morning 07

My 5th place entry for N64 month for Dwelling of Duels. Picked an obscure-ass jazz fusion-ass incredibly difficult track to play from Mickey's Speedway USA. Enjoy!

Listen to the other great entries here:
http://dwellingofduels.net/duels/22-03-nintendo-64/

Full Steam Ahead!

buy the album: https://milesmorkri.bandcamp.com/album/ventifact

every summer, my family and i would travel to an island to visit my surrogate grandparents.

i had this image in my brain of the island being the most perfect place on the planet. but when i returned there years later, i came to realize that such a place had never existed.

the land itself, the nature, was still beautiful, but the inhabitants were corrupting it. it wasn’t the haven that i remembered, except for my surrogate grandparents, who remain the light of the island.

i still love the island, but my idea of it has eroded. nothing is perfect.

this album is a bittersweet ode to a beloved place that has become unfamiliar over time.

dedicated to Judy and Stan.

- miles
credits
released September 8, 2022

“across the lake”
composition, performance: miles morkri

“lavender fields”
composition, performance: miles morkri
guitar, electric piano solo: telebasher

“out of the silent planet”
composition, performance: miles morkri
violin, viola: Michaela Nachtigall

“spokes”
composition, performance: miles morkri

“curve”
composition, performance: miles morkri
lyrics, vocals: Andrew Shenkman
keys solo: Button Masher

“ventifact”
composition, performance, lyrics: miles morkri
guitar solo: Matt Martin

“green”
composition, performance: miles morkri
drums: Max Morkri
violin: Michaela Nachtigall

“the garden”
composition, performance, lyrics: miles morkri
additional vocals: Sara Werbeckes, Matt Martin, the Infloresce garden

mastering: aivi & surasshu

album artwork: Helvetica Blanc

album art accessibility: Joanna Blackhart

video editing: miles morkri

drone footage: Gjerda

special thanks: aivi

INFLORESCE RECORDS
infloresce.com

ventifact (feat. Matt Martin)

from The Floor is Jelly OST.
http://disasterpeace.com/album/the-floor-is-jelly-ost

Mastered by Matthew Powell
Track Artwork by Nicolas Menard

This started as a simple 2 chord sketch on acoustic guitar, recorded back in 2012. I was thinking of using it for the first world of the game, and had called it "Autumn" along those lines. After revisiting it, I thought it might work better for the water world, in which I wanted a chill, laid back vibe. Also, Ian had already done music for the autumn level, and while I think he intended to have me replace all of his work, I was pretty fond of it and inspired by it, so I was more than happy to leave his work in. This production all came together only a few days before the game was released. I spent a good bit of time exploring other ideas for the ocean world, but many did not pan out. I tried mapping notes to the geography of levels, and some pretty weird and interesting phasing ideas, which felt too chaotic. Those tunes actually ended up in the last level of the game.

Swimming

Here's another little demo playing around with the "anti-harmonic" idea, but instead of using an equal temperament, I took the "pseudo-octave" of 1+phi and linearly divided it into 12 linear divisions in Hz. This is similar to the "primodal" approach from Zhea Erose but technically these aren't actually harmonics in the series.

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This is a really bizarre tuning - pretty much deliberately bizarre - which is "the opposite of Just Intonation." The timbre here is built on the golden ratio, which is often called the "most irrational number": if the first harmonic is called "1", then the second harmonic is 1+phi, the third is 1+2*phi, etc.

This tuning is derived from harmonics 12-24 from this antiharmonic series.

Antiharmonics - Arithmetic - 12-AD-(1+phi)

神God

a thing written for a game jam six months ago that ultimately went unused but i liked it so i thought i'd post it anyway

it's certainly been a while! i may be a bit preoccupied with things this year as i try to get more stable, but i plan on coming back as soon as i can. thanks again for your patience!

big space opening

I was trying to make Meshuggah sound cute

releasing this as a new addition to my 2016 compilation / album "the mondo zone"

available for name your price on band camp:

nelward.bandcamp.com/album/the-mondo-zone-2

art by noxlof

the mondo zone

download album!!

the MONDO zone [mondo zone compilation album out on bandcamp!!]

For a Final Fantasy 7-style game. Probably in the slums. But a well fed slum where there's excess pizza everywhere.

Grandparent Edition

Under The Pizza

Small pastiche of some music from the Etrian Odyssey series (wonderfully composed by the great Yuzo Koshiro).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqjW8NhnnTE

Also, I recently hit 1K followers, and this is incredible! I can't believe that so many people listened/are still listening to my music, and I'm very very grateful to every person who decided to give a listen to my work. I'll do my best to get better at music!

Labyrinth M - Deep Deep Woodlands

Felt like posting another WIP! ^_^ This time a eurobeat one currently in the works! Here's the extended instrumental to "Morning Glory", an original inspired by Cirno's theme from Touhou Project: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil :)

Inspired by the more classic eurobeat sound of the mid-1990's, which influenced I used in the old Forever NRG series.

Enjoy!

Arrange: Ryuko Pegasasu
Artwork: Yuriniel

Morning Glory (Cirno Theme) - Original 2018 Instrumental

This is mostly goofy experimental music theory stuff to see how different microtonal scales sound - no real musical compositions here (yet)

Antiharmonics - Arithmetic - 12-AD-(1+phi)

Mike Battaglia