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For SounDevotion Competition Round 49, the round’s theme was orchestral instruments.

This was starting off to be a piece in four movements but I decided that it would be better to have two good and completed movements than four rushed and unmixed ones.

I. Lydia Valley
II. Lydia Cave

The first was supposed to be a Philip Glass or Terry Riley pastiche, but as it turned a little too RPG/Movie sounding I figured it would be better to abandon the proverbial rules and finish what I had than to ruin a style I only have a slight intellectual (not aesthetic) interest in. In further retrospect, I should have made the mallets sound more accented although that isn’t in the minimalist style.

The second, I decided to take the dare from someone to make a big orchestral climax without the use of a drumset. In fact, I don’t think there is even a crash cymbal.

On a Rainy Day at archive.org

Download entire EP as a ZIP file, courtesy of archive.org

This was supposed to have been released in March or April, I’m sorry that it took so long. Regular followers or SounDevotion regulars will recognize that I’ve themed the EP after a tune I created as an entry; from the beginning, I wanted the song to flow into a greater work that included some pieces that I originally composed in One-hour competitions but have been restructuring and improving over the months, until I could give the entire thing a nice flow. The climax of “Found, At the Edge Of the Forest” was an entry for SDCompo as well, this piece given slightly different mastering and some real guitar to assist the sound of the sampled one.

Cover art by SirMarkus Kidd.

“Markus” mascot based on “Darkbrown Raccoon” by Ryan Radio.

“Littlegrey” mascot based on “Raccoon2MaleFemale” by MiniFeru Artizar.