Sprite Fright - Score Relief 2022 scoring competition

This is my participation to the Score Relief 2022 Scoring Competition.
Music by Syrel

Enjoy

Really fun to watch how you crafted your composition to fit the mood of this animation. 

At 1'33" you have a very interesting effect in the strings, and I wondered how you achieved this?

Thank you Alex for your kind words. The strings effect is done by a cello quartet performing random tremolo and glissando simultaneously. You are lucky because the sound is available free from Spitfire Audio through their Free VST called LABS. The Instrument is called "Amplified Cello Quartet" and the specific patch is called "Chatter". You would probably need to adopt a notation style like the one used by Zenakis in Jonchaies or even more radical used in Polytope or Metastasis if you want it to be performed live ;o) I don't think Finale or Sibelius will do the job notating this LOL.

Nevertheless, have fun with those free instruments.

In DAW we trust.

Cheers,

Many thanks for the info.

I have some of Spitfire LABS VSTs; but not that one.

Will definitely check it out.

I've heard this effect in movies before many times: so it seems to be quite widely used to create a sinister atmosphere.