One Hour Compo - Round 684 (OHC684)
Outline
Look at how young you looked. You can't remember the last time you smiled that big. You looked so happy. When was that? Fifteen...twenty years ago? If you could just go back and relive that one day! Tonight's theme is "The best years of your life."
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 (20)
Those were simplest times. The burden of adulthood not yet imprinted onto ourselves. Infinite time, infinite possibilities.
bloop bleep. broken render fixed! bleep bloop.
Weep not for the days bygone, but be glad that they were.
Had a tune in mind for a couple days, largely inspired by Kirby's Epic Yarn's "Flower Fields," and this theme made me nostalgic enough to plug in my midi keyboard and bludgeon ya'll with my single-take piano skills*. Enjoy hearing me stumble through my attempt at an expressive piece.
Started of as Solo Piano, but then i felt the need to add more, because i wanted more ambient textures. It's very much a beautiful piece. Also took me a while, because of the fact i went for more of a piano piece structure, than repetition.
I'm also probably the last entry lol. Hope you guys like it!
I guess when I got the concept I saw a picture of a robot. Oh well.
Lyrics
Some hydraulics
Some board circuitry
Some power sources
Ghost in that Shell?
Do robots dream at all?
Dreaded times, drifting sands
Clocks in shadow, twisting hands
Turn back the tide, turn the time
To younger days.
Flowing river, down one way
It hurts now. Not back in the day
History repeats, secrets of man
Drifting moments, automatic
Those younger years
My more confusing time
But discovery reigns
In my simulated hope
The feelings, so strong
Only for first time
Or so I thought
In my simulated hope
Back then when I was using FM as bass? Also uses a similar phrase to my OHC522 entry.
bonus entry, please don't vote
lyrics:
(groan)
it's now, i guess?
There are so many ways this render could go wrong...let's hope it came out ok!
Those were great years. But I bet I can top that!
This is the last of 6 stage themes that I was commissioned to write. The last one I made was a little slower, so I cranked up the tempo for this one. Turns out that every single one of these is in a minor key since the main motif of the soundtrack fits that modality.
Still done in one hour as always. "Making of" video: https://youtu.be/f8b59li2aq4
idk if it is called a lunar or solar eclipse so i said solar
Might need to turn down the volume for this one, sorry
Focus on making something a little longer and more cohesive this week. I like how the balancing turned out.
[Verse]
I look the bygone years and I wistfully reminisce
At those times you were with me and would honor me with a kiss
(You set me right)
[Pre-chorus]
We had our doubts, we had our fights, but we resolved our problems
We had our quips, such petty bouts, but we just walked right past them
[Chorus]
When we would spend our nights together
We'd go to where the ocean met the streams
Brighter than the stars up in the sky
Across a sea of dreams
[Verse]
Just like the beginning, when we took our long fateful climb
I'd see my reflection in your wild and wondering eyes
(so full of light)