Several years ago I read many of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales, including “A Descent into the Maelström”, a short story in which “a man recounts how he survived a shipwreck and a whirlpool” (Wikipedia).
As often the case with Poe's work, the tale impressed me very much. A few years later I wrote this little Grundgestalt (that's how I call my algorithmic compositions, created from the states of the simulator of a game). The music spoke to me of Poe's tale — therefore it was only natural to give it the same title.
The orchestration is very simple: distorted guitar and uduhachi flute in unison, plus double bass, and drums. The three voices correspond to the cards owned by the two opponents in the game, plus those that the two players extract and have not yet been adjudicated.
Music © Eidon (Eidon@tutanota.com). All rights reserved.
Video in the public domain: "Unless otherwise specifically stated, no claim to copyright is being asserted by STScI and material on this site may be freely used as in the public domain in accordance with NASA's contract. However, it is requested that in any subsequent use of this work NASA and STScI be given appropriate acknowledgement."