Forgotten Planet

Hello Guys,

Here's my brand new track:

Edited January 22, 20233 yr by olivercomposer

Oh dear....

Ah...it's come back has it? I'll have a listen tomorrow.

That's the trouble with planets, they come and go.

Edited January 19, 20233 yr by Quinn
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I think it has great orchestration, and the colour is good as well! I love when D flat minor is introduced around 2:00, since having the submediant minor provides something octatonic harmony in it.

I think it's a planet discovered, not forgotten though, since the music is really grand!

Henry

Yes, good use of the orchestra. Nice change at 1:00 (percussion and chorus, I think). And yes, beautiful harmonies from 1:40.

It's a nice piece but alas, not my kind of music. My views on cinematic scoring are well known!

It barely seems to move out of the tonality it starts with and seems to rely on percussion to move it forward. No variation in dynamics, so for it's length that's fine but were it to be extended it would need that variation. Otherwise the droning pedal-styled bass would become wearysome.

The harmony is good though and the production values? A little heavy on the volume so it loses clarity here and there.

Cheers, Quinn.

Hi Oliver, let's dive into this.

• Sounds tremendous, bombastic, yet I felt it a little generic for more or less the reasons stated by @Quinn. Lack of dynamics variation, barely a single moment of calm —the beginning would have served with better use of dynamics—; thematically static and abusive use of what we could agree calling "tutti" in this case (which depending on what you want to do might not be necessarily bad): the transition at ~1:30 could have been a great moment to "start from scratch" leaving very few instruments playing and from that point on, build up the final and EPIC crescendo towards the satisfying end of the theme.

• It is worth mentioning that myself and probably everyone's criticism here are a lil' nit-picky by default since well, we are all composers lol. So you wouldn't —likely— really have to worry much about these issues in case you wanted to show this to a more general public. I'm gonna share your video (hope you don't mind) and I'm pretty sure all my friends will like it! I do too, obviously.

In summary and in my opinion, an epic and solidly crafted piece that might —or might not, depending on what you want— sin of being perceived a bit generic because of the static dynamics and limited development, while its clarity allows it to be convincing and affordable for a more general public.

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.

Wow - what a beautiful moving picture of that Mercury or Moon sized planet in orbit around (presumably) a blue giant star!  I like your brand of orchestration and harmony!  It's very individual and unique and I can tell its you from hearing your music.  I noticed you are getting quite adventurous with your chromatic mediant choices in this piece!  That is great to hear!  I did notice however that you rarely modulate out of your key center and this piece ends in the same key it started in.  I know in video games it is often quite important to be able to loop a track so being able to return to the same key center one started in is very important.  But in cinematic-styled music such as this - I don't think it's a must for you to finish in the same key you started in and your music could use the freshness and excitement of more adventurous modulations and de-coupling from any particular key center as the home-base of the piece.  Thanks for sharing!