Home Is Where

This started with exploring the piano, looking for sounds that represented the kind of home comforts that you hear in “home” themes in games, but I wanted something uncomfortable at the edge of it, some reason to prompt the runaway.

I liked the image of the forest, and I thought of that as a good couple of levels for a game (in my mind it was a platformer, maybe a Metroidvania, but I never thought about it too deeply, just used the resources as a jumping-off point), and I came up with the concepts of Forests of Darkness and Light. Using the same overall instrumentation (flute, clarinet, strings, harp, and a bit of percussion), I tried to make these tracks feel rich and full of strange life.

I scored these initially in MuseScore, then exported MIDI into Logic and used Spitfire's BBC Symphony Orchestra Core for my instruments (except Forest of Light, which I input with a mouse directly into Logic. Won't be doing that again.)

I decided not to use Leitmotifs, to see if I could create a homogeneous sound without them; I'm hoping the instrumentation and the harmony—which is a long way from anything I've written before—.