Music for the mod

okay I've started to produce and composing some music for the mod. I will present it here. If you other guys are into making music, please make some!

We have set up some categories for discussion
- Intro music - for the menu animation. ONLY ONE.
- Deploy music - during deployment and before you've marched any troops. SEVERAL PIECES.
- Marching music - after you've moved your first unit up till the actual fighting starts (artillery doesn't count). SEVERAL PIECES.
- Battle music - after first fighting starts (artillery doesn't count). SEVERAL PIECES.
- Victory music - after victorious battlev. ONLY ONE.
- Defeat music - after unresolved or lost battle. ONLY ONE.
- Campaign music - For each culture? SEVERAL PIECES

I have made some tunes, not necessarily to be used, but that's up for discussion, right?


Intro
Won't be like this, but tell me if you like some pieces or aspects of it. Not a finished piece.

Faction eliminated
Could be replaced as a soundeffect when a faction is defeated, not really a musicpiece.

Marching or battle music 01

Battlemusic 02
Here I'm pretty satisfied...

Eastern 01
For the eastern factions in strategymap. Meant to be played on a very low volume. Not optimal mixed, and unsure how it turned out....... anyway I think we should use some guitars like these

Norse deployment
Before the storm...

Menu music
I thought this could work for the menu..

March (only for loud playing)
The march of death

Campaign 01
Another guitarpiece for the strategy map. Needs some proper mixing with the strings. Must say I doubt a little this can be used, so you tell me

Nb: nobody are allowed to steal anything from here for another mod or something else, the music in Age of Vikings and fantics is meant to be unique

Originally Posted by ScionTheWorm

Eastern 01
For the eastern factions in strategymap. Meant to be played on a very low volume. Not optimal mixed, and unsure how it turned out....... anyway I think we should use some guitars like these

Wow, amazing !

It would be a very good as deployment music also

thnks! think I'll make another deploy music, but no so far away from this one...

Originally Posted by ScionTheWorm

Tension 01
Okay hehe! This one has a melody, so don't flame... happytune.. tell me what parts you like if not the whole thing.. ain't totally finished anyway but you get the idea. typical norwegian scale

I think the start is good, but it's a little too long IMO. The starting theme comes back after a calmer piece - if you cut away the calmer piece and then add the rhytmical fast theme that fills the last minute, then add a more dramatic climax at the end, it would be a perfect battle music. As it is now, it mixes the calm music with the faster battle-style music in a way that neither makes it a natural deploy nor a natural battle music. The calm parts are cool though, could be used for a separate piece. The calm tones that accompany the theme that's played at start (the slow tones with cello, I think it is), can be kept, but the calm part between the two occurencies of the theme the piece start with is too long to keep up the tension feeling needed for a battle music. I hope what I just said was comprehensible, in short it means keep most of the piece but do some slight remixing of it and it's perfect battle music. I like the Norwegian styled tones, reminds me a little of the Peer Gynt suites by Edvard Grieg, and one of the MTW:VI battle music pieces. I like the idea of using local themes/styles for the pieces, for example the theme in this song is very good for the viking mood, the eastern music had a good orientalic feeling etc. We could create a slavic style and a greek style too. The western Christianity is probably best represented by the typical church chorals, preferably with some dooms day feeling over them, and/or some rythm added.

I liked the Eastern piece. Very relaxed...

For marching music, though, I keep thinking about Nile's Die Rache Krieglied der Assyriche. I really love that tune... you said you had the ability to implement a choir, right? How about a Finnish shouting line?

finnish?? why finnish?

btw I love that piece... I don't got any "hoh"-samples, but i love that dehydrated desert voice, would work nice... in norse or something! yes I may get that apocalypse thing to work, but I think it's best suited for "christian style" (camina burana style). I haven't installed it at this time, is a hell to get to work so I save that for last.

check out my norse tension tune. and btw what do you think about the battle 02?

edit:
if all on the team with dark voices could send me an "hoh" sound sample I could make it

Originally Posted by ScionTheWorm

finnish?? why finnish?

Because I didn't think shouting lines existed in other cultures. They sound quite good, though; it's a choir where everyone yells.

EDIT: Hmm, it seems that there's only one such choir in existence. I thought it was more common...joke's on me. Anyway, here's their site. Mieskuoro Huutajat

everyone yells?

it would be very cool to have a nile-style voice (ref. in their darkned shrines, track 6 in the middle... "unaaas"). you have said you've made some voices, could you do something cool like that? could work pretty good...

first attempt at menu music posted above

Originally Posted by ScionTheWorm

Norse deployment
Before the storm...

Menu music
I thought this could work for the menu..

March (only for loud playing)
The march of death

March of death - that is exactly what I meant for marching music, really amazing one! The theme that begins from about the time 1:10 (I think) is really powerful, maybe you could extend it for another minute to make the piece a little longer?

Norse deployment - very good, perfect as it is, really nice, dark feeling, could also be menu music if we want to

Menu music - very good, could also be deployment music if we want to

thank you... yes everything can be extended. will see about that tune of yours.

i think the campaignmusic and marchingmusic are the most important, as that's the music a player hear most. I was thinking having some calmer marching songs than march of death too... is it possible for you to find out wether it's a limit to number of songs?
edit: my point is, I don't want that song to turn up every third time I play a battle, see?

btw I also think marching/tension music should be long, right? this can last for a long time...

Yeah, marching music can be 5 minutes, no problem with that. It should, if possible, be adapted so it can be aborted earlier - in some battles the fighting starts quickly and then the marching music is replaced by battle music. Of course, that should work well for almost any battle music that is a quick timpani/drum based piece and a marching music that is slow and heavy.

Re the limit, I'll open a question thread in the Mod/General forums to see if anybody knows.

okay I might've overdone my solos and overuse the guitars, but they have such a calming effect on me. first post...

btw would use of guitar with distortion be totally not acceptable? long distant chords, for instance, the last part of march of death. just wondering