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CMC 4:
The Beginning
Long before all that we know came to be, there was the source... the beginning...
Results!
Text results and critiques
Audio results
There are 7 entries
for this round...
Another Soundscape - "The
Journey Begins"
"You never know what's going to happen in the beginning. Maybe you're
sent into a world you've never heard of. Maybe they throw you out on the
battlefield. Maybe you go into space. Maybe you'll just live a normal
life. Although you can never know, there is something special about the
beginning. The excitement. The anxiety. The uncertainty. The question
about what will come next? In this piece I tried to capture that feeling."
David L. Puga - "The
Great War"
"This song is pretty much an intro cinematic track for an adventure
game. I was shooting for a serene "long, long ago" intro, then
setting in to a legendary war part. I kept the melody throughout the track,
as I'm partial to the old school, melody driven vg tracks. To sum it up,
it starts with a serene foreword, into an epic battle retelling, then
drops back into a layered variation of the intro."
Alex Smith - "Time
is Born"
"... strange, unknown sounds colour the scene. Suddenly the darkness
is lifted somewhat: new, bright sounds can be heard in the distance, amidst
a slightly eerie combination of rain and a low, indistinct rumble. After
a while a stronger sense of rhythm emerges and the clicking, steady beat
of time enters the world. A climactic section ensues. Here the dark tone
suggested at the start of the piece returns and the two melodic themes
are brought together. The piece ends on an ominous dissonance and time
is born. Throughout the piece, ideas are brought in and out – creating
a sense of restlessness and mysteriousness."
The Prophet of Mephisto - "genesis"
"The theme of the competition was 'The Beginning'. I started with
a theme that I felt really fit the idea of beginnings (which appears about
60% of the way through the piece), and went from there. I wanted the piece
to start out with a mood, more than anything, that was as much of a feeling
as anything else. The beginnings of things often are not comfortable or
perfect, and this is reflected by my heavy use of the d minor sus2 chord.
As the song progresses forward into the main theme, you hear the different
aspects of the music starting to take form and come together into a coherent
whole. The vocal parts, echoing the phrase 'Who Am I?', represent the
questioning that we as humans often have as we move towards what we were
meant to be. The song ends with the same feel that it started. This is
because even after we come to that point of understanding, we still aren't
always as sure about that knowledge as we would like to be. Enjoy!"
avaris - "Alpha
and Omega"
"For me, the beginning represents the unknown. No one knows what
the future holds in the beginning. There is a certain feel of mysticism
involved. Like the beginning, the end also represents the great unknown.
Hence the name for my song, ‘Alpha and Omega,’ the beginning
and the end."
Flik - "Space
Disco"
"You trudge through the dark halls of a failed space station...its
remains drifting through space for decades. Everyone thought this was
the end for the multi-trillion dollar project, but suddenly you stumble
into a fully lit up recreational room. Colorful lights moving all over
the place, and a distant beat begins to grow louder.
Perhaps this is only the beginning. The beginning of something excellent.
Robots inevidably come out of the shadows and begin to line up. Where
did they come from? Are they hostile? Wha---what are they doing? Oh my
god, could it be....SPACE DISCO?!"
Melin - "Void"
"I wanted to create something mysterious, and lo-fi. I had a hard
time with the piano, since I wanted it to sound very lo-fi but still beautiful.
The piece is filled with a lot of atmospheric sounds, and is really showing
my interpretation of the theme "the beginning". The song was
supposed to have vocals added, but they weren't done in time, but I think
it works well without them."
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