Magical Forest

Hello Guys,

I composed this brief piece of music for the sake of an article about video game music. The article can be found here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/special-locations-music-video-games-oliv%C3%A9r-kov%C3%A1cs/?trackingId=Lch13P9ZSnyJpLbwU6G%2Fkg%3D%3D

Hi @olivercomposer,

It indeed creates some archaic feeling of a forest with your use of medieval instruments and C aeolian. I love how you use the viola da gamba in the introductory theme, but it's only 8 seconds long and maybe you can extend it for a trailer version of the music! I don't think the music is in 6/4 time signature though as I feel it more like a 3/4 waltz. This one is lovely especially for its brevity and up to point quality. Thx for sharing!

Henry

Yes, it really has those elements that make you cinematically. 

19 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hi @olivercomposer,

It indeed creates some archaic feeling of a forest with your use of medieval instruments and C aeolian. I love how you use the viola da gamba in the introductory theme, but it's only 8 seconds long and maybe you can extend it for a trailer version of the music! I don't think the music is in 6/4 time signature though as I feel it more like a 3/4 waltz. This one is lovely especially for its brevity and up to point quality. Thx for sharing!

Henry

 

Yes, you're right, this is 3/4. Thank you for your comment. Maybe I'll make a longer version, I like this piece of music, it deserves some more attention. 

I like your article about locations in VGM!  Although the breakdown of the instrumentation might be more useful for beginners or composers who only write in a DAW.  The breakdown is very useful for people to be able to hear all the different groups of instruments you've layered on top of each other.  But the same information can easily be gleaned from a score.  I'm not sure if someone listening to each section in isolation will be able to understand at each point in the recording the role that that section plays in the context of the whole.  Unfortunately, I believe that score-study is the only thing that can really provide the kind of knowledge that you're trying to impart with this breakdown.  The piece is really great though - I like the introduction and the main theme played by flute.  Although, correct me if I am wrong but don't you also use chimes in this?  You don't mention them in the percussion section of your article.  Thanks for sharing!