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ninety-nine hopefuls

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Yesterday's prompt was "wind," which I was going to start on after I'd finished hosting a D&D session on my server, but my fiancé needed to make an urgent trip to the hospital, so I went with him and could not compose last night. (For context, he's back home and okay, and whatever that caused him to need to go to the hospital is being monitored.)

So instead, I sat down to do this today, and blitzed this within an hour and a half.

I had the various Kirby soundtracks for my influence for this one. ^_-

The title, ninety-nine hopefuls, refer to 99 dandelion seeds being carried by the wind in the hopes that they might each land on fertile ground. Throughout the making of this piece I had a clear visual picture of the little seedlings being blown by the wind, or by someone making a wish and blowing at the seeds.

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RealTin3Sn

2025-04-03 21:25:13

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 21:

One of my absolute favorites from this project, and objectively one of the best. This was in my top 5 the first time I heard it, and nothing about that is likely to change any time soon. Just one of the most entrancing and perfect compositions I've ever heard.

Your use of the strings to represent the wind is absolutely extraordinary. Normally I'd associate them with warmth and sun, but the way you make them capture a chilly autumn breeze here, is genius at its purest. I'm not kidding. The wind almost feels palpable and it sometimes sends chills down my back. The synergy between the glock and trilling flute is spellbinding and dreamlike, even despite its similarities to other songs here that use glockenspiels. The silver white colors I get from this entire passage in my synaesthetic brain is a true testament to this genius.

The rest of this piece *easily* fulfills your vision without any flaw. The piano part is sublime in its arpeggios, and the interplay with the oboe stands apart from the more intensely chilling section that came before. It's almost like the calm before the storm, so to speak. And what comes after... that's nothing short of beauty befitting a transcendent Ghibli masterpiece. This is where the piece blooms into all its magnificent glory. This is where you see the seeds fly around, in a dance with the divine wind, and where they land matters not because they've been blessed through this force. I'm not joking, this could definitely fit in any anime movie with this kind of scene.

I honestly can't believe there's Kirby influence being the main play. Just because I don't associate the Kirby games with high art musically, and this has so much of an anime feel that Kirby just doesn't sound right. Much like I can't for the life of me fathom that you blitzed this in an hour and a half? How the fuck does that happen?! Was this just a divine golden hour or something, or are you a wizardess? If so, and if this was Kirby influenced as you say, then I need to hear the Kirby soundtrack ASAP.

Objectively, every part of this piece is raw artistry of a whole different order. This easily ranks among the best pieces you've ever created. I swear it's spiritual.

Troisnyx responds:

Re: Kirby, light instrumentation and glockenspiel in particular came from the likes of this remade Grape Garden theme:

https://youtu.be/YNJSQwNRd5M?feature=shared

Like in the original, there are windy levels. The dynamics are subtler, granted, but in context I find it effective