Track listing
- Working & Sleeping / "I Remember This...." [0:40]
- Tom Times Two [0:56]
- Really Complicated, and a Little Bit Boring [1:08]
- The Future Is in Glossop [1:12]
- Abnormality [1:11]
- Parting Ways and Words [0:38]
- Departure / The Passage of Time [0:42]
- End Credits [0:19]
- The Time Traveller's Theme (Album Version) [1:16]
The Passage of Time was the first Wingless Films production for which I provided an original music score. Previously I had used and arranged royalty-free, public domain tracks from Kevin McLeod and elsewhere (such as in Jericho and The Walk) though with this short I wanted a bespoke soundtrack.
The film's main theme ("The Time Traveller's Theme") was initially a "mystery theme" inspired by "This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home" from Murray Gold's Doctor Who Series Three score. The soundtrack opens with an early version of the "Wingless Sting" that would introduce numerous shorts over the next couple of years, accompanied by a short statement of the central motif. It is introduced in the underscore in track two ("Tom Times Two"), which also utilizes repeated phrases on the piano to suggest an echo as the two Toms come face-to-face.
Track three contains brief musical references to both "I Am the Doctor" (Doctor Who Series Five) and Back to the Future. The notes that open the track also suggest the later "Love Theme" that would be used in scores for Bounded (2010) and Her Voice (2011). The soundtrack ends with an album-only version of the main theme (track nine). The theme was later referenced in The Time Collector (2012), and was intended again as the main theme for the cancelled project, An Itch in Time (2011).
The film's main theme ("The Time Traveller's Theme") was initially a "mystery theme" inspired by "This Is Gallifrey: Our Childhood, Our Home" from Murray Gold's Doctor Who Series Three score. The soundtrack opens with an early version of the "Wingless Sting" that would introduce numerous shorts over the next couple of years, accompanied by a short statement of the central motif. It is introduced in the underscore in track two ("Tom Times Two"), which also utilizes repeated phrases on the piano to suggest an echo as the two Toms come face-to-face.
Track three contains brief musical references to both "I Am the Doctor" (Doctor Who Series Five) and Back to the Future. The notes that open the track also suggest the later "Love Theme" that would be used in scores for Bounded (2010) and Her Voice (2011). The soundtrack ends with an album-only version of the main theme (track nine). The theme was later referenced in The Time Collector (2012), and was intended again as the main theme for the cancelled project, An Itch in Time (2011).