One of several battle cues from the digital card game / MMO Hex: Shards of Fate. Although the cards used in gameplay can represent anything from brutish warriors to wizards to samurai rabbits, I chose a sorcerous mood as the overall musical flavor for combat.
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The Cards are Dealt | |
In the film Against Time, a mysterious visitor from the furniture issues a teenager a dire warning about a terrible mistake he’s yet to make. I musically represented the visitor with this slightly “off” theme for piano and strings, which is consonant but combines harmonies that don’t normally live in the same key.
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Zack | |
Ah, the peaceful times before the mutant birds attacked, dive-bombing innocent people and exploding without explanation. This week’s cue, from Birdemic 2: The Resurrection, expresses this familiar nostalgia in a pastoral medley for orchestra.
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Day at the Museum | |
This week’s cue is another faction theme from the game Hex: Shards of Fate. This music is for the nefarious Vennen, an orc-spider hybrid race that’s an all-male religious cult to boot. I felt the music needed to be somewhat disquieting and have vaguely mystical overtones, and chose the bass viol (sometimes known as by its more glamorous name, the viola de gamba) as the principal melodic voice. Cymbal scrapes, high violin clusters, and low woodwind trills contribute to the spidery- and/or cult-y mood.
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The Vennen | |
From the the film Home Room, a moody piece accompanying a dissolve between two film’s two protagonists (played by Erika Christensen and Busy Phillips, respectively) highlighting the parallels between them. Echoing the visuals, the score is timed so that one melodic statement plays over each character’s respective closeup.
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Two Girls | |
