Heavensward Music Contest (NA) - Entry Thread

[bgalbraith]

[QUOTE=bgalbraith;3658011][FFXIV_HW_Music_NA] Zephan Macrae

what I get for not proofreading a copy-paste and there being no edits...

[AyvaAydin]

[FFXIV_HW_Music_NA] Ayva Aydin

https://youtu.be/x8hcdoya0vs

Submission Title: Snowfall in Ishgard

My inspiration for this arrangement was both the breathtaking music of Heavensward and the character Haurchefant. This music conveys (spoiler ahead!!) how I imagine the Warrior of Light would feel in the days after Haurchefant’s death: sad, but also hopeful and determined to not let his sacrifice be in vain. I used the Heavensward theme, as I believe it is an amazingly emotional piece and found that it helped tell the story of my arrangement of Night in the Brume.

Favorite Songs: Answers and Heavensward.

[Vickers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEX...ature=youtu.be

I really love the chords and melodies throughout Night in the Brume. It's a wonderful piece of music with a great amount of variety and it was quite a challenge to squeeze everything I wanted to within the allotted 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It was a lot of fun though and I want to thank Masayoshi Soken and the whole FFXIV team for giving us this opportunity. Please take a listen and I hope you enjoy!

Favorite Tracks: Sultana Dreaming, Night in the Brume

[Vickers]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEXy8RrXWQ

"Ethereal Brume"

I really love the chords and melodies throughout Night in the Brume. It's a wonderful piece of music with a great amount of variety and it was quite a challenge to squeeze everything I wanted to within the allotted 2 minutes and 30 seconds. It was a lot of fun though and I want to thank Masayoshi Soken and the whole FFXIV team for giving us this opportunity. Please take a listen and I hope you enjoy!

Favorite Tracks: Sultana Dreaming, Night in the Brume

[Strifean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbw3HgWZ6B4

"Through Time"

We absolutely could not miss out on this contest! The Night In The Brume was a blast to remix and weld our own styles into! We are influenced by Rock, and it is what we do best. Its an Honor to be a part of such a talented group of FF entries!

My 3 favorite songs are King Moogle Theme, The Feast Theme "PVP" Sephirot's Theme "Fiend"

[KirinaniBlue]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6E7HdHk2zw

"Reminiscent Song in the Brume"

I had a lot of fun with this! Night in the Brume originally inspired me to try and arrange the Ishgard theme months ago (I never finished it), so being able to do this was a fun push. The most challenging thing was actually playing it, but I tried to do it justice. My inspiration was the idea that in the calm of the night, there are hidden pasts and secrets to the history of Ishgard; it turned into the Warrior of Light reminiscing on some of the moments from their journey throughout Dravania.

Favorite FFXIV Songs (of which there are far too many):
Footsteps in the Snow
Rise of the White Raven
Oblivion

[migalhaqodh]

Link: https://youtu.be/sjoT71-ebq4

Submission Title: Keys to the Brume

Description: Countless pieces of music from FFXIV have inspired me to sit down at the piano and rock out, but I always tend to leave the pieces unfinished - this has been a perfect opportunity to follow through and finally finish a piece. This submission is a transcription/cover of "Night in the Brume", essentially intended as a (mostly!) faithful piano rendition of the in-game track. I loved the instrumentation in the original, and tried to focus on adapting the voices cleanly to the piano.

Favourite songs: Answers (more Susan Calloway, please!), Penitus (Praetorium), The Scars of Battle (as well as the Lost City of Amdapor (Hard) theme)

[kreichjr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPDUrPjFfU

A Night Gone Awry in Ishgard

Found out about this contest about a month ago, and it's been a blast to work on. I didn't get to flesh things out as much as I would've liked, but it's been a great learning experience, and I look forward to future music contests.

Favorite songs from FFXIV:
Sephirot Phase 1 Theme
Matoya's Cave Theme
Brute Justice's Theme

[vcmusik]

[FFXIV_HW_Music_NA] Dravioli Cadenza

https://youtu.be/O9Cp-_kPXoM

Submission Title: Knight in the Brume

Thank you Soken-san for judging this contest! It was a lot of work but I definitely learned a lot from participating. I love the FF Piano Collections and I intended for my arrangement to sound like it would be one of the tracks if there was a Heavensward PC album. I drew inspiration from some past arrangers for those albums such as Masashi Hamauzu, Casey Ormond, Shirou Hamaguchi and Kaoru Ishikawa.

Favorite tracks from FFXIV:

"Heavensward"
"All Saint's Wake"
"Ultima"

[vcmusik]

Oops, I thought the title with character name referred just to the video title, but since many people have it in their entry post here, I should add mine too:

[FFXIV_HW_Music_NA] Dravioli Cadenza