Glad to see your extended review! I didn’t compose the ending the same way I do most of my pieces. I made the ending WAY before I made the buildup and thus the transition into it probably didn’t feel super natural. Also with these two most recent pieces I’ve been experimenting with dead silence more as a tool for emphasis and this was my first attempt at it. I think cirrus did a significantly better job at using it though. I guess they can’t frontpage everything lol.

Been thinking about a possible return to trance. But I’m worried that it’ll sound the same as before because I’m in a completely different software now. Orchestration rules and such just don’t apply at all in fl and that’s scary. Unless I somehow blended these instruments with synths and somehow like exported a mp3 file or something. But that sounds really challenging tbh and a little impractical since I can’t mix exactly the way I want.

Side note, by celesta do you mean hand bells or glockenspiel? I didn’t use that in this piece, only presage. I assume you mean hand bells cause I do use the lower register. It makes more sense when you think about this piece as a hand bell concerto.

I’m surprised you have so much to say about 0:43 and not the part immediately following, which is my favorite part of the piece obviously.

Before uploading I made a few dynamic modifications to the intro and to the first chorus because the ending was just so much louder and I didn’t like that. Ultimately I think that was a mistake. The solo violin projects above everything wayyyy too much but I just wanted to get this out so I could move on to wrapping up cirrus, which is just so much more experimental and also got the FP. But I’m glad to see you enjoyed this one nonetheless! This will NOT be the last time I step into remaking old states.

Be careful what you wish for! I’d say all the other upcoming pieces are either of the same quality as this or better. And they’re all essentially completed except maybe Missouri 6. I’ve already created the project for the prelude to the afternoon of a faun remake. I just can’t think of a name. So in short expect many releases in the coming days.

Thinking of releasing these in quick succession this week and calling it an album. Not sure how that would work cause I’ve never really done any sort of album before but this could be a nice start.

Thanks for the positive feedback as always!

The beginning is actually just the solo string soundfonts! Hopefully they sound decent lol. I actually had to increase the volume of the intro just to keep it semi balanced. Added percussion to the first chorus to make it stand out less when it came in later. Just overall things to make the piece flow better. Thanks for listening and enjoying!