Sylmbols & Symbolisms

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Oh boy, there sure is a lot to unpack here. Semiotics, color theory, music theory, and musical interpretation has been a passion of mine before I could even give a name to what was capturing me so much in my work. For as much as I struggled with them, I love them more than anything.

Music

Tally Hall has given me a lot of inspiration throughout my work over the years. Especially going into university. Music in general has influenced my art, as my art has influenced my music.

In the context of Sacred Beast, Hawaii pt. II by Tally Hall has chalked up to a very literal play on what happened similarly to the natives in Hawaii, but through a different and more artistically-lose lene. Hence, the part II aspect applied here. The album Hawaii pt. II also plays on the quality of two elements. Typically opposing each other at the same time. But also together, combined, spirialing, and/or correlating. This is in reference to Tally Hall's Album "Good & Evil" within the story's context too. Which specifically highlights these dualities in the symbol/word "&" itself. And is directly acknowledged within the song titled "&" within the album. With the "good" & "evil" in the world acknowledged in Sacred Beast's politics though its art and music. Reflecting the continuous patterns we find spiraling throughout history and inward to the modern day. Everyone has their reasons, both, any and all sides will be appropriately given their time in the spotlight. Everything in my project should be discussed thoroughly in nuance and reason over trying to bash one side or the other. If there is a right-wing agenda and a left-wing agenda, Sacred Beast strives to simply be an agenda.

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Original Music

While some songs exist outside of the universe, providing context and musical explanation for certain scenes, each character gets their time in the spotlight either singing bits or having entire parts of songs from the album. Along with original compositions for measure.

With each unique character comes a different personality, tecture, timbre, BPM, specialty instruments referencing their backgrounds, and more at baseline. Changing slightly depending on mood, setting, scene, and narrative.

*Demos coming soon

Mary relies of a lot of perpetual motion in her music to symbolize the constant adaptation she's had to undergo in order to survive and provide for her family. In tow, her music sounds like something that is supposed to be native and more aboriginal, like the lions' music, but is colonized in sound. Applying western harmonies and melodies to a traditional sound

Descriptors: Cool, Calm, Rising & Falling, Perpetual, Protective.

Joshua's music is heavy and western-classical as any king would sound. Taking inspirations to viking vocalizations and traveling bards from medieval europe. With his songs almost always singing praises of himself in deep, manful pride. But almost sounding like a warning told in secret about his wrath.

Descriptors: Passionate, Fiery, Deep, Angry, Loathing, Narrative, Western, Euro-Centric.

Elliott is a cross between Joshua's and Mary's theme's naturally. As he embodies centralist values with a strong middle ground between perpetual motions and AABA format.

Descriptors: Perpetual, Patterned.

Sylvester references china and native-australian tunes with his specialties. With a twist of confident hard hits similar to drag-competition instrumentals for lip sync competitions.

Descriptors: Confident, Friendly, Cheerful, Hopeful.

Moo Moo's songs sound bouyant and bouncy. Referencing bollywood, powwows, and the carefree midevil specialty samples to convey their hard-headed, but carefree nature.

Descriptors: Bright, Determined, Celebratory.

Brafen has references to African-American big band jazz, heavy metal, Scottish hard-hitting drums, and Yoruban polyrhythms in samples to reference her hardworking nature with an edge.

Descriptors: Dark, Disturbed, Content Lonliness.

Avery, being the main character, stands out the most with her futuristic, alien sound. Borrowing and sampling field recordings of other performances with synths and other electronics to give her the most symbolic and individual importance.

Descriptors: Synth, modulations, multiple rhythms, electronic, mechanical, sounds of new revolution.

Colors

Blue and red symbolism have been occurring patterns in fiction to represent polarizing sides trying to define good and evil. Seeing these patterns trail out in my life have been most influential to my work at its core. We most commonly use these colors to make it identifiable in narrative as to who we should look to, what a story is trying to illustrate, how one side is trying to paint another, who to vote for in politics, how to feel, where to go, and so much more. But it's what lies between those divisions that have always fascinated me. It is the in between that is so crucial to talk about. Hence the characters bringing light to secondary colors following these reds and blues. Depending on where characters lay on the spectrum tells where they lean to in terms of personality, politics, how vulnerable they are within the world's divisions, and more. Which inherently ties into...

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Sacred

Colors in the series will go hand and hand with symbols. Characters are subjectable to change even down to these very symbols referenced in Sacred Beast. Have a look!