Crystalline Chaotic Caves
Crystalline Chaotic Caves: textural exploration, F.Sor etouffez, perhaps a dungeon synth parody or a game cave theme.
Figure 1: “Crystalline Chaotic Caves” Motif
The pop world calls the opening chord 9no3, or maybe less correctly sus2, but I’d call it a 424 interval pile or something similar. Anyway, I hear the opening chord as rather neutral, or not stating an obvious affect in baroque speak, befitting the possibilities of mystery awaiting in a cave, if you allow a little dungeon synth parody humour. This piece utilizes mostly a root pedal point; or drone if you will.
To preview the track (then go grab the album for “name your price” in Bandcamp!):
In the 0:10 mark we hear Ferdinando Sor’s etouffez -technique, which this piece makes heavy use of as a device for timbral variety (Fernando Sor, 1830) Etouffez isn’t the only technique instantiated here: save for the timbral change, this is an echo-like repetition of the arpeggio chord just heard. According to my intuitive knowledge, many game soundtrack cave themes utilizes echo-like compositional devices, but to prove this I will have to go through corpus and lay out the evidence. If I say I might be back, will we hear an echo back?
Here’s the recording session video of the piece: