Celeste OST: Difference between revisions

During another cutscene, {{c|one in which Madeline confronts Badeline for the first time,}} the music makes an unsettling turn, many major chords transforming into minor chords. This occurs around 4:25 in the OST. The piano stops, and the synthesizer starts playing the "Madeline" ''leitmotif'', but in a minor inversion: this is Badeline's theme. Following the cutscene, the music intensifies, and the melody, instead of solely ascending, now loops upwards and downwards, representing Madeline's unstable mental state at the moment. The same "Madeline" ''leitmotif'' is repeated throughout this {{c|chase sequence}}, but in a much more intense way. This continues until Madeline {{c|makes it out of the Old Site tower}}; the music fades away as {{c|Maddy approaches the phone booth which signifies the end of the level}}.

|'''In the Mirror''' plays following the ''Unraveling'' checkpoint in {{Ch|5|lf=1}}, until the end. It introduces a much more eerie, synth-powered melody, {{c|coinciding with Madeline's anxiety starting to peak, and her starting to face Seekers attacking her.}} Lena Raine stated that she tried to reserve heavy synths only for moments when Madeline's fears are truly apparent; {{c|this happens also in ''Anxiety'' and ''Starjump''}}.<ref name="int1">http://www.originalsoundversion.com/interview-composer-lena-raine-talks-celeste-soundtrack-working-in-game-audio/</ref> Shortly afterwards (after Madeline makes it to a large chamber with split paths), a reversed version of ''Quiet and Falling'' is introduced. The piano is brought back later, playing a slightly modified but retrograde version of the aforementioned track, as the synth melody from the first part of the track is reintroduced (as Madeline approaches the temple's exit); unreversed sections of the melody were mixed in, in order to suggest that the end is near.

{{c|When ''In the Mirror'' is reversed, Madeline, voiced by Lena Raine, can be heard talking about her own anxieties; when played back normally it merely sounds like glitch sounds in the audio.}}

{{Q|{{c|Sometimes, I don't really know what's going on anymore. I... I don't know who I am... I just look in the mirror and don't know who I'm looking at... or who's looking at me. I think a lot about where my train of thought is going, it's not always a good place... and it scares me. I don't like scaring myself... I don't...}}|{{c|Lena Raine (as Madeline)}}}}

'''Madeline and Theo''' plays during chapters {{Ch|1|lf=1}} and {{Ch|2|lf=1}} when [[Theo]] is on-screen as well as during Madeline and Theo's conversation at the beginning of {{Ch|6|lf=1}}. The "Madeline" ''leitmotif'', on piano, is combined with a guitar (representing Theo), in order to form a duet of sorts, as they talk over the night sky.

|'''Confronting Myself''' plays during the [[Badeline Boss|Badeline boss fight]] in Reflection]]{{Ch|6|lf=1}}. It brings back the "Madeline" ''leitmotif'', in a minor key, and features several synthesizers working in parallel, alongside a "Heyya" voice sample being slipped in throughout. Later in the song and game, the music begins to glitch out and starts repeating short parts of itself, most prominently the "Heyya" voice segments.