Some time ago, there was an article I wrote on playsource about music for ‚Agony’, a game by Polish company Madmind Studio. You can found it here:
https://nowloading.co/p/agony-game-music/4239931
Also, I attended Digital Dragons 2017 where I gave a speech for game designers, game directors and producers about talking to composers
My first full length album, ‚Circle of Light’, is released on Bandcamp.
You can buy the album here: http://draconared.bandcamp.com/album/circle-of-light
Here’s a short story behind its creation:
The album contains an hour of music inspired by militaristic science fiction themes. It is divided into 24 pieces from purely orchestral to purely electronic but the vast majority is a mix of both. The idea for the album sparked in 2012 and from there it evolved into a musical story about big galactic conflict. When the album was almost ready, I decided to improve the music and many pieces were changed, some were made from scratch. I finished it about 1.5 years ago but I decided to upload it on bandcamp in January 2017.
After three years of working after hours I finally managed to finish one of my biggest works. It’s an album called ‚Circle Of Light’.
The album contains an hour of music inspired by militaristic science fiction themes. It is divided into 24 pieces from purely orchestral to purely electronic but the vast majority is a mix of both.
The idea for the album sparked in 2012 with a piece called ‚Galaxy At War’. At the time I didn’t know how the story would go – all I knew was that I want to include a musical illustration of a big space conflict. It was later when I added themes like politics, love, loss and other to the story, but the general outline (the beginning, the centre and the big end) was already prepared. In short, it revolves around a group of soldiers that uncovers a plot to start a big galactic conflict. Each piece is rather an image of the story than an illustration – I didn’t want to make it like a film soundtrack where music is carefully tailored to follow the picture it was written for. (A side note: it would work much better in video game; this medium is much more liberal in soundtrack)
When the album was more or less ready and each piece was in place, I wanted to improve the music. Some of the tracks didn’t sound so good like they had sounded earlier when I had written them – I felt that the melodies, the orchestration, the structure of each piece needed improvements. ‚Dark Alleys’ and ‚Chase Through The City’ were one piece, ‚Galaxy At War’ didn’t have an intro from ‚Hung In The Balance’ and ‚Silent Hit’ no longer has one-bar-crescendi in brass section. It also turned out that some of the tracks didn’t fit the story anymore and had to be removed from the list (like ‚Gains And Losses’ which is still present on my youtube channel).
You can listen to the soundtrack here in My Music section, on my YouTube channel and my SoundCloud profile. Soon it will come to Bandcamp, too.
Not so long time ago, me and my friend made a small multiplayer action-arcade game for a #MultijamUltra2015. You can find the game here: http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/box-the-revenge/62895/
Here are the tracks I created for the game. It was so nice to create something small and different from my usual line of work.
Best regards,
Draco
PS
I should start posting more on my website. It’s so empty here.
I’ve never been good in writing first entries.
There. I admitted it. In front of you.
However, I think my point of view about starting anything is common – there are usually millions of various thoughts about how to start and the hardest point is putting the thoughts into reality. But when we finally start, we want it to be perfect. Just like in music – putting notes together into an ideal piece.
But it’s never perfect. It can be bad, average, good, great or even brilliant. But never perfect.
It’s like neverending chase. Perhaps perfection is just around the corner. Or very far away. Or both (damn Schrödinger and his cat 😛 ). We try to achieve perfection in different ways and it’s always beyond our grasp. To succeed, we can’t stop and simply do what we do best. This way we get better and closer to perfection.