted or even thieving, it's going to be different and modern.

I really like this Alpha -- you did quite a good job :happy: I love the samples -- they feel really "fresh" and alive. The atmosphere is really broad and helps to draw you in -- it's definitely film-like in that regard. I think you have a lot of keys of music down -- harmonic work, using the instruments correctly in accord with each other (I don't have orchestration knowledge, but it certainly sounds convincing), and getting that atmosphere you want. Playa's comment about the horn timing is a minor thing, and it didn't happen to bother me. Instead of sweating the little details like that, I think that what would benefit your music here the most is creating melody -- especially something that you can use as a motif. All through the music, there's a lot of instruments doing a lot of things, and doing it very well. But your current melodic motif that you introduce at the beginning comes across as a rhythmic groove, like an ostinato, instead of the "voice" of the piece -- the hidden words. As a result, it sounds to me like it's the support, or counterpoint of what should be the melody rather than the melody itself. This is especially so at 2:00 in the strings, and towards the end when the horns get the voice. It just doesn't sound strong enough to be the main melody, because again, it comes across as an ostinato. When thinking melody, don't think "rhythmic" -- think "lyrical" :) If you put a really great melody on top of everything you've done here, I think this would be one of my favorites on the site. As it is, it's already very good, honestly. Thanks for sharing -- this was really enjoyable :phones: