The official playlist for OST Composing Jam: PASTIME II, where musicians and composers around the globe are challenged to compose track(s) based on existing music from their favorite video games, film, or anime in just a little over than a week. The (optional) theme for the jam is "Dreamscape"!

This playlist only contains submissions that are posted on SoundCloud and does not contain the entirety of the jam's submissions. For the full list, please see the jam page: https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-pastime-ii

If you do not see your submission here and have already posted it onto SoundCloud please do not hesitate to contact me through email or Discord.

OST Composing Jam: PASTIME II — Dreamscape

Frank Geppert

An incomplete collection of music I've done over the past few years for TV, podcasts, indie films, game jams, writing groups, or my own bizarre impulses.

Music I've Done For Various Projects

Here's a draft of a tune that will probably become a Progger tune at some point. This one's just me on all the instruments. Electro-jazz-ambient-DnB goodness!

Raijin (mix 2)

Something a bit different from my usual metal covers! This is my submission for OST Composing Jam: PASTIME II (https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-pastime-ii). The theme was 'dreamscape', which was the perfect excuse for me to finally tackle some FFX music :) 

The songs included in this medley are To Zanarkand, Suteki Da Ne, and A Fleeting Dream, all originally composed by Nobuo Uematsu.

Gear used:

- Ableton Live (DAW, effects, samples)
- Addictive Keys (piano)
- Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion)
- Spitfire Labs (dulcimer)
- Native Instruments Yangqin (dulcimer)

Dreams Of Zanarkand | FFX Medley

Two 1990s SquareSoft games that made an enormous impact on my young imagination were Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy VI (or, as we called it in my day in 'Murica, Final Fantasy III). I always thought the two games' protagonists, Terra and Crono, would make a solid team. I would read the hell out of that fan fiction mashup, particularly if Neil Gaiman went ahead and did it. So Neil, if you're reading this, let's get to it, mkay?

My other main musical influences are certainly at play here, too – the likes of John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, etc. Not coincidentally, those American jazz artists were huge in Japan in the 1980s and '90s, and almost certainly influenced my favorite game composers. It all comes full circle.

Narshe artwork by Orioto, Terra artwork by Mujumonster, Crono artwork by Akira Toriyama.

Crono and Terra Get Beers in Narshe

An epic cover of my favorite music from The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

Listen on Spotify: 
https://open.spotify.com/track/5K6egWhWuDT2ZOhRhr6GHw?si=917df48e6c084635

And on YouTube: https://youtu.be/JhFmqzVIC-E

Made for the OST Composing Jam: PASTIME II
https://itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-pastime-ii

Visit the itch page
https://elitestratman.itch.io/molgeras-theme-epic-cover

Art by Tyler Joyce
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/J9lrxZ

Molgera Battle Theme (Epic Cover)

My cover of The Wind Forest from My Neighbor Totoro. This song has always moved me. I am so happy I was finally able to cover this beautiful piece. I wanted to make it as equally familiar as I did new, so my take ended up being this kind of hybrid Orchestral Hip Hop. I hope you enjoy it!

The Wind Forest - (From My Neighbor Totoro)

This is a medley of some of my favorite iconic tracks from the game Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards. While maintaining the upbeat Kirby energy, I used numerous synthesizers from Garageband and LABS to add an ethereal soundscape to capture and highlight the dreamy quality of the beautifully crafted compositions by Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando.

The tracks represented in this medley include: File Select, King Dedede's Castle, Boss Battle, Korekara Star (Neo Star), Ruins, Zero-Two, and Ripple Star Map Select.

I hope you enjoy this medley and are filled with nostalgia for this Nintendo 64 gem.

Dreamland Dreamscape - A Kirby 64 Medley

A soft, dreamlike arrangement of "City of Ruins" and "Song of the Ancients" from the NieR franchise.

Nier:Dreamscape

Reflections, Synthesizer Music made with a free open source synthesizer.

Reflections

DAW: StudioOne 5

32 x Surge XT
33 x PRO Eq
 3 x Compressor
 1 x Limiter
 1 x Surge XT Effect

Surge Again OSC #159

My submission for KVRs OSC#160, using ADLplug by jpcima as only sound source.

DAW: Ardour 6.9 on ArchLinux

31 instances of ADLplug, some of them multi-layered per Carla-Patchbay.

Plugins used:

Internal:
-ACE Compressor
-ACE Filter

LSP:
-Parametric EQ
-Slapback 
-Sidechain Compressor

airwindows:
-BitGlitter
-Galactic
-Texturize
-Cojones
-Air2
-ToTape5
-ToTape6 (no flutter, saturation only)

Calf:
-Compressor
-Envelope Filter
-Bass Enhancer
-Exciter
-Vintage GxDelay

B.Music:
-B.Schaffl (this is gold on hihats)
-B.Shapr (transients only, no pitch shifting)

Guitarix:
-GxDelay-Stereo
-GxCabinet
-GxDelay

TAP:
-TAP Scaling Limiter
-TAP Tubewarmth

X42:
-MIDI Strum
-Parametric EQ

and...
-ZaMultiCompX2
-Dragonfly Hall Reverb
-Foldover Distortion by Steve Harris
-Wolf Shaper

Master Chain:
-LSP Parametric EQ
-ToTape5
-LSP Multiband Compressor
-ReFine
-LSP Stereo Limiter
-x42-Digital Peak Limiter

MyLoFy - A Daily Lesson

This is my entry for the KVR One Synth Challenge #163 May 2022.
All sounds are made with the "CardinalSynth" AU plugin by DISTRHO in Logic Pro X.

OSC Songs

Cardinal Sin (OSC#163 Sep 2022)

OSC entry for Oct 2022. All sounds made with 30+ instances Exacoustic's "Ghost" virtual synthesizer in Ableton Live.

Polygeist (OSC 164 Ghost)

This tune is the theme music to the extremely cool podcast by the extremely cool literary web-mag Longreads! I was honored to get to make this for them, they're brilliant people and they really are saving the world a little every day by spreading high-quality long-form narrative journalism around the globe.

Saving The World A Little (Remix) (theme to Longreads Podcast)

A tiny piece of theme music from the short film "Rihanna's Anatomy," created for the Austin 48 Hour Film Project in June of 2019! This project was a joy to work on and over way too soon.

Theme To Rihanna's Anatomy (edit)

This was for a damn fun project. I didn't realize how much I'd enjoy cranking out industrial metal tracks. Turns out... I really, really enjoy it.

Back To The Meat Grinder

Composer, keyboardist, saxophonist, arranger, producer. Leader of JazzFunkRock band called Progger. Worked with fancy people like Bruno Mars, the Black Pumas/Adrian Quesada, Snarky Puppy, and many more over the years.

Crono and Terra Get Beers in Narshe

Brian Donohoe (composer/producer/musician)