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This is a remix incorporating comments from Drakonis (thank you for a bass idea!) and some of my own later thoughts - adding choir (Tomita influence?) and doubling the melody with a string bass in the recapitulation. It is a slightly different feel, and I hope not over-produced. -Doug
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Original comments:
Imagine an asteroid with its tiny moon drifting slowly in the black void of space. It tumbles slowly toward you like a grey, pock-marked potato. At its closest approach, just for an instant you see the little moon rise above the edge of the rock, it's ragged shape catching a glint of sunlight before the pair roll off into the inky darkness.
Now close your eyes and have a listen.....
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Original comments:
Imagine an asteroid with its tiny moon drifting slowly in the black void of space. It tumbles slowly toward you like a grey, pock-marked potato. At its closest approach, just for an instant you see the little moon rise above the edge of the rock, it's ragged shape catching a glint of sunlight before the pair roll off into the inky darkness.
Now close your eyes and have a listen.....
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drakonis
The chorus is the right direction, although the original fifths and sparseness and the new choir now begin to hint at "2001 a space odyssey" to me... that is not a bad thing at all (and it could just be me) since R. Strauss's original piece, if I remember correctly, was quite angular, dissonant, and prickly, but your piece on the other hand, is quite smooth and "gently awe-inspiring" :-) I like the additions. If it were me, I would still sprinkle just a little more bass in there... I imagine a low distant gentle "thrumming", that swells and dies back a little, grows more, dies back, etc... slowly building in volume toward the 2/3 mark of the piece, then slowly dying back away. Sort of like the Bydlo/Oxcart from "pictures at an exhbition" by Mussorgsky. It would be very low in volume, just a lightly discernable rumble as it goes past... but, I'm projecting onto your asteroid, sorry! ;-) I do that when I really like a piece.
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Drakonis