This song describes the magic of the forest slowly coming to life as night falls. In the beginning of the song you have the slumbering fauna and flora slowly awakening with nightfall...first as soft whispers through the forest and then slowly as deep strong murmurs that resound through the forest itself. It is then that the magic of the forest truly begins. Now fully awakened, the flora and fauna converse in their own hidden language as though they were living spirits filled with an abundance of life. This life now saturates the forest and a new world is slowly revealed. Softly they play their song for those who would listen, bringing forth a new world yet unseen. A new world full of magic and illusions that eventually fades away like a dream.
Ok so this time round I tried to work more with chords to make it feel cinematic...and by that I mean I consciously studied the chords in each phrase before adding each note. Hence the song feels a bit more dreamy and more passive...you'll notice there's also a lot less movement as compared to my previous songs. That's also the effect of concentrating on chords alone. I did add a melody line in the end as it sounded too dead to me with only chords...but this time with a little trick. I passed the melody from the bells in the beginning to the strings, then the horns, then the strings....etc. It was quite tedious to pull off but I'm glad the effect came out the way it did. To me it sounds like various inanimate objects coming to life and conversing with each other...which is kind of magical in a sense too.
Unlike my previous 2 songs this one sits at 2mins long...the reason being that the song describes a mini scene instead of just an emotion, hence more shape was needed to craft out this scene. The song can easily be divided into 4 sections that is the beginning (bells), the body (orchestra comes in), the chorus (harp strums upwards) and the ending (piano mimicking the bells from the beginning). Each section represents the state of the forest from coming alive, bringing forth the magic, changing the landscape with that magic and then going back to sleep again. I used the bells, glockenspiel, the piano and the harp to create this cascading effect like stars falling down to the ground to create this magical feeling. However it was also quite tough to balance these effects out with the rest of the orchestra as I had to keep in mind that while these instruments had a prominent role to play they were just props at the end. The strings and horns in the background were the real stars of this song with the way they passed the conversation between each other so those had to come out more. Thankfully this song had more ambiance to it than melody, so it worked out in the end.
Truthfully I wonder if my songs are beginning to sound a little different again...like they're maturing. (i hope!) Maybe with a bit more work I can begin infusing a bit of modern techno into my songs just like the many movie soundtracks I hear these days. A bit of techno couldn't hurt....
