UPDATE 2:
After ditching "Last Days of Summer" again and again, I started looking around for inspiration, and I think I've started to come up with something just right. I've got a piano with lots of echo, the drums are loaded with effects, and they're sounding good. I've got some kick ass synths. It's a slow-ish techno track, 145 BPM, but I've just added a quck running synth lead that sounds really cool, it's very catchy, I can mess with it heaps, to pull the piece together, drop the drums out, it's going to be great. I'm now confident that I can finish it in well under a month.

UPDATE:
Ok, so I've started remaking Last Days of Summer, and I've got cornandbeans, Daft Punk, and some other techno stuff to inspire me. I've got plenty of time and plenty of inspiration, yet I'm still hesitant about how I should bring the song together.
Also, I've basically done 1 minute of the violins violas and cello for Fantasia, and it sounds pretty cool. Once I get the rest of the orchestra up, and develop the theme, it's going to kick ass. I find working on this much easier than working on the techno stuff, more compositionally intricate, and less technical effects-wise. I'm thinking I could pour a ton of time and effort into a BVG contribution of equal epic juiciness, but I'll think about that later. Right now, I'm in a composing mood, so I won't hang around too long...

ORIGINAL POST:
Just a short news post saying that I've started working on a classical remake of Chemical Plant zone as a collab with knuxrouge.
This collab will be a contribution for the Biggest Video Game Collab, so it's a collab within a collab, lol.
Also, I haven't done much original composing over the last couple of days, because I'm taking the time to think carefully about what I do in the future. Where my latest project was, it was not the right mood I wanted. It was still pretty good, but I'm going to find another use for it and try the song again. Also, just lately, I've had a longing to create an epic orchestral piece, but the issue is that I haven't got the professional orchestral VSTs, of the likes of DavidOrr and MaestroRage. As much as I'd love to get something like Edirol Orchestral or one of the other professional orchestral VSTs, I can't afford it right now, so I'm going to attempt an orchestral piece with a bunch of free VSTs and samples from my keyboard. I think I'll be able to pull it off. So, in the near future, look out for "Fantasia No. 1". It'll just be a free-range orchestral piece, and I can continue more in a "Fantasia series" if it gets a good response and I feel up to it.

Cheers,

WB

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Music:
Music is too absolute to begin to describe in completion. Music is silence. Music is noise. Music is the organisation of noise and silence. But music is more than sound. Music is the universal language. Music speaks to everyone, and is understood by everyone. Music can represent physical objects, and it can represent emotions, and it can represent actions. Music can tell stories without words, it creates feelings in you that you didn't have before you listened. Music is everywhere, yet we cannot physically see or feel it. We sense it, and we hear it, so ultimately, it must exist. It exists even without the sense of hearing. It is air vibrations, it is composers creating art, it is performers conveying their emotions. Music is something that we take for granted. Music is something we use to our advantage, we try to get the most out of music. And we return the favour by cherishing the music, enjoying its company, looking after our instruments, so that this relationship can continue to grow. We would be lost without our music.

I'm thinking I should PM a voice actor to read something like this out for me, so I could edit it into a song. I think it'd be fun to do, I think it'd make a pretty meaningful song.