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Changing Planet

Changing Planet

STYE927 · Reflective Orchestral Underscore · Nico Rivers, Hannsjoerg Scheid, Patrick Rydman, Rolf Schild +2
Reflective, emotive orchestral underscores for nature documentaries that help tell a story of hope and struggle with the elements.
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ReleasedJan 2023

Tracks

10 main mixes
Transorbital Memory
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Nico Rivers
2:24·70 bpm·B flat·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

The album's slowest, widest cue: 70bpm in B flat, with pads, sustained strings, cello and soft piano joined by wordless vocal samples that give it an underwater, weightless quality. It drifts rather than drives, holding a single reflective mood across two and a half minutes with brass swelling gently underneath. Suits deep-ocean footage, ice fields, or a narrated passage about memory and loss.

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2:24
Astral Waves
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Nico Rivers
2:19·100 bpm·G·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

A mid-tempo 100bpm piece in G major, brighter and more forward-moving than the slower cues here, with pads and synth underpinning piano, strings and cello. The major key keeps it hopeful and open rather than mournful, good for footage of light returning or migration.

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2:19
Paradise Forsaken
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Hannsjoerg Scheid
1:57·119 bpm·Dm·2 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

At 119bpm in D minor this is one of the album's more urgent, darker underscores, and the shortest at under two minutes — pads, synth, strings and brass without cello, so the low end feels tighter and more anxious. The title's sense of a lost paradise fits deforestation, coral bleaching or drought footage.

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1:57
Deep Earth Impact
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Patrick Rydman
2:06·120 bpm·Fm·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

120bpm in F minor with pads, synth, strings, cello and bells, the bells giving this one a glassy, chiming top layer the other minor-key cues lack. Weighty and slightly ominous, with brass carrying the seriousness suggested by the title.

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2:06
Hyperspace Exhale
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Patrick Rydman
2:12·73 bpm·Am·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

A slow 73bpm cue in A minor built from pads, synth, strings, piano and brass, without cello — sparse and exhaled rather than dense. The minor key leans melancholy while the tempo keeps it calm, useful for a moment of pause after a difficult sequence.

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2:12
Crossing The Horizon
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Rolf Schild
2:12·120 bpm·A·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

120bpm in A major with an arpeggio pattern threading through pads, synth, strings, cello and piano, making this the most propulsive and optimistic cue on the album. The steady pulse and major key suit forward motion — migration, flight, or a hopeful conclusion.

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2:12
Halcyon
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Howard Watson Parker
2:12·100 bpm·B flat·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

The most restrained cue here: 100bpm in B flat with only pads, brass, strings and piano, and no synth, cello or arpeggio to thicken it. Its tag set also drops the overtly emotional descriptors, leaving a calm, still atmosphere that sits easily under heavy narration.

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2:12
Luminescence
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Howard Watson Parker
1:57·98 bpm·D·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

98bpm in D major, short at under two minutes, with an arpeggio figure moving beneath pads, synth, strings, cello and piano. Bright and shimmering in keeping with its title, best for bioluminescence, dawn light or a quick uplifting turn.

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1:57
The Last Pasture
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Hannsjoerg Scheid
1:60·75 bpm·C#m·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

A slow, sombre 75bpm cue in C sharp minor using only pads, brass, strings and piano, so the texture stays thin and exposed. The elegiac title and minor key point at endings — vanishing grassland, an abandoned farm, the last of a species.

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1:60
Lights of Aurora
STYE927 · Changing Planet · Adalberto Tito Manzur
2:33·72 bpm·Cm·1 versions
Soundtrack, UnderscoreChill, Contemplative, Documentary

The longest track on the album at 2:33, a slow 72bpm piece in C minor with pads, synth, strings, cello, piano and brass. The extra length gives it room to grow from stillness into something fuller, making it the natural choice for a long-held night-sky or polar sequence.

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2:33

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