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So, how is the music coming along? Has it started yet? Anything good?
How are things going with Erik Kennedy and Chris Cull?
Are you doing any vocalist music (I strongly suggest it - excellent examples are Evenstar, by Howard Shore, and The Maiden, from Stronghold)?
Music Home is behind, the world ahead...
#2
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Posted 08 July 2005 - 04:27 PM
Hey 
Yes the composition has started, and it's been going for a while now.
Although I personally have other commitments for composing right now, we already have a good number of MIDI sketches that will be refined, added to, and improved before they are transferred to MP3 soundtrack game files. We have a unique system of tying the pieces together. Motifs (is that the plural of motif?) from the main theme will be found in other tracks- including the peace and war tracks for each "civilization".
A new idea called "age tracks" will be implemented. For each age, there will be one track that may play during a game in that age, no matter what civilization you play as. They will reflect the general feeling of the age.
As for vocal music, choral music would be more dramatic than solo voices, and since we're looking for MP3 quality here, vocal work may not fly particularly well. Anyhow, we're always open for suggestions on anything- instrumentation, new ideas for music, inspiration, etc.
So I can't say everything here, but when you guys start hearing MP3's, you will not be dissapointed
Yes the composition has started, and it's been going for a while now.
Although I personally have other commitments for composing right now, we already have a good number of MIDI sketches that will be refined, added to, and improved before they are transferred to MP3 soundtrack game files. We have a unique system of tying the pieces together. Motifs (is that the plural of motif?) from the main theme will be found in other tracks- including the peace and war tracks for each "civilization".
A new idea called "age tracks" will be implemented. For each age, there will be one track that may play during a game in that age, no matter what civilization you play as. They will reflect the general feeling of the age.
As for vocal music, choral music would be more dramatic than solo voices, and since we're looking for MP3 quality here, vocal work may not fly particularly well. Anyhow, we're always open for suggestions on anything- instrumentation, new ideas for music, inspiration, etc.
So I can't say everything here, but when you guys start hearing MP3's, you will not be dissapointed
"If there's anything that you want, if there's anything I can do, just call on me, and I'll send it along- with love, from me, to you" -The Beatles
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Posted 08 July 2005 - 10:15 PM
EKen132, on Jul 8 2005, 11:27 AM, said:
Motifs (is that the plural of motif?)
It may be "motives", but I'm not exactly sure. (see http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Leitmotif)
Can't wait to hear the music in a final form!
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Posted 09 July 2005 - 10:06 AM
I think that 'motives' is the plural of 'motive'.
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 12:41 AM
I know of certain vocal/choral music student whose great talent might be of interest for the TLA music team.
In my non-expert opinion, both Jess' voice and compositions have an extraordinary ethereal and out-of-this-world quality that could suit some of the civs in the game
Pen.mp3
Nin
In my non-expert opinion, both Jess' voice and compositions have an extraordinary ethereal and out-of-this-world quality that could suit some of the civs in the game
Pen.mp3
Nin
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 01:53 AM
Neither of them play for me.
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 01:57 AM
Fair enough.
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 07:43 AM
Erik: do you mean in play as in won't work or play as in don't like?
they worked perfectly for me and i really like her voice, thou if it's the don't-like alternative i bow down to your musical wisdom
they worked perfectly for me and i really like her voice, thou if it's the don't-like alternative i bow down to your musical wisdom
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 08:21 PM
i also quite like the style ... so a big 
for Anu for finding this!
for Anu for finding this!
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Posted 26 July 2005 - 10:48 PM
NaurwenT, on Jul 26 2005, 01:41 AM, said:
I know of certain vocal/choral music student whose great talent might be of interest for the TLA music team.
In my non-expert opinion, both Jess' voice and compositions have an extraordinary ethereal and out-of-this-world quality that could suit some of the civs in the game
File 1 - Pen.mp3
File 2 - Nin.mp3
In my non-expert opinion, both Jess' voice and compositions have an extraordinary ethereal and out-of-this-world quality that could suit some of the civs in the game
File 1 - Pen.mp3
File 2 - Nin.mp3
I'm at a loss of words with which to describe those. I can especially envision a like composition of the second file to be corrosponded with Uinen, Lady of Waters.
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"Christopher was always much concerned with the consistency of the story and on one occasion ... interrupted: 'Last time, you said Bilbo's front door was blue, and you said Thorin had a golden tassel on his hood, but you've just said that Bilbo's front door was green, and the tassel on Thorin's hood was silver'; at which point Ronald exclaimed 'Damn the boy!' and strode across the room to make a note."
~ Priscilla and John Tolkien, The Tolkien Family Album, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992, p. 58.
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Posted 27 July 2005 - 05:53 PM
Ah sorry for the misunderstanding! I mean neither of them work as in the files will not play on my computer.
And because of that, I can't offer any judgement, but it appears you guys like them.
Hopefully I can offer you some samples of what music in TLA might sound like, but I'm 3 feet (1 meter
) over my head with all these computer mixing programs and stuff that I got (it came in a suite, and with no real guide books... wonderful!). By the end of the summer, I hope to show you a sampling of what music might (key word: might) be like in TLA, just so you can compare it to these ideas.
And I'm not at all against having anyone else on the music dept. After all, I'm just a concept musician as it stands, and I'm a busy guy.
So anyhow, keep finding new stuff, it's good to see such enthusiasm, and hopefully the files will play on my computer next time.
And because of that, I can't offer any judgement, but it appears you guys like them
.Hopefully I can offer you some samples of what music in TLA might sound like, but I'm 3 feet (1 meter
) over my head with all these computer mixing programs and stuff that I got (it came in a suite, and with no real guide books... wonderful!). By the end of the summer, I hope to show you a sampling of what music might (key word: might) be like in TLA, just so you can compare it to these ideas.And I'm not at all against having anyone else on the music dept. After all, I'm just a concept musician as it stands, and I'm a busy guy.
So anyhow, keep finding new stuff, it's good to see such enthusiasm, and hopefully the files will play on my computer next time
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Posted 27 July 2005 - 09:40 PM
@erik - right-clicking and saving as won't work on these two mp3's. you need to actually click on the link - and download it from the site itself ...
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Posted 31 July 2005 - 01:24 AM
I'm sorry, it still doesn't play on my computer. Even if I avoid right-clicking altogether, it still has an error message.
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Posted 31 July 2005 - 07:53 AM
what errormessage?
If you follow the link you come to a page with a button saying "Download file". If you push that you come to another page with a small globe on it with small blue text saying "Download file" beneath it. Click that and it should start sending you the file.
If you follow the link you come to a page with a button saying "Download file". If you push that you come to another page with a small globe on it with small blue text saying "Download file" beneath it. Click that and it should start sending you the file.
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Posted 31 July 2005 - 04:03 PM
Yeah it gets that far, but then when windows media player tries to play it, it says that it cannot play the file.
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Posted 31 July 2005 - 06:59 PM
Erik, I could mail them to you, but that would be a mail of 3 MB and I don't know if you would be happy with that.
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"Christopher was always much concerned with the consistency of the story and on one occasion ... interrupted: 'Last time, you said Bilbo's front door was blue, and you said Thorin had a golden tassel on his hood, but you've just said that Bilbo's front door was green, and the tassel on Thorin's hood was silver'; at which point Ronald exclaimed 'Damn the boy!' and strode across the room to make a note."
~ Priscilla and John Tolkien, The Tolkien Family Album, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992, p. 58.
~ Priscilla and John Tolkien, The Tolkien Family Album, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992, p. 58.
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Posted 01 August 2005 - 04:13 PM
I like the first one, I haven't listened to the second one. I've downloaded it. It's got an Arabic-feel to it... if you use anything like it, it would be good for Hard, Umbar and such.
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Posted 01 August 2005 - 04:37 PM
Yeah you could E-Mail them to me. I don't mind at all.
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Posted 01 August 2005 - 08:52 PM
Okido. I'm sending them right now.
Anco Peeters [ aka Caedus ]
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Nice Mythology site: Encyclopedia Mythica
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Quote
"Christopher was always much concerned with the consistency of the story and on one occasion ... interrupted: 'Last time, you said Bilbo's front door was blue, and you said Thorin had a golden tassel on his hood, but you've just said that Bilbo's front door was green, and the tassel on Thorin's hood was silver'; at which point Ronald exclaimed 'Damn the boy!' and strode across the room to make a note."
~ Priscilla and John Tolkien, The Tolkien Family Album, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992, p. 58.
~ Priscilla and John Tolkien, The Tolkien Family Album, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992, p. 58.
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Posted 05 August 2005 - 09:03 AM
Ninqueldan sounds quite elvish to me, and pen sounds indeed middle-eastern or even celtic.
What programm are you using, eken?
What programm are you using, eken?
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'Shouldn't we send him a message and call in his help?' Erestor asked. 'It seems that he even has control of the Ring.'
'No, I shouldn't say it that way,' Gandalf said. 'Rather say the Ring hasn't got control of him. He's his own master. But he can't change the ring, nor break the power it has on others.'
No, my name isn't wrong, it's just a combination of Mithrandir and Mithril: look and see: MITHRandI(L/R)
"One can only discuss when he can find reason in the other's thoughts, and then still disagree. When one cannot, he argues" -Noilos
"One is intelligent when one wields the following things: critisism on everything, and keen logics in it's purest form" -Noilos
"Philosophy poses the question why, History answers it" -Noilos
