it's late summer again

this was my entry for Sample Pack Contest XV, it got 9th/62!

hear the amazing whole album - https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xv

Another Year Around the Sun

LAST CIGARETTE

This was a blast of a collab to work on! This track was made for round 16 of Sample Pack Contest.

Please give Hunter Van Brocklin a follow here: https://soundcloud.com/damifortune if you have not already! He makes excellent tunes.

hunter van brocklin & mandrasigma - byul (SPC XVI)

Track 2 of 2 of my submissions for the #maj7 2021 showcase, originally made for a 
2HB at BotB. My take on the type of music that plays during a Sailor Moon transformation sequence (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Transform!

High quality render of my track for Match Mayhem on BotB
link: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Flea+Jam/52621/

Track-image: https://battleofthebits.com/arena/Entry/Match+Mayhem/48109/
by Aether09
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Made in Domino MIDI Sequencer with Roland SC-88VL as sound-engine.

2:36 - Panic! Showcase (Tempo increase from 105bpm to 122bpm)

Flea Jam (SC-88 MIDI)

violin: riya lakshman

scored to & based off of a contemporary dance performance; this piece was written as a 'reverse-choreography' challenge, where normally dance routines would be choreographed to a piece of music, I wanted to instead turn that around and try and 'score'  it while making it still be a good standalone piece of music.

Awakening of Birds

Last Dance

Friday Night

Merry Christmas Instrumental (2025 Special Version 4)

https://tbkgao.bandcamp.com/album/room-to-room
https://tbkgao.bandcamp.com/album/room-to-room

2nd full album!

Now that COVID-19 has made thinking about death and living more accessible, I made an album on gameboy based on the concept of escaping from the desire to live and die.

For the artwork, I asked my favorite pixel artist toyoya to draw two rooms (a bright room and a dark room) in pixel art on one artwork.

Because in COVID-19, the more people in a room, the more you have to be aware of death when moving from room to room, and I wanted to immerse myself in the music even in such situations.
I also wanted to be able to express the feeling of being alive and dead in two rooms.

And since I alternated between sunny and not-so-sunny rooms in my home to make this album, I thought the album artwork and title would be a good fit.


COVID-19で死や生きることを考えることが身近になった今、「生きたい」「死にたい」という欲望からの脱却をコンセプトに、ゲームボーイでアルバムを作りました。

アートワークは、大好きなピクセルアーティストのtoyoyaさんにお願いして、1つのアートワークに2つの部屋（明るい部屋と暗い部屋）をピクセルアートで描いてもらいました。

というのも、COVID-19では部屋の中にいる人数が多いほど、部屋から部屋へ移動する際に死を意識しなければならないので、そんな状況でも音楽に没頭したいと思ったからです。

あとは、2つの部屋の中で生きているときと死んでいるときの感覚を表現できるようにしたかったのです。

そして、このアルバムを作るために自宅の中で日当たりの良い部屋とそうでない部屋を交互に行ったり来たりしていたので、アルバムのアートワークとタイトルがしっくりくると思いました。

Room To Room

Dear Ghost

Bandcamp

幽霊へ(Dear Ghost)

♪♪♪乁( ◕_◕乁)

This track is a musical exploration of anxiety in all of its forms. The auditory hallucinations and heartbeats resonating in the chest as musical elements. The instability and vulnerability during the peak of a meltdown. Vision zooming in and out. The bittersweet mixture of emotions. There's angst and regret, but also a touch of warmth from childhood flashbacks. Most importantly, the beauty that can be found in all of it.

Most of the instrumentation (leads, arps, percussion, bass) is done using exported stems from 0cc-Famitracker, supported by piano, pad synths and live violin recordings.

Bandcamp: https://promtastik.bandcamp.com/track/palpitation
YouTube: https://youtu.be/djEcZdekEwY

Palpitation

Songwriter (since as far back as I can remember), drummer (since 2006) and tracker-musician (since 2013).
▪️Not a frequent uploader.
▪️I may not answer all comments I get, but I do read all of them (and compliments do mean much and I do answer them the most!)

Flea Jam (SC-88 MIDI)

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