OMSK - DEAD FREQUENCIES

OMSK - DEAD FREQUENCIES

SUBMISSION FOR THE OST COMPOSING JAM #2 

You've woken up after what seems like a deep slumber, only to realize that you are lost and alone. You take a walk and see that you're in a large Post-Soviet city, although there's something wrong...

It's barren...

You really are alone, aren't you?

You set up camp in a small apartment building near the western woods, but as the night creeps into the limelight, you start hearing things, no, voices from the radio. What are they saying, what could it mean?

(Fictional game idea for the soundtrack jam, with the theme of "Are we alone in the universe?". Although the first thing that comes to mind are aliens, I decided to hit a bit closer to home, with folk tales of one's spirituality and how it passes on after death, or, in the opposite sense, lingers.)

Track descriptions:

1. Something's Awry:

You are having a very pleasant dream, the sun is beautiful outside, life seems to be good today. This dream is very angelic, very comforting, yet something feels wrong about it, it feels the same all over... you look further into this dream of yours and realize it wasn't quite the heaven you expected it to be. Even hell would've been a better place to end up in compared to where you are now.

2. They Speak:

It's getting dark outside, after not having found anyone in the vicinity, you decide to do the next logical thing and camp out in a derelict apartment. Everything's awfully quiet, only thing keeping you sane are the birds that chirp, but even they have to sleep at one point, right? You hear the radio emit a faint signal despite there not being any electricity to feed it... Strange... 

3. Attention, Attention:

All the radios... they're alive! They can speak! They order commands that fall on deaf ears! They call for assistance in an empty world! What is this? Where are you? You start panicking... they keep trying to contact you, but for what? The lights just turned on for a second, the wind is getting stronger... there's a knock on your door.

4. Sector 3:

The screams of the forlorn are manifesting themselves... these aren't hallucinations, these are REAL! And they're coming for you... you can either succumb to their force, or fight back! You decide today isn't the day you give up! You start boarding up the door, grab your nearest sharp object and pray for your survival...

5. Close:

Dark twisted metallic entities have been assaulting your apartment for what seems to be the whole night... yet you fought back, and fought back bravely. The night is shying away and the sun rises once more. The voices on the radios subside. The birds wake up again... everything seems safe, for now at least. A track very similar to the first one, highlighting the happy dream you once had, which brought you into this mess. This time, however, there's no sense of something being wrong, because all has already gone wrong. You're getting closer, my friend.

6. The End:

You've lived many nights to die another day, you're a seasoned survivor in this abandoned city. You've started to piece together the clues that the radios leave you, coordinates, destinations, supply drops... It keeps you going, you are almost in a state of pure ecstacy by trying to solve it all. The you that was before all of this is no more. You are a shell of a person. After many sleepless nights, you stumble onto a bunker which seems connected to a large antenna station masked by the woods. You are not alone here... There's something... no... someone... who hears you, and is speaking to you... Assuring you that there's a way out. Is it all lies? Should you trust this man over the radio? Should you walk into the light at the center of the room? A collective consciousness of many souls who call your name... It looks comfortable... feels comfortable... you've lived up until here, after all... why not join your brothers?