Name: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - Vengeance by Neal Acree
Duration: 3 min 10 s
Description: A selection of music by Neal Acree for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, the next installment in Blizzard Entertainment's epic sci-fi saga featuring the Skywalker Symphony and Choir as well as vocals by Laurie Ann Haus. For more information on the composer, please visit www.nealacree.com.

After 'Arthas, My Son', this is my favorite track produced by Blizzard.  Very expressive along with the kickass cutscene it was paired with in-game. ;)

Enner Madness
1: Introducing
2: Shall I?
3: After-Glow
4: Relief
5: Meditation
6: Return

Dates:
28-Sep-2025 (inception), 01-Oct-2025 (finalised), 02-Oct-2025 (released)

Artists:
Music composed, performed, produced by Norman Freund
Artwork by Norman Freund

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Description:
No, I am not going mad! More like an energetic use and interpretation of the Soma Enner instrument.

An orchestration of multiple granular synthesis banks through my custom programmed granular synthesiser, Granie (Release 04, 28-Sep-2025).

For full write-up, see my BandCamp or FaceBook Page.

Enner Madness records audio from external synthesisers or electronic instruments, feeds this into the Soma COSMOS memory station to loop over parts of the performance, giving me a small window to record this into small snippets of audio 30 seconds each, the grains into the Granie. The grains are modulated in time and space, left right audio channel modulations, position modulations, position offsets between grains and small changes in playback frequency amongst the cloud of grains. All of this can be varied by adjusting the rotary encoders of the Push2, not through low frequency oscillators, but through human controls of the rotary encoder knobs and then record those movements as automations to replay. All this is done live. I wanted to keep the performance organic.

The Granie also comes with a dual delay+gain+feedback section, one for the left audio channel and another for the right audio channel. Just as with the granular control, delay times and feedback were controlled dynamically on the Push2 live during the performance.

The Soma COSMOS was put into the Rhythmic Firmware mode, using the #09 Fractal mode and the #6 1/5 dominant mode. So the looping in the COSMOS was not your ordinary looper, rather it embraced improvisation and an ever changing play back.

The album consists of six tracks:

Track 1, Introducing: opens with the Soma Enner as the front end instrument. An energetic use of both the Enner and the granular synthesis of it.

Track 2, Shall I?: develops the ideas presented on track 1, but a bit like, shall I press this button and hear what happens? Again the Enner as the front end, blending this in with granular synthesis grains recorded from the Enner performance.

Track 3, After-Glow: takes the grain banks from track 2 and plays them alone, further exploring what can be done with them.

Track 4, Relief: Puts my electric violin at the front end, an NS Design Wav4. This was feed into the LR Baggs Para Acoustic DI (pre-amp), then feed into the Soma Pipe, then into the Soma COSMS and finally into the Granie. A slow moving, calm violin section was performed and simultaneously some short grains recorded. The grains were then mixed in, providing texture and mystery.

Track 5, Meditation: My (human) voice was sung into the Soma Pipe, through to the Soma Cosmos in fractal mode having fun adjusting live the Blur and Drift settings, with the Granie at the end of the signal chain. As with the other tracks, 30 second grains were recorded, played back whilst adjusting grain parameters, some of which were recorded as automations, leaving my hands free to adjust other grains and so forth. Soma Pipe modes here were alternating between the Harcho (best described as a thick stew soup) and the Filterra (band-pass filter with resonance control).

Track 6, Return: Track 6 returns to a similar style of track 1, playing the Soma Enner to the Soma COSMOS and back to the Granie. The Enner parts used a combination of a drum brush played through the face-plate piezo pickup, finger drum tapping and the touch plate oscillators. Then recording 30 second grains into Granie and experimenting live, with the granular synthesis parameters and feed back controls.


EnnerMadness 05: Meditation

PROGRESSIVE SCENE

08 XCOM2 Squad Loadout

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Music composed and produced by Kamil Orman-Janowski

For "Path of Exile" - video game by Grinding Gear Games

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Path of Exile

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A selection of music by Neal Acree for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, the next installment in Blizzard Entertainment's epic sci-fi saga featuring the Skywalker Symphony and Choir as well as vocals by Laurie Ann Haus. For more information on the composer, please visit www.nealacree.com.

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Award winning composer and conductor (World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Revelation, Stargate SG-1, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Assassination Games)

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm - Vengeance

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