Things played on black and white keys

a collection of tracks I did in collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/fabiandu for Enter-Brain-Ment in Berlin in 2012/2013. The music was for a prototype console game.

REM (2012)

recorded 17/01/24 at Eschschloraque Rümpschrümp // Berlin

Violin / E-Violin - Heloise Lefebvre
Viola / Violin - Roland Satterwhite
Cello - Lee Caspi
Laserharp - Sheila Chipperfield
Voices - Ivar Asgeirsson / Birte Schneider

special thanks to Daniela Orvin

ég skrifaði þessi verk fyrir allar hugrökkú stelpur

Aio Drekisbanis draumar (v2017 // live)

a playlist of unrelated one-offs (mostly). a lot is based on scandinavic - and especially icelandic - folklore.

Folksy Things

a re-imagining of the Metroid 2 soundtrack using existing themes and new ones.

Metroid 2 - Return of Samus (2012 - )

a love theme I wrote for my 2009 animated movie "The Journey to E36". Unfortunately after a couple of script rewrites there wasn't a love story in it anymore, so the theme went unused.

Love Theme

the track title is from a poem by John Keats

Season Of Mists And Mellow Fruitfulness

Painting Leaves

Stand-off

Marsch für Orchester 2

2022 rework of a theme for a movie from 2009.

KtA Love Theme v2022

a piece for Samus ongoing exploration of the depths of SR388. The piece is in a similar style as the bleeps heard in Metroid 2

Caverns 1

the 2nd piece for Samus' exploration of the caverns. featuring a darker variation of Samus theme on solo viola.

themes:
title (Ryoji Yoshitomi)
metroid (Hip Tanaka)

Caverns 2

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/trenchmouth

Trenchmouth-Demo

arriving on the rugged, stony beach. winds and cloudy skies overhead and large waves in sight.

The endless sea

premiere performance of one of my pieces for string trio. performed by the Atri-Nuovo String Trio at Villa Grisebach near Kurfürstendamm.

the title is icelandic and means "homesick"

Heimþrá I (live)

Samus encountering various forms of Metroids and doing battle with them. The motif in this one is almost 12-tonal and I used it to represent these strange lifeforms that give the name it's title.

themes:
metroids (me)

Sudden Metroid Spike

performed 24-06-2023 by the Octava Chamber Orchestra // conducted by Matt Weiss

Hrafnsmál Mvmt4 - hrafninn flygur (excerpt)

Holy, solid stone!

Estonian Bears cuddle me to sleep

inspired while reading Peter Beagle's "The last unicorn"

Behind Haggard's clock (wip)

a short arrangement of the Back to the future theme i did for a friends modding project

Back to the future theme

performed 21-06-2025 by the Octava Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Ian Alvarez

Hrafninn flýgur (the flight of the raven)

chozo 2

themes:
title (Ryoji Yoshitomi)
surface runner (Ryoji Yoshitomi)

over rugged landscapes (surface runner)

a brief moment of eerie quiet in a dark save room
themes:
metroid theme (Hip Tanaka)
silence (Hip Tanaka)

silence

REM theme (ambient version)

in collaboration with Fabian Du
https://soundcloud.com/fabiandu

lvl music (early version)

jumping out of the window, floating in the air

lvl music finale (with a dark ending)

Final lvl music

Upp Fjallið

themes:
chozo (me)
title (Ryoji Yoshitomi)

Varia 1

Samus Aran

fly, space warrior (approaching SR-388)

falling leaves hide the path so quietly

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower

(homesick)
In the year 10, of the new calendar, the dragonslayer returns to her home.

Aio Drekisanis draumar

01 Heimþrá

(song of the sea)
Walk by the sea if your way is long.
The calm sea does not last.

The glow grows dim
on the ocean's rim.

Walk by the sea if your way is long.
The calm sea does not last.

A calm sea is the best path

02 Sjávarljoð

(mountain in the north)
through the storm she reaches the mountain, that rises in the north out of the ocean, and has to put her head into her neck for a long time until she sees the top

03 Fjall Í Norðri

04 Aio Drekisbani 1

(the red queen)
the house of the red queen rules the mountain until her overthrow through the regime in the year 7.
externally: formal and cold
internally: uncontrollably vengeful

05 Rauð Drottningin

an arrangement of the imperial march by John Williams.

Darth Vader (Theme) // John Williams

dauðinn ríður (death rides)

a moment not to be in a storm on the ocean. opening piece to a new album related to Aio Drekisbanis draumur

the cruel sea

from 2017. unused main theme for a game project.

Aufbruch (departure)

Draumar hverfa (dreams vanish)

main theme from the game "Lex Pia Mika" by Enter-Brain-Ment. Performed by Lee Caspi (Cello)

Lex Pia Mika

Ægishjálmr

Urkultur Fanfare

Marsch für Orchester

I seek to do this through my work: to share my love. Love is also a mysterious thing: the more we share it, the more it multiplies.
Paulo Coelho



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