Synesthetic Xenotype I: Cataclysm

by Peter Gagliardi

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glb69 I often return to this album. Peter's music tells so many incaptivating stories... Yet, no obvious stories. You dwell upon them, feel them. Melodious, true to it's genre. Simply love it:))
...regarding favourite track - difficult to tell. Many equally good tracks. Favorite track: Dying Sky (Mission).

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1.	The Great Hunt (Mainhall) 03:15	buy track
2.	Anxious Encounter (Briefing) 01:48	buy track
3.	Fury of the Gods (Mission) 04:19	buy track
4.	Headwinds (Briefing) 02:10	buy track
5.	On the Wings of Triumph (Mission) 03:46	buy track
6.	Attendant to the Divine (Briefing) 01:58	buy track
7.	Grizzled Thunder (Mission) 05:01	buy track
8.	Out of the Darkness (Mainhall) 04:10	buy track
9.	The New Pharaohs (Mainhall) 03:54	buy track
10.	The Emerging Bull (Briefing) 01:50	buy track
11.	Writing on the Wall (Mission) 04:04	buy track
12.	Drops of Sunlight (Briefing) 01:25	buy track
13.	Dying Sky (Mission) 04:30	buy track
14.	Roar of the Destroyer (Mainhall) 04:05	buy track
15.	Bloodshed (Briefing) 01:59	buy track
16.	Sting of the Fallen (Mission) 03:53	buy track
17.	Contagion (Briefing) 01:55	buy track
18.	Serpent's Kiss (Mission) 04:37	buy track
19.	The Bringer of Death (Mainhall) 04:05	buy track
20.	Fury of the Gods (Full Ambience) 02:37	buy track
21.	On the Wings of Triumph (Full Ambience) 03:10	buy track
22.	Grizzled Thunder (Full Ambience) 04:13	buy track
23.	Writing on the Wall (Full Ambience) 04:05	buy track
24.	Dying Sky (Full Ambience) 03:28	buy track
25.	Sting of the Fallen (Full Ambience) 02:58	buy track
26.	Serpent's Kiss (Full Ambience) 03:07	buy track
27.	Fury of the Gods (Full Battle) 03:31	buy track
28.	On the Wings of Triumph (Full Battle) 03:34	buy track
29.	Grizzled Thunder (Full Battle) 03:44	buy track
30.	Writing on the Wall (Full Battle) 03:06	buy track
31.	Dying Sky (Full Battle) 03:40	buy track
32.	Sting of the Fallen (Full Battle) 02:54	buy track
33.	Serpent's Kiss (Full Battle) 03:06	buy track

about

This is the third entry in my "Synesthetic" series, this time with a bit of a twist. Taking ships from the space shooter video game series Freespace as inspiration, I write tracks for use in-game. That means that this is actually a soundtrack of sorts, but has been released to the game's modding community as a general pool of music rather than being attached to a specific mod or campaign.

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: 1-8 based on Terrans, 9-13 based on Vasudans, and 14-19 based on Shivans. 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.

I have only covered about half of the ships I would like to for the entire project, but at 60 minutes of material I decided it was a good spot to take a breather and celebrate with a release! Watch for Part II sometime in the future.

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

credits

released May 7, 2021

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.

Thank you to Neon.Deflector for your support and wider exposure you have given me in the music community, especially Synthwave. (On that note, if you like Synthwave be sure to check his stuff out!)

Thanks to Spitfire Audio for a complimentary copy of BBC SO Core. It provides some important life to this work that I would not have managed otherwise. (For others out there, BBC SO Discover is free and really awesome too!)

Very special thanks to the members of the Freespace / HLP community. Hopefully you won't be sick of me by the time I'm done with Part II! The number of names on this list already makes the project a resounding success:
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.
(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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