This is really cool, Curtis! Has a lot of Eric Whitacre vibes to it, love the dissonances...

Very unusual, but pretty cool.

ah, so beautiful... parts with subtle "choir" are great, and ones after them are good both on the contrast and in the flow of whole track. This one may be a little monotonous, but can't say for sure, probably it is't. Always liked your work on... background sounds and duration of notes? Things that usually make tracks sound deep, complete and so good

The harmonic idea on the piano at the end is very nostalgic and emotional.. 🌌

I really like it! so beautiful!

Seriously stirring, that choir line at the end sent shivers up my spine!

Tree magic 🌲✨️

The tracks give me strong Unravel vibes, frickin' love i'! Would be awesome to seperate each of them though ;) I love Unravel so much, completed Unravel 2 with a brother of mine a month ago, totally loved it🥰

very cool that you did these with a pirate theme, they fit well

very nicely done and quite inspiring. thanks for sharing!

Very well done, I loved every moment of it.

Magical :)

0:56 idk if it has to do with a specific key change in mind, but all I know is that THIS chord sounds super cool - really pops out and surprises my ears!

Serene. Truly Art! Wonderful compositions as always! Keep it up Curtis! 👍

This really reminds me of the soundtrack of Starbound I don't know if this is because some part of my brain is capable of recognising musical styles, or if it's just me hearing like 2 instruments that are in a starbound music and being like "yeah these musics are similar"

Quite the perfect music to accompany the leaves falling from the trees this Fall. 🍁

This definitely needs to be released! It’s so perfect for October Halloween month. It also sounds like music for an opening sequence

I envy your ability to make such clean transitions

I love that you explained that it is important to state the main musical ideas on their own, I feel like it gives the piece an identity and some gravity points of resolution after you wander around as it goes along... Also, about the independent lines - incredibely underrated advice. In my experience, this is the aproach to use if you want to have full control over how the music feels. You write a melody on the violins, then start to play some cello or viola underneath and right away you can see which decisions to make about how you'd like the theme to sound and where you want it to go - something that you can't do when thinking in terms of chords/harmonic choices. I find harmonic structure useful when something doesn't sound right and you know why and how to fix it (parallel fifths, doubled thirds, wrong notes, etc.), a good ear helps a lot as well... Related to through composing, for me, it always produces better results. I think that the sweet spot is to not be afraid of new material while reusing existing one - two things that I used to do instinctively when I was a beginner and faded away as I learned more music theory/rules/form/harmony and felt deeply frustrated that my music sounded worse than it did at the beginning, but now, I started to loosen up again and go back to making music I like while enjoying the process. Not everything should be an ABA or AABB, etc... 😄 As always, love your work and thanks for all the tips and advice you give us!

Beautiful, warm and expansive sound. I like how this develops and builds. The commentary is interesting too. Really enjoyed hearing about your process...I work very organically...very close to through composition...but I think the term constant development applies better to what I do. Interesting video. 👍👍

Love the Octatonic scale so much for action/mystery. Lovely orchestration as well. Great work!

Respect++

Beautiful video! Thank you so much for the content! Could you tell me which symphonic string library was used here?

a new piece! I will take this chance to tell you (hopefully you read this) that I'm trying to learn to play Atlas, I really liked the track so much since I first heard it in the game, keep it going!

This feels like where turbulence and serenity meet.

It rained the whole night in my city as well... 😄 Please continue with the autumn themed tracks! 🙏 They're always brilliant.. Lovely season... 🍂

Beautiful composition as always! As such, it sounds like the menagerie of the fall leaves changing their colors as the rainfall sweeps over the faceted landscape as it slowly drifts into autumn. Keep it up Curtis! 👍

You never miss, love it!

its beutiful. beyond words. thank you for puting this in my life i needed this.

Omg amazing. Love love love it!

Spring is just around the corner here, with rain and heat one day, and cold the next, today it even rained and there were thunderstorms.

Absolutely beautiful piece; I don't know how many offers you get to make soundtracks and music, but with this skill you should get hundreds.

Hell of a rain last night

This channel has finally reached 4000 subs🍷🧐

As a certified Starbound enjoyer, I can confirm that the first note was directly proudly taken from Starbound, legendary o7 Seriously, this piece is glorious

Its a child of Morrowind OST and Starbound OST. I love it❤

Beautiful :)

Yeah, the OT stuff is missing!

I really love your harmonies. Strong ending...great mixture of power and delicate orchestrations. It carries you along the way good minimalist and ambient music should.

Это очень круто. Мне всегда нравилась ваша музыка и саундтреки к играм!

This is such a lovely piece...pastoral and absorbing. I like the little notes in red. Are those your own notes to yourself? It does have that Vaughn-Williams flavor...with the gentlest of climaxes that is reminiscent of VW3. I enjoyed every moment of it. Well done.

I particularly enjoyed the dense textures and the intense dissonances that resulted. I love the seriousness, the ominous feeling that grows in the 2nd half of the symphony. Much that is beautiful, and also rich with ambiguity of feeling, which for me adds a layer of complexity...not to know exactly what you feel at a given moment, only that you feel intensely alive and thrilled. I did wish there was more of sense of momentum and more sense of formal differentiation especially in the 1st two movements...only in the 3rd movement did I begin to feel that it was building toward something. That was my only reservation about this exemplary symphony.

once again, you haven't failed to make me hate how much you are underappreciated

Also thank you for the condensed score for reading along. That's a good idea to make the sheet music accessible for following the structures without having to decipher smallest details in a super large score.

Hello, thank you very much for uploading this stunning symphony showing an intriguingly fascinating musical language. I really enjoy experiencing a style of your own with a fascinating amalgam of different stylistic layers that don't fall apart into single sound bites, but contribute to a unique and coheseve whole. There are so many --- quite good and remarkable --- symphonies by younger composers out there on KZbin that are promising, albeit not yet crossing the line of mere pastiches of existing styles like --- mainly --- Mahler. So, finally there's a voice of someone who already knows what his own language is like and who is able to create a new world of refreshing, exciting, unpredictable but totally convincing music full of very personal ideas and colors! Your free handling of rhythm and meter, your creativity with really interesting orchestral choices, your harmonic richness, the interesting shapes of your thematic material... that all adds up to a characterful personality which I very much appreciate listening to. I would like to invite you --- if you may --- to my KZbin channel where I just recently uploaded my own first symphony. I signed up as your new subscriber and am really interested in getting to know more of you! I wish you the best and send you my fondlyest greetings, Franz

ahhh this is so surreal! I had no clue that you had a pretty active KZbin channel! I remember being absolutely obsessed with the Starbound OST when the game came out. I had the soundtrack on the iPod Shuffle, and I distinctly remember pressing the voice-over button and hearing "Vast, Immortal Suns - Curtis Schweitzer" and thinking "Wow this music is so great, it's a shame this artists isn't recognizes so much" and fast forward some years, and like, you made music for freaking *Halo*!! That's so cool! Right before I was typing this, I've been trying to learn M54 on guitar and just decided to search KZbin for your name and I am so surprised and happy that your still active. You've been a huge inspiration to me and I hope that on my journey to learn music and guitar, I may be able to step into more in depth compositions like the ones you make. (As a side question, if you remember that M54 piece from Starbound... how exactly do you master the timing? I'm still pretty new to guitar, and the piece is so delicate and slow that I struggle timing the notes properly. Is there even a BPM to reference? or did you play by feel?)

The Curtis Deluxe In all seriousness, The Mind is a Shadow. The journey of an aging musician coming to terms with memory loss and the struggle that she can only express through creating music. The melancholy and frustration of losing the memories she held dear. Writing down the ones she can recall. Learning to enjoy what she has left while holding on to what makes her, her. Slowly understanding that she can create new ones, and recall them, with the help of her music.

🥹 SO GOOD!!!!!

Lovely! Which notation software and playback did you use?

I've loved your music since the Starbound days. It is on par with Final Fantasy Tactics Ost, which is my favorite game of all time. Many thanks for this. ❤🙏