The Salvation Series music is a 4 part composition intended to tell a story. Each component independently acts as a commentary on the human condition, and together the pieces form a symbolic and dramatic retelling of the gospel with a focus on the Christian's experience through Salvation and Sanctification. It draws heavily from the cinematic orchestral sound yet combines various textures to produce something unique and hopefully engaging.

Waiting For His Return

Rebirth

The Wages Of Sin

For All Have Sinned

Thank you to everyone who worked on Symphony of Construction 2023. It was a blast and an honor to a be a part of! This is my submission. Checkout the full project here: https://www.paulvermeesch.com/symphonyofconstruction

Process and Interpretation of the Piece:
My process will vary from project to project, but for this project, I came up with a dramatic back story for the build, and I wrote music to accompany my journey as I let my imagination guide me.

Back story:
The build I received shows a single character alone on a planet full of exotic plants and vegetation, sitting on what I imagined to be a long-forgotten but incredibly advanced piece of technology. What does the technology do? Destroy worlds? Create portals for transportation? Who knows! But it is extremely powerful, and it COULD HAVE CHANGED THE WAR! That was many years ago. Now our main character might be the only one in the universe who still believes that her great great great great great grandfather developed a technology powerful enough to overthrow the empire, and not only has she finally discovered the technology on an unknown and unregistered planet, but she also plans to turn it on!

Part 1: Loss and the Forgotten Planet
Part 1 focuses on the world and the history of the main character's people from the main character's perspective. It builds on and off, bringing up themes that remind me of the empire that has now been ruling the universe for generations as well as the incredibly powerful square structure our main character seeks. I imagine the main character actively searching the planet for the square structure in this scene, and at the end of part 1, she finally finds it! I use dancing orchestral instruments to depict the planet's unique wildlife. I  use choirs in the orchestration because I imagined the world and technology to be ancient, with lots of history surrounding both. I contrast this traditional orchestration with a lead synth and dark synth textures to add a digital feel and reveal the loss the main character feels from her experiences with the empire. The darker orchestration makes me think of the corruption of the empire. The subtle doubling of woodwind parts with synths makes me think of a loss of innocence, the innocence that had once existed everywhere before the war but now seems only to exist in remote places like this distant forgotten planet.

Part 2: Destiny
After the main character discovers the structure, there is a pause of silence before part 2 introduces a very different mood. In part 2, I explore the main character's thoughts as she musters up the courage to turn on the device. She is scared because she doesn't know exactly what will happen to her when she turns on the structure and walks through the portal it creates, but her journey to get here has been very, very long, and she won't give up now! I picture her in a sort of trance speaking to the different people she believes she is doing it for, her family and friends who are ruled by the empire, her great great great great great grandfather. This scene is about her in a trance, building up the courage to activate the structure and enter the portal. The more intimate orchestration is her talking with her family, and the more intense moments are her believing more and more that this is her destiny. Finally, she works up enough boldness to activate the device. The structure comes to life, and after giving one last look back at the world, she walks through the portal.

Joshua DeMoss

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