A tiny compilation of my solo emtries for AC 2021, including a bonus track from AC2020 :')

beautiful cover art by Webriprob! https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Tiny+Ornaments/50012/

Kirbo's Karting Holiday (.spc)

Tipping Point (Wildchip, WINTER CHIP X - TENTH ANNIVERSARY NOW OPEN FOR ENTRY)

Tutorial

Rainforest Collapse III

(the first half of) my entry for the GLITCH.98 battle on Battle of the Bits, a chiptune for the PC-9801's sound chip and my first real foray into FM synthesis! as of uploading this, there's still a few days left to submit to the battle: https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Battle/7421/InfoRules

this upload is the tracker-output version rather than the exported .s98 file (which had several inaccuracies and forced some changes in patches). it has been lightly mastered too

artwork (and battle idea) by Ravancloak

Mitosis II

[Surrounded by birds, I traverse this garden, wondering if I’ll ever reach it’s edge]

Composed for Spring Trax XII

Botanical Garden

shakeout

album art: https://twitter.com/TomasPraestholm
music: @damifortune
track 3 live drums written, performed & recorded by @jaxcheese
track 16 co-written with @doctorn0gloff

Distant Islands: 51 minutes of experimental SNES chiptune, treating the soundchip like the quirky 8-channel sampler that it is; featuring microtonality, glitches galore, heavy manipulation of the chip's available effects and parameters, and unusual, often homegrown sounds. All tracks were recorded straight from a single Super Famicom system, with the exception of live drums layered onto "Welcome Back to Dragon Airlines".

Someone once told me that when I write I "leave keys for distant islands" and the phrase has stuck with me ever since. This is my first full-length, non-compilation album in three years, and I focused on making something that resonated with me personally and employed the kinds of sounds I wanted to hear. I also went all-out in exploring just how strange, incredible, and absurdly messed-up the SNES could conceivably sound. I'd like to think this covers some new, fresh territory in Super Nintendo chiptune, and I hope you enjoy it!

All songs were composed and written to blank SNES ROMs using osoumen's C700 VST (or forks of the VST that add microtonal functionality and extra MIDI tooling), then recorded from my Super Famicom. The rendered audio is lightly mastered for consistency.

Mitosis II

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