I was asked to write this song for a team doing a game jam that I was participating in. The game they made can be played here: jiggies.itch.io/cockroach-in-the-kitchen

Album art based on work by lunorevo (www.instagram.com/lunorevo/)

Notes and stuff:
- The bulk of this song was written in about 6 hours. I received a request to write something at about 3PM and finished a full draft at 10PM.
- This is my first song that uses Kontakt, a plugin that runs sample libraries that literally all of my friends have owned for years.
- This is also the first song I've written in a good while where I'm genuinely excited about the result. I hope you also like it

Bean (Cockroach in the Kitchen)

Track 2 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

A landscape of an upbeat, colorful park.

Places From My Dreams

Bumble Fair

Track 3 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

A landscape of a developing seaside village.

Alta Cove

Track 1 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

The emotional setpiece. The context underlying everything that will and will not happen.

In Seams

Track 4 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

A landscape of a thunderous, raging skyline.

Vengeant Heights

Track 5 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

A cozy interlude in empty space.

Snail Lounge

Track 6 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

The sincere and purposeful journey of a pinball through a randomized obstacle course.

Procedurally Generated Jumping Ball Land

Track 7 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

A landscape of endless red sands.

Rubic Desert

Track 8 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

A landscape of tornadoes on floating gardens.

Blackwing Gales

Track 9 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

Inevitable.

Worlds End

Track 10 on Places From My Dreams, an adventure album about exploring worlds that weren't meant to be.

The final acceptance of what has happened, and the ability to move on.

In Dreams

We waltz across the ivory keys,
A natural dance for two.
Into the seas of beats in threes,
I sink in sync with you.

1f1n1ty: The moment I heard Miyolophone's amazing composition and journey-like style, I knew a collab would happen eventually. It was inevitable. Frankly this has been one of the most fun collabs I've ever done. Can we trade soundsets for a day, Miyo? :P

Miyolophone: 1f1n1ty made me keep the poem out of the original Chips entry, which was sad, but he put it here without me even asking him to, which makes it better. (Oh also this was lots of fun to help with and I'm super happy with it and thanks for working with me man)

Also we won first! Here's the entry page: https://chipscompo.com/entry/483

Onefin + Miyolophone - Ivory Dance

I was not ready for this track. I was not ready.

This track was made for the tenth CHIPS competition. CHIPS is a weekly contest in which members anonymously post entries made along a certain theme and vote on other entries. It's a small-scale competition that emphasizes positive feedback and thonking memes. The tenth compo's theme was "Dreams", and I tried to capture that through the sight of a dragon ascending to a floating island.

For real, I started making this thing in full expectations for it to either flop or be very average in quality. But then I kept going... and it was like the track was a train and I had just been hit by it at full speed. And I guess you could say the flight inside of me took me up there.

A journey in the Aeolian mode. It parallels my previous piece Peaks in a number of ways, but also takes its own liberties and style. It also contains a reference to a pretty notable Pokemon Mystery Dungeon theme somewhere in there. Big props to Miyolophone for being the prime inspiration for this track, check him out here: https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/770292

STATS:
Logged time: 12 hours, 19 minutes
Channels: 106
Tracks: 18
Keys: Ebm - Abm - Cbm - Ebm - Eb - Bbm
Tempo: 80 - 68/72 - 70 - 105 - 60/130 - 80 - 78/82 - 80 - 121 - 60
Time: loose 4/4 - 6/4 - 2/2 - 4/4 - 3/4 - loose 4/4 - 4/4 - 6/4 - 4/4
Reverb: a heck ton

Aeolia

DOWNLOAD THIS ALBUM HERE: 

https://onefin.bandcamp.com/album/kanons-ep

ABOUT KANONS:

The sound of Kanons rings higher in the land where fates are blazed in fire. Come and see what Kanon awaits, but beware, for the truth will seal your fate.

Tried out a new genre! Haven't done Drum & Space before. This was made for the Pokemon Creative Collective Megamix. What's that? It's a collection of original tracks produced by artists in the Pokeremixing community, put together (and ruthlessly advertised) by AlmightyArceus. Usually the Megamix is for remixes only but I've been on an off streak on those as of late - you can tell my excitement when I heard an originals collective was in the works.

The theme for that was "fire", so I made a track depicting fire. The main focus of the track's interest was meter changes - the bar length is in constant shift, while the tempo maintains a steady 90 bpm.

Album art is the cover picture on "Sabotage" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

ABOUT CALYCYCLE:

A homage to Calygon, a loop which I still believe to be my first good original.

At first this track wanted to be a full song. But as I kept making sections, it was becoming more and more clear that it was falling into the Seres trap of having zero cohesion whatsoever. So I said, "Screw it, let's do a loop instead". So I made the modulations throughout the track come back to the beginning.

Feel free to use this loop in a game or whatever as long as you give credit :)

Kanons

Have you ever tried putting a leaf on a lake and then putting a butterfly on the water on the leaf on the water and then attaching the leaf to a dragonfly with a spider silk or something and pulling it really fast? Y'know, it'd be a wakeboarding butterfly.

This track was made for CACAOPHONY Round 1. The Chips Cacaophony is the first larger scale event of the compo, and it's been really fun. This track placed second which is really really good!

This track is structurally inspired by Garlagan and productionally inspired by Miyolophone. The structure here is ABCBCDACB, with three drops and a very divergent D section, and the production takes roots from https://chipscompo.com/entry/1112. I'm in general really proud of this - I'm personally regarding it as my best work up until this point (though it isn't perfect). Hope you guys like it!

This artwork was made by STARSTRUCK! https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/starstruckish/wakeboarding-butterflies yay! go follow the little gremlin: https://starstruckish.newgrounds.com/follow

Wakeboarding Butterflies

The On Go EP consists of tracks which exemplify my usual intricacies but come with some unique twists.

GET THE ALBUM:
https://onefin.bandcamp.com/album/on-go-ep
https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/8c59894101bb480c49f543a96bebfc95

On Go

Massa Atmospherra

(Late upload)

An experimental vignette containing questionable yet likeable musical choices designed to fill the subsidiary space of my spring break hiatus.

This is technically my first song of the year which means we're off to a great start in the middle of March :)

Since I'm busy with making a game, you can get your next few fixes of 1f1 on my twitter: https://twitter.com/1f1n1ty_

Also consider supporting me on Patreon as stuff moves along for me: https://patreon.com/1f1n1ty

Consider following me on soundcloud as well if you're more into that site: https://soundcloud.com/1f1n1ty

And finally feel free to hop into my discord server where I'll let you know when cool things happen and we can chat if you like that kind of thing: https://discord.gg/zFdcGSt

An intricate piece to welcome the new decade.

This song has three distinct movements which heavily contrast each other. But a single melodic thread connects the three into one cohesive journey.

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20!

Onefin - 07 Diamond

Follow Stardew!
@Stardew
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Stardew - 06 Antiparallelogram (ft. Onefin)

Onefin - 05 Triangle

Follow iElectrocat!
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Matthew Oliver + Onefin - 04 Pentagon

Follow BilliumMoto!
@BilliumMoto
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BilliumMoto + Onefin - 03 Nonagon

Follow Miyolophone!
@Miyolophone
https://www.twitter.com/Miyolophone

Miyolophone - 02 Circle

Onefin - 01 Square

Onefin - 00 Theme

The namesake piece of an album I made featuring short video game music I composed in 2020.

LISTEN TO THE FULL ALBUM: https://onefin.bandcamp.com/album/a-cow-that-is-actually-a-chicken

A Cow That Is Actually A Chicken

BANDCAMP: https://1f1n1ty.bandcamp.com/
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DISCORD: https://discord.gg/zFdcGSt

Made for Audio Secret Santa '20. An electronic-orchestral hybrid that speaks to the stoppage of time.

I'm assigning post hoc a metacommentary meaning to this track that ties into one of my previous singles, Zo (https://soundcloud.com/1f1n1ty/zo-1). 2020 has been a crazy experience and I think the songs, side by side, resonate strongly with how my perspective on the state of life has changed.

Some musical notes about Nadir:
- Miyolophone and sleepless helped me with renders of various orchestral sounds. Cool people they are! You should witness their coolness yourself someday
- The sonic progression of the piece is constructed out of about six independent ideas that I figured out how to combine in a meaningful way.
- The crazy section at around 2.25 minutes in has 11-let swing with a 6-5 subdivision, which I didn't plan for when I was writing it but it felt like the appropriate timing
- I've had the main melody for this song in my head for a while so I'm happy that I was able to get it out in a way that I feel like does it some justice. Obviously I'll feel differently about that in a year when I improve some more

Enjoy. And thanks for your support this past year! It's been insane.

Nadir

PLAY THE GAME: https://1f1n1ty.itch.io/sub-string

@oncill

Coming Round

Technically an award-winning game developer and electronic musician. Creator of Gem Setter and Capsule Guy.

Please also follow me on a different platform, such as Twitter or Youtube. Soundcloud has an upload limit which prevents me from keeping a consistent archive of my past work uploaded.

Let's be friends!

Onefin

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