A sense of mystery also needs to be created.

At this time, maybe using some underworld instruments will be miraculous? For example, water piano, Apprehension Engine, or even some underworld synthesizer sounds.

On the basis of composing, the weirdness and mystery brought by "disharmony" will also be considered.

Tritone, a typical devilish interval.

According to Pythagoras' theory and explained scientifically, the simpler the number of the vibration ratio of two tones, the more harmonious it sounds, such as a pure octave.

The vibration ratio of octave, according to the A sound 440Hz, the octave relationship is the A sound 880Hz, which is an octave higher.

Simply 1:2.

The vibration frequency ratio between tritones is around 12:17.

Moreover, when creating a corresponding sense of tension, you can completely "scare" people by rapidly increasing and decreasing the volume.

It was like a very quiet place, suddenly a slight chirping, immediately turned into a roar in the ears, and then faded away in an instant, and turned into silence again.

Or the tearing feeling of electronic music, the changing rhythm makes people's hearts skip a beat.

Or the repeated repetition of minor second intervals such as EF makes people become nervous and anxious through repeated brainwashing.

And these things can even use many classical composition techniques to describe the ecology of Mana.

Like...narrative poetry?

Or...with a little sense of religion or theology.

Gradually calculate the techniques and instruments that need to be used.

Li Shaojie's thoughts on composing became more and more clear.

Just do it.

For these ideas, the best place to start is probably the battle music of humans on the ground.

Others still need to carefully and slowly organize the elements, make prototypes, and then combine them with the scenes produced in the animation to refine them. You even need to further understand the detailed logic of many worldviews.

Add a bit of Chinese style to reflect the breathing and breathing method and the feeling of martial arts.

Then, the production officially began.

A week has passed.

During this period, Li Shaojie produced quite a few musical phrases and short demos based on different information.

The duration can be said to be very short.

The purpose is to facilitate adjustments after the subsequent animation is completed.

To put it simply, it is to "mark" first.

soon.

After Li Shaojie had sorted out many basic elements, carefully determined the musical motive and composed the music through miscellaneous marginal information, a video was also sent over there.

Title.

When opened, it becomes a statue similar to a stone.

A man is holding a baby on his head.

The color is dull and completely devoid of life.

Li Shaojie knew that this was actually a metaphor for the setting in the anime "Flesh and Earth".

After a human being absorbs the source of life, he will turn into something similar to a stone statue. The flesh will still be there, but it will become something like earth.

According to myths and legends, Nuwa used earth to create humans.

People who have had their life essence sucked out and died will be left with only this human-shaped clod of soil.

Flowers of mana grow, and monsters like centipedes crawl on the soil.

Black smoke enveloped the various shapes of flesh and earth. From the expressions of these human-shaped lumps of earth, it seems that we can see the different reactions of people at the moment of the end.

Hug and kiss the one you love, smile and comfort the child in your arms, or feel frightened, desperate, angry, or stunned.

All kinds of colors, different from each other.

The tentacles of the Flower of Mana stretched out, separating the man from the baby.

Cracks gradually appeared on the clod man's body, and his outstretched hand seemed like a child reluctant to stay away, but his face was expressionless.

Soon, the vision shifted to other people.

The flesh and earth entangled by the tentacles of the Flower of Mana gradually collapsed.

Whether it's howling in terror, twisted madness, desperate crying, or hysterical escape.

They all gradually turned into ashes.

In the end, the scene freezes on the man with a broken head.

And the baby that is gradually rising, intact, and about to step into the sunshine.

Just one and a half minutes.

This kind of image simply made Li Shaojie admire him repeatedly.

It seems like humans from the old world are bidding farewell to the new world?

Or is it possible to use the flesh and blood of people in the New World to build a foundation, overcome the Mana ecology, allow mankind to return to the earth, and usher in a better future era?

It seems...no matter how you explain it.

“Fuck it’s so hard, but I love it so much!”

Li Shaojie immediately became motivated to work.

"Should I say it or not, let's think of a song title first."

Li Shaojie touched his chin and thought carefully.

Since it is a doomsday wasteland... build a community with a shared future and strive to survive.

It expresses this feeling of human rebirth.

"Then let's call it "Rebirth"!!"

Immediately, production started quickly.

Reproduce the fragments of phrases that were written out of previous inspiration.

Soon, after the production was completed, Li Shaojie began to inspect it.

The opening song is full of hints and predictions.

Li Shaojie scratched his head, frowned and shook his head.

"No, the music doesn't reflect the...suspenseful feeling of the opening video!!"

After carefully measuring the whole song and thinking about it, I seem to understand where the problem lies.

Yes.

According to basic composition habits, the "complete cadence" is used when composing.

But it happens that the complete cadence gives people a feeling of "the dust has settled".

"By the way, it's not good to use full cadences in these places. In fact... unstable chords should be used to create a... obstructive cadence, or a semi-cadence."

The progression of the music also has a sense of "expectation".

If the ending fulfills the audience's expectations, then it is completely terminated.

Semi-termination and obstruction termination often give people a feeling of neither getting up nor getting down.

The matter is not over yet, or there may be sequels.

But when used in this clip, blocking or semi-terminating at the end can arouse the audience's expectations to a great extent and pave the way for the subsequent animation!!

Soon, Li Shaojie started revising it.

Finally, after all the details were polished, it was time to consider the issue of orchestration.

"A sense of silence..."

"The sadness of the end..."

"There's even a sense of...tragic?"

Then... maybe we can start with the piano.

Then use the bass strings...

Use the "whispering" tone of the cello to create this feeling.

Then, the addition of rhythm allows the brass to express this tragic feeling, which would be great.

After reading through the story of "Spirit Cage", Li Shaojie figured out all the lyrics and music.

After almost two days, this minute and a half project was finally completed.
Chapter completed!