Week 10.1

Context*:  Alone in the Hall of Dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum

Emotion*:  Awe, disorientation from time travel through evolutionary life, wonder

Other:  Instruments evolving

This one took longer than usual, and ended up being longer than usual.  I tried to start with simple lines on basic instruments that then expanded into more complex lines on more (and more advanced instruments).  There's a point where that continued evolution peaks, I'll put a marker in the video.  After that point, the instruments regroup with the simple lines from the beginning.

Might not be quite what the submission was looking at, but I liked the idea of evolving lines so much that this is where it went.

~græy

Week 1.3

Well I'm just on a role

Context: forest/jungle/tribal

Emotion: Happy, but a little detached

The piece starts out with instruments peeking in a little disjointedly during A. I imagined it as the forest coming alive with noises after some kind of disturbance. B lights up with an ostinato phrase that carries the expanding width, filled with little flourishes and expressions, to a simple, warm ending. I tried to keep reverb and echos on all the instruments to give a little etherial quality. Without that hint of expansiveness, I think this piece would be too upbeat. There's just a little bit of longing floating in there.

As usual, let me know what you think, ask questions, etc etc


~græy