Adventure.

"Adventure. is a large and energetic orchestral piece that takes you through the eye of passionate searchers, who wander deep in a forest in search of something that they believe are essential to their community. Through many obstacles and difficult paths, these passionate searchers scramble and traverse the extreme conditions of the woods. In the end, their work pay off as what they had found is beyond what they had expected."

Howdee everybody! This is my submission for the "From Bits to Bangers" competition!

I...kinda just don't know what to say other than to thank you the judges and the participants. For the judges, I appreciate you all for judging all of our pieces fairly and giving them feedbacks. I know it's hard to objectively review these pieces without getting too much into subjectivity, and the feedback that you guys have been getting, but I think the judges team did a very good job! I love all of you guys' reviews! For the other participants, don't let the result discourage you to a certain degree. I believe that competitions like this really help you keep track of the progress you've been making as a composer, at least for me anyway.

I would like to also thank the voters who voted for me on the popular voting polls. I'm delighted to be one of your guys' favorite submission.

I think that's all that I'm going to say since I can't think of anything else. This project has been heavy for me, especially the scoring process (oh look, that's me complaining about making the sheet music for pieces again. Seriously though, the software would literally froze every time I click on something). It's actually my first ever orchestral project that I was able to finish and score, so that's something. But I think in the end, It was all worth the effort. Though I am probably going to take a break from composing orchestral pieces, literally got a fatigue from it. Oh also fun fact, I wrote the piece description and the title like minutes before I submitted, so... yeah.

Alright ya'll, enjoy the piece!

Dude you should be really proud of this one. Phenomenal orchestral color, and congrats on winning the competition! 

Congratulations again, Ferrum. You truly deserve this place in our little but old hall of fame 💯.

Looking forward to check your next works, be either big and bombastic or little and subtle!!

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.

I don't know who it was that said that this piece didn't seem like it was related to the original track, but to me it was obvious from the beginning that you've imbued it with the original melodic material from the 8-bit track of "Treasure Master" from start to finish.  I felt like every note was a variation or allusion to some element of the "Treasure Master" track and I think that's quite an achievement!  I have enjoyed listening to this piece every time and I keep finding new things in it.  I am glad you managed to finish this one and submit and am not surprised that you're quite fatigued with this kind of writing for the time being.

If you ever have time to take a look at it, I wrote a piece for a previous competition - "Medley on a Theme by Yoshimatsu" which tries to do the same thing you did here - using the original melodic material from the Yoshimatsu "Waltz of the Rainbow Colored Roses" (or something) as the basis for every single note that went into the piece.  I love writing variations and you seem to have a knack for it too so I thought you might enjoy that.

Great job and congratulations on the win!  And of course thanks for your participation!

9 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

I don't know who it was that said that this piece didn't seem like it was related to the original track, but to me it was obvious from the beginning that you've imbued it with the original melodic material from the 8-bit track of "Treasure Master" from start to finish.  I felt like every note was a variation or allusion to some element of the "Treasure Master" track and I think that's quite an achievement!

Hey man, thank you for the kind words! And you are right, I've never strayed from the original melodic materials. All it is was variations upon variations from the three melodies that I had picked. Heck, some of the parts are literally an orchestration of the track, textures and all.

9 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

If you ever have time to take a look at it, I wrote a piece for a previous competition - "Medley on a Theme by Yoshimatsu" which tries to do the same thing you did here - using the original melodic material from the Yoshimatsu "Waltz of the Rainbow Colored Roses" (or something) as the basis for every single note that went into the piece.  I love writing variations and you seem to have a knack for it too so I thought you might enjoy that.

I agree with the comparison with your piece, it's exactly trying to do that (lovely piece btw).

9 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

I am glad you managed to finish this one and submit and am not surprised that you're quite fatigued with this kind of writing for the time being.

I've been enjoying writing smaller pieces for piano and stuff. Maybe a prelude for my next post 👀