Entropy's Bane - By Ryan Cottam
a Music Mosaic
Inspired by Creation of Earth by Thomas Bergersen
This is a Music Mosaic, as such, the following images are best viewed while listening to Creation of Earth at one of the following links:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/aIDrEvJ8zq8
Dusty - By Ryan Cottam
Collision - By Ryan Cottam
Molten - By Ryan Cottam
Fire Fall - By Ryan Cottam
Lava - By Ryan Cottam
Elements - By Ryan Cottam
Glory Seed - By Ryan Cottam
Glory Fall - By Ryan Cottam
I first heard Creation
of Earth by Thomas Bergersen on the Sun album the same way I hear most of
my music the first time, while listening to Pandora Radio. When a new song
comes up, I never check the name of the song. I vividly remember hearing the
song for the first time and imagining the wide openness of space and then a violent
event, much like a dramatic painting of the creation of earth that I had seen
just the week before. I was amazed when I did find the song again a week or so
later, that it was called, Creation of
Earth. I wanted to try and put onto screen as best I could the images that
ran through my head as I listened to the song for the first time.
I start out in an unformed solar system, governed by a
lonely star inspired by the instrumentation at the beginning of the song. There
are long (primarily string) notes in the background, and the singing of glory
and expanse in the background matching the wideness and “emptiness” of space
before the planets are formed. On top of that there are quicker shorter notes
that suggest material to be worked with, small rocks and dust, orbiting their
parent star.
And then, all at once, there is the first collision with the
sudden percussion, much like the second image, things go on in that vein for a
long while, rocks colliding, gliding, sticking, and a grand, hot, molten ball
is formed, all of this is described through a quick tempo, and percussion. A rough
beauty with loads of potential heralded with the voices of an epic choir.
The music starts to turn from violence to glory and jubilation
as the planet starts to calm down, an atmosphere is in place and though there
are volcanoes, meteor strikes, and earthquakes, there is life now! Water falls
from the sky, and things are thriving.
On a lonely river, a stream of lava runs down the center,
cutting it in two, it solidifies before it can reach the bottom of the falls. A
triumphant refrain peaks as a magical seed, glowing with the same strange green
hue of the moon hits the earth. Millennia later, it still stands guard over the
falls, the Fall of Glory, giving a strange green hue to all that pass and wish
to feel refreshed.
However, this work is not entirely mine. I used creative
commons images of the sun, moon, and stars that I could find no-one to give
credit to. I was inspired by that painting I saw years ago that I will probably
never see again. I was inspired by Thomas Bergersen. I used brushes created by
generous artists on forums. I am not the sole artist of this work. This work
was made by a community. It is ours. I was merely the compiler and finisher of
the work.
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