8-bit Music

Three types of things populate this area: MIDI melodies that I plan on turning into compositions; computer music projects that failed to be great; xenharmonic doodles. You can tell which one each is by its corresponding picture.

Sketches (unfinished ideas)

It's an incredible sample of my writing ability in this medium. Baroque meets 20th century meets video games.

8 Bit Fugue-like Round

I used MIDI piano synth to have files of some of my better melodic personal compositions. The names are based off what I think the pieces sound like. These were not inspired by significant events, but are simply great melodies that I thought up. 

MIDI To Linger

MIDI Spirit Of Apology

MIDI Prime Fib

MIDI Feeling Of Falling

This work used a drone and long pauses, as well as the voice, to achieve an eerie and otherworldly effect. The drone continually morphs over one chord, but transitions between timbres. I wanted the piece to sound like it was too confusing to understand, but with hints of intelligibility. I also used Max MSP's vocoder capabilities to create the robotic effect in the voice. I also manipulated several sounds using granular synthesis and ring modulation, as well as convolution. The lyrics (which I wrote) are:

'Darkness drips with pallid sheen, and it makes its way to earth, whose halo hung with light cannot handle hubris.'
'Time passes, future and past, what writings ever shall last?
Ideas rock to and fro, never revealed or shown.'

Meant to sound very lofty, inaccessible, and even contradictory by confusion.

Invisible Machines

A chiptune version of Happy Birthday! Download it for free to say Happy Birthday to that special friend! If you want me to make an 8-bit version of a song, PM me! I take requests!

8-bit Happy Birthday

A chiptune version of the Imperial March! If you want me to make an 8-bit version of a song, PM me! I take requests!

8-bit Imperial March

A chiptune version of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star! If you want me to make an 8-bit version of a song, PM me! I take requests!

8-bit Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

A chiptune version of Jingle Bells! If you want me to make an 8-bit version of a song, PM me! I take requests!

8-bit Jingle Bells

A chiptune version of Mary had a Little Lamb! If you want me to make an 8-bit version of a song, PM me! I take requests!

8 Bit Fugue-like Round

Stephen Weigel