RealTin3Sn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[at peace with the world]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 28:

Slightly more... peaceful than the last review, both in song and in my writing.

I am thinking right now about both images you've described and somehow this captures them in like a half-to-half proportion. It's not even the feels alone, it's the imagery. It feels like equal parts lying in the grass in the sun and gazing up at the stars at night. I can see both simultaneously. This music also absolutely belongs in an anime during one of those reflective, calm moments. It's really beautiful and peaceful.

Though not emblematic of the spirit like other songs, here is yet another one that I could easily recommend as one of the project's stronger points. That is, something that justifies the entire experience.

[running on empty]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 27: Goddamn it I forgot Saturdays were part of Lent. That's why there are doubles from this point to the end.

This is like the sad version of prelude to contemplation. Both very minimalist and efficient pieces with a level of thoughtfulness to them that can be hard to find these days. Either way, it's been obvious for some time that the latter is more my favorite, but I see some genius in this too. The piece mostly stays very sparse until the last minute and 30 seconds or so, where it feels like a breakdown and surrender to the rain. You do give me a lot of greys in this piece, but perhaps that is because I'm reading the description.

It's easy enough for me to imagine this as like "Troisnyx scores and makes a 1920s silent flick" or something along those lines. I would, again, call this sort of the dark, despondent side of prelude to contemplation. It's the best descriptor I have.

Troisnyx responds:

Funny you talk about silent flicks: I extrapolated on this motif for a film scoring competition once. I still have the clip even though I didn't get anywhere with it

[daffodils]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 26:

Such a unique and unforgettable composition. This is one of my absolute favorites too, right up there with prelude to contemplation and 99 hopefuls.

Daffodils is both resonantly beautiful and so playful that it's nothing short of unbelievable. It just feels like... the most meep Spring timeever. I don't get how a composition can be so perfect. Everything about this is just adorable and full of life in a way that totally sets it apart from everything else in this collection. Not a single other song here sounds anywhere close to this in vibe, it's truly amazing!

In terms of Spring songs, this has now become the third major one that actually makes me look forward to what's otherwise my least favorite season. That is seriously amazing. This gets an instant favorite, and if this is messy... time for me to start writing messy.

[screaming into the void]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 25:

A rage with a beautiful purpose.

[perfluorocarbon]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 24:

Superb beyond all recognition. I forgot just how good this was until relistening a year later. I thought this was mediocre, perhaps because I confused it with another track, but this is just fucking incredible. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO WRITE SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL?

I can't... I can't even begin to describe how great this is. The instrumentation is just perfect, the chord progression is heavenly, and the imagery is magic. It's like a mix of the ocean, a stasis chamber, outer space, and the otherwordly judge in one, shifting seamlessly across shades of blue. Maybe it's not the way I would have pictured blue consistently as a true synesthetic, but the colors you paint in this are unreal.

I'm absolutely amazed by this listening now, a year later. I can't believe I overlooked how good this was.

Troisnyx responds:

Thank you so much!

Of note is that the cover artwork for tessarakoste features me hovering in a vat of perfluorocarbon, but because the liturgical colour of the season is purple, that's the background colour, and not blue adgjkjfshjkdfs

But yeah, outside of that detail, it's the album artwork track!

[reflets dans l'eau]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 23:

Such a sparkly and beautiful composition. Makes me think of a deep, dark blue pond with fish swimming in it and I really dig that. Cute trills and "punctuation" of sorts too. Overall, this is really chill. Definitely a contemplative composition.

[there's gotta be a morning after]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 22:

One of these pieces that, despite not standing out to me as much as of writing this, captures the overall spirit of this project best.

There's a lot of emotional power in this piece. It's very clear from the way you play the keyboard that this is one that means something to you. And that is something I can respect more than flashy sentimentalism. Beyond that, I think one of the things that stands out to me most here is just the nostalgia factor. Somehow this piece feels like just a wish to go back to when things were okay. Then again maybe that's my own projections.

What isn't is that this honestly belongs in an anime. It would absolutely fit one of those sad, wistful scenes in the protagonist's journey. That chord change at 1:30, for example, definitely strikes me as something from an anime OST.

If nothing else, I could say this piece is something to introduce others to Tessarakoste. Maybe not its crown jewel, but one of the best overall representatives.

[ninety-nine hopefuls]

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

[stasis chamber]

Tin3Sn Tessarakoste Talks Part 20:

This is the first ambient piece here to not sound like outer space. In fact it sounds far more like a wonder of the Earth.

The imagery here is surprisingly abstract. It's not the kind where I can easily describe it in terms of nature or a normal human experience. Even the otherwordly judge doesn't quite compare to this in terms of abstraction. There *is* a very apparent shift in imagery, but the specific colors I'm supposed to pick up on are not quite there. Maybe it's because I'm feeling a bit distracted tonight, yet still, it eludes me.

The most plausible description I can think of for this song is perhaps as like a nap outside of time. Just a depiction of sleep at its most soothing and magical. It does start out bright, maybe along a bit of a light cyan color, and shift through reds and oranges, like the mind's patterns of processing that mirror a sunset's abstract, nebulous flow, and then it goes to a darker blue, like the dusk, and finally a few lighter twinkles by the end, those stars that guide you through the night whether you see them or not.

Perhaps this comes across as too similar to the previous one in imagery. But it's all I could really think of here. This piece has a lot of beauty and artistry but it is much harder to fully grasp relative to the others. As for your question about why this might mark the halfway point, perhaps the answer lies somewhere in the fact that this song is tied to the image representing the entire project itself. Maybe this is like a capsule of the entire story, locked in a mutually reciprocating pattern of spiritual unfolding.

[Left]

The first non-piano song from you?

This kind of sounds like a Newgrounds take on a hymn mixed with a classical sonata. I don't totally know how else to describe it. It feels very European and somewhat cinematic as well.

Solacitude responds:

Yes first but surely not the last non piano piece I publish on NG! :)
I agree this kind of arpeggio played by a cello is often found in classical repertoire.
I tried to make it sound engaging and as realistic as possible, despite being a free library, I think it creates a very nice sound, I'm glad you enjoyed, thanks for passing by ^^