Hey Guys! Rich (Disasterpeace) here, I wanted to give you a glimpse into the very early process, concepting and sketching of the music for Hyper Light Drifter. This is the very first thing I've gotten the chance to write, and is by no means a finished piece of music. I envision what is here so far as the opening section of a much longer piece that plays during gameplay, which would evolve and grow right as this version of the track ends. It really is a brief glimpse, and the most preliminary, but maybe we'll look back in a few months and be surprised at how far we've come! Or maybe I hit the nail on the head, I guess we'll find out!

Hyper Light Drifter - Preliminary Sketch

Messing about, demoing a couple of plug-ins I've been thinking of getting.

Artwork by Mattias Adolfsson.
http://mattiasa.deviantart.com

J37 Aphex (Improvisation)

Inspired by Jacob 2-2's 'Rm W1'
Appears on King Deluxe Presents: Year Three
http://store.kingdeluxe.ca/album/year-three

Photograph by Ryan McGinley

Naked

from The Floor is Jelly OST.
http://disasterpeace.com/album/the-floor-is-jelly-ost

Mastered by Matthew Powell
Track Artwork by Nicolas Menard

This started as a simple 2 chord sketch on acoustic guitar, recorded back in 2012. I was thinking of using it for the first world of the game, and had called it "Autumn" along those lines. After revisiting it, I thought it might work better for the water world, in which I wanted a chill, laid back vibe. Also, Ian had already done music for the autumn level, and while I think he intended to have me replace all of his work, I was pretty fond of it and inspired by it, so I was more than happy to leave his work in. This production all came together only a few days before the game was released. I spent a good bit of time exploring other ideas for the ocean world, but many did not pan out. I tried mapping notes to the geography of levels, and some pretty weird and interesting phasing ideas, which felt too chaotic. Those tunes actually ended up in the last level of the game.

Swimming

'Chamber of the Goddess' is a mellow fusion that would not be far removed from a 70's B-side. Featuring music from 'A Link to the Past'.

From '25 Year Legend', available here: http://zelda25.ocremix.org/

Artwork by Paul Veer

Fretless Bass, Electric Guitar, Drums, Synthesizer, Mellotron, Recorder, Celesta, Harp


Chamber of the Goddess

Recorded with my phone. Written for a friend.

I can feel you wondering why
You've already a song for every star in the sky
But if you turn your gaze to the earth
You might find you've got a piece of my mind

You follow the road down to Tulsa
to learn what you might find
The weather's just fine up in Wisconsin
but that won't do
I have made up my mind
I won't be left behind
Oklahoma

Oklahoma

My guest contribution to 'Escape Goat 2', a new game by Ian Stocker, presented by Double Fine.

Mastered by Dave Shumway
Artwork by Randy O'Connor

Check out the game here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/255340/
Buy the soundtrack here: http://magicaltimebean.bandcamp.com/

Lair of Toragos

377 Second Meditation

This came out of a jam with my friend Neuman back in the fall of 2011. We briefly formed a band for the sole purpose of playing one show. We practiced for a few weeks, played the show, and then permanently disbanded. It was fun!

Get the full album here: http://disasterpeace.com/album/monsters-ate-my-birthday-cake-ost

Artwork by Dom2D.com
Mastered by Matthew Powell

Scent of Betrayal

Somewhere, our limbs lost in the distance.

Watch the film: https://vimeo.com/77703019

Somewhere

Math Fur Priory
Fourth Primary

I hope you like MIDI files.
http://disasterpeace.com/album/limeade-grin

Rarify, Oh Trump!

Totally forgot I made this. Haha.

2010/11

https://shootmanyrobots.bandcamp.com

Get The Hell Off My Land

Here's a lo-fi ditty with some lo-fi love on top about a woman I knew.

I'm falling for you
I don't know what I'm capable of

I'm troubled by you
I don't know what I am capable of but love

I don't know what's going on here but I like it
Oh if I had one guess, I wouldn't know what it was

Artwork by lacid

Capable

An arrangement of  Hyper Light Drifter material that was never used, given a full treatment after the fact.

Verdigris

Had tons of fun making this a few years back. I never played Duke Nukem, but I remember watching my Dad play it in the 90's !

Original tune by Robert Prince: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCh5yA-G4oU

Spook Spook'em

Music for the Fabulous Beasts Kickstarter!

http://playfabulousbeasts.com

Fabulous Beasts - Kickstarter Sketches

This is an early concept from the development of Mini Metro. I was trying to figure out what the music might be like in the game, and one idea I had was to write a very simple piece of music that transpired over the course of one in-game week, that also captured the ups and downs of a stereotypical week, commuting each morning weekday to and fro, partying on friday night, hungover on saturday, etc. Each hour is about 0.83 seconds long.

One Week

The Mud Water Project is a multidisciplinary theater project of 12 turf dancers and ballet dancers, as well as music and spoken word artists. Utilizing acting and improvisational dance, while exploring real human emotions and life experiences, the project seeks to give the turf dance community opportunities to share its stories, art, and truths in a concert-style setting and to audiences often beyond its reach. 

The project began in early spring of 2015. It's mission is: (1) to rejuvenate the dance and theatre arts community by pushing the envelope with respect to diversity and in creating sophisticated, cutting-edge work; (2) to celebrate, promote visibility, and support viability of the undervalued street performance art in the San Francisco and East Bay areas; and (3) to traverse the barriers of understanding embedded in class/cultural differences, by facilitating honest dialogue through thought-provoking artistic expression and storytelling.

Mud Water's rare success story began on Kickstarter and quickly took the press by storm. The result: three sold-out performances that received standing ovations. The project has been featured on NPR, KQED, and the EAST BAY EXPRESS.

In the hopes of continuing this story, we are currently working on gathering enough funding to produce a full (evening) length show before we can resume rehearsals. If you would like to help support this project, you can!

http://www.mudwatertheatre.com 

Music by Disasterpeace 
Poetry by My-Linh Le 

Spoken Word Artists: 
My-Linh Le 
Dana Fitchett 
Arthur V. ("DopeyFresh") Gardner Jr. 
Khristina Cayetano 
Iman Bright 

Photo by Jason Lam 
Cover Model : Khristina Cayetano 

Featuring Samples from: 
'Petrushka' by Igor Stravinsky 
'Bye-Ya' by Thelonious Monk

Mud Water

From the forthcoming release of 'Hyper Light Drifter'.

To buy the album: http://disaster.pizza/album/hyper-light-drifter
For more info about the game: http://heart-machine.com

Artwork by Fred Studart

The Gauntlet

Musical selections from the soundtrack of the Adventure Time episode 'Bad Jubies', guest directed by Kirsten Lepore.

See the episode here: http://disasterpeace.com/portfolio

Nature Collagin' - Kirsten Lepore
Beatboxing/Vocalizations - John DiMaggio (Jake the Dog)

In addition, I collected a lot of samples on my own and through friends to create the palette for this episode. Special thanks to the following lovely humans for their sonic contributions to this project: Kirsten Lepore, Dan de Lara, Matthew Powell, Martin Kvale, Liz Ryerson, Jay Tholen, Mark DeNardo, Mateo Lugo, Mathijs Wiermans, Anne la Berge, Dan Cantrell, Dino Lionetti because I sampled his circuit bent keyboard, and Joseph Bourgeouis.

Bad Jubies

This is a weird and fun track from the weird and fun soundtrack for the weird and fun game Gunhouse, from 2013. Finally coming out on Android/iOS this week!

full soundtrack is available on my site: http://disasterpeace.com/album/gunhouse-ost

Hale and Hearty

The soundtrack to a 2016 short film by Eran Hilleli: https://vimeo.com/190537820

Trumpet - Elizabeth Moroni
Pan Flute - Eran Hilleli

Pilgrim

from 'Disasters for Piano'
Arranged by David Peacock
Performed by Augustine Mayuga Gonzales
Produced by Disasterpeace & Matthew Powell

Disasters for Piano

Title

Title (It Follows, for Piano)

The soundtrack to an animated world about a squad of fearless geeks who stand for honor, friendship, and doing stuff. 

encyclopediapictura.com/video/diy/

DIY - Volume One

"Glitch" is made up entirely of quotes from 8 other cues from Fez. Can you hear and identify them all?

Clue: Two of them are not on the soundtrack, but one of them is a night version.

Feel free to use timed comments to mark them!

Available on the FEZ Soundtrack: http://disasterpeace.com/album/fez

Glitch

From "Reworks That Matter", a compilation of music reworked from the Blocks That Matter OST. Link: http://morusque.bandcamp.com/album/reworks-that-matter

A Ruby Kindles in the Vine (remix)

This track is the result of drum and keyboard improvisation, mostly rhythm type stuff. Mike (Dirk Rugged) had already written some music for the game and I wanted to try mimicking his style. This is what came out of that.

Available on the KRUNCH Soundtrack: http://legrudgerugged.bandcamp.com/album/krunch

Serpents

Available for Purchase on ChipWIN Expansion Pack Compilation: 
Link: chiptuneswin.com/album/chipwin-expansion-pack-m-m

Guitar by Grant Henry (aka Stemage)

Cycles (feat. Stemage)

Post-Spaghetti. circa 2009

From "West", also featuring "The Sheriff" by Derris-Kharlan: http://disasterpeace.com/album/west

The Outlaw

From FZ: Side F, the official FEZ remix album, dropping April 20th!

http://is.gd/FZsideF

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