This is from the imaginary soundtrack I wrote for the 2021 OST Composing Jam, which you can download here: https://lydianchord.itch.io/kats-nuclear-winter-road-trip-ost

Kat's Nuclear Winter Road Trip OST - Overworld [YM2608, BambooTracker]

This track was written to demonstrate the harmonic possibilities of using higher harmonics freely whenever the composer wishes, without the bounds of a traditional scale, but within the bounds of major/minor/seventh harmony. It is also quite funky!

Harmonics of 11ths, 13th, 23rds etc are prominent in this composition, without being overwhelming in their unusualness. The highest prime harmonic used was the 127th harmonic in the final melody! E#''' was also used (125th harmonic)

It was written using a new notation system which has been devised to make accessing higher harmonics as intuitive as possible (it still takes a bit of getting one's head around!). Please contact me if you would like to see the score written in this notation system, or for details about how this notation system enables interesting harmonic composition outside of the bounds of the Western 12-note scale to be realised.

It qualifies for chiptune since although it is (much to my shame) 16-bit 44100Hz audio instead of the pure 8-bit, the sounds were synthesised from scratch using modified sin/saw waves, with a bit of band-limited noise thrown in for good measure. The synth took as input CSV 6xN matrices as sequence files, and processed in Octave/MATLAB to give MP3 output which you hear here.
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update 10th Apr 2015:

Here is a brief description of how the MP3 track was generated:

Just Intonation Notes (1/1 4/3 7/4 etc) <-> New Notation System (C F `Bb~7 etc) which is easier to read than pure numbers and where the letter corresponds (roughly) to the position in the 12ET scale
-> Excel block of chords and melody notes for visual presentation to composer (.txt)
-> Excel long (~1700 columns) of calculated note letters, frequencies, note lengths, etc
-> Excel final sequence file with 6 columns: channel, start time, frequency, note length, loudness, stereo position (.csv)
-> Octave/MATLAB code to take the 6 columns and turn them into chiptune (.mp3 or .wav)
-> Sometimes extra post processing in Audacity for final .wav

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See also:
- https://arxiv.org/a/ryan_d_1 (arXiv) for a list of my academic paper pre-prints, including my writing on music theory and Just Intonation
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4785-9766 (ORC ID) for my academic profile
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidryan59 for my LinkedIn profile

Sonata 1 'Cheery' - Chip Synth, Justly Intoned

Plata O Plomo - Money or Bullets... a choice given by Pablo Escobar to all those that might interfere with his ambitions. The thought comes to mind though...if a dude is bad enough to give a man that choice? He'd better be in possession of plenty of both - Money + Bullets - So we present; Plata y Plomo, sonic weapons to help protect your travels along this crazy thing called life. Plenty of both my friends, plenty of both. All Songs Written, Produced + Mixed by Kev Dot Kruz

Plata y Plomo

Plata (Original Mix)

OUT NOW!! https://chiptunes4autism.bandcamp.com/album/chiptunes-4-autism-volume-1-potions-of-acceptance

2016 Chiptunes 4 Autism compilation submission. Many gratitudes to Gustuf Young for organizing the C4A project! You can find more previews linked below. Official updates via the C4A Facebook page!

Special thanks goes out to Celina Kalluk of Resolute, Canada for the vocal clip, and to everyone else that gave their support and advice during production! It really means a lot to me! xo

Gear
Renoise, Yamaha Portasound PSS-460/YM3812/PSS-680, Deflemask, Famitracker

Links
C4A Facebook: http://facebook.com/groups/1024486470...
C4A Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/user-791757335
Celina Kalluk: http://vimeo.com/109709510
http://Deflemask.com
http://Famitracker.com
http://Renoise.com

Spectrum Order [Chiptunes 4 Autism: Potions of Acceptance]

More about KORG Collection at: www.korg.com/korg_collection/

Music by Ryuichiro Yamaki
http://www.studiow4m.com/

KORG Collection Demo Song

shamu

Some of the music from "Land of the Rising Sound: A Roland Retrospective"

1996 Roland JP - 8000

More about KORG Collection at: www.korg.com/korg_collection/

Music by Ryota Nozaki/Jazztronik
https://jazztronik.com/

KORG Collection - TRITON Preview 2

If ODYSSEY was a video game...

A year in the making, Odyssey is an adventure/RPG type music album filled with the ambience of different zones that exist within the world. 

This is the first album I've made completely on an iPad. It came with it's limitations but overall it was the most fun I've ever had making music hands down.

Beautiful album art done by the talented Jubilee:
Website: 8pxl.co
Twitter: twitter.com/16pxl

Mastered by Grant Henry (Stemage):
Website: www.stemagemusic.com
Twitter: twitter.com/Stemage

ODYSSEY

PRESS START

I collaborated with fuzion_mixer through the Sunvox discord server.

fuzion_mixer
SounCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fuzion-mixer
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf8NkWlwZ51cfiRTTHnnlTg

SawZer + fuzion_mixer - The Last Seal

Minha entry pra a Winter Chip XVI:
https://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Caf%C3%A9/43125/

No youtube:
https://youtu.be/fdwQP9J4hJY

Café

KORG official account
http://www.korg.com/

KORG Collection - TRITON Preview 2

KORG

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