Description
This is the soundtrack for the imaginary game πολιτισμός - Politismós. The title means civilization and culture in greek.

There isn't a specific genre to the soundtrack, although it's mainly ambience with new age and classical influences. It could fit many kind of games that involve radically different civilizations: realtime or turn based strategy, exploration, adventure and so on.

Almost every instrument in the tracks was played with our digital keyboard and recorded with Audacity. The remaining instruments were written with MuseScore, exported as audio and included in Audacity.

The main menu track is self explanatory, the loading one is meant to be played in loop during game loadings and the remaining tracks each represent a civilization. In the following we describe the lore of the game and civilizations we thought up.

The universe is immense, filled with countless galaxies that host a multitude of solar systems. Life permeates every corner of it, giving rise to many complex and extraordinary civilizations.

Humanity
A proud and combative species, humanity is renowned for its cultures, religions, arts, internal wars and contradictions. They are irrational, instinctual and emotional, but they believe to mostly act rationally. Humans have been practicing religion for millennia and have long believed rationality to be a gift from the Gods, but that gift slowly turned into science which is dangerously undermining their religious belief.

Cybernetic Empire
A mysterious and extraordinarily technologically advanced machine civilization that colonized its own galaxy. They claim to be their own creators and believe to be the only conscious beings in the universe. Having preserved the primitive life forms they encountered, they quickly developed a fixation over them. How can those imperfect beings function at all? Could they be conscious too? Their brain to neural network integration experiments have been inconclusive so far.

Tree people
These trees have developed over untold millennia a vegetal tissue akin to muscles and learned to shake their leaves and move their branches. By interacting between themselves and with the local fauna, they learned to communicate and became sentient. Despite their inability to even conceive locomotion, they were able nevertheless to plant themselves over the entirety of the planet while living in harmony with their environment.

Psychics
A comprehensively spiritual and meditative civilization, the psychics live in a constant state of enlightenment and psychedelic experience. They have transcended suffering and individual limitation and merged in a state of pure consciousness and energy. The psychics are wise beyond anyone else comprehension and influence distant aliens by manifesting in many forms, the Eye being the most common. They want to make the universe one and become one with the universe.

Theme

Panspermia (Πανσπερμία)

Picture theme

How does it fit the theme?
The panspermia theme is implemented by including a tracks for many radically different civilizations that are meant to live far apart in the universe.

The picture in particular is the planet of the tree people, living in harmony in their environment.

Link to streaming services
https://soundcloud.com/user-815121713/sets/politismos