Midnight Tide

//<SESSION> //[Type: 7–10s instrumental, late-1970s Japanese TV suspense sting] //[UploadedAudio: keep the humming’s rhythm, rests and contour; replace all pitches with an original motif] //[Form: four hard short strikes -> four answering strikes -> two long ominous notes] //[Tempo: 68 BPM, slow and severe] //[NoVocals: Strict] //</SESSION> //<ORCHESTRA> //[LowBrass: dark trombone and horn unison, dry staccato] //[Strings: high violin tremolo, chromatic swells, sharp stabs] //[Piano: massive low-octave strikes] //[Percussion: timpani rumble, bass drum, tam-tam swell, one cymbal crash] //[AnalogSynth: faint eerie sustain] //</ORCHESTRA> //<MOOD-SOUND> //[Murder revealed on a lonely seaside cliff at night; ominous, tragic, melodramatic] //[Narrow analog broadcast mix, tape saturation, dark plate reverb] //[Strong silence between phrases; final notes ring, then sudden cut] //[DoNot: modern trailer, EDM, rock, fanfare, comedy, vocals, quotation of an existing theme] //</MOOD-SOUND>