“Storming The Castle” || Ryan Leach Composing Competition Submission (April 2022)

Taking a quick break from composing my "Erehwon" sci-fi concept soundtrack album to enter this fun little composing contest sponsored by Ryan Leach who is a working composer for film , television and games. I follow his channel and have learned alot from his well done educational videos.

We were given the photo featured in the video to which to use as inspriation to compose a 90 second piece of music. It will be judged on composition, relevance to the photo, and production value.

ABOUT THE MUSIC
While I am sure most will approach the ir entries from a traditional "medievil" feel, I am trying something drastically different.Getting in touch with my 80s synth music sensibilities (which were common place in many lower budget horror and fantasy films) I present this short piece that is influenced by the sound of Tangerine Dream and John Carpenter.

The story I imagined behind the photo and the music was an ambush on the castle. I created a repeating motif that cuts through all the drumming, clashing and stacking dissonant chords. This serves to underscore the impending doom of the ambush. Several bursts of a synthy brass line punctuates the successful efforts of the invading army.