Guys, I am so sorry. I have not stuck to my schedule at ALL. I do, however, have like three other songs in the works, I'm just getting to be too much of a perfectionist to release them without a lot more work :/ I really don't want to turn into Dresden Codak, only updating every three months or so.

Anyway, a guy on reddit posted in /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers asking about possible composers for a Neverwinter Nights server. Now, I've never played Neverwinter Nights, but he said their look and feel was based on a Gothic aesthetic, so I went a little neoclassical with this sample track that I tried.

Consecrated Earth - Week "4"

Arabesque [NWN] {revisited, better mix}

Just a sort of random chiptune. I really don't know. I got up this morning and said, Let there be chiptune. Four hours later, I had this.

Chiptune

24 EDO chord progression idea, worth developing?

Microtonal Idea 1

And I'll roam for ever more the Dark Island... 

The tune was written by Ian MacLaughlan for the BBC film "The Dark Island." This is a treatment using quarter tone (24-EDO) harmony, written in MuseScore 2 and rendered using the amazing WST25FStein_00Sep22 soundfont sampled from a Steinway grand piano for which I cannot find an original source unfortunately.

You can download the score from https://musescore.com/user/6868111/scores/1620736#

The Dark Island

With the assistance on some tracks of the very excellent dblue Glitch VST-effect. This one's not quite as involved as some of my others, with only three instruments and just a few beats.

CRUUUNCH

Found this in my archives while browsing my computer while sick. I seem to have lost the project file for it when I switched OS's so it's not going to get any better (or worse) than it is right now.

Basically I was writing this to be a four-hands two-pianos piece, with one piano tuned a quarter tone sharp. At first I envisioned a dual-manual piano with two sets of strings, but then I realized that was preposterous and just started writing it as a duet. Anyway, the end result is a piano piece composed in 24-EDO rather than 12-EDO. It's rather eerie and in some places enjoyable, and I hope it tickles your eardrums and inspires you to break out of the norm.

Unaccompanied Sonata for a Fake Piano

Just something I threw together last night. Felt video-game-y.

Action

Cantabile was partially inspired by the soundtrack of Fallout 1 & 2. Sitar sound by the Syntar VSTi.

Cantabile

Velvet Swing

Bite from the track I plan on submitting to the Homestuck music contest. Hard Boiled could use a little work though I think, it's not particularly hard boiled. Getting an alto sax patch to both sound convincing and lo-fi is hard work! Settled on a french horn sound for the preview instead, also less solo-y and more drift-y. That will change eventually.

Hard Boiled / March of the Brobots (PREVIEW)

Piano solo, started writing 3 days ago, finally got the inspiration to finish today. It was cloudy in the morning and has been raining all day. I think the sun might be dead?

Requiem For the Sun

An idea (intro, verse - bridge - chorus) for Human Battery Blues.

Human Battery Blues

Fanfare for the Future

Stayed up until 6 AM last night writing this (started around midnight). Finished up the mastering when I woke up a few hours later. I was going for a "Lightning" (Philip Glass)-type sound here, and I think it worked out pretty well. Certain places remind me of the score to "Up". Most of the instruments are soundfonts or individual samples, with the exception of one string section from ZynAddSubFX. Sorry about the huge .wav download, forgot to convert over to FLAC before I uploaded.

Street Circus

A piratey thing. I'm getting better at mastering orchestral music I think. Used X-cita harmonic exciter plugin on some percussion, also some of the instruments are ZynAddSubFX. I would have liked mda ModernExciter better but it doesn't like LMMS for some reason.

I have a suspicion that the kick is maxing out the left channel but I can't isolate it.

High Seas

I hope you like nightmare fuel! This track includes samples from One Laptop Per Child sound pack (the computer voice "wait" and "harder") as well as clips of dialogue from the Firefly pilot episode "Serenity". Most of the instruments are synthesized from LMMS's TripleOscillator plugin, even the snare and high-hat sounds. The kick is Kicker, and I used Organic as well; the sitar sound is Syntar (http://www.vst4free.com/free_vst.php?id=295).

Just in time for Halloween!

Nightmare Fuel

La Nota

A rough edit of the vocals for Wired, plus a little leveling done. Todo: bass compression.

Wired

I've decided to do a Thing a Week a la Jonathan Coulton this year. Here's Week 1 - Noise which I cobbled together in sort of a hurry because my laptop is damaged. I'm setting up a blog for future posts, which will be music- and sound-related - I'm planning a soundscape for next week, an audio track to go along with a sketch (imaginary). Used Audacity for some mastering on this one because I found a Nyquist plugin limiter/exciter which I think sounds pretty good.

Week 1 - Noise

Week 2 - I tried to put restraints on myself as to playback. For this experiment, I wanted something that would sound pretty good sampled at 11025 Hz or less with a 16-bit depth. I came up with a little organ tune with four voices and a bass reinforcement - which would have to be filtered off if it were played over a tiny speaker such as on a DS.

Week 2 - Bit Organ

If you're the sort of person who's into this sort of thing, then I think you'll find this the sort of thing which you will enjoy. I suppose it sounds a little like Teardrop. After I had hit upload I realized I could have done some more interesting panning effects. Maybe the hihat panning back and forth? Also the drums are a little hot for my taste, but it sounded better with them up.

Week 3 - A Sort of Thing

Some compositions that are more or less polished to the point of being shared. Unless otherwise noted, 'recordings' are all electronic instruments.


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