One of the most fantastic pieces I've heard on Newgrounds.
This track is among your best, and although it may not reflect to everyone's taste, the quality and your ability to create 'real' horror is more than apparent and pleasing to listen to.
I love your composition, to me it's right out of a film. Anyone who has a film makers understanding can hear the shot cut from a climatic horror scene to another at 1:50. The elegance is superb from here. The light hearted romantic theme builds and arrives to a moment of questionable nature. It would have been much easier to just build it to something with super grandness at 3:20, but you change in tone and structure, showing that you understand emotional changes that are required when scoring to picture. The composition arrangements that call for those changes to carry the moment do so very well, and so very smoothly too especially from 3:20 onwards. Then come to a climax within that scene. It's easy to hear that you have a massive grasp of visual and audio sync, not something which should be overlooked.
Your instrument choice is a natural and classical approach. I love how you completely control the sound of your instruments, and I know how hard you work to get them to sound natural to break any form of synthetic obviousness. At times it sounds so unbelievably clean and realistic! Waves of seamless use without the feel of an abrupt break, sitting very well together.
You performed classic horror very well. It's not about being a slasher, or getting jump scares. It's about grand eerie build, exchange, change and balancing those emotions and themes to give your audience contrast. The sci-fi element is extremely beautifully crafted into this too. Yet, instrument wise you never depend on any instrument to tell us that, you executed it very well with pure orchestration.
Your track although not devoid of theme doesn't stand up and shout it out to us, and that is far from a bad thing in this type of music. They way I recognize it in your music, is that It's not designed to carry a theme and shout it to the audience. It's purpose is to underscore and arrive the viewers at what the director wants them to feel and see. Certainly in the alien scores by Elliot Goldenthal the themes were always underplayed, and your track is reminiscent of that type of film score indeed. Lack of an overly dominant theme should not be a negative imo, it should be see that you carefully can craft an track maintain all our attention on it and never depend on it to do the heavy lifting.
This tracks is nothing short of fantastical!