05-25-2018, 09:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2019, 09:47 AM by Mattias Westlund.)
I know, I know. This isn't virtual orchestral music. But same as the synth tracks I posted a while back, this has more in common with orchestral music than typical rock or metal. Plus it features virtual and sampled instruments in a pretty major way.
Anyhow. Late last year I had an idea for a prog rock/metal space opera kind of thing. And while the story itself is still very sketchy in my mind, I've had some musical ideas at the back of my head for a long time now that I wanted to get out of my system. So this past week I've stitched them together into an overture.
It should be mentioned that this is nowhere near from finished in any way. Placeholder guitars, drums are sketchy with bits missing here and there, and I have only spent enough time on the mixing to get stuff in the ballpark.
Overture
And in case you're curious, this is the background story.
Let me know what you think!
Anyhow. Late last year I had an idea for a prog rock/metal space opera kind of thing. And while the story itself is still very sketchy in my mind, I've had some musical ideas at the back of my head for a long time now that I wanted to get out of my system. So this past week I've stitched them together into an overture.
It should be mentioned that this is nowhere near from finished in any way. Placeholder guitars, drums are sketchy with bits missing here and there, and I have only spent enough time on the mixing to get stuff in the ballpark.
Overture
And in case you're curious, this is the background story.
Quote:The Gaia, also known as Ark One, was a collossal colonization spaceship conceived and designed by the EPI [Earth Preservation Initiative] during the late 21'st century. After 19 years of construction and exstensive testing it was successfully launched from high Earth orbit on June 8, 2099, populated by around 800,000 people, crew included. Equipped with an early version of the Jin-Xu drive, the Gaia set its course for the habitable zone of the Proxima Centauri system, 4.243 light years from Earth. Launch-time calculations predicted that this journey would take 300 years, or around 12 generations. Thanks to rapid development of the Jin-Xu principle and drive design, the predicted travel time was halved two years into the mission. Again, at seven years under way, another update to the drive could have made the Gaia reach it destination in just over a 100 years, but since transmissions from Earth had become so massively delayed this far out, it is not known whether the Gaia ever received any Jin-Xu updates after that.
In 2109, Earth received its last official transmission from the Gaia. Over a number of years after that, various messages from people aboard the ship sifted back to Earth. These reported that the Gaia had been taken over by a religious cult known as the Creed. According to some, the Creed had its roots within the ship itself, being formed years into the journey. According to others, the cult had been present ever since leaving Earth, biding its time and waiting for the opportune moment to seize control. All sources however seemed to agree that the Creed's purpose was bringing the word of God to a heathen universe, and to that end they ruled the Gaia with an iron fist.
Earth lost all contact with the Gaia after January 7, 2136. To this day it is not known what happened to the ship. A memorial service for the 800,000 souls aboard the Gaia was held at the First Intersolar Spaceport outside London, England in 2140.
Let me know what you think!
But I didn't find one that I liked and decided to press on rather than trying out two dozen solo flutes. But yes, things like that can probably work very well. There was a discussion on here about combining a metal band with orchestra and I think the overall consensus was that it's problematic -- at least if you intend to have the two things playing at the same time. For slower interludes when drums, bass and distorted guitars aren't present however, there's no reason not to bring in the entire orchestra.
