Potatoes. Arrange. Yes.

Um, yeah. I made this song because Undertale is pretty cool, I guess. I wrote Toby Fox and he graciously allowed me to post it here. I wanted to take the basic ideas of Megalovania and bring them in a very different direction. Less upbeat boss-battle craziness, more insane introspection. I'm hoping I did a half-decent job at that, but I'll leave it to you to decide.

Arranged by me, posted with permission from Toby Fox.

Undertale - Tragedy of a Comic (Megalovania)

A short, peculiar take on a familiar tune. That's all I'll say on the matter, really.

Bridge Under Troubled Water

Elegy of the Inevitable

Elegy Of The Inevitable

A synthpop piece in the style of Owl City's older material, with some of my own stylistic preferences sprinkled in.

2019 Demos

CJ, Phone Home

An epic orchestral theme for a children's play I worked on recently.

Welcome to San Phonecisco

An upbeat electronic piece written because, well, why not? Yeah, the original description was wrong. Sorry about that.

A Brand New World

An upbeat orchestral piece with a whole lot of trumpet. It's pretty great.

Happy Happy Birthday

I wrote this piece to accompany a video I directed, which is available at https://youtu.be/fcR5mC2KkxE.

This video depicts the process of composing and developing my music, but it also shows my own wrestling with God and intentional engagement with Him. I studied film scoring in college, which was a decision made through faith and prayer. Even so, I can be insecure and extremely self-critical both when writing music and in life as a whole. The firm and fearless warrior depicted in Ephesians 6? Yeah, that's not always how I see myself. However, I serve a God who came to save even the worst among us. He sees the best in me when I have trouble doing it myself. It's through His gifting that I'm able to write music at all, and it's through His strength that I'm able to soldier on in this turbulent world. Therefore, I wrote music that represents not my strength, but His strength manifesting itself in me.

I grew up surrounded by fantastic examples of resolute faith and to this day, I have a small army of people consistently praying for me by name. I'm exceedingly grateful for all of those people. However, while I've been strongly impacted by them, I'm my own person. They developed that faith over time through personal, diligent study of God's Word. As powerful as that faith is, it can't save me unless I take it and make it my own. Therefore, I wanted to depict my own "putting on the armor of God" by emphasizing both my personal reading of Scripture and prayer. I also wanted to juxtapose these with my struggles to write music, because that physical and mental struggle mirrors the spiritual struggles inherent in living in a fallen world.

Indomitable

As you might be able to guess from the sound of it, this piece was inspired by a combination of electronic dance music and film scores. In that way, it's sort of an updated take on a few of the ideas I threw together in my older piece, "Trial by Firefight," though I've certainly come a long way since then.

Fractured

Daniel Caton is a film composer from North Carolina whose hobbies include writing music, surviving college, and playing far too many video games. His composing career began in high school when he observed countless other working composers and queried, “Writing music can’t be that hard, can it?” This was, of course, a terribly silly thing to say and he mocks himself for it on a regular basis. He has worked on a wide variety of unique projects, including films, documentaries, and even a children’s play.

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