Haiku 5.1

21DaysOfVMG - Day 3 - Alien Tears

I am much more comfortable with creating calming or melancholy music, so making battle themes is always a fun challenge for me!

I need to play around with percussion more and maybe fill out some space, but I think I'm pretty happy with this given I only spent a few hours and I'm not super experienced with this!

Decisive Battle 1 (21 Days of VGM, Summer 2019, Day 3)

Day 3 of my #21daysofVGM. Today's word was "Whisper", so I decided to completely change setting and go for something spooky. Cult lair? Church sewer level? You name it! I had fun experimenting with contrast between breathy vocals and "spooky soprano" vocalizes, as well as creating an unsettling atmosphere through dissonance.

Day 3: Whisper

Today I tried to do a track that sounds romantic and sad

Day 5 - Truth And Lie

#21DaysofVGM - Day 5

Today's prompt for #21daysofVGM is "Champion", so I tried to work on rhythm to make something exciting. The percussions ended up giving me anxiety instead. I've been wanting to experiment with this Bulgarian choir-inspired style for ages, and I finally got to do it here! Still a long way to go, but it's a start. There's a bit of Yuki Kajiura and NieR too in there, I guess. I wanted this to feel like the boss theme of a long-time rival, a focused battle between two characters who maybe were friends in a forgotten time... 

Lyrics in my made-up language as usual.

Day 6: Champion

Trying to make something fitting for today's "spring sunrise" challenge on #21daysofVGM. No matter what I did it kept sounding epic rather than soft, as if the focus was the sunlight peeking in from the windows while you're still half-asleep. Be ready for a very emotional day at the farm! :P

Day 7: Meadow

#21DaysofVGM - Day 7

This idea came when I was listening to Hollow Knight sondtracks and at one point there was a piano and a synth playing together a basically nothing else and the whole song felt nontheless really complete. There was nothing more that was needed. And me, being a fan of simple things and sort of minimalism, at times, I decided that's what I'm gonna do...piano and synth. There you go.

Day 14 - Adelaide

Simple melody line using only choir and solo voice.

Haiku 5.1

Johan Ema

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