Electronic-ish Music

Music for table-top RPG's and/or video games. All tracks have loop-able versions which I can provide upon request. 

Dungeons and Dragons/ Sample Library Demos

Music that I have written for live performance, all of which have been either performed or recorded.

Concert Music

A dark and driving fanfare for brass and percussion. Written for Jeffrey de Seriere and TBC: The Brass Choir.

The Black Carillon

According to my friend Adam, this guy's a real piece of shit.

Ho Chi Minh Likes White Women

Cowboy Hillbop

Attached a contact mic to four different license plates, sampled them, and this is the end result.

Plates

Track for a mystical forest hidden from creatures of impurity.

The Untouched Woods

A dark, forbidden forest or the depths of a chilling cave.

It's dark in here...

Remix I did for a class in Fall of 2013. This one goes out to all the weird opponents.

The Starman Prophecies

Desolation

Project I did for fun. Everything is electronic/samples except for the flugel, which was recorded by myself.

Elecity

This piece was composed using a single trumpet sample and copious amounts of processing in Cubase. This has nothing to do with Batman (use of a subwoofer will yield best results, however).

Scary Batman

First try at an 8-bit video game-sounding project using FL Studio 10 (eh, it's all I had)

8-bit Theme

A short piece for orchestra that I wrote in a week to be read by the Sinfonia during my summer at Brevard Music Center. The piece depicts the terrifying fel reaver, a demonic machine created by Burning Legion engineers for the purpose of mass destruction. Special thanks to Will Stackpole for mastering the recording!

Reaver's Call

Commissioned by Prof. Ray Sasaki for the UT trumpet studio. Recorded by: Luke Scallan, Joe Jennis, John Vitale, Lance Witty, Greg Horner, Miguel Perez, Casey Martin 

The Autonomy Of Machines

An overture for wind ensemble that depicts the upbeat and laid-back city of Los Angeles. Performed on 2/4/16 at the Pale Blue Wind Ensemble concert.

LA Overture

A work for brass ensemble and percussion inspired by the character Thrall from Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft series. The piece depicts the solemn heroism of the Horde's former leader. Written for and performed by Jeffery de Seriere and True Brass Choir for their performance at the 2016 California All-State Music Education Conference.

The Earth-Warder

Performed 5/3/16 at my master's composition recital. 

Notes:
The Earth-Warder is based off of a character from Warcraft lore named Thrall. Serving as one of the most prominent figures in game developer Blizzard Entertainment’s Warcraft franchise, Thrall has been given an in-depth backstory that continues to unfold with the release of new games. Thrall is an orc: a monstrous, green, humanoid race that serves as the sworn enemy of humans in the Warcraft universe. While most orcs crave bloodshed and conflict, Thrall’s upbringing has molded him into a wise, albeit stern at times, diplomat and leader. Thrall became a very powerful shaman and was bestowed the title of Earth-Warder, which tasked him with using the four elements to defend the world from destruction during dire times. To me, Thrall is sort of a tragic hero, having most of his loved ones killed while growing up and being tasked with keeping peace between two rival factions (even when he led one of them). Brass and percussion seemed like a perfect medium to capture Thrall's solemn heroism. The prominence of drums in the percussion section represent Thrall's race, the orcs, use of war drums. The brass can (naturally) represent the war horns of the orcs, but also provide rich chorale textures. There are moments of quiet introspection juxtaposed with raw power, characteristics I see fit to represent Thrall, the Earth-Warder. 	
The Earth-Warder was written for my good friend and colleague Jeffrey de Seriere, director of Southern California-based True Brass Choir. It was premiered at the 2016 California All-State Music Education Conference.

The Earth - Warder (@ UT Austin)

The second movement is more inspired by my mind’s interpretation of what a silent field of snow might feel like rather than an actual experience. Having grown up in Southern California, I experienced snowy environments on TV, in movies, in video games and only a limited number of times in person (most of which involved skiing, which I am not good at nor did the experiences prove to be introspective).  The music of John Luther Adams has influenced how I musically perceive a bleak, snow-laden landscape. His patience in sustaining dense chords and drawing out harmonic motion creates a sense of frigid stillness that I attempt to translate into my own compositional style in this movement.

ii. snowfield

Trumpet - Casey Martin, Miguel Perez
Horn - Zach Morgan
Trombone - Anna Wessels
Tuba - Bryan Patterson

Nomad

Commissioned and premiered by the Somos Quartet - Evan Williams, Steven Vogel, Manny Arredondo - tenor trombone, Sterling Tanner - bass trombone.

Song Of The Shieldmaiden (for trombone quartet)

Commissioned by Ray Sasaki for the UT Trumpet Studio. Performers- Joe Jennis, John Vitale, Tamara Vaughn, Melissa Muñoz, Matt Harper, Forrest Spengler, Miguel Perez. Recorded live at Joe Jennis' DMA 1 recital 2/26/17.

The Prayers And Rituals Of Demons (for trumpet septet) Live 2/26/17

A fanfare for trombone choir and percussion that depicts the terrifyingly powerful Titans from the popular Warcraft game series. Performed by the Texas A&M University-Kingsville Trombone Choir.

Spring 2017 Cocnert

The Makers (performed by Texas A&M University-Kingsville Trombone Choir)

World premier of "Ashen Skies of a Timeworn World." Performed by the University of Texas at Austin Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jerry Junkin.

Notes:
I've always had this strange fascination with the mortality of the universe. While the fate of the Earth will likely be absorption by the expanding red giant that our sun will become in 5 billion years, the end of life is a bit more ambiguous. Assuming humanity, or whatever we might have evolved into, doesn't make it to the dying of the sun, we might succumb to celestial events (asteroids, Near-Earth supernovas, etc.), the increasing luminosity of the sun causing the extinction of plant life, or climate-related events (human-caused or otherwise) to name a few. Fun stuff to think about, right? Lately, however, it seems increasingly likely that humanity will be its own undoing. Technology continues to evolve and allow for increasingly powerful means of mass destruction, while many nations still seem to be at strife internally or with one another.   Ashen Skies of a Timeworn World depicts a dystopian future that has already been ravaged by human conflict. The first part of the piece, titled "Desolation," opens with a solo trumpet introducing the haunting "ashen skies" theme. The music that follows paints a solemn and sorrowful Earth on its last legs. All hell breaks loose during the second half of the piece, aptly titled "War Machines." Brass and percussion herald the end time, melting faces with intense and drivingly rhythmic music. A glimmer of humanity's perseverance for survival shines through towards the end, but inevitably the world crumbles with destruction.

Ashen Skies Of A Timeworn World (UT Wind Ensemble world premier)

Strange Dreams And Lullabies - Mvt 1: Lullaby of Drifting

Strange Dreams And Lullabies - Mvt 2: Weird Repeating Shapes

Strange Dreams And Lullabies - Mvt 3: Couple's Lullaby

Strange Dreams And Lullabies - Mvt 4: Curious Mechanisms

Strange Dreams And Lullabies - Mvt 5 & 6: Lullaby of the Clouded Mind and Childhood Home

String Quartet No. 2 - I. Osmium Construct

Battle music written for Daniel Weinell's Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

Open the Gates of Battle

The theme for Thorenial Axemandwarf, a stout dwarf fighter with little to no grip on reality. Thorenial has the best intentions for the well being of his companions and the world around him, but his actions speak otherwise. He can be found busting through doors, inadvertently demolishing entire taverns, and crippling communities all in his own idea of glory and heroism. With his enormous execution axe swinging wildly about the battlefield, Thorenial is an unstoppable force of psychotic fury unlike anything previously imagined in this plane.

Thorenial Axemandwarf's Theme

William DiNoir's Theme

Nestled between two mountains and with a lake at it's exposed edge, Zagora is a city of lost wonders. Zagora was built on the ruins of an ancient civilization, with some of the original architecture still remaining. The most apparent oddity of this city are the lingering spirits wandering the streets and acting almost as normal citizens (among other strange folk, such as rat and yak people).

Zagora, the Astral Garden

Fanfare for the End of the World (Live 11-1-12)

Village, town, city, etc. music for a fantasy/adventure setting. 

Village

The first variation of a track for Peter Lange's D&D campaign. The Iron Core is finally on the threshold of the enemy territory: the Shattered Lands. The landscape itself is more lush compared to the harsher and colder surrounding regions. This is a calm before the storm; an odd sense of peace while marching into the palms of the enemy.

Into the Shattered Lands (Var. 1)

The second variation of a track for Peter Lange's D&D campaign. The Iron Core is finally on the threshold of the enemy territory: the Shattered Lands. The lush, mountainous  landscape carries ill omen, a solemn reminder of what lies waiting at the Shattered Keep...

Into the Shattered Lands (Var. 2)

Battle music intended for table-top RPG's/video games. I also have a loop-friendly version available (contact me if you would like it!).

Battle Music #1

Battle Music #2

Trumpet player and composer based in Austin, Texas.

Casey Martin

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