artwork: @sparklecats2009 & @ezip
music: @damifortune
piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4): @rewitkin
guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8): @october_stereo
flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11): @ZBWMusic
saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13): @dorkus-64
violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14): @retropetet
drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15): @cryptovolans

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

tickets here ☄️⛈️🌊

[III-130] Hunter Van Brocklin - Elemental Fusion

https://twitter.com/serotonin_bath/status/1430550201673076741

sorry my voice sucks.

your words
tither, curl and coo
and exit your lips
like hastily passed notes
slipped across a sleek,
marble table.
rest in my arms.
sleep in my bed.
there's a design
to what I did
and said.

you're human, i love you

Otters started making room

Music video
https://youtu.be/ShGUeA1XmnQ

Making Room

Afterwards

pure MSGS MIDI written for @tobokegao's compilation album "PURE MIDI Volume 2"! check out all 26 tracks here: https://tbkgao.bandcamp.com/album/pure-midi-volume-2

mastered by @tobokegao, artwork by ArtEgg twitter.com/OvumArt

aethersong2.mid

here flies worm. 

a bit of a dark sequel to that one song, "the late worm gets the earth". very rushed cause i gotta do some other stuff but i was thinking about this being the sequel for a good while, though i didn't know how exactly i wanted to execute it. this ohb i did though had me like "whoah this is it!" and two days later here we are. the inspirations this time was marcos valle's "mais do que valsa", AM4N's "SNES_JAZZ.spc" and kapustin's prelude no 15 from those 24 preludes. u should check those out. 

earthbound pad, sinewave, and marimba, chrono trigger bass, donkey kong piano, harmonica from a zelda game..."ocarina of time" maybe...

morning

Elemental Fusion

14 - it rained after the fire (feat. petet)

09 - plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - I. transform fault

05 - the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - I. pastoral

04 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - IV. fruitage of wine

03 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - III. a white circlet of snow

02 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - II. harvesthome dance

01 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - I. a fresh dewy coronet

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if you have an interest in releasing on iiiypad or being on staffcirc compilations, send demos to sexytoadsandfrogsfriendcircle@gmail.com

01 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - I. a fresh dewy coronet

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