Hagrid The Professor (chiptune interpretation)

Renderings of the three Geometric tablets as described in the paper "Musical Structure of Geometric Elamite"

No attempt has been made to interpret the rhythm, only the pitch. The original tuning was most likely what we could call Pythagorean, but these renderings have been done with standard modern tuning because a Pythagorean one will sound Slightly Wrong to most listeners in a way that will detract from the musicality being conveyed.

As explained in the paper, tablet B was probably meant to loop. The brief pause at the end of D is due to unreadable characters on the tablet. 

The release date is approx. 2500 BCE, but the date box on this website does not support that.

Geometric D

Geometric C

Geometric B

[EDIT: 2016 update and rerelease as CC!] Been kicking around in my head for about six years now ever since one day in computer science class.

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GT Long Road

A chip (2A03+VRC6) cover of *the* song from Splatoon, made at the request of my husband for his ringtone. It's not a perfect replica but I hope it's acceptable. Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4k1NdUEUP4

Splatoon – Squid Sisters – Calamari Chorus – Chiptune

Inspired by the world setting of Caves of Qud (with the creators' blessings). Kinda experimental for me but I think I pulled it off. I got eastwest composer cloud and I went to town on all these new and 100% licensed instruments :) 

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GT Chromatic Towers

Oh no I got a choir synthesizer I hope y'all like children's choirs

This is a song that occurred to me back in 2008 or so while riding through the Delaware Water Gap but I lacked the skill to render it. Still not quite what I want but orders of magnitude better than I could manage at the time. The words are an extremely approximate pronunciation of this excerpt from a Tocharian document: "sū rano ṣäp ipreräntse ānte snai tärkarwa astare klautka", "and also the surface of the sky turned cloudless and pure"

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GT The Sky Clears

A looping arrangement of Sir Despard's lament from the opera Ruddigore. Thanks to https://math.boisestate.edu/gas/ruddigore/web_opera/operhome.html for the base sheet music.

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GT Moody And Sad

Suddenly brass!

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GT Bombastic Opening

Like 50% of the time I spent on this was to try to get the violin not to distort on the high notes and I only sorta succeeded 

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GT Start Menu Screen

Everything changed when $geopolitical_entity attacked.

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GT Dark Backstory March

A wild major key appears?! It's short, but if your tutorial runs long enough that this would start to grate then it's wrong. 

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GT Tutorial

Seepin' with mossy stone foundations and all that. 

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GT Historic Village

The hardest I have ever worked on a rhythm

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GT Rhythm Battle

Where you go to find the talking tree who tells you it is dying and only you can fix it. Note: the github download version does not have the harsh clipping.

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GT Magical Forest

This is what happens when you play Boston Apocalypse Simulator 2015 and realize "hey, I have haunting flute soundfonts too"

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GT Ominous Overworld Drone

A cover of the Mayor's Office from The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask by Koji Kondo, using high-def instruments (relative to a Nintendo 64 at any rate). Loop it for all your most critical arguments. 

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCX45EMhdg4

Created with assistance of an old midi that didn't contain the name of who did the transcribing work. 

I have had a very rough few months medically speaking. Working on music has been largely impossible :( but here is *something* at least.

Majora's Mask – Mayor's Office

I wrote this one to like, be a visual novel song (and oops MGLIAD has happened now)

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GT Cat's-Eye Waltz

when I first wrote this the pico-8 sound engine popped so much it was unbearable but it's fixed now

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Glorytales (Pico-8)

GT Wistful Waltz (Pico-8)

I was p pleased with how dramatic this one felt

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GT Castle Ruins (Pico-8)

Theme of Chandini, enbie who plays piano. This is La Folia (or follia, or folies, or other spellings), a folk song that has been covered by many classical composers. This version most closely follows Vivaldi: https://youtu.be/WLW3-FcJPSQ

Chandini's Theme (Pico-8)

Another Haunting RPG Melody based on a Croatian folk song called Tararajčica (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V4ttfU7lVY ). I'll probably use it in MGLIAD.

Narrow Path (Pico-8)

An arrangement, in the loosest, most "I went hither and thither" sense, of the robot spider Guardian song from Breath of the Wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS5oO-AI4NA 

I wanted to get back into "realistic" music, and practice a full orchestral sound.

November 2017: replaced the file with a version with better volume dynamics

Resurrection Dance (BOTW Guardian)

My own organ arrangement of the combined outside/inside Hyrule Castle from Breath of the Wild https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aWHkYWslcw I tried to make the sound quality as full and ~good~ as I could but I'm not sure how good a job I did as I feel like a terrible judge of such things

BOTW - Hyrule Castle - Organ Piece

I hope you like oboes

This is my first piece ever made with a midi keyboard. Yes, every orchestrated song I've ever made up to this point was 100% done with "musical typing" and hand-drawn notes, including all the velocity values, which weren't super varied as a result.

Cloth Merchant

I don't know, maybe Lance is a vampire or something. Feel free to use in a Pokemon fan work (with credit).

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWHgMcIOsuw
Made with reference: https://musescore.com/user/1634246/scores/3746861

Gold/Silver/Crystal Champion - Organ

Complete rewrite from scratch of one of my personal favorites from five or six years ago. It is Ismyrn's theme.

Stormwaltz 2018

Organ arrangement of one of the best songs from one of the best games with one of the best soundtracks of all time. Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab60XEyA5OQ

edit: fixed most of the organ screeching with an absolutely ridiculous hack.

Majora's Mask Ikana Stone Tower – Organ

Not 100% satisfied with this but as close as I'm gonna get I think.

Another piece that's kind of ridiculously my style, down to being in Dorian again.

Nairi's Theme

Yes, this is my fourth revision of this concept in four years. I can't leave well enough alone.

Reluctant Dance 2018

Five-year rewrite of Tsovinar's Theme aka Blue and Gold

I said I was gonna alternate between new pieces and rewrites so it's not all rewrites but I've been stuck for months so this is what I have.

Tsovinar's Theme 2019

It's a little short, but I've had this melody bouncing around in my head for months and finally made a serviceable draft of it. Rodomond Veraldo, reformed brigand, big single dad energy, and not-so-secret lover of the queen across the sea.

Rodomond's Theme

the original Flying Toasters screensaver music, rerendered with professional-quality modern software instruments. This is made directly from the original midi, with a few tweaks to make it work with the pitch ranges of the simulated instruments. 

The original midi credits itself to Berkeley Systems, Inc, 1994. Video of the original screensaver with lyrics (yes, there are lyrics): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7nn4IXCeJc

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