The somberness of the piece and calmness also gives me a sense of floating in space. This theme makes think of movies like interstellar. The tempo increase throughout the piece paired with the clock ticking sound emitted a subtle tensity that felt ominous and gave me an overarching sense of dread, it really made the calmness of the piece quite a red herring. I think there's a lot to this piece that is extremely effective, but might not be recognized immediately. Definitely a sign of creativity, in my opinion. It would be nice to see this piece get a proper ending! Great job overall!
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I was actually very inspired by interstellar when making this piece! :) I really liked how Hans Zimmer interpreted space and time in that movie (he also uses ticking in quite a few of his soundtracks as I'm sure you are aware of!) :) I even believe there is a piece called "Mountains" that does kind of the same thing (i.e. ticking that speeds up to signify urgency), however as you point out in my piece it functions as a foil to the relative calmness and to symbolise time slowly but surely overtaking the piece, culminating in the bell and the harmony change.
I was also considering making a proper ending, but I felt like it would make the piece feel too resolved and it also felt like it could symbolise that time continues no matter what ^^ but a more practical explanation is also that I had a hard time dealing with the time constraint. If I had a minute or two more I would probably have come up with a proper conclusion! :)
Thank you for noticing all of these aspects! :) It is very gratifying when your ideas come accross properly! :) and thank you for taking time to comment! :)
Sorry for butting in uninvited, but: if you are interested in Hans Zimmer's Interstellar approach, I strongly suggest checking out the music sheet! There are transcriptions in Musescore you can listen to in real-time and adapted to different instruments. See this for example: https://musescore.com/user/30188642/scores/6873032 I don't know if this is the score you were talking about, I couldn't find one called Mountain, this one is mostly piano (the second half adds strings and other instruments, pretty cool stuff).
Not a problem at all! I'm just super happy you are taking such an interest and that you are being so helpful, that is super cool! :)
I am afraid that I can't read music that well, because I'm not trained in theory- but the fact that you can listen to these pieces at the same time might make it a really good learning tool! So thank you so much for sharing that! I looked around at the site and I found the piece I was refering to if you are interested:
https://musescore.com/maggggoooooo/mountains-from-interstellar-hans-zimmer
I think it is only arranged for piano in this version though! Still a great piece! :)