one of two tracks i wrote for charlie puth's monthly course, and the first track off of my new EP.

"straight to voicemail" is available on bandcamp: https://coloradoweeks.bandcamp.com/album/straight-to-voicemail

touch and go

Rearrangement of "A Winter's Tale" by Moebius: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r95zpoI9-bo

My entry for the 2021 8-Bit Music Theory discord Secret Santa exchange.

Snow In The Valley

Chasing Chrysalism, arranged by Moebius for Mel Choyce

*Lyrics:*
Verse 1:
I am inside, safe and sound
From the storm that is around
Rain pounds on the roof above
Symphony of chaos and love

Chorus:
Chasing chrysalism, calm within the storm
I am at peace, as the rain takes form
The muffled words of an argument upstairs
Are drowned out by the sound of my despair

Verse 2:
Thunder roars, a far cry
Mighty power in the sky
But I am safe, inside this womb
Guarded from rage and gloom

Chorus:
Chasing chrysalism, calm within the storm
I am at peace, as the rain takes form
The muffled words of an argument upstairs
Are drowned out by the sound of my despair.

Bridge:
The tension builds, a crescendo of sound
But I am at home, on solid ground
The storm may rage, but I am free
In this moment, just me

Chorus:
Chasing chrysalism, calm within the storm
I am at peace, as the rain takes form
The muffled words of an argument upstairs
Are drowned out by the sound of my despair.

*Tracks used in the arrangement:*
Intro & Verse: "Transitional Longings"
Prechorus & Chorus: "Chrysalism"
Interlude: "Chasing Pavement"
Solo: "Sailing Boats" (Afternoon)

*Notes:*

I could not decide which song to do so I decided to do them all! Well, not quite all but as you can tell from the list above I did use 4 different tracks in this arrangement. This song is heavily inspired by "Marigold" by Periphery and uses a similar structure to it.

It was very clear to me that I wanted lyrics in this song, trying to put words especially to "Chrysalism". Alas, I am no lyricist so I had to resort to ChatGPT to give me a starting point which I then refined into the lyrics as they appear. My wife agreed to sing them and write fitting melodies to the verses and the chorus. The bridge is spoken by me and processed to give them an otherwordly and unsettling sound.

As for the actual material used, the intro and verse melody is an adapted line from section B from "Transitional Longings", made to fit 8 bars of 7/4 and 2 bars of 4/4. The intro of that song contrasts this by playing throughout the section 1:1 as is (albeit played much faster at 200bpm), so in 4/4 over the 7/4 bars, creating some rhythmic interest. The bridge is a string arrangement of the same material.

The 9 bar prechorus comes mostly from the intro from "Chrysalism" while the Chorus itself is an arrangement of the A section.

The interlude introduces a temporary tonality change by emphasizing F over F# from the previous sections, while playing and arrangement of bars 9-40 from "Chasing Pavement".


Last but not least, the solo is arranged from the "Afternoon" section from "Sailing Boats".Some additional melodies were written by me.

*Additional Credits:*
Vocal melodies by Azmodea
Vocals by Azmodea and Moebius
Lyrics by ChatGPT and Moebius

*Instrumentation:*
Lead Guitar
Rhythm Guitar
2 Supporting Guitars
Drums
Rock Organ
String Section
Flutes
Vocals

Chasing Chrysalism

Hi All! I decided to Arrange Verdanturf Town for this Weekly, bringing the GBA Soundchip Original into a Wind Quartet Piece featuring funky bassoon for an original take. I hope you enjoy!

Verdanturf Town

Composed in one week for the 8BMT Discord weekly challenge, "write a wintery tune without using metal percussion".

Riding the Winter Winds

For janethebane as part of the 2023 8Bit Music Theory Discord's Winter Secret Santa exchange.

Originally Pteradactyl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QnTkY4ThfI

I really liked the soaring feeling of this piece, and wanted to build on it more with additional wind instruments in place of brass. Some gentle piano paints the picture of a sunrise, while the combination of strings and winds evoke the early morning flight of a flock of pterodactyls. I layered in some additional texture and atmosphere to give the piece life.

Sunrise Flight

Made for the 8bmt discord weekly challenge: make a battle theme into a shop theme 

wowee zowee I sure made a thing

If you like it please give me all your Gil

FF7 Battle Theme but it's a Shop Theme

Written in a few days for the 8BMT Discord weekly challenge, "write a dragon-inspired piece that contains a leap of a sixth of more".

Happy Year of the Dragon!

Ride The Lightning Dragon

made for the 8bmt weekly original composition challenge prompt propmt prpomt daddy make me a big sanmdwich and I play the RPg from Japan

go fight an dragon you gormless dweeb

JRPG Music to Fight a Big Dragon to

Music to relax/ honk schoo mimimi to

Written for the 8bmt weekly arrangement challenge: arrange some pokerman music

Sing along you stinky bby!

Pokémon Original TV Theme But it's a Lullaby

This is my remake of one of the greatest soundtracks of all time on Amiga: The Settlers (Die Siedler). Played it so many hours back then.

The original is great although only three out of four voices were used. The fourth voice was used for sound fx. So I tried to close to the original by not using too many tracks at the same time.

Original composer(s): Markus Kludzuweit / Haiko Ruttmann (1993 - Blue Byte)

Gear used:
- Cubase 9.5
- Halion Sonic SE
- Custom made samples

Chasing Chrysalism

Moebius

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