Dystopian Serenade

Hello Guys,

This is another disgusting and silly cinematic track. 😄 Of course I made it for a competition, and the task is, participants have to depict an image in the language of music. (You can see the mentioned image is on the player.)

Hi @olivercomposer,

I like how you feature the augmented chord G-B-Eb in the opening. Your modulation from E minor to G minor by means of octatonic scale is good too.  But from there for me it's too hopeful to be dystopian. There isn't any modulation and stay in G minor for the second half and for me you can add more flavourings with weird modulation and harmonic progression like those octatonic progressions to B minor and C# minor, and modulation to Eb minor by means of hexatonic relationship which you use once, or Ab minor as minor Nepolitan.

My favourite is how contemplative your cello ending is. Maybe using its extreme high range is great as well as people's yearning.

Thanks for sharing!

Henry

8 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hi @olivercomposer,

I like how you feature the augmented chord G-B-Eb in the opening. Your modulation from E minor to G minor by means of octatonic scale is good too.  But from there for me it's too hopeful to be dystopian. There isn't any modulation and stay in G minor for the second half and for me you can add more flavourings with weird modulation and harmonic progression like those octatonic progressions to B minor and C# minor, and modulation to Eb minor by means of hexatonic relationship which you use once, or Ab minor as minor Nepolitan.

My favourite is how contemplative your cello ending is. Maybe using its extreme high range is great as well as people's yearning.

Thanks for sharing!

Henry

 

Thank you for your comment Henry! I always count on you! 🙂 As you can see, there's sunshine and birds in the background, so I think this image isn't so dark and scary, that's why I named my piece of music Serenade. It's a romantic image with some dark tones, I wanted to express this. This is the reason why I made an optimistic section to the music.

I have always thought that it is very subjective to set an image to music. However, I believe that because of so many learned patterns already, it is possible.
Certainly this image takes you to a dystopian world, and the overall result seems to me to be quite in keeping with it. Maybe because of the percussion, some unexpected harmonic twists, the minor key in general... And I agree about the cello at the end.