Concept Music #1

I wanted to wait to share this until I could make a real recording of it, playing, you know, real instruments, but it turns out that two weeks of practicing cello doesn't make up for two years of not playing it, ha. It'll probably take me a few months before I'm up to snuff for this, and there's no sense in waiting that long to share it.

I sat down a few weeks ago and started writing out all the intellectual ideas I had about the music. What kind of instruments it uses, what kind of meters I wanted to use, the philosophy behind it, etc. I could have written a concept piece following those ideas first, but I decided to get out of my head a bit and poke through some of the art that Annie's done until I found a piece that grabbed me with an idea, and then just see where that went. A counterpoint of sorts.

I imagine our band of heroes seeing this castle from afar, a relic of an older civilization perhaps, a place with mystery and old tales about it. It's early to mid-morning, and the mist around the castle is thick but still in the distance. Just the top of the ruins is visible, and a stray beam of sunshine pierces through. As they move into the mist, they wonder how much further they have to go. The day waxes on, the mist begins to clear, and suddenly the castle is visible again, towering above them with might. It's a lonely place, filled with echos.