Comical Misadventures

Chomp Chomp OST - Memories Of Spring (Main Menu) clip

Chomp Chomp OST - You're Cheery This Morning!

Roses Will Rise OST - Guards Cross The Line (Battle)

Unholy Retribution (Nintendo DS-style Retro Mix)

Struggle For Freedom

The Main Menu track for the Visual Novel game Chomp Chomp. This was initially composed for the 2016 NaNoReNo Visual Novel game jam.

Chomp Chomp OST

Memories of Spring (Main Menu)

This ambient track with orchestral elements was composed over two days, and was intended to be similar to ambient music found in real-time strategy games, particularly those of a modern, futuristic or space exploration theme.

The title was mainly inspired by the piano patterns, but also by the structure of the music and the reliance on one or two main ideas coming back repeatedly. After the first section, the middle section employs a change of pace and mellower feel, before returning to a darker restatement of the beginning idea with more orchestral elements, building to a climax with a strong brass melody before fading out to end.

Revolutions

This is a short piano improvisation evoking the mood of a mellow yet happy ending theme, perhaps for an RPG or similarly-themed adventure title. I originally imagined it to play during the ending credits of a game.

Going Home

This is a character theme I created for a cancelled fighting game. The theme went with a young goth character called Galliant DuNoir, who hung around in a church graveyard and wanted revenge on another of the fighters for some wrongdoing at an earlier point before the immediate events of the fighting game. Galliant wanted justice but was going about it in all the wrong ways. The title alludes to the character’s stage being a church graveyard, his desire for justice and revenge, and his misguided ways of planning to get that revenge. The soundtrack to the Guilty Gear series of games was my main inspiration in creating this track. The hallmarks of a fighting game soundtrack are present here: high energy, relentless rhythm, and a short track length that seamlessly loops, due to the fast pace and short duration of typical fighting game battles. Orchestral instruments and a pipe organ were used to convey the atmosphere of a church and the fusion of these instruments with metal guitars portrayed the nature of the character and his unique game environment.

Unholy Retribution

Journey’s End is a theme that was intended to be reminiscent of the themes to animated 2D platform or adventure games. Despite the title, this theme could have possible uses as an ending theme, a main theme, a location theme or a character theme, owing to its prominent melodies. Anime soundtracks and the strong melodies of the film composer John Williams were my main influences here.

Journey's End

Allow me to introduce our plucky, but unfortunately nameless protagonist. It’s midnight, he’s hungry, and the only thing that will satisfy him is pie. So begins a musical tale of despair, suspense and ultimate triumph chronicling one man’s epic quest to fill his belly. It begins with his decision to embark on his quest, followed by the start of his adventure, before suffering through disaster as things end up not going as he had planned. However, he resolves to continue on before enduring a cliffhanger after which his quest ultimately proves to be successful.

Quest for Pie

This is the complete soundtrack to the 2006 animation "Dunebreaker", created by Mohammad AlHuraiz, who is currently a member of UAE game development team Zombie Camel Games.

The animation was intended to sound and feel like games that were released in the early-to-mid 1990s on the Super Nintendo. It was set in a post-apocalyptic scenario where the whole Earth had become a desert, and centred around a father's search for his long-lost daughter.

Reminiscing

Dunebreaker Theme

Space Theme

Intro - Corridor Of Time

This is the complete official soundtrack to the short film Hammer and Nails, by Emirati director and animator Hamad Mansoor Alawar, which was screened at the Dubai International Film Festival 2008 and Gulf Film Festival 2008. You can view the film at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44w3rJBBGGM

Hammer and Nails (2008) OST

This is a short big band piece that I composed in 2007. The title references the mood of a busy casino.

Place Your Bets

This is a quick Drum & Bass track I knocked up in a couple of hours to get familiar with some of the presets in Alchemy, Logic's new synth as of Logic Pro X version 10.2.

Axis

Snow gently falls as people gather to pay their last respects to a samurai who sacrificed everything he had. Giving up your life for your country is no easy task and everyone in attendance knew just how much this man gave of himself, even to his detriment, but it served a purpose. The battle was won, but not without cost, as is always the case. However, without this man's involvement, the outcome would certainly have been most unfavourable. And so, hailed as a hero, he is lowered into the ground with only a salute, and though he is unable to say a word, in his death he is silently encouraging those present to make the most of their lives.

Honour and Reputation

This is the second of two ideas that I composed for Beefjack Studios. They wanted music suitable for a football game trailer, but were unsure of the style that the trailer was going to take. I therefore produced two contrasting pieces of music to provide a way for them to find out whether a high-energy or more epic, orchestral trailer style would be more suitable for them.

This track uses a more typical orchestral/epic trailer music style, with a steady build up, growing in intensity before falling away at the end, leading to a "cliffhanger"-style ending.

Football Game Trailer Music Idea 2 - Orchestral (Epic)

This was created as a practice exercise for some new composition techniques I have been introduced to by my composition teacher. Very reminiscent of Japanese video games of the 90s, such as manic platformers and fighting games. Games like Gunstar Heroes and Guardian Heroes (for the visual imagery and manic feel) and Street Fighter EX (for the sound) were my inspirations here.

Boss Fight of Epic Proportions

This is a preview of the soundtrack for the upcoming farming/fantasy visual novel game, Chomp Chomp! More information on the game is available at the following link: https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=37370

Chomp Chomp OST – Miscellaneous Theme 1

This piece took me a year to write as I was massively creatively blocked while doing it. It was originally intended for a game, but when the developers didn't get back in contact with me (after I composed the initial idea) to tell me they wanted to use it, I decided to claim it for myself and finish it.

This is the first fully orchestral piece I've written since starting to compose again in January 2015 that isn't based off an idea I had previously.

Orchestral Compositions 2016

Struggle for Freedom (NotePerformer mockup)

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Multi-instrumentalist and composer Ashley Kampta started composing at 13 using computers and software, and later went on to take GCSE and A-Level exams in Music, as well as obtain a degree in Music Technology from Brunel University in 2005. He also has six years' experience as a Music Director.

In 2006, Ashley composed the score and designed sound effects for the animated short Dunebreaker, by Mohammad AlHuraiz, who is currently a member of UAE game development team Zombie Camel Games.

In 2008, Ashley composed the score to the short film Hammer and Nails, by Emirati director and animator Hamad Mansoor Alawar, which was screened at the Dubai International Film Festival 2008 and Gulf Film Festival 2008. Watch the film at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44w3rJBBGGM

Most recently, Ashley helped direct rehearsals and performed with the London Film Music Orchestra on 24 and 25 April 2015. The orchestra will be performing his composition "Quest for Pie" at the upcoming Christmas concert in December 2015.

Ashley is looking to extend his expertise into the film and video game industries as a composer and sound designer.

Ashley Kampta

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