Now Playing: Terrania
Topic: Original Music
You know, I've really got to find a place to sell all of this music. I've got three decent albums with about 45 minutes of music on each and not a single way to make any money from it. Amazon? iTunes? Indie record shop? Well, it's not relevant at the moment.
As we speak, I'm making preparations for album #5. Its title? Who knows at this point. However, since album #4 was all The Sims, perhaps album #5 could be all SimCity?
After all, the first song I've written for this new album (whose score I just finished yesterday) was rather inspired by SimCity Societies. Its tentative title is "Terrania", but that could change once I'm totally done with it.
See, "Terrania" is similar to Freshmen 4 Ever, in that I will perform the melody line myself. However, where Freshmen had a scored melody line (which I thought was interesting at the time, but ultimately decided not to use), "Terrania" does not. Now, although I say "Terrania's" melody will be entirely improvisational, it may turn out that I end up writing a melody anyway. That happens sometimes. Since stuff doesn't always take on the first go, and I may end up improvising something really nifty, I may write it down so I can play it the same way again.
If I do decide to go the all-SimCity route, I'll put in Pangaea again, as well as City Sunset and The Paved Frontier, as those were all inspired by SimCity 3000 and 4.
So, even now, with only one new song and three old ones, it's already amounted to nearly 20 minutes'-worth of music! Fancy that, eh? But, then, Pangaea is rather on the long side, so if I do the SimCity thing, I'll probably end up pruning it some.
So, perchance to listen, yes?
Terrania (TSN version)
This version of the MIDI score has been edited for time and repetition. I took out two loops of the synth/vibraphone bit at the beginning and some in the middle as well. With the soprano saxophone that I plan to improvise with, it makes that section less repetitive than the score actually is, but just listening to the score without the melody, one has difficulty staying awake.
