• Music by Bryan Schumann - http://www.bryanschumann.com
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Please reach out to me on my website if you would like to license any of my tracks, or if you want a copy of the sheet music score for perusal or performance, or if would like to hire me to create original music for your video game, film, or any other project (personal theme song perhaps??). I'd love to hear from you!

Copyright (c) 2015 Boreal Bard Music. (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved.

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About the Music:

I wrote this track for the video game "VRidDL" which was created as part of the Glitch 48 hour Global Game Jam 2015. 

For the in-game experience, this cue was broken down into 7 layers and multiple hit cues that fade in and out and hit depending on where you are and what you are doing in the hotel.

Play at:
http://globalgamejam.org/2015/games/vriddl

VRidDL

VRidDL: The Haunted Hotel | A Bone-Chilling Horror Soundtrack

• Music by Bryan Schumann - http://www.bryanschumann.com
• Blog/Vlog - http://www.thosewhomakesound.com
• Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/bryanschumannmusic
• Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/bryanschumannmusic

Please reach out to me on my website if you would like to license any of my tracks, or if you want a copy of the sheet music score for perusal or performance, or if would like to hire me to create original music for your video game, film, or any other project (personal theme song perhaps??). I'd love to hear from you!

Copyright (c) 2015 Boreal Bard Music. (ASCAP). All Rights Reserved.

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About the Music:

Gamepak Girl is a throwback Gameboy style game for PC where the player can switch between 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit mode (Original Game Boy GB Color, GB Advance) at any point in time and the graphics and music follow suit.

Gamepak Girl

Gamepak Girl: The 16-Bit Cue

Gamepak Girl: The 16-Bit Cue | Chippy Game Boy Color Style Video Game Music

I created this piece of music using only the popcorn bowl in the photo as a found instrument. I used the audio as a demo on found instruments for a presentation I gave on Video Game Music at the Gamer's Rhapsody Conference. There is plenty of processing once the sound was captured, but everything you hear is that popcorn bowl. Enjoy :)

The Popcorn Bowl

The Popcorn Bowl | Found Instrument Sound Design

You're a sumo, trapped in a giant hamster ball! Knock the ball out of the stage to score points. Make sure to be the last one to get a hit though, as someone else can steal your points!

I wrote this music as the main theme during game play of Super Sumo Ball. This game was created within 48 hours as part of the 2017 Global Game Jam. The game can be downloaded for free here: 

http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/super-sumo-ball

Enjoy!

Super Sumo Ball

Tesla and Edison square off to see who's version of the Tesla coil is stronger. Head to Head Puzzle action! 

I wrote this music as the main theme during game play of Circuit Breakers. This game was created within 48 hours as part of the 2017 Global Game Jam. The game can be downloaded for free here: 

http://globalgamejam.org/2017/games/circuit-breakers

Enjoy!

Circuit Breakers

Circuit Breaker

So, I got some new virtual instrument softwares on Black Friday (I didn't leave the house PS) and got a chance to use them for the Ludum Dare 40 Game Jam!

Pixel Forest (named after the fact) was my first attempt at music for our game. Turned out a little too happy and "foresty" for our game (very grateful to have a team who is honest and will speak up when their BS meter goes in the red), but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy this silly little chippy tune :)

Full story at thosewhomakesound.com

Pixel Forest

Continued from "Pixel Forest"

...New instructions from the team: Make it more industrial and not so happy.
Me: Otay!!

I should mention that I recently started re-watching the Dollhouse TV series (sooooo gooood), and I think the melody (or at least that minor #7) is part of me now.

This is what came out for my 2nd attempt. Again my team's BS meter started pushing the red. WAY TOO INTENSE! And also too mysterious... When it's not right for the game, it's not right for the game.

So, here is an homage track to the incidental music in Dollhouse (That music was written by Mychael Danna and Rob Simonsen. Hats off to you both. This music is my original composition. Copyright me 2017).

Full story at thosewhomakesound.com

Dollhouse

Continued from "Pixel Forest" & "Dollhouse" ...

Okay, so new instructions. Can you make it less intense, but still urgent, but also kinda chill, but not too chill because your character is a dude at work rounding up monsters with a leaf blower and you might get your head bitten off at any point...?

We have a winner! 

I present, Critters Inc.

Play the game and get the full story at thosewhomakesound.com

Critters Inc

It was another amazing year at Global Game Jam! GLITCH always does a great job hosting our local jam site, Gamecraft, here in Minneapolis, MN.

This year I got to work with some people I already knew as well as some people I met. Either way, it is always an amazing experience to be surrounded by so many talented and tenacious people and to make a video game start to finish within a 48 hour window.

As per usual, I worked on more than one project doing original music composition and sound design. 

Crosswired is a Virtual Reality cable management game with funny dialogue. It's up to you as the operator for an intergalactic communications switchboard to connect the correct calls. Don't break a connection or you will be jettisoned into outer space!

For this track, I was going for "crappy corporate musak." The goal being, write the least memorable, most aimless melody line ever that represents the banality and loneliness of being the only life form for light years in any direction while simultaneously being in an extremely dull environment...I also scooped out all the low end to make it sound like it was coming from a crappy hole-in-the-wall speaker.

You can download and play the full game HERE (assuming you have an HTC VIVE VR setup).

https://globalgamejam.org/2018/games/crosswired

Crosswired

Crosswired: Crappy Corporate Musak

Crosswired: Banal Corporate Musak

Misfits of Video Game Music. Sometimes, you get a temp track or somebody says they are looking for a certain sound, or you have an idea of something that might work, and it turns out...it doesn't work. The first instruction I got for this tune was to make music kinda like that in Overcooked. So I did. Turns out this is just way to goofy for the vibe of interstellar mind control (regardless of if the ultimate goal of the game is interstellar sandwich delivery...). Here is Polka Party.

Full Story Here: https://bryanschumann.com/thosewhomakesound/global-game-jam-2018-crosswired-vr-misfits-of-vgm-interstellar-sand-witch-delivery-in-spacing-out/

Polka Party

Polka Party: Misfit Video Game Music

Welcome to the Stellar Delivery Service! You have been assigned to the SDS Sand-Witch as its acting Captain. With your rank comes access to the Employee Positive Influencer, which you will use to ensure the crew stays on task and content. The crew of the Sand-Witch are known for being difficult to manage, but we have faith in your abilities and in the EPI. Your mission is to carry a very important cargo from Earth to one of our interstellar colonies, Sigma Alpha Nu Delta Which. Deliver it on time, and don’t explode. Godspeed Captain! Spacing Out is a single person game about mind control and space travel. You control four crew members on a spaceship as they hurtle towards a far away planet. You can only control one of your lazy crew at a time, so plan ahead and don't get stuck.

Download and play the game here: https://bryanschumann.com/thosewhomakesound/global-game-jam-2018-crosswired-vr-misfits-of-vgm-interstellar-sand-witch-delivery-in-spacing-out/

Spacing Out

Over the weekend I had the pleasure of seeing/hearing an orchestra perform a film score I wrote for a short film live during the screening. This event is called Film Score Fest and was hosted y MNKINO at the Science Museum of MN Auditorium. What an experience! Film makers are given a month to create a film and deliver it to the composer. And then the composer is given a month to compose an original score and hand off the sheet music. I created the score for a film called The Tragedy of the International Brigades by Christian Finch. 

Although I didn't get a video recording of the performance I figured I could share the audio realization here for your perusal. 

Check out the sheet music and film here:

https://bryanschumann.com/thosewhomakesound/the-tragedy-of-the-international-brigades-mnkino-film-score-fest-2018

© 2018 Bryan Schumann (ASCAP). All rights reserved.

The Tragedy Of The International Brigades [Realization]

A chippy-classical hybrid track for the video game Multilateral Melt created for the 2019 Global Game Jam.

https://globalgamejam.org/2019/games/multilateral-melt

Multilateral Melt

Multilateral Melt: In The Cube

Bryan Schumann is an award winning composer and singer/songwriter based in St. Paul, MN. An eclectic composer, Bryan embraces an immense spectrum of genres and styles while writing songs and creating music and sound design for video games, film, meditation, and the concert hall.

Bryan's music (sheet music & audio) is available for purchase at www.bryanschumann.com

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