Sandman Games - ` Hiraeth `

This soundtrack was created for entry into the Composing Jam by Lone Rabbit, hosted on itch.io. The chosen genre was Cosmic Horror Synth-wave, as this Jam coincided with an existing game we were working on. 

The composition is titled 'Hiraeth,' which, by definition, refers to a deep longing for something absent or lost. That perfectly encapsulates the tone of the composition, as the first half is a slow build-up, seemingly toward something, and just as it feels like you've reached what you were longing for, the composition changes to a familiar, but slightly different, melancholic and ambient disarray of melodies, indicating that the very thing you longed for is indeed absent. The second half slowly de-escalates in its arrangement, conveying that you are drifting further and further away from what you seek, and you may never truly return. 

An interesting aspect of this composition is that the second half is the exact reverse of the first half — hence, the composition is a palindrome and plays the same both forward and backward. We'd like to say the reasoning for that was something deep and profound, but truth be told, that was a constraint of the Composing Jam that we had to work with — but it did result in a super interesting outcome! 

The soundtrack was composed in FL Studio using owned VSTs and Royalty Free samples from Splice, and the artwork was made using Zbrush, Maya, and Canva. 

(Fun fact — the artwork is an asset we made for our upcoming project) 

Composer: Damian Lee Pillay 

Cover Artist: Humesh Dilchund

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