An Audiovisual Experience
A journey through a fictional ancient world, told entirely through music. As you scroll, new layers of the composition enter — strings, percussion, choir — building and dissolving with the landscape.
An Original Composition — Jack Larkin
An unnamed traveller. A world without edges.
A silence that remembers.
Sparse · Lost · Searching
"I did not choose this road — it found me at the edge of everything."
The music begins with almost nothing — a solo string against silence, a harp answering. The world is vast. The traveller is small. This is where we start: stripped back, uncertain, looking out at a landscape that has no name.
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A world remembered before it was ever known.
Ancient · Warm · Melancholic
"The stones here were shaped by hands that are gone. I can still feel the warmth of them."
Rhythmic percussion enters beneath the strings — steady, ancient. The melody shifts from searching to recognition. The harp continues. Someone was here before. The music carries the shape of lives that no longer exist to claim it.
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Epic · Triumphant · Ancient
"And then — all at once — the world opened. And it was more than I could hold."
The full orchestration arrives. Cello and low strings give the music weight and earth. A light orchestra swells around the melody. This is the heart of the composition — the moment everything that came before resolves into something larger than itself.
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Every silence was simply the world gathering its breath.
Dark · Reverent · Still
"To stand here is to understand that beauty and ruin are the same thing."
Double bass and choir enter — grounding the sacred in something earthen and inevitable. The harp and light percussion fall away. The solo string continues, quieter now. This is not sadness — it is completion. What stands here has already become something else.
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Resolved · Distant · Eternal
"I recognised the summit from below. I had been here before. I always had been."
The full strings return — broader, knowing. Medium percussion drives the music forward into something that feels both like an ending and a beginning. The original melody surfaces one last time, transformed by everything that followed it.
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Composed by Jack Larkin
Thank you for listening
Final Year Composition for Screen
University of Huddersfield · 2025
Logic Pro · East West Composer Cloud
All worlds, motifs, and journeys fictional.