Thanks For The Invite!

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/

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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

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

ブルックスはかく語りき / Also Sprach Brooks

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

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

In this set of listening examples, common practice works have been retuned to exotic tunings in which the relative structure of the diatonic scale is always preserved, so that it always takes the form of LLsLLLs (for "Large step" and "small step," respectively). The perfect fifth, which generates the scale, is allowed to vary from as flat as 7-EDO, where the diatonic scale is a perfectly evened-out "neutral" diatonic scale, to as sharp as 5-EDO, where the half step becomes so small that it vanishes, leaving a perfectly evened-out pentatonic scale.

The chosen spectrum of tunings is such that diatonic interval categories such as the "major third" may, at times, approximate different intervals from the harmonic series than they normally would in 12 equal temperament, just as long as the LLsLLLs scale pattern is consistently present in the tuning. These experiments aim to explore the properties of the "categorical perception" effect, and to see to what extent it exists and interrelates with the missing fundamental phenomenon and other psychoacoustic effects.

The "artwork" for this compilation describes the tunings used, and the properties of each one; click "Download Artwork" to view it.

In this particular set, the chosen composition is Bach's Fugue in C Major (BWV952).

Bach - Fugue in C Major (BWV952) - 31-EDO

commissioned by rokuhaze
vocals done with N163 (6 channel)

Umineko no Naku Koro ni (PC OP)

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

Bach - Fugue in C Major (BWV952) - 31-EDO

Mike Battaglia