Of The Crowd

My submission to the one little agony music Jam hosted by M-112.

For the theme "Society", I intended to represent different societal interactions between people. Positive as well as negative ones; interactions within different relations between the actors. I tried to make every song stand out from the others as much as possible instead of going for a cohesive unified sound, to emphasize these different interactions.

Kindred - We are a family. Be it the embrace of a Loved one or a small gesture of a kind stranger, we yearn for connection. Love is vital. We stick together to survive.

Strangers - We are insignificant. In the life of every Stranger you don't meet on your daily commute, you are nothing more than a face once seen and once forgotten. Like liquid, our life beside another flows effortlessly, unburdened by permanence.

Enemies - We wage war, we oppress and we annihilate. To impose our own will, our own image, is the primary task. Religion and Government, Generals and Kings. Every person is an instrument of opression. 

Self - You are an individual. Like the lives of everyone around you, yours is filled with struggle unknown to most other people. But don't give up your hope. Your hardship and the world's indifference to it must be felt and braved and overcome. That is to live.

Attribution for some samples:

Crowd sounds in Strangers: 250510_122217_FR_Large_crowd_in_Palais_Garnier by kevp888 -- https://freesound.org/s/806912/

Artillery sounds in Enemies: EXPLReal_Artillery Shell Explosions Distant 01_KVV AUDIO_FREE by KVV_Audio -- https://freesound.org/s/800710/ 

Gunshots in Enemies: forest gun shots and gunfire by jgrzinich -- https://freesound.org/s/397370/

Cover image:

Rhythm of Light Waves; Street + Sun + Crowd by Jules Schmalzigaug https://artvee.com/dl/rhythm-of-light-waves-street-sun-crowd/