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STACCATO-CORE: A style of music composition and production which religiously uses the staccato technique (notes sound sharply detached & separated from one another, often likened to a sudden *stabbing* sensation). In its purest form, also features brief silences, high tempos, and the sparing use or even complete absence of reverb.
The contrast created by the onslaught of huge sounds rapidly hitting you in the face, vanishing without a trace, and returning with abrasive force repeatedly is the essence of STACCATO-CORE.

DIGITAL FUSION (digifu): "Music that combines various musical genres with early PC/computer music styles that were shaped by hardware limitations, such as video game music, demoscene/tracker music, chiptune, and MIDI. Digital fusion is an evolution of these computer music styles, where composers have adopted their vernacular without their original hardware limitations" Aivi and Surasshu @ digifumusic.com.

💥 STACCATOCORE ✂️ DIGITAL FUSION 🎮

more music

Next-Level Chiptune

Hi SC! This is LONG overdue! A great way for me show my respect and appreciation to all of you. I've been working on this playlist for the past 2 weeks and had a really great time going through all of the moments that really excited me and made me proud to be apart of this community.

I like ALOT of music and there are some tunes that I like more than others and I think deserve more recognition than just being thrown into my like list. This is a pretty good representation of what I think stands out to me :)

Not included is music by Kfaraday because there would just be WAY too many haha... so, instead, I will just tell everyone to go check him/her out because the music they make is really amazing. I feel like I'm listening to music of the future everytime i'm there :)

Anyway, thanks to everyone for your support and I look forward to our sound journey ahead of us :)

Soundcloud Essentials

Favourites

Track I made with @bluenctrn for Sample Pack Contest XIV.
It got 6th place out of 62 songs!

We started doing this around a week before the deadline, and I'm still amazed by the result. I just did around 30 seconds of it, and blue.nocturne did the rest, based on my part.

I wish I could've done more to it, but the circumstances were not in my favor. So, kudos to blue.noctune for the amazing job he did! Looking forward for more collabs!

You can listen to (and download) this and the other 61 songs of SPC XIV here: https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xiv

Cover art made by me.

Funky Highway (Collab with blue.nocturne)

A cover of Korschar's stunningly beautiful track "Darkest Dawn", check it out here!: https://soundcloud.com/korschar/darkest-dawn-darkest-dawn

Listen to each of the individual stems of this track at Splitter.fm: https://splitter.fm/JoeyFunWithMusic/BrightestDawn

Brightest Dawn is also available on Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music etc.!!

I made this for the Maj7 Discord server Cover Ring event of autumn 2021 (it's basically like a secret santa, but instead of buying/receiving gifts, musicians make covers of each other's tracks & have no idea who is making who's until all is revealed in a climactic listen party stream!). Thanks to Jneen Collective and Hypergamestorytime for putting together such an incredibly fun and life-affirming event!!

I changed the track file to an updated mix on Friday 17th Jan 2023, and AGAIN on 17th Sep 2024. If you want an old version, just DM me and I'll send any of them to you :)

Brightest Dawn (cover of Korschar's Darkest Dawn)

1 - 16 Harmonics

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CHIP FUNK

Gerudo Valley Fever

I love this, and I don't know why. It's just perfect.

OUT ON STREAMING NOW: https://open.spotify.com/track/3nZoMbWFXPED2XRGHGDJif?si=FyBIn67WTK-X-oZEnTra6Q

let's do OK!

Mr. Game and Watch (Balco Remix)

Short work for string quartet in just intonation. This work uses 17-limit just intonation (although no 13s are present) and the ratios are annotated in the score.

The sounds are from Note Performer (an orchestral instrument library available for use with Sibelius Software) and the microtonal adjustments were made using the pitch bend feature inside of Sibelius.

View the score on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DgKdx3kjBw

Etude for String Quartet in Just Intonation No. 1

Spotify: https://smarturl.it/GoT80sSpotify
iTunes: https://smarturl.it/GoT80siTunes
Google Play: https://smarturl.it/GoT80sGPlay
Amazon MP3: https://smarturl.it/GoT80sAmazon
Bandcamp: https://smarturl.it/GoT80sBCamp

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SteveDuzz
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/SteveDuzz
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/user/SteveDuzz

Made just for fun
Check out YouTube video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKbtC223e30

Original Game of Thrones theme composed by: Ramin Djawadi
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ramin-Djawadi/47172421402
SITE: www.ramindjawadi.com/
iTUNES: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ramin-djawadi/id5581431

Art by: Mike Wrobel (With the authorization of Mike Wrobel)
STORE: society6.com/Moshikun
SITE: www.moshistudio.com/
TUMBLR: moshi-kun.tumblr.com/
FACEBOOK: facebook.com/MoshiStudio
TWITTER: twitter.com/MikeWrob_el

Game of Thrones - Main Theme (80's Version by Steve Duzz)

Skylar Fri - Man Is Strange

SPC version of an old Super Mario Kart-style tune I wrote back in 2011.
http://battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/KartTune/14942/

KartTune (SPC Echoes) (Super Mario Kart Instruments)

short, samba-style song with silly synth solos
　
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz17vBf8lvs

Coast 4

A cover of Battle theme from Mario Kart DS

Battle - Mario Kart DS (Cover)

A track from the gyms-Moot-tothejazz 30 Minute SNES compo series. This is my track from Round 4. We have planned to make an album out of the best of these, but just haven't gotten around to finishing that yet. Most of these tunes turned out great and deserve to be heard! 

Each round features a specific game's sound samples. This one uses The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past samples. 

At Last We Made It

Yo! Always loved the upbeat energy of this gem, so I decided to freshen it up a little. Nothing special again, but it should be some good juice for now. Also, no ridiculous tempo change like in the original, because that's barely enjoyable musically. But hey, enjoy, and have a good one!

Remix 8 [Rhythm Heaven - Remix]

grains of sand all up in my shoes, shooed away by waves of blue

Download!

sand shoes

junkyard jam WIP (updated)

This track is an example of a simple twelve bar backing track accompanying a solo melody written in free Just Intonation (JI).

JI allows access to all the frequencies, not just the ones on the piano keyboard or guitar frets. Often musicians when playing the blues, jazz, or guitar solos, bend the string to produce a higher pitch. In this track, there are no 'bent' notes, only precisely specified notes which are often noticeably different to the standard notes from 12-EDO.

Some devices used include:
- No scale - only addressing frequencies (in Hz) directly via whole numbers. E.g. 4, 5, 6 multiplied by 60 Hz would give 240Hz, 300Hz, 360Hz directly.
- Descending harmonic series, e.g. 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16
- What sounds like vibrato, but is actually a combination of holding and sliding pitches several times a beat
- Rapid switching of frequency several times a beat, this is a common chip tune device.
- Descending shifting triads, e.g. 61, 54, 47, 56, 49, 42, 51, 44, 37, 46, 39, 32...

Just Intonation is the future for those of us who like both maths and music! I understand that not everyone wants numbers in their music composition. However, that's fundamentally what frequencies are, thats what harmony is, a combination of whole numbers. And you get more interesting results when using the numbers for what they are, which is unique chords well outside of traditional harmony. I am particularly enjoying the sound of the prime numbers 11, 13, 23, 29, 31, 41, 43 and 61 in this composition.

May the prime numbers be with you! Enjoy - Dave

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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

Example of the Twelve Bar Blues with crazy Solo in Just Intonation

meet your mischievous pal

updated tinker shop

fuckin around with chords and recognized that botw uses a lot of 11ths

just some zelda inspired chords

@redngreenmusic
http://twitter.com/_redngreen_

Red&Green - Op. 40 No. 1, Prelude (Ishikapustin)

I can't put into words how much I love Pokemon music, especially from Pokemon Black and White. This is my hand at composing something in the style of those games. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did making it!

Lemhi Forest [Pokemon Black/White Composition]

my track on Chiptunes = Win Vol. 7

https://chiptuneswin.bandcamp.com/album/chiptunes-win-volume-7

Composed in FL Studio 10.

I started writing this song over a year ago.  I had almost finished it and it was turning into one of my favorite pieces I've ever composed when a file corruption cost me about 10 hours of work on it.  I was heartbroken and discouraged, and tried sporadically over the next many months to replace what had been lost and finish the track. I only recently REALLY cracked at it after hearing about the Vol. 7 submission and finally finished it up the night before the deadline.  

Many thanks to Zackery Wilson for encouraging me to conquer my white whale!


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Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 7

ghost party at the cathedral

Rude Buster

here's my track for ChipWIN's newest winter album! so grateful for being featured along so many other great musicians. check it out! https://chiptuneswin.bandcamp.com/album/chipwinter-wilderness

ChipWINter Wilderness

Lacquer Lustre

Forest Temple Tribute

*SUPER HYPED* to have been voted #1 in SPCXII for some Seinfeld bass wankery. Absolutely check out the album (and download this track), it's got to be some of the most creative music on the net: https://samplepackcontest.bandcamp.com/album/sample-pack-contest-xii

Etude 1 For MIDI Slap Bass

Air on the G String generated with pythogoras using 3 different tuning systems

Instrument synthesis used information from SHARC db

Air on the G String - Just Intonation

Musical possibilities to ignite your imagination.  What will you do with the freedom of pitch?  Composed, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Subhraag Singh using Infinitone DMT software (Greensleeves mastered by Gerhard Westphalen)

"Morphology"  --- morphed Just Intonation chords

hello! game composer, sound designer, humble member of STAFFcirc. video game jazz sorta guy


i love extended+nonfunctional harmony, and through composition! one of my goals when writing is to never exactly repeat a measure. it's exhausting 

meet your mischievous pal

Michael Okon