One Hour Compo - Round 675 (OHC675)
Outline
Tonight's theme is a picture theme. Please see the resources.
Resources
Rules
You will have 1 hour to complete your song and 10 minutes to finish it up. You will then have an additional 10 minutes to upload your song. At 6 PST/9 EST you may begin your mixing, please have your files uploaded by 7:20 PST/10:20 EST. Join us for discussion on Discord!
Entries (23)
My reflection's calling out
through the surface, only truth i see
in this silver labryinth
through the twisted looking glass i see
My reflection's crying out
below the surface, drowning in the sea
in this silver labryinth
in this twisted false reality
what year is it
Corridors. Everywhere I look. The path to my left leads to a small passage, which leads to another long corridor. All the walls are made of mirrors, so I see myself lost, millions of time, the same look of desolation on my face.
I keep walking.
All through the day
We ran and play
Paying no time to look at mirrors
If we took the time
To look in the stream
The watery reflections
show you and me
Chorus:
All of the mirrors all I see is myself
I see none of them with you
Shatter the glass and scar myself
one thousand little slivers
Pull me under
Into rain and thunder
Im so lost in this thunderstorm
I cant stand this glass
To look in the past
Lonliness comes back
Show only just me
All sounds were made from scratch... including the singing duck
[verse]
Down through the hallway, you see silhouetted
Person unknown, never met 'em
Turns out it's just you reflected
Tense, walking down in this floor full of mirrors
Weird, but it could even be worse
Cracking the glass could be a curse
Oh, where your feet go, they flip toward the ceiling
Up is down, whoa, what a feeling
Mind wobbles, brain it is reeling
[chorus]
Infinity reaches outwards
Beginning and ends, the tower
You see the reflections in this complex
Went for 2 parts, because i don't feel like the first one is substantial enough. Part 1 is a heavy and hard trance number, that is also surprisingly fast. 160bpm to be specific. Everything is full on synthesizer, with acid basses, rich phased chords, filters, basically the works. It's not for the faint hearted. And yes do be warned, raving will be aplenty.
An unsettling trance...
when you say you see
parts of yourself in me
in the cuts and burns
reflected on my skin
but then suddenly
when reminded of your fraility
you resent
what i represent
and you fear what's within
that's why i can't be
the one you love
being with you doesn't feel right
don't say you need me
or that i'm sent from above
know it's just a trick of the light
Behind the glass
Intensive reality awaits
Reflections of truth
Spotlights shine, revealing
Lights shift
Mind twisting what's seen
Kinetic thoughts
Breaking boundaries
Attractive thoughts
Bringing everyone near
Infinite minds colliding
Geometric worlds
Drawing everything near
Warped together in the same universe
Bringing your world together
Into your reality
Part 2 is a slow ambient piece, with a loud stream of pulsating noise, and a loud looped breakbeat. Not much to say about this one, the first one wasn't substantial enough, so i added in another to fill the missing piece. This one is actually not bad.
In the seventh level of the undercity, miles and miles of of broken glass are supended. A constellation strewn across the darkness. Each reflects a scene, some real, some fanciful. It is said that each is a portal to another world, or another mode of existence.
The mirror in a mirror effect meant I had to use some absolutely heinous amounts of delay... just filthy amounts of it... nothing I could've done.......