Synesthetic Xenotype I: Cataclysm

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This is the first part of my "Freespace Soundtrack Expansion Project": taking ships from the space shooter video game series Freespace as inspiration, I write tracks for use in-game by the modding community. This pack was designed specifically for use in the Freespace engine, using .ogg files and including some supplemental "modular table" files that provide appropriate metadata for the "Mission"/"In-Flight" tracks.

Contents:

• 7 sets of "Mission"/"In-Flight" loops with 4 ambience and 3 battle variations, as well as short enemy arrival or tension building bridges.
• 7 "Briefing" tracks - generally 1-2 minutes long and relatively straightforward.
• 5 "Mainhall" tracks - generally 3-4 minutes long with a bit more presence to them.

Small craft (fighters and bombers) result in "Mission"/"In-Flight" tracks; large capital ships result in "Mainhall" tracks; other ships result in "Briefing" tracks.

The track filenames indicate which of the species and ship types they relate to:

• GTx = Terran (militaristic theme)
• GVx = Vasudan (ethereal theme)
• Sx = Shivan (bleak/horror theme)

Inflight tracks:

• F_I = Interceptors/Scouts
• F_S = Space Superiority
• F_A = Heavy Assault Fighters
• B_L = Light Bombers
• B_H = Heavy Bombers

Instrumentation choices were partially guided by the game that a ship first appeared in. I have only covered about half of the ships I would like to for the entire project, but at 60 minutes of base material I decided it was a good spot to celebrate with a release! Watch for Part II sometime in the future.

Note: these tracks were written in about a month's worth of time, continuing on the momentum from my previous (non-video-game-soundtrack) release and learning curve through the pandemic.