Strange Places Series By Artem Chebokha

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Made a small suite compiling some moments of Viktor’s theme that I picked up on while listening to the Arcane soundtrack (which is incredible by the way, go listen to it if you haven’t yet!) Though there are multiple repeated elements to the music in his scenes, I believe his central motif consists of the simple notes: G, F, E, D, which can be heard in each track.

You can hear it for the first time when Viktor introduces himself to Jayce in “It’s Viktor" as well as a lovely rendition of it in “The Toy Boat”, which explores the motif the most and even teases a bit of “First Steps”. The theme is later presented more tragically though in the Hexcore scenes, which continues the use of strings but also sometimes utilizes the unique addition of a man’s hum. During “Promise Me”, we also hear it with a woman’s hum. 

Tracks (In Order):

“It’s Viktor”

“The Toy Boat”

“Promise Me”

“Everyone’s Gotta Play Their Part”

“Viktor and the Hexcore”

“Something I’ve Been Working On”

You can also hear his theme very faintly at the end of “I Understand Now”, which I didn’t include here.

On a side note, the music in the Hexcore scenes is so epic and tragic, I’m hoping they’re the foundation of the Machine Herald’s theme because I want to hear a lot more of it in the future.

I’m no music expert by the way, just an enthusiast. If anyone has a background in music, please feel free to add your expertise to this! 

(This music obviously does not belong to me.) 

You know what the second I stopped saying “I wish I had a friend who-“ and started being “the friend who-“ my life has gotten 100% more fulfilling

“For all the attention the Berlin conservatory study has received, this part of the top students’ experiences—their sleep patterns, their attention to leisure, their cultivation of deliberate rest as a necessary complement of demanding, deliberate practice—goes unmentioned. In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell focuses on the number of hours exceptional performers practice and says nothing about the fact that those students also slept an hour more, on average, than their less-accomplished peers, or that they took naps and long breaks. This is not to say that Gladwell misread Ericsson’s study; he just glossed over that part. And he has lots of company. Everybody speed-reads through the discussion of sleep and leisure and argues about the 10,000 hours. This illustrates a blind spot that scientists, scholars, and almost all of us share: a tendency to focus on focused work, to assume that the road to greater creativity is paved by life hacks, propped up by eccentric habits, or smoothed by Adderall or LSD. Those who research world-class performance focus only on what students do in the gym or track or practice room. Everybody focuses on the most obvious, measurable forms of work and tries to make those more effective and more productive. They don’t ask whether there are other ways to improve performance, and improve your life. This is how we’ve come to believe that world-class performance comes after 10,000 hours of practice. But that’s wrong. It comes after 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, 12,500 hours of deliberate rest, and 30,000 hours of sleep.”

— Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, Darwin Was a Slacker and You Should Be Too

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