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Post by Painter on Jun 6, 2022 12:21:44 GMT -5
I created a kind of gloomy science fantasy world with a few different fuzzy planes of reality and chaos gods. I'm just making music that would be a good soundtrack to an adventure set in this world. tbh im basically just trying to produce slow, sad metal-ish songs with humorous samples and a dark atmosphere So a world a bit like Elric, but the protagonist has a sense of humor? |
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Post by erisianchalice on Jun 8, 2022 17:58:15 GMT -5
I created a kind of gloomy science fantasy world with a few different fuzzy planes of reality and chaos gods. I'm just making music that would be a good soundtrack to an adventure set in this world. tbh im basically just trying to produce slow, sad metal-ish songs with humorous samples and a dark atmosphere So a world a bit like Elric, but the protagonist has a sense of humor? kinda, yeah. elric is a good point of reference. but in my mind its more like Eternia from masters of the universe where the world vaguely medieval and feudal, but the creatures and aesthetics are alienish and there are lasers and cyborg technology as well. |
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Post by Painter on Jun 10, 2022 14:12:57 GMT -5
So a world a bit like Elric, but the protagonist has a sense of humor? kinda, yeah. elric is a good point of reference. but in my mind its more like Eternia from masters of the universe where the world vaguely medieval and feudal, but the creatures and aesthetics are alienish and there are lasers and cyborg technology as well. Hoh? You might enjoy early Phantasy Star games then. Phantasy Star Online went all out with the futurism and technology and lasers and what have you, but the early games were much more like you described. They had swords and laser guns and aliens. The series over all is pretty good, some of the graphics are really pleasing to look at, and there's a lot of great tracks to listen to. I think Ooze from PSIV is one of the best boss themes of the series, which is saying something because I'm really keen on IDOLA Have the Immortal Feather and From Seeing The Rough Wave from PSO. |
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Post by Painter on Jun 11, 2022 8:57:05 GMT -5
What I'm going to say is not about my "first career" (between 96 and 2006 or so) and what I was able to do with my projects like Arden or Maelifell at that time, but my "second career" since since 2017 I found my old friend and musical partner and we started to make music together again, be it DS, ambient, electronic, etc. I think that what motivates me, what I try most to "express", is not a feeling (although it is related to a feeling, nostalgia in this case) but a sensation, auditive, more precisely; I try to find a kind of "sound of the good old days", notably by going back to using tapes, old and semi-broken tape recorders, samples of old demos (mine or those of other projects of the past). I'm trying to make something new out of old material, and to find a particular atmosphere and sound grain that makes me feel like I'm in the old days - or maybe out of time. Hmm! Nostalgia is good! Maybe I should try that in some of my paintings sometime. Everytime I hear the word nostalgia, two things come to mind, that scene from Mad Men where he pitches the ad for a photo projector, and this video essay about frank ocean, which seems to have a lot to do with the subject of nostalgia. It's a good essay, though I don't particularly care for frank ocean. There certainly is a magic to the older materials and tools. They require more user engagement, and attention, plus they're not packaged with the ability to get distracted by thousands of other uses, they're pretty focused, themselves, on a single purpose. When you use it for that purpose, it often times makes you focus on it, too. At least, that's been my experience. |
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Post by erisianchalice on Jun 11, 2022 13:58:12 GMT -5
kinda, yeah. elric is a good point of reference. but in my mind its more like Eternia from masters of the universe where the world vaguely medieval and feudal, but the creatures and aesthetics are alienish and there are lasers and cyborg technology as well. Hoh? You might enjoy early Phantasy Star games then. Phantasy Star Online went all out with the futurism and technology and lasers and what have you, but the early games were much more like you described. They had swords and laser guns and aliens. The series over all is pretty good, some of the graphics are really pleasing to look at, and there's a lot of great tracks to listen to. I think Ooze from PSIV is one of the best boss themes of the series, which is saying something because I'm really keen on IDOLA Have the Immortal Feather and From Seeing The Rough Wave from PSO. when I was a kid in the 90s I used to rent phantasy star 2 on Sega genesis and keep it for like a week past the due date. I loved it back in the day but I honestly can't remember anything about the story or the music or any of the characters. except i do remember it being more scifi than the first one. a lot of those old 8 and 16 bit rpgs blur together in my memory. I played a million of them and beat none lol. my all time favorite 90s rpg is the Japanese final fantasy 3 for Famicom, which I didn't play until i found a translated ROM much later in the early 00s. |
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Post by Painter on Jun 11, 2022 18:06:49 GMT -5
Hoh? You might enjoy early Phantasy Star games then. Phantasy Star Online went all out with the futurism and technology and lasers and what have you, but the early games were much more like you described. They had swords and laser guns and aliens. The series over all is pretty good, some of the graphics are really pleasing to look at, and there's a lot of great tracks to listen to. I think Ooze from PSIV is one of the best boss themes of the series, which is saying something because I'm really keen on IDOLA Have the Immortal Feather and From Seeing The Rough Wave from PSO. when I was a kid in the 90s I used to rent phantasy star 2 on Sega genesis and keep it for like a week past the due date. I loved it back in the day but I honestly can't remember anything about the story or the music or any of the characters. except i do remember it being more scifi than the first one. a lot of those old 8 and 16 bit rpgs blur together in my memory. I played a million of them and beat none lol. my all time favorite 90s rpg is the Japanese final fantasy 3 for Famicom, which I didn't play until i found a translated ROM much later in the early 00s. If I remember correctly, PSII was the one about a system called Mother Brain that made life too easy for civilization, which led to mental illness, languish, and a lack of meaning in peoples lives. Turns out the Mother Brain system was a subversive piece of technology meant to weaken the population so the invaders that sent it ahead could wipe the local populace out with ease. Some of the elements of PSII, I think, are relevant to us today. I see a parallel between the MB System and the internet and silicon valley. Final Fantasy III had the crystal tower, right? That had a good score. |
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i'm a newbie here, thanks for the approval!