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Willemien Rust - Against Gravity - Rings

from Composer Quest Olympics 6: Composer's Choice by Composer Quest

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"The rings made me think of space in terms of swinging, circles and disorientation. The time signature is 3/4 because this felt like making circles. I chose 'spacey' software instruments from Logic to create an atmosphere of hanging in the air, upside down in space, lack of base. To portray the swinging, I made long reverb sounds, going back and forth in pitch or volume level, sometimes by using my keyboard’s pitch bend and sometimes it was already part of the chosen software instrument (e.g. Off World Travel).
The rings also made me think of performance in terms of muscular strength, concentration and endurance. I used subtle mechanical, hollow and somewhat fluidity sounds (Noizy Rings FX and Saturn Sync Space) bouncing back and forth to represent muscles at work inside the body. These effects also made me think of blood pressure in the head. I chose a slow tempo for the song to represent concentration. I think concentration is a slow process because you zoom into a state of detail, everything else stops, at peak when the athlete hangs in a certain position for a few seconds.
I represented endurance in the song’s progress by making continuous long-stretched sounds that grow stronger and stronger (e.g. using the Falling Stars software instrument in Logic), as it get’s heavier and heavier for the athlete to hold on, until they can let go controllably in the end."

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from Composer Quest Olympics 6: Composer's Choice, released November 19, 2016

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