An unholy Elfman-Carpenter fugue homage hybrid, straight from the time warp. Hide yo cows, hide yo wife, the aliens are coming!

Here is the link to the game for which this is the score:

https://gamejolt.com/games/they-stole-cowbells/639265?fbclid=IwAR135p78bBczdmBnsFOUWSMA7XBdmVCQidMus--bYLMjbu5BcsLXpfQDRxY

Blockraid

This is a product of me being involved in Brno Game Jam 2022. We made a retro rotoscoped beat-em-up sidescroller game with my friends over a weekend and I composed a score for it channeling my inner 90s kid. I think you'd agree it's pretty radical.

Download the game if you dare at:

https://johny-daison.itch.io/biceps-beatdown

Biceps Beatdown

I wonder what the people of the future will think of us who lived before it started.

The Anteaquarian Age

Inspired by a painting of Raziel by Iva Dolezelova, a bit of atmospheric music to capture the idea behind the being. Check out here artwork at:

http://vlezvl.es

The Keeper of Secrets

An introductory piece into a possible future album, Newsic, which would combine poetry in a form of kinetic typography or voiceover with music.

Eclipse

Have you ever spontaneously created something, and only later realized it is actually much more sophisticated than you intended? So subtle it is, in fact, that I would be really surprised if anyone even noticed it when listening to this composition, only a few people with classical training got close to figuring it out.

Dark Star Ascending Into Reversed Space

I have always loved church organ and fugues, possibly because of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, and this is my meager attempt at making one on a computer in the comparatively musically barbaric 21st century. This composition is part of my unfinished space-themed album called Hyperion.

Maelström

I have composed this piece at a bit of a turning point in my life, with many different paths open, each of uncertain outcome. It combines deep strings and bright piano, my all time favourite instruments. It is also a part of Hyperion album.

Future

First of the compositions on the not quite finished album Hyperion, this one using piano to evoke a ship's flight through space. I have composed it after listening to a bit of jazz and expressionist music, and it is the kind of music that I would play on piano, if I could play on a piano, after Rachmaninov, of course.

Maiden Voyage

This is a bit of an in-between piece, when I was spreading my musical wings a little, so to speak, to take off into my latter style of composition, which is still where I am right now, though maybe not for long. It features piano and church organ, evoking first dramatic and then majestic flight.

Angel's Flight

This one was for a girl (I know), made to combine asian musical influences with the feel of Vangelis. It nearly fried my computer back in the day, and I lost the original MIDI file along with it. This imperfect version of it is all that remains now. Come to think of it, it does mirror perfectly how the relationship later turned out. That's life, I suppose.

Dive

This piece is not about hell, as the name may seem to imply in the modern west, it is trying to explore more otherwordly and ambiguous interpretations of more ancient times, primarily the multiple Greek places where the dead may end up.

Underworld

Tears In Rain

Synthesizing string orchestras that sound alive has always been my favourite composing challenge, and this is right around the point when the illusion might have started to work.

Tempus Fugit

One of the newer spacey tracks, also part of unfinished Hyperion album. It is a reworking of one of the older tracks, Word of Power, and in this version, different instruments are used, the  whole piece is running at a faster tempo, and the melody is made to be more continuous.

Infinity

One of the newer short pieces, more automated and machine-like than usual, evoking hammers working diligently in outer dimensions.

Worlds Assembled

Yes, you have correctly guessed that the name is a product of teenage angst - this is my first ever completed composition, last change timestamped on the 13th of February 2005, when I was 17. Maybe some teenagers can relate, and some have, though these days, I'm not so sure anymore. I am putting it here more for the record than anything else.

For some reason, I chose to start with a classical symphony, knowing nothing about composing, besides the most rudimentary theory of how tones and tempos work. The piece is of course very pathetic in the classical sense of the word, and I don't even know what influenced it, or how did I manage to put it together - it just felt like being possessed, and exorcising the demons.

Keep in mind, this, like many of my later pieces, is pure unadulterated MIDI, made on a machine from the nineties, not played on an instrument even - every note clicked into the sheet, one by one. I do wonder what anyone would think about it though, especially other composers, and if their start was in any way similar.

Symphony of Despair

A brief intense piece evoking chaotic outbursts of immense cosmic power.

Supernova

A bit of an insane track that has a tendency to crash my equipment. Resurrected from an old MIDI composed for a very specific and now forever defunct Sound Blaster, hopefully the end result will not turn anyone mad. Chaotic and imperfect, but then again, that is the nature of our universe, so I suppose it is only fitting.

Cosmos

Upliftingly dark, classically unusual, and an accidental counterpoint in the most literal sense. Something for a demanding listener. Personally, I think this might be my best piece, but in large part only thanks to serendipity. Remastered for something approaching professional use or sensible broadcast.

Dark Star Ascending into Reversed Space (Remastered)

This piece may have something to do with my affection for the Protoss and their type of score in original Starcraft, and innumerable other scifi soundtracks my brain has absorbed over the years. Gee, wouldn't it be nice if I could make those for a living. Ah well, I can at least put on my space helmet and dream.

New Worlds - Lifelight

A theme that should go very well with a sense of cosmic supremacy and interstellar hegemony. Also, it should be loopable.

Reigning Supreme

Inspired, of all things, by a discussion of themes in Game of Thrones. Also, I finished this composition the very night before I saw that they decided to do a haunting piano score for the last episode of season 6, which they haven't really done before. Strange how these things work out sometimes.

Children Of Pride

A bit dark, scary, and weird for your average person, maybe, but a whole strange new world for the undaunted explorer. Until you take the wrong step.

Abyss

It occured to me that I have been ignoring wind and brass instruments for a long time. There's a distinct possibility I might have gone a bit crazy with this one. I should warn you - at no point think that you have already figured this piece out, or life, or it will sweep you off your feet.

Breath Of Life

A little something that I made for Isaac Arthur who makes very informative videos about the realities of space exploration. If you're into science or science fiction, I highly recommend checking him out:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

The idea behind this piece was that of Kardashev scale, which is about the size of spacefaring empires. From little type zeroes like us, to type threes and beyond who have at their disposal the sum total of the energy output of  entire galaxies.

So, how does one illustrate slow climb over billions of years towards almost unimaginable amounts of power, to a point when a star is quite literally a snack for you? Well, I tried. Yes, it does get a bit crazy towards the end.

Ad Astra

Such a fleeting and ethereal thing, won't even survive being tightly held in one's grasp. And yet, while easily smothered, it never truly dies. It only becomes more real in its absence, and somehow, it always finds its way back to you again.

After all the worldly wealth and power will have crumbled to nothing, all the flames burnt out and all waters dried away, sit down on the last piece of rock, open your palm and close your eyes. It will be there, waiting for you.

Butterfly

Some wings only cut.
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Washed up on a distant shore
robbed of all things from before
wake into a fever dream
broken to buy what’s in store

Look up and see, there’s no star
Not that you could reach that far
Something’s missing at your core
The emptiness now is a door

The more you try to shut yourself
the more the darkness pours outside
until finally pried ajar
the crack spills nothing on the floor

Your eyes survey the barren land
from the sea of sorrows to a sea of sand
A thirst yet threatens to quench your flame
fueled by want for all you forswore

There’s never too late to accept blame
How much can fit in your fragile frame?
Gather your strength of a dry-rotten oar
you’re late for the march to die in a war

No need to be worried or brave
How this fate makes you feel is safe
for life is a lockbox in freefall
about to be crushed on the rocks

You proceed by taking a step back
and you see you from before on the shore
Maybe if you somehow put the dream to sleep
there might be a way to uncrash the ship

You wave as you strafe off the cliff
hoping the other you notices it
As you hit you learn that he didn’t
but maybe someone else did

Nevermore

Trying something new with a new Mixcraft. Let all ye be warned - mind the volume, this is definitely the loudest track I've ever made. It's practically trance, though still meant as a loopable sci-fi soundtrack.

At The End

The second and last recording of me singing and playing guitar that exists. A very underground production from a long time ago. You may actually have a better chance of seeing an actual UFO than to hear me singing, now that the US military admited they exist. Any similarity to the Men In Black movie theme is a cooky conspiracy.

Space Invasion Medley

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

New Worlds - The Unknown

An old idea for a game soundtrack theme ressurected and evolved. It failed to fulfill its original purpose, but perhaps it will yet prove to be an interesting failure. Life, uh, finds a way.

Chromosynthesis

"I saw another strong angel coming down out of heaven, clothed with a cloud; and the rainbow was upon his head, and his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire; and he had in his hand a little book which was open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left on the land; and he cried out with a loud voice, as when a lion roars; and when he had cried out, the seven peals of thunder uttered their voices."

A third attempt at conveying how this theme sounds in my head, this time with infinite power. Warning - full volume in headphones may result in a head explosion.

Gabriel's Judgment

Like getting shipwrecked in space and waking up on an alien shore. Is the water supposed to be shining?

New Worlds - Digital Ocean

First motion in a new project inspired by a certain specific symphony. Or what happens when you listen to the Mortal Kombat theme too close to Dvorak. Right after you bought new headphones, and a new Mixcraft.

PS: Recommended video to watch muted while listening to this piece - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g54KvnPWdO8

New Worlds - Superluminal

A very old, arguably insane composition of mine, one that I wasn't able to make work for over a decade with the inferior tools of that bygone era. Apparently, it needed instruments called things like "the deepest pad", "sub fall", "antarctica", and so on. It is experimental even by my standards, so I have literally no idea how humans will react to it.

New Worlds - Ancient Doom

My music is essentially a soundtrack to my thoughts, musical poems that are part classical, part electronic, somewhat minimalist, purely digital, and rather odd.

You can use my music freely for non-commercial purposes, or really however you want if you're an indie artist or a vlogger without money to spare. Just please let me know when you do so and mention me in the credits.

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