Originally an end-credits piece in my YouTube ETS2 response video, this piece made it here as part of a fun send-music-to-space program.  

This music is also available at JRTTS.com

Tu es Petrus

Tu Es Petrus

Music composed back in 2010, using the theme from I Wanna Be A Spy.

Recording practice

Joshua Tanuwijaya - I Am With You

A "remastering" of an old piano repertoire recording I found. 

Have fun!

Recorded close on the piano

Jack in a Jukebox

I had just been through an immense cathedral experience, and wanted to take the feeling home with me. 

The choral idea came to me a couple years ago after being exposed to madrigals (such as The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons) in a youth choir, and Renaissance music history. 

I finally had an opportunity to work on the idea when taking up a final project for a travel study in which I visit numerous cathedrals, among other sites. The final project will be a piece called Taking The Tube, and will consist of compilations of pieces including Cold Hands, that are glued together by a bass riff that will morph into many different genres.

Cold Hands came too short, with 16 measures under 1 minute, so I worked on more. Since editing every single consonants and vowels of a digital choir and coming up with more lyrics are too much of a hassle, I decided to make the rest an organ interlude. 

I was excited to say that I have successfully reproduced the cathedral nuance at home!

Taking The Tube

Cold Hands

Taking The Tube is a piece that depicts the confusion of taking the Tube for the first few times. Specifically, this piece also depicts the disorienting experience of Christopher (from the play Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night-Time) when he takes the Tube. 

The piece takes similar format to the structure of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, as the main theme ("the Tube") keeps coming back between various tunes. The various tunes are homages to music in plays such as Phantom and Les Misérables, as well as nuances in tourist attractions and cathedrals such as the Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral.

The piece starts out with a simple arrangement, and as time goes it will turn into a full instrumental or orchestral work, symbolizing having one's mind being opened as he is exposed to new things along the ride. The Tube journeys (or piece renditions) themselves are different from one another, similar to how each stations are different (such as Baker Street station having walls full of Sherlock Holmes stickers, and King's Cross having a Harry Potter shop as well as Platform 9 3/4 beside it), and it is signified by the different musical styles accompanying the Tube theme as it goes back around.

The music piece is supposed to be accompanied by clips from the travel study, mixed with a couple ones from home and even video game depictions of the attractions for comparison and juxtaposition.

I am experimenting with the piano dampers plucking the piano strings without the hammers striking the strings. The result is a harpsichord-like tune.

The playing piece is Kyrie I from Requiem For A Car.

May need to turn volume all the way up to hear the effect.

Not A Silent Piece

A vocal highlight from my latest piece, Bach's Reverence, which I completed yesterday (actually more like today at 3:00 AM). 

Bach's Reverence is my techno-symphonic "cover" on Bach's Prelude in C Minor BWV 847.

Music will be available to buy/download soon!

Joshua Tanuwijaya - Bach's Reverence, preview

C418's Wet Hands from the well-known game Minecraft;
improvised arrangement by JRTTS;
for a timelapse video, which is JethRobot's idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuhmcBiZZcc

C418 - Wet Hands, arr. JRTTS

This piece is a 20th-century styled arrangement of Kyrie III from Requiem For A Car. Staying true to the car theme, the piece has car sounds as its bass line.

Requiem for A Car

Kyrie III, Exp. Arr.

A chime to go with JethRobot's handwriting animation for Mom's 2020 birthday.

untitled chime

I remade the wonderful Sibelius intro using free/trial studio software stuffs

Sibelius Intro, imitation

Test Recording for self quartet, with a ticking digital clock as a tempo reference and conductor (60bpm).

It's been almost a year of me not singing, and I have fallen way out of practice (as evidenced in the recording). I'm hoping to turn this project into a routine activity.

Taking the Tube

Cold Hands (Quartet)

A professional pianist, accompanist, music transcriber, composer, and arranger. 

So basically I eat, speak, and sleep music.

--upload/project plans for 2018!*--
I Am With You (PDF, MP3)
Old Clock / Memories (PDF, MP3)
Perusha Theme (Video)
---2nd phase---
The Departure Song
Autumn
Butterfly


* old project plans never happened as I am busy with different musical (and non-musical) things. Time to start anew, and set easy projects to move on to harder ones later!

JRTTS

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