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Dies Irae 2 - Eerier Dies

By lament.config on April 21, 2024 2:40 pm

Still trying to get drones right. I had no idea what the hell this weeks piece was going to be so, in frustration, I played Dies Irae over the top and finally got an idea.  This weeks track is a rendition of Week 1 - for no other reason than being able to play them back to back and compare.  Redundant maybe but hell, Week 1 was the first piece of music I've ever written so I figured 16 tracks in it wasn't too self indulgent. 

Fun game - if you want to ruin film music for yourself read up on Dies Irae in cinema then pay attention to how many times you hear it (spoilers - it's a lot).

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April 22, 2024 4:24 pm

neon liminal

Amazing atmosphere, the drones are just wonderfully deep and dynamic. I've heard dies irae plenty but not often on a broken piano - it really gives the sense of a foreboding wander through an abandoned building, and a (sinister?) hand reaching down to play a few notes. Beautiful.

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April 26, 2024 6:51 am

angellis

There is a singing bowl quality to this. Love the dulled pizzicato sounds too. Is Dies Irae the four chord song of cinema?

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May 5, 2024 1:09 pm

lament.config

neon liminal wrote:

Amazing atmosphere, the drones are just wonderfully deep and dynamic. I've heard dies irae plenty but not often on a broken piano - it really gives the sense of a foreboding wander through an abandoned building, and a (sinister?) hand reaching down to play a few notes. Beautiful.

Thank you, the broken piano sure does add to the creep factor for sure.  Thanks for listening to it

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May 5, 2024 1:13 pm

lament.config

angellis wrote:

There is a singing bowl quality to this. Love the dulled pizzicato sounds too. Is Dies Irae the four chord song of cinema?

Cheers.  Dies Irae (long story short) was written in the 1200's and roughly translate to Day of Wrath but is now used as short hand to mean doom or death in cinematic scores.  Heavily used in horror movies (opening the The Shining and Friday the 13th part 6 being the most well known examples) as well as John Williams and Danny Elfman have used it to...well...death.

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