Hermann's mill (soundtrack/game music)

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Hermann's mill (soundtrack/game music)

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Hey hey,
here's Hermann's mill:
https://youtu.be/1-HH60SABUk
It's originally inspired by Philip Glass' "Music with changing parts". I never really got minimal music and so I always waited for the drop. Consequently, I set out to capture the feeling of the intro from the Glass piece and then meet my meagre expectations.
This piece relies a lot on Aeolus and I want to express my great thanks to Fons for writing the software and helping me with a MIDI control enabled preset file, so I could set up stops from the sequencer.
The title of the piece is a bad musician's joke. One chord progression which I use is known as an omnibus in English. A German name for this particular omnibus is "Devil's mill". So many devils to choose from, I just picked one. :)
Enjoy the darkness, for those who find summer too hot. :)
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The Alchemy of Musical Beings... the cosmic spirits of history are bubbling in Dr. Faust's retort :) Excellent work, Jeanette_C!

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The intro was great, I was almost disappointed when that 70s Moog melody entered the scene.

It makes me think not of Glass, but of Danny Elfman, there are some similaritites to his Nightmare before christmas soundtrack.

It was a cool piece, thanks for sharing, @jeanette_c!

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Hi @oscillator , thanks a lot! Have you ever listened to "Music with changing parts"? Who knows: if not, you might like it. Considering that I listened to it one evening for 20 minutes, where my usual attention span for minimal is less than three minutes, that says something.
I must look up that Danny Elfmann soundtrack. I'm intrigued now. :)
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This reminds me of older sci-fi movie scores, and 'silent movie' soundtracks, where there may have been a live organist, scoring the villains threatening damsels in distress. Very evocotive. (is that even a word? ) I enjoy the busy parts interweaving, and the building energies/tensions, likely no easy task, but it works. I think I'd like some reverb and delay to glue the parts together more, and lessen the dryness, but then it might lose the historical feel, and become a different piece. Cool that the Aeolus organ coder helped out!
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Great track, I listened to it twice already! I must admit I was surprised to hear, at 2:54, what sounds like the "Carol of the bells" (which brought back memories of Home Alone and Christmas movies :mrgreen: ), was this an intentional homage or accidental? I love the organ in this, which at times game me Phantom of the Opera vibes.
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Rainmak3r wrote: Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:57 am ...
I must admit I was surprised to hear, at 2:54, what sounds like the "Carol of the bells" (which brought back memories of Home Alone and Christmas movies :mrgreen: ), was this an intentional homage or accidental?
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Hey hey @Rainmak3r , thanks for the lovely feedback! I'm glad the song has found takers. The citation was half accidental. The carol of the bells is one of the very few xmas songs that I can listen to, even like when I forget about the topic. It has this restless, ceaseless energy, which fitted the mood I wanted. Besides it is somewhat related to the main motif of the piece. Let's call it a serendipitous accident. :)
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