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Short Fugue​/​End (Strings, Woodwinds) [Bonus Track]

from Dilation (Original Short Film Soundtrack) [Deluxe] by Neil Bickford

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When I showed Short Fugue at the Laptop Music Production Workshop, there were a couple of questions about the strings in this piece; since there are some interesting things going on here, here's a version of Short Fugue and End with everything but the strings and woodwinds removed!

Short Fugue's string section starts off with two tremolo viola groups alternately fading in and out (you hear this in a lot of other places in the soundtrack - it was originally a workaround for not having tremolo samples that were long enough, but it really works)! We're also having a cello section (panned right) crescendo and decrescendo in sync with the second violas. The B section's mostly dedicated to having the cellos and double basses give a bassline for the fugue, but I also wrote some harmonization for the violas again. (Interestingly, we use a sine wave sub-bass fairly heavily in this soundtrack, but it's not in Short Fugue!) Threnody originally lasted a lot longer, and so you can hear that come in when we switch back to the A section. After that, there's a lot of audio processing including some neat EQ automation!

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from Dilation (Original Short Film Soundtrack) [Deluxe], released February 16, 2020
All music by Neil Bickford
Animated album artwork by Stephen Heo: www.instagram.com/sp.heo/, stephenheo.com.

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Award-winning composer and audio engineer. Sometimes plays guitars for and remixes thegarages.bandcamp.com. Noted breakbeat enjoyer? he/him

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