Deathrophy by Nightlord/Glance
My first SID in 3 years. And the one I worked on the most. Made for the chip music compo in 7d8 party but ended up in Mixed Music compo competing against 8 other mp3's and got the second place (I think it should have gotten the 3rd place but anyway)
This piece contains something that you are not used to hearing in a SID. It might be the first attempt of a so called "taksim". Taksim is a kind of improvisational soloing of an instrument in Turkish Classical Music that has its roots in the Ottoman Empire times.
Turkish Classical Music is a very academical kind of music which does not use the common chromatic scale originally but a much finer precision division of an octave. a full interval in Western classical music (say the interval between C and D) is divided into two steps as opposed to the nine steps in the Turkish Classical Music. This has given birth to several hundreds of scales (known as makam). Taksim is a improvisation that usually happens at the entry of a song performed by an instrument.
My attempts at going out of the chromatic scale and committing motifs from Turkish Classical music started in Broken/Civitas (2005). Although it is mostly a jazzy piece the lead melody in most parts were out of western scales. It didn't do too well with the crowd in Floppy 2005 apparently, taking the last place in compo :D
Well Deathrophy is probably going to sound very very alien to a western audiance at first, too. Especially during the initial taksim which takes almost the first minute of the song. But after that it takes off to first smooth jazz and gets heavier and becomes an old school hard rock piece.
I would love to get some feedback on this. Any feedback positive or negative will be greatly apreciated. Thanks for listening...
Nightlord/Glance
Dec 23rd 2008