Music Competition 2/28-3/7

[Sluggo]

Make music based on this character. It can be a theme or some form of cutscene music containing this character. Have fun!

[Le Woltaire]

Ok, here is my contribution. It's a piano sonata consisting of three movements. These three movements tell a story about that character, they could be used for a cutscene in a game:

The first movement is called: The abduction of the child.
The scene starts in a children's room where you can see a baby sleeping. The music is quite calm and sad because of the presentiment that something terrible is going to happen... Suddenly a black, evil wich appears in the window. She enters the room and takes the child. Then she leaves the house and disappears in the forrest.

The second movement is called: Nocturnal walk through the forrest.
This is the scene we see on the picture. The evil wich is carrying the child. She is walking continuously and fatigued after her effort to steal the baby booty. The moon and owls are her fellows.

The third movement is called: Sacrificial offering of the child.
The wich is at home now. She lives under the earth somewhere deep in the forrest. She is currently preparing the sacrifice. Every time when the moon is crescent she has to offer a baby to the forrest ghosts. Her hands move up and down over the child until aÃ,  glowing fume appears. She takes a gnarly dagger and kills the baby by drilling it in its heart. Blood drops on the floor. The ghosts are appeased.

Ok, thats all. I made this piece of music in about twenty minutes on my piano. It is quite contemporary. Some kind of mix between the styles of Olivier Messiaen, the late Igor Stravinsky and Karl Heinz Stockhausen, I suppose.

DOWNLOAD(3MB): http://www.geocities.com/le_woltaire/Sonata.mp3

If the link doesn't work please save the file on your hardisk by using a download manager or clicking "save as" in your browser....Ã,  Ã, 

[c53]

Just a MIDI I made in about 10 minutes.
http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/bc/4106ba54_130e2/bc/Songs/Witch.mid?bfBxAJCBDEDEZxA1

[c53]

If the other one doesn't work, try this.
http://c-off53.tripod.com/Witch
Sorry, I know that this one will work.
http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/Witch.mid

[MillsJROSS]

It's a loopable MIDI, yay!

http://www.geocities.com/millsjross/SPOOKY.MID

-MillsJROSS

[auhsor]

DOWNLOAD(3MB): http://www.geocities.com/le_woltaire/Sonata.mp3   

Won't work... stupid geocities

Pretty good c-off, although it gets a little bit repetitive.

Mills: Its good and it does fit the theme, but it is very much background music as it is quite slow and boring... but maybe not in a bad way.

[MillsJROSS]

If you at first you don't succeed copy-and-paste, and the mp3 will be yours. That or just wait, because if a few people have already listened to it, geocities might close the website for an hour to keep him within the constraining limits of space.

Mills: Its good and it does fit the theme, but it is very much background music as it is quite slow and boring... but maybe not in a bad way.

Um...thanks?

-MillsJROSS

[Sluggo]

Is anyone else planning to enter this competition?

[AGA]

Obviously not, and the close date has arrived. Pronounce the winner

[Sluggo]

Hold onto your socks AGA, I'm getting to it!

Le Woltaire: I like this a lot. Perhaps a bit too long to be music for a cutscene. And I might have preferred a little less pedal at times. The music is very appropriate and suits the atmosphere, although the piano cannot always do it justice. I was a little dissapointed with the end, although I blame that on limitations of the piano.

c-off: It's cute to an extent, almost too cute for a witch. I like the string ostinato, although I would suggest some harmonic alterations, particularly in the use of major chords. I think the piano sound for the melody isn't the best choice either. I do like the rhythms; it would be interesting to see what you could do with a more sporadic, pointilistic melody.

Mills: This is very good. I like a lot of the string figurations. And some of the midi sounds are kind of funky, which I like, perhaps too loud, but that is probably just a soundcard thing. The harmonic rhythm could be altered a little to make it more interesting, but your choice of notes is quite good.



Ok, it's tough to decide, but I am going to choose Le Woltaire! That style of music is one rarely heard in computer games and I think it would provide a very unique setting for this character.

[Le Woltaire]

Thank you,

I didn't expect this.
I thought some more people would participate.....

I'm going to post the new rules in a week.