First track from my personal fake-anime album, Journey to the Sun!
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Artwork by Sỹ Tất.

Releasing on July 29th, 2020

Song Of Sanction

"K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)"
aivi & surasshu
originally composed by Kazumi Totaka
from the game Animal Crossing

aivisura liner notes:

- We love Totaka!
- We worked on this remix in between projects for a year.
- When we lived in separate countries, we played Animal Crossing: New Leaf together all the time, and went to K.K. Slider concerts on Saturdays. We requested "K.K. Cruisin'" every time.
- We started this remix in an attempt to answer the question, "Why is K.K. Cruisin' so great?" After listening to it and studying it, we determined that, for us, the heart of the song was its groove. The same five chords repeat throughout the entire song (five extremely creative chords--Mr. Totaka is always a step ahead of us all), and it never changes in rhythm or energy level. We used that concept as the main inspiration for our arrangement, where instead of ramping up the energy for the chorus like we'd normally do, we pulled back and settled into a comfortable groove. Keeping "still" was a big exercise in confidence for both of us.
- We named our remix after the road trips we'd take together down I-5, between San Francisco and LA. Those trips felt like mini-vacations for us (though we still worked on the road and in our hotel room) and making this song has been a mini-vacation for us, too.

Youtube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VGT5NfBPus

Animal Crossing - K.K. Cruisin' (Interstate 5)

"An object in motion will stay in motion, unless acted upon."

Something about that law spoke to me when I thought what to name this piano solo, for some reason it just made perfect sense. 

Themes come back in new ways, and new themes are introduced and left behind, for reasons I'm not entirely sure why. The techniques involved aren't very sophisticated, but that's not the point of this. Simplicity is what I was striving for. There are moments when the left hand will cross over the right hand, and a moments when the right hand crosses over the left hand, adding some small flair to what would otherwise be a simple performance. I hope you enjoy the music; thank you for listening!

p.s Sheet music is available, if anyone is interested. Let me know!

image: screen shot from following video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNrdx52SoEs (I don't own the video, nor do I claim to, or any of its contents).

An Outside Force (piano Solo)

Peace Be to this Home (2016)
by Jonas Fisher

University of North Dakota Allegro Women's Choir
Conductor, Melanie Popejoy
Piano, Jonas Fisher

Peace Be to this Home

Blood Instinct - Tense aggressive

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This is my Homeland

Hey RiD&D

A track inspired by that unique feeling of joy that comes from a day spent playing out in the snow!

Snow Day

Commissioned by Jenny Gillies and Nevis Ensemble, for Jenny
Akroyd, as part of the Lochan Sketches project, 2020.
Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, 16/08/2020 in Classics Unwrapped.

winding through seaweed

A Path Is Found

A little left-field electronic tune in 24 tone equal temperament. Farewell, 2020.

Between Lines

An Outside Force (piano Solo)

Kris Kirk

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