2014 First Summer Update

If you hadn't noticed not really a lost has happened in terms of the SOT project over the past year since about August last year. Now that it's summer again, I hope to get some more done on the project.

I'd actually attempted to write the Forest Suite a couple of times over the year, but they both lost steam in the direction they were going. I started again earlier this month, and I'm pretty far in. I hope to release a version of it next week or so.

Okay, now for a bit of a tone change. I actually am not sure if I have the resources to orchestrate this project, though I could synthesize it in quite a bit better quality than the samples currently on Soundcloud. I would like instead to reach out into the Zelda community and collect some collaborators to help orchestrate the album. I will be sharing the scores on a website (TBA) and here through file sharing.

Also, I decided I wanted to create a Piano-only album based on The Wind Waker to complement the orchestrated part based on Ocarina of Time.

If you would like to join in working on this project, please contact us at symphonyoftimeproject@gmail.com.

Vizify looked interesting, so I created a video for SOT's Twitter account:
https://www.vizify.com/symphony-of-time/twitter-video

Introduction & Project Goals

When I first heard the choral entrance of "Overture" that begins Twilight Symphony, I was awed. Twilight Symphony went on to show me the perfections of such great pieces as "Back from the Spring," "Ordon Village," "Kakariko Village," and "Ice Mass Blizetta." What Zelda Reorchestrated accomplished with Twilight Symphony just blew my mind.
However, I considered Twilight Princess to be my third favorite Zelda game and my second favorite Zelda soundtrack, with Wind Waker holding first place in both categories, and Ocarina of Time holding the other Top 3 positions. I felt WW and OoT both deserved their own complete symphonic treatments. I decided on OoT over WW because OoT needed the improvement more than WW did.

I decided early on that my project's title would be "Symphony of Time" over "Time Symphony," because "Time Symphony" didn't have the ring that "Twilight Symphony" did.

Originally, I had planned to present Symphony of Time in more or less the same format as ZREO's. Then I realized I didn't have any good reason to follow their 3-discs 50-something tracks format. I decided that I should present Symphony of Time in a Movement format, with two Parts, representing the adult and child eras in the game, dividing the Symphony into two discs.

The decided tracks are as follows:

Part I

Movement I: Overture

Movement II: The Forest

Movement III: Hyrule Castle Town

Movement IV: Hyrule Field

Movement V: Death Mountain

Movement VI: The Zora

Movement VII: Time

Part II

Movement VIII: Intermezzo

Movement IX: Lon Lon Ranch

Movement X: Kakariko Village

Movement XI: Restoring the Temples

Movement XII: Gerudo Valley

Movement XIII: Ganondorf’s Castle

Movement XIV: Ganondorf
Movement XV: Finale

I've considered doing/having someone do music videos like that of Twilight Symphony, but I don't have anything in the works yet. Perhaps live locations?