Karl Kim - Compositions

Fly Into Black

The Battle Of Newbury - From the album Turbo-Laser - by Turbo-Laser

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The Battle Of Newbury

My contribution to the "Creator Challenge Downpour" by SoundIron 2023. Used 2 Instances of the free Soundpack "Rainsong". A cinematic atmosphere. 

Full video on Youtube https://youtu.be/KkMyI48mNf4
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It is Raining

Ce titre, composé originalement en 1994 et réarrangé en 2024 pour MCDC fait parti de la trilogie  ‘des amours tumultueux’ du micro-album PHONOGRAPHE de MCDC .  Il parle des états d'âme d’une personne amoureuse qui vient d'être trompée et qui est triste et en colère. Le rythme soutenu  de la pièce  démontre une force de caractère de la personne face à cette trahison. 

This title, originally composed in 1994 and rearranged in 2024 for MCDC is part of the trilogy 'of tumultuous loves' from the micro-album PHONOGRAPHE by MCDC.  He talks about the states of mind of a lover who has just been deceived and who is sad and angry. The sustained rhythm of the play demonstrates the strength of character of this lover in the face of this betrayal.


Musiciennes et musiciens :

Marie-Christine Tremblay : vocal
Denis Caouette : paroles et musique et arrangements, guitares, back vocals et programmation.
Les M’s  aux brass :
Marlène Claveau : Sax Alto
Michel Otis : Sax ténor et piano
André Lessard : Trompette
Martin Tremblay : Trombone
Sébastien Savard : Violons
Frank Corneau : Basse
David Simard : Batterie
Martin Larose (Studio Septentrio) : Réalisation

PHONOGRAPHE

Infidèle

Power Corrupts

Para escuchar la versión instrumental  https://soundcloud.com/juan-fco-bueno/luchador-version-instrumental

LUCHADOR (Texto de Jesús Lainez Betoré)

Se acerca la pausa luchador
Algo va frenando ese reloj
Tus huesos protestan luchador
Y todavía les queda lo peor

Farolas grises luchador
te dejan en la habitación
Cierras tus ojos luchador
tras un mal día otro peor

Recuerda el fuego luchador
que entregaste en la competición
Tu espalda contra el hormigón
Ha dado un claro perdedor

Estribillo

Y el sueño que regresa de nuevo a tu cama
perdió su color y el gris ahora cubre tu cara
Y el fuego que te hizo mover las montañas
ya te abandonó y enfermo no sale de casa

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Se acerca la pausa luchador
algo va frenando ese reloj
Sigues luchando luchador
Para dar a los tuyos lo mejor

Dura lucha luchador
y no se vió en televisión
Pide campana luchador
que todavía queda lo peor

Cierras tus ojos luchador
el fuego ya te abandonó
Tu espalda contra el hormigón
ha dado un claro perdedor

Estribillo

FIGHTER

The break is approaching, fighter
Something is slowing down that clock
Your bones protest, fighter
And the worst is yet to come

Gray streetlights, fighter
leave you in the room
You close your eyes, fighter
after a bad day, another worse

Remember the fire, fighter
that you gave in the competition
Your back against the concrete
Has given a clear loser

Chorus

And the sleep that returns to your bed
lost its color and gray now covers your face
And the fire that made you move mountains
has already abandoned you and sick, he won't leave the house

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The break is approaching, fighter
something is slowing down that clock
You keep fighting, fighter
To give your people the best

Tough fight, fighter
and it wasn't seen on television
Call for the bell, fighter
the worst is yet to come

You close your eyes, fighter
the fire has already abandoned you
Your back against the concrete
has given a clear loser

Chorus

LUCHADOR (Feat. Jesús Lainez)

Happy b-day Abi.  His fave director is Stanely Kubrick. I asked him to rec me a film last year and he said “Happiness with Philip Seymour Hofman.” I thought it was creative and funny and sad. He has higher moral standards than me. Found his gf perverted.  I would have called it kinky. I was going to tell him to lower his standards but if someone said, “maybe you should cheat”to me I’d say “no” cos a)your gf is supposed to be one of your best friends and b)it’s disrespectful. If I treat one of my best friends with disrespect how can I treat my friends well?  So I think Abi should do Abi. Other than that Abi sent me a pic and I told him he looked a bit like Rami Malek. He wasn’t too fond of that but Rami Malek isn’t bad looking and Abi looks 16.

I thought the whole song was A Dorian but it’s actually A dorian b2 alternating with A dorian for the verses.  I came up with the riff and wanted to make it more complex so I used the same strumming technique for ‘Can’t Stop.’ First time I used hand clicks for a song and also first time I’ve kept an entire song all modal. Thought the vocal phrasing was quite ZZ Ward for the verse and I wanted to  make it more hard rock sounding like Soundgarden. So the verses sound quite ZZ Garden or Soundward (Squidward). The bass in the verses is playing a simplified version of the bass line in ‘Come Together.’ I do like the vocal phrasing for ‘yet in the mix I found joy’ for the chorus. First time I’m doing that much falsetto for lead which is inspired by QOTSA. Some counter melodies for the beginning of verse 2. Fave use of counter melody is probably the 2nd half of ‘Emotion Sickness’ from Silverchair. I added some congas and wanted the same rhythm as the percussion from ‘Roots Bloody Roots’ but I decided to keep things simple and accent the 2 vocal syllables.. Then, the last chorus I was going to copy paste my piano parts but accidentally copy pasted my lead guitar over and that improved the groove.

Lyrics: Written by SGOR. Some guy on reddit. Lost contact. If it sounds like it was written an angsty teen that’s cos’ it was written by an angsty teen. Terrific message about finding empathy. Not sure about how death fits into all this.  ‘There can be miracles when you believe’ is cheesy on paper but I don’t think it’s cheesy when you hear it. ‘If you squeeze my lizard I’ll put my snake on you’ is ridiculous on paper but badass when you hear it. Depends on vocal tone, phrasing, delivery, and melody.

Stranded on a desert planet, lost in my own curse,
As if I caused a cataclysm, but all I did was change.
I was Found in the mud, like a coin in ruin's dust,
Polished up, made to fake, like I hadn't seen the rust.
Hear a beating heart in the darkness,
I've been lost, I've been found, I've wandered so long,
I found myself in you, but in the end, it wasn't me I found.

Ride with me through the storms of life, (it was fly with me originally and I am not singing that)
Let our hopes shine bright,  (it was light shine bright originally)
Like we've been struck by lightning, 
Revealed 
As something in the night.
I came to life when loss became real,
Felt pain and sympathy,
Yet in that mix, I found joy, found a way to be.
Am I cursed? I'll never know, but I'll embrace it all,
Life is its own limit, 
perfection in its sprawl.
The final goodbye, the chill of death, it comes for us all,

Running through the lost ruins of an apocalypse. (I wanted to give some more sensory elements to a song that was very much ‘in its feelings. So I matched the idea of a cataclysm. Took about 10 secs to type out)
Found myself with spears and arrows and feeling generous
Smeared my face in mud, like an Indian warchief
I’ve been dead, I’ve come to life, I’ve wandered so long
I found myself in you, but in the end it wasn’t me that I found



Ride With Me

A track on staying focused on your goals.  💯👊🏾🫵🏾

Clear to me

Eternally

Fresh Squeezed

Noise Improv No. 1

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Op. 3

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Poem 14

Twelve Tone Piece No. 1

Credits: 

Matthew Leland - trumpet
Josh Bialkin - trumpet
Peter DelGrosso - horn
Karl Kim - trombone, electronics
Caitlin Jodoin - tuba

Twelve Tone Piece No. 3

Karl Kim is a man of many musical hats (perhaps too many for his own good, but that's a discussion for another time). 

​​His musical journey started off with piano lessons at age six, and from there he has picked up many other instruments over the years, including but not limited to: violin, guitar, trombone, and various percussion instruments. Karl was also just as quick to branch out to styles of music other than classical; most significant of these styles is rock and metal (especially of the progressive variety), but jazz, EDM, experimental music, and folk music from various parts of the world have also played a role in shaping him as a musician. 

As a concert music composer, these musical experiences, especially those as a metal guitarist, are what make up the voice that he projects into his compositions, especially in recent times. Pieces like "The Jury is Sleepless", "Without a Minute to Spare", and "So Cold, So Dark, So Chaotic" exist at a crossroads between music for the concert hall and music for the mosh pit. His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Rhythm Method, S.E.M., and Bearthoven, and he holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from New York University. 

"Karl with a K" is an alter ego of Karl Kim. Karl with a K, while having the same musical background as Karl Kim, draws upon a fascination for rhythm game music that started with Dance Dance Revolution at the age of eight, and grew considerably to encompass games including, but not limited to, Sound Voltex, In the Groove, beatmania IIDX, Voez, and Arcaea. Karl with a K brings his background in metal and 20th century classical music into rhythm game original tracks such as "!CAUTION! small but deadly", "BELLUM", and "rudimentary methods of overkill", which can be characterized by plenty of guitars, unusual rhythms, and sometimes non-instruments being used as instruments. Much of his output as Karl with a K is written for the purposes of Stepmania simfile creation (though as of BMS of Fighters: EighTeen's "0verfl0w_err0r" this is no longer exclusively the case).

Karl Kim currently resides in Bloomington, Indiana where he is pursuing an M.M. in Music Scoring for Visual Media at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Karl with a K can be seen lurking around the internet (especially specific Discord servers), occasionally not being above a good meme from time to time. In addition, Karl with a K is working on his first project as a game developer, a typing meets rhythm gaming fusion titled "glyph;".

Noise Improv No. 1

Karl with a K

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