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

F3. ZBWMusic - Whisper Wind

tantum ergo sacramentum
veneremur cernui,
et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui.
præstet fides supplementum
sensuum defectui.

genitori genitoque
laus et jubilatio,
salus, honor, virtus quoque
sit et benedictio!
procedenti ab utroque
compar sit laudatio!

---

before a sacrament so great,
bowing our heads, we venerate.
and let practice from older days,
yield the rite of newer ways.
and let thy faith provide to thee
that which with sense you cannot see...

to Father and beloved Son,
we give our praise and joy as one.
and honour also, and virtue!
and blessings for the love of you...
from both comes forth the Holy Spirit;
he equally shares in your merit.

tantum ergo (arr. keffie)

will he ever figure it out?

regular degular snossa made with c700, earthbound acc bass, donkey kong piano, eb marimba, chrono trigger strings.

saily boat is stuck

the christmas treel is a really big wooden snake, though most call it a treel anyways. you can ride on the treel. it shows up during the wintertime. it can fly. it’s cool. it’s really big. i’m glad i finished this song.

thanks for listening!

this is a finished version of a song i submited for battleofthebits advent battle

the ride on the slithering christmas treel

Elemental Fusion

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

using earthbound flute and sim city, marimba, piano, and synth bass while referencing nikolai kapustin’s prelude 23 (op 53) and mvmt 1 of trio for flute, cello, and piano (op 86)

quintet for piano, snow clam, sapling knight, treel, and bass

Back Into The Groove

set of songs I wrote for Sample Pack Contest XIX!
this time, the samples in the pack were categorized into four bins, "up", "down", "strange", and "charm". I decided to write an album where each song only used samples from one category, and this was the result.

Only Up: Porter's March

Take me... Someplace... Far away...

Ableton Live 12

YT: https://youtu.be/bL51YCjqAYk

CLOVER

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

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