Faster Than Light (but Not Fast Enough)

My submission to July 2024 Dwelling of Duels competition. Ended up placing third overall. Was an awesome experience and everyone that contributed to the piece did an amazing job.

ZackParrish: Arrangement, Production, Keys, Guitar, Mixing, Mastering

Emunator: Production, Keys, Sound Effects

TSori: Trumpet

Shea's Violin: Violin, Additional Parts

Sean R. Hanson: Auxiliary Percussion

GameroftheWinds: Flute

Pearlpixel: Oboe

Chromatic Apparatus: Cello

"Dancing with the Wind" - Gusty Garden Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy

Arranged for Discord 8-Bit Music Theory Summer Santa 2024.  An arrangement of:  https://soundcloud.com/duncan-abrahart/fantasy-flight-1

Arrangement, original draft of bass+guitar - Me (mtaur)
Mixing, editing, and guitar solo - Moebius ( https://soundcloud.com/moebius-the-composer )
Piano/Organ - DerHealsmann ( https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly )
Drums, misc extra - Lampie23 ( https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334 )
EWI - Keeba - ( https://soundcloud.com/kee-ba )
Barbershop quartet + arrangement - wilmx042, ViolaBuddy, metamoogle ( https://soundcloud.com/rkirsling ), Jesse!

Supernatural Submarine

For @markositta

My arrangement for the 8Bit Music Theory Discord's Summer Santa, 2024

Tons of Evil

Written for the 8BMT Discord weekly challenge, "Compose two contrasting title themes".

Touge Thursday - Title Theme Medley

For https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334 as part of the 2024 8Bit Music Theory Discord's Winter Secret Santa exchange.

Originally Mad Dancing: https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334/mad-dancing

I loved this original! It was a great prompt:

> Create a piece that includes a level section, boss section, and an optional post-boss section and your piece must include at least one modulation

And I thought Lampie did a really great job with it, going beyond the prompt into a five-part concept piece. The whole thing was really groovy and easy to listen to, and felt like an SNES soundtrack. I was especially attracted to the bass grooves, so I started my arrangement with those as the base (hehe) and then built up, trying to change the overall genre and mood. Once I had the arrangement sketched out, I started to narrow down more on the overall instrumentation and details like transitions, texture, etc. I found some cool Speak & Spell samples that I thought complemented the piece well, so I crafted those into an underlying story of playing a game that sounded like it was inspired by the 80s. Had a lot of fun with it!

Rad Dancing

Tommy Tremolo - SpindaSaturn
Anthony Taft Moogleman - metamoogle
Martha - Allison (irl MTaur's sister)
Linda - Mel
Lenny - Lampie23
Clara - spouselady

Adrift Once More - skit

Arrangement for Minotaur https://soundcloud.com/mtaur
Babbysville Diner and Triton

Tidal Wave

8-bit Music Theory Summer Santa 2025 arrangement of "Until Our Paths Cross Once More"

Original composition - Toby
Harmonica, lead sheet arrangement - me https://soundcloud.com/mtaur
Mixing, guitar - https://soundcloud.com/moebius-the-composer
Piano - https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly
Drums - https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334
Vibraphone - https://soundcloud.com/rkirsling
Bass, tenor sax - https://soundcloud.com/timmitei

Live versions recorded at Aretha's Jazz Cafe:
https://youtu.be/kLoeQs77ruw
https://youtu.be/xp_Tjnfvhl4

Until Our Paths Cross Once More

Another entry into the 8-bit weekly challenges! This time, we were tasked with writing a piece for a solo performer based on the moon. Now, any normal, sane person would see that this challenge was made for piano or harp or any instrument that can produce at least two tones at once. Fortunately, I am neither normal or sane, So I chose solo Bb clarinet. The following is what I came up with.

Faster Than Light (but Not Fast Enough)

Moebius

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