_Soar_ is my MC4 Veteran entry. It placed #13 out of 96 Veteran
entries.
-- Comments --
I'm pretty proud of this little tune. It was started quite a while
before MC4; at the time, I had no intention of entering it in the MC, but
when the deadline was fast approaching, it was the best candidate for
entry.
Because I only decided at the last minute to submit it for MC4,
it is a rushed piece. ("Yeah, yeah. That's what they all say.") It is
quite a bit shorter than I had originally envisioned, and the ending was
completed on the day of the deadline.
On the music itself: I'm most proud of the guitar lead / melody in
this piece. It was one of those musical ideas that come straight out of
the fertile compost heap that is the mind. :) I was able to put that
melody down in one sitting, which is abnormal for me. (I usually take
quite a long time to write something I'm happy with).
That melody is what inspired the title.
-- Greets and Credits --
Greets (in whatever order I think of them):
Inner Vision
Mondo
Darkwolf
Smeghead
MickRippon
... and his faithful Astrid
OxideMan
Vizz
Stein
Mercure
Kneebiter
HoseBeast
Floss
Spectrum
Howler
WAVE!
... and all the rest of #trax.
Credits and thanks for samples:
Leviathan for the peerless Washburn guitar lead
Necros
BigJim for the acoustic guitars
Queen
Some anonymous dudes for almost all of the percussion...
-- Shameless Plug --
Look out for a new demogroup from the Seattle, Washington area
making its debut sometime in the next year :)
-- Contact --
Contact me at: khu@u.washington.edu
or
be550@scn.org
I'm also available for work on commercial games. Contact me.