Skipping several years now to around 2012. I already had a couple of 'paid' movies and projects under my belt but I also enjoyed doing stuff for fun in free time. To be honest basically all my creative output was for fun at this point since my full time job would consume the majority of time that I couldn't dare pursue such time consuming projects, and I lived in Vietnam and didn't have any such connections anyway.

But here we have a culmination of the things I had learnt in the previous posts, refined and put into one track, basically. This came during a creative burst alongside another track called 'Blood Master', both of which were conceived and completed within a few days, with my visiting sister @grottbags lying around on the sofa as a visitor to the country.

Bones

There's several things about this track that I manage to impress myself with. For one, the pacing, but the raw power and energy that the whole piece builds to is possibly the most thrilling thing I've done to date without any context to work with.

To further impress, the way the climax cuts out and this piano, returning from the beginning cuts through the distortion and mayhem and forces a feeling of emptiness on you as the track ends, I think it was pretty neat.

At this point I had a lot more real software to give me a much more impressive soundscape to work with, though mixing those sounds is still somewhat underdeveloped.

Theoretically, I make use of a rather common thriller modality with the octatonic scale. This is an 8-note scale, compared to the usual 7, and alternates between a half-tone and whole-tone all the way up. This can be heard around 2:40, and appears throughout the rest of the track, including the climax. It's used in quite a rudimentary way, but effective.

Blood master

I would say this one is less complex, but more refined as a movie or game soundtrack. But no point adding more, just enjoY!