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

Magdalen Wand

birch.it

zora mystica - miko's fountain (alternative Instruments)

Love The Sun

This is a cover of https://soundcloud.com/deelatch/autocomplete by the utterly talented https://soundcloud.com/deelatch which I wrote in the context of the 4th #maj7 Cover Ring event. I have to admit I haven't written a lot in recent times, but I had a lot of fun putting this absolute banger into a different shape and experimented with it a little as a result. Initially, I wanted to try going for vocals but I realized that's nothing I'm really up to just yet so I layered some simple and more complex synths to take care of the lead instead. When I had a rough idea of what I wanted to put in, what ideas I wanted to further explore, and where things were supposed to go within the frame that the original track gave me, I had great joy working on it :D

Huge thanks to @jneen-collective for hosting this wonderful event in never seen before proportions this time, while also doing all the mastering, track order, and visuals along with blackle and tesselode! A huge thank you to the truly wonderful #maj7 community for creating so many wonderful covers!! Don't miss out on any of them, you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNj_RvTx7dM&list=PL8y0Hhn-9iYerzAWfxhEXIxM2DM0MrzuS&index=2 (It's a playlist, because it was too long to be aired on one day with a total of 75!!! covers)

The album can also be downloaded here: https://maj7jam.bandcamp.com/album/cover-ring-iv

Enjoy ～♪

Deelatch (arr. Septragramma) - Auto/Completion--

Elemental Fusion

15 - blue whirl (feat. Cryptovolans)

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

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

Let's ＧＡ☆ＴＩＮ☆ＫＯ！！！

Furnace Tracker,  AY-3-8910/Konami SCC/OKI MSM6295/SPCM-5ch.

YT: https://youtu.be/I2fl-BhDwBY

.vgm →  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Jpnvf6NRSs-uF85TogWvaLGjQPggarJ_/view?usp=sharing
.fur →  https://drive.google.com/file/d/15d-cL0Rg8ERZm0m5HMd6Qz-Q8XWtcGq0/view?usp=sharing

T-Square - HEXAGONAL CONTROL (PSG+SCC+PCM)

made with Dn-FamiTracker 4.0.1

.nsf - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HPSwz_fAKSFCItNGI8QTURUYL4Gmy7Zp/view?usp=drive_link

.dnm - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iNbKf6WhT07dIpj1d-lq0E4bqcRx0LcH/view?usp=drive_link

Anorthosite Field [7-N163]

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15 - blue whirl (feat. Cryptovolans)

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