Synesthetic Xenotype II: The Lost Generation

by Peter Gagliardi

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1.	Beyond Fate (Mainhall) 04:49	buy track
2.	Away from the Pack (Briefing) 01:45	buy track
3.	Heroes of Old (Mission) 04:39	buy track
4.	Beast in the Black (Briefing) 01:55	buy track
5.	Nightfall in Olympus (Mission) 05:27	buy track
6.	Burned Alliance (Mainhall) 04:42	buy track
7.	Battle for Supremacy (Mainhall) 04:08	buy track
8.	Afterlife (Briefing) 02:10	buy track
9.	Cry of the Falcon (Mission) 04:00	buy track
10.	Snapping Jaw (Briefing) 01:23	buy track
11.	Born of the Desert (Mission) 04:29	buy track
12.	Stellar Embrace (Briefing) 02:19	buy track
13.	The Bull and the Lioness (Mission) 04:32	buy track
14.	Spawns of Terror (Mainhall) 04:28	buy track
15.	Desecrator (Briefing) 01:57	buy track
16.	Twice Burned (Mission) 04:39	buy track
17.	Sacrifice (Briefing) 01:53	buy track
18.	The Fallen Ones (Mission) 05:40	buy track
19.	Sinister Transmissions (Briefing) 01:54	buy track
20.	Demons of Wrath (Mission) 05:06	buy track
21.	The New Destroyers I: From the Mists (Mainhall) 03:31	buy track
22.	The New Destroyers II: Incursion (Mainhall) 03:43	buy track
23.	The New Destroyers III: Cataclysm at Capella (Mainhall) 05:36	buy track
24.	Their Finest Hour 08:12	buy track
25.	Twice Burned (Killer Dragon Remix) 04:03	buy track
26.	Heroes of Old (Full Ambience) 03:23	buy track
27.	Nightfall in Olympus (Full Ambience) 04:05	buy track
28.	Cry of the Falcon (Full Ambience) 03:29	buy track
29.	Born of the Desert (Full Ambience) 03:28	buy track
30.	The Bull and the Lioness (Full Ambience) 02:57	buy track
31.	Twice Burned (Full Ambience) 03:52	buy track
32.	The Fallen Ones (Full Ambience) 04:59	buy track
33.	Demons of Wrath (Full Ambience) 04:27	buy track
34.	Heroes of Old (Full Battle) 03:41	buy track
35.	Nightfall in Olympus (Full Battle) 04:06	buy track
36.	Cry of the Falcon (Full Battle) 03:00	buy track
37.	Born of the Desert (Full Battle) 03:50	buy track
38.	The Bull and the Lioness (Full Battle) 03:35	buy track
39.	Twice Burned (Full Battle) 03:52	buy track
40.	The Fallen Ones (Full Battle) 03:51	buy track
41.	Demons of Wrath (Full Battle) 03:39	buy track

about

Exactly one year prior to the release date of this album, a member of the continuing Freespace community approached me to ask about using some of my work in a user-made campaign. Freespace is a space shooter video game series from the late 1990s, with a community of talented individuals updating the now-open source code and creating a ton of content. But for whatever reason, at the time of this request, there were no active composers hanging around.

This simple request eventually led to creation of several original tracks for that campaign. The appreciation and encouragement of this team then led me to start a bigger, personal project: The Freespace Soundtrack Expansion Project; SExP for short. (If you've ever done mission design with this engine, you'll recognise the term.) I wanted to inject a ton of freely usable music for this community to match the passion and quality I saw in their coding, scripting, mission design, modelling, texturing and writing.

This album picks up exactly where Cataclysm left off. It represents the finalisation of my original vision - and then some - of writing music to cover all of the fighters, bombers, cruisers, corvettes, destroyers and juggernauts in the game. I had an important addition to my toolkit for this album, thanks to a very generous donor, resulting in an even better blend of nostalgia and originality. The cover art (used with permission) is from a concept artist named Kai Ng of LiK Studios, which was also inspired by the game.

Please visit www.hard-light.net for more information about the current state of Freespace and its ongoing community.

To recap the strategy from Part I:

Small craft (fighters and bombers) result in "Mission" tracks; large capital ships result in "Mainhall" tracks; other ships result in "Briefing" tracks. I have included two extra versions of each "Mission" track: one with the full set of ambience loops, and one with the full set of battle loops.

The tracks are further separated based on the three species of the game: 1-6 based on Terrans, 7-13 based on Vasudans, and 14-20 based on Shivans. Tracks 21-23 are based on the Shivan juggernaut, and track 24 is based on a joint Terran-Vasudan juggernaut. Each species has at least one distinct instrument, and their own style. Instrumentation choices were partially guided by the game that a ship first appeared in. Track names are plays on the ships that they were inspired by - in the case of juggernauts, related to their part in the story.

credits

released December 1, 2021

Music, mixing and mastering by Peter Gagliardi

Album artwork - also inspired by Freespace - by Kai Ng of LiK Studios, used with permission. See more of his stuff at:
www.deviantart.com/skyrion/
www.likstudios.com

Thanks, as usual, to Rachael for constant support.

Thanks to Anthony, Joe, my parents and other family and friends for helping to share my work.

Thanks to an extremely generous donor for gifting me Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2 to have access to some of the original sound sources used in the FS2 soundtrack. Your generosity will always be remembered and appreciated!

Thank you to Neon.Deflector for your continued support of Twitter shout-outs and playlist adds. Do check him out on Bandcamp if you are into Synthwave!

Thanks to Spitfire Audio for a complimentary copy of BBC SO Core.

Very special thanks once again to the members of the Freespace / HLP community:
Mobius, EatThePath, Talhydras, MesoTroniK, Colt, Goober, DefCynodont, Orph3u5, Iain Baker, Cobbles, Svedal, Colonel Dekker, MobileForce, bogus, Mito, Darius, Bad Name II: Heretic Boogaloo, NeonShivan, Mad Bomber, Cyborg, Lafiel, Ertanax, Wookiejedi, Nyctaeus, Ngld, Jazzypanda, ReaSilvia, Mblaze, Tomimaki, Dilmah G, Luis Dias, Antares.
(Apologies if I missed anyone, I did what I could to compile between HLP Forums and Discord)

Finally, thanks to Volition for the game itself; the amazing group of coders, modders and content creators that have kept it alive for over 20 years; and to Dan Wentz for an inspiring, atmospheric and genre-bending original soundtrack.

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Peter Gagliardi Calgary, Alberta

Peter Gagliardi has been composing electronic soundtrack music on the side since 2006, heavily influenced by space, science, sci-fi and video games.

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