Wandering Forest Spirits (live orchestra)

Hey! This is a recording of my piece "Wandering Forest Spirits" performed by Contemplum Orchestra. Here's a description of my piece:


Wandering Forest Spirits is stylistically influenced in particular by the modern Japanese Role-Playing Game Composers, but it is more Classical than its counterparts. Although there are many techniques employed which are more common in classical music, the music reflects the emotional language, the "folk music" of many people in my generation; epics that tells a hopeful story while we enjoy ourselves playing games in our childhood & teenhood.

The piece begins with a warmer, wistful but hopeful optimism that only descends into a darker cynicism later on (led by the brass). The piece shows signs of light, but doesn't completely rise up again until a culmination of a sadder reflection occurs. Only then is it able to ascend and transform back into the playfulness of the early part of the music. It is exaggerated by the dance-like string bass & cello, as well as the sense of the piece "tripping over itself" at the very end when the bass plays the "oompah" figure on the upbeat instead of the downbeat. 

Music sections in this piece are woven together, so that the music is more "transforming" rather than "sectional". This is to imitate the gradual but overt transformations that occur in many real-life experiences, including nature (particularly in the change of seasons). Often, when things in our lives become easier or more difficult, it happens before we know it. By the time we notice, things are completely different. Yet, there isn't a specific place we can put our finger down on when exactly things switched over. The music relates emotionally more to this kind of transformation of thought which frequently occurs during reflection of past events.


I found most of the art I'm using in this video here: http://cinnamonsquare.50webs.org/art.html

Sheet Music: http://www.box.net/shared/5ds7nmdvuk
MP3: http://www.box.net/shared/nm6x3uspbd

Category:

Music

Tags:

• live
• orchestra
• videogame music
• rpg music
• zelda
• final fantasy

[choralcomposerdude]

Wow, you're so lucky to have an orchestra perform your work (this piece totally deserves it, of course!!) Keep composing!

[Stravinsky91]

awesome! :D

[Erunno89]

To have a live orchestra play a piece of music that you have composed must be the greatest feeling ever. If I could ever finish my second Piano Concerto, composing, and begin writing it, I would love to hear it performed live.

You are a lucky person, indeed! That's awesome.

And not to mention this composition's title is perfect, the whole feel, each instrument complements the other. Very well done.

I can picture this in a video game, or even a concert setting.

Thanks for sharing.

[LegoCritic]

ingenious!

Must have taken so long to compose...

I love it!

[5dsch]

Awesome piece, it reflects many different emotions... Love the orchestration by the way!!!

[coldfirevideo]

This is wonderful! It is not only very beautiful, but nostalgic and relateable. Please Keep Composing, it is very good =)