Beyond the Western Deep - Overture | Orchestral (Original Composition)
21A little while back, Elson Wong held an audition for an upcoming movie project, if you will, based on the webcomic Beyond the Western Keep. Even though the audition was for voice actors I asked if they needed a composer for this project. After Elson saw my work he contacted me and asked me to make an overture
From my reading experience, Beyond the Western Deep felt like a story that's about the people and the consequences of war rather than war as the overall focus.
With the English Horn representing the forest and the Bass Flute the mountains, the importance of this overture were those instruments in particular, playing the main melody, considering where the story takes place.
In the beginning, they play each other off in harmony, in the middle where things are reaching for the worse they play each other off as if trying to obtain dominance, and after the climax they are separated with other instruments filling the gaps for them. Even though there might be a glimmer of hope, in the end, they're still trying to pick up the pieces from the horrible tragedy that occurred.
You can read "Beyond the Western Deep" here: http://www.westerndeep.net/