Stream Time

This is a track made for the NGMT contest on Newgrounds, where the theme of the round was:
"Biodome - On a new planet or future earth where the surrounding environment is hostile, a biodome is a place where normal life can still exist."

The challenge was that every submission had to be made in 3 days and I started a day late, so this was tough to make, but nevertheless ambitious since I even got someone else to help out, making this a collaboration between me and Echo (http://echo.newgrounds.com)

Hope you enjoy it. I'm quite proud of it. Check it out on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/538714

Encapsulation

This here is a medieval track for a game I was asked to make music for! Well, at least it's supposed to sound medieval! Hope you enjoy it.

Listen to it on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/544290

The Festival

Another song for the soundtrack of an upcoming game I made music for. This song is supposed to sound airy, uplifting, and follow the theme of "Sky". Hope I achieved that!

Listen to it on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/546426

Sky's The Limit

The final track for the soundtrack of an upcoming game I made music for. It's supposed to sound like a laboratory in a cave, which I hope I achieved by throwing in loads of metal/electronic/industrial/machinery sounds, along with lots of reverb and cave ambience.

Listen to it on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/547038

Automation

Rush Of The Rainforest

This is a track Erik Scerri and I made for the HUGE Harmony of Heroes project, a fan-arrangement album filled with 101 arrangements of Smash Bros tracks! Check it out here.
http://www.harmonyofheroes.net/

This here is primarily an arrangement of the Encounter theme in Metal Gear Solid. You'll also hear the Caution Mode theme from MGS3 in the intro and even the MGS2 theme later! The voice was by a good friend of mine, Benjamin Gatt, and the guitar at the start is from the talented Pontus Lundén. Fun fact; the alert sound in here, despite sounding like the effect used in the games, is entirely original! It took quite a bit of research and playing around to get right, but I managed to emulate it through the use of brass.

Anyway, this was an adventure of a track to make. Echo and I went on a HUGE music-making marathon to finish this. We used FL Studio to make it, with various plugins, including East/West Symphonic Orchestra Silver, Hollywood Brass, Hollywood Strings, Stormdrum 2 and Pianos Gold. We also used Omnisphere, Vengeance samples, Cinebrass and VOXOS.

We wanted to make a track that not only appeals to Super Smash Bros fans but to Metal Gear fans. Being a passionate Metal Gear fan myself, I couldn't help but add little nods to the series like the voice lines being actual script from Metal Gear Portable Ops, and of course the alert sound which we took a while to perfect. Above all, we wanted to emulate what it feels like to get discovered by the enemy in-game. The tension right before getting found, the way the excitement is heightened after the enemy calls for backup, etc. Our aim was not just to arrange Encounter, but to make it FEEL like an encounter. It's a huge track, clocking in at exactly 7 minutes (or rather 420blazeit seconds) and we hope you enjoy it!

76 This Is Snake

This is a track I made for the HUGE Harmony of Heroes project, a fan-arrangement album filled with 101 arrangements of Smash Bros tracks! Check it out here.
http://www.harmonyofheroes.net/

Here we have an orchestral Song of Storms arrangement featuring Christopher Woo with his excellent viola performance! There's also Serenade of Water and Saria's Theme featuring slightly in the track as cameos.

For this I used East/West Symphonic Orchestra Silver, Hollywood Brass, Hollywood Strings, Stormdrum 2, Ra and Pianos Gold - basically my whole East/West collection. I also used royalty free sound effects and textures from Omnisphere.

I wanted to emulate a storm over here (if it wasn't obvious). However, rather than just go the obvious route of simply adding sound effects, I felt like the instruments should also reflect the storm. You'll hear wind whistling with the music at the start, a piano rising and falling in chromatic scales to emulate wind, timpani playing alongside thunder, and overall a dynamic listening experience that represents both the calmness and calamity of a storm. I really hope you enjoy it!

26 Tune Of Tempests

This is a track I made for the HUGE Harmony of Heroes project, a fan-arrangement album filled with 101 arrangements of Smash Bros tracks! Check it out here.
http://www.harmonyofheroes.net/

For a total change in direction, have some jazz/swing! This is an arrangement of the Donkey Kong Congo Jungle theme, with cameos of the Tiki Tak Tribe theme from Donkey Kong Country Returns and the Overworld theme from the franchise too. This would not have been made possible without the REAL INSTRUMENTS and amazing jazz improvs by these extremely talented people:

Live Instrument Coordinator - Samuel Hébert
Trumpet - Félix Rheault
Flute and Tenor/Alto Saxophone - Alexandre Beaudry Corbeil
Trombone - Jérôme Boisvert
Acoustic Guitar - Félix Blackburn and Jonathan Gjertsen

Apart from those instruments, I used East/West Stormdrum 2 VERY heavily in this track, along with Symphonic Orchestra Silver, Ra, Omnisphere and royalty free animal sound effects.

This is a total departure from my usual style but since I love the original track I just had to arrange it. Thanks to camoshark in particular for giving me a lot of help with the track, and of course coordinating all those talented musicians. I hope you like this departure from my usual style!

Jungle Swing

Hey! This here is an arrangement of a couple of Guild Wars 2 themes composed by Lena Chappelle. These are the tracks in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH1IQ_fZjto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-fee1rP48I

There are also some nods to music in the soundtrack composed by Jeremy Soule, so credit goes to him too!

I'm a huuuuge fan of Guild Wars 2 and its soundtrack, and I thought it was about time I made a tribute to it. This uses FL Studio 11, East/West libraries, and Omnisphere. 35 hours of work went into it.

I hope you enjoy it! Credit goes to these two wonderfully talented people for their live recordings in this track!

Violin - Matt Macellaio: http://www.soundcloud.com/trikeair
Vocal - Alwiren: https://soundcloud.com/alwiren

The City of Gold

After over two years of on-and-off work, here we have a Celtic-inspired score for NeroGeist's awesome new animation, The Clairvoyant Prologue, as part of his Guardian animation series. I highly recommend that you check it out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZxdXqykXRk

This uses East/West libraries and Omnisphere, and everything was composed in FL Studio 12. Special thanks to samulis for recording additional instrumentation and Ceevro for the acoustic guitar!

Hope you enjoy :).

The Clairvoyant OST

An orchestral track for the Orchestral MAC hosted by BrokenDeck. I didn't win anything, but had a blast making this track. Probably one of the tracks I worked the hardest on. Listen to it on Newgrounds:
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/469873

Sanctuary

A Video-Game-styled track I cooked up during the time that I should've been studying for exams. I basically did it to show that orchestral isn't the only thing I know how to do :P. Kind of a modern twist to 8-bit music I suppose. Thanks to Mrmilkcarton for mastering!

Listen to it on Newgrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/419286

Pixelated World

A Moroccan-styled track I made for a school project. Uses a lot of ethnic instruments from East/West Ra, including a zourna, oud and Mid-Eastern string section. Thanks to Tomppaah for the mastering!

Listen to it on Newgrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/480190

Morocco

Another Moroccan-styled track, but this time with more of a modern twist on it. I tried throwing in traditional/Eastern instruments and using the Phrygian scale (for the first time) to give it an ethnic sound but still make it easy to dance to. This was danced to in a school play.

Thanks for the listen! Here it is on Newgrounds: http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/483249

Dance of the Jnun

Sometimes there are projects that take a little eternity. They'll get started, dropped and picked up again in a frequent manner and the as time passes by, you'll start to doubt that they're ever completed. 

Dreams of Flight is a piece that I started thinking about in 2008, I wanted to challenge myself writing a Symphony piece of extraordinary proportions containing powerful themes and clever orchestration, all packed into a Hollywood worthy production. The subject was storytelling through music, something a few listeners would often highlight in my arrangements. Filmmusic needs to tell a story after all, otherwise it could just be described as background music. I started this piece with a piano suite and wrote the first themes in 2009, when I actually began writing the track in 2010, I started to work on a feature film, marking my entrance into the commercial world of scoring. Due to these forthcoming commercial project the progress of this piece started to become negligible, there were times where I laid it down for half a year, picked it up again only to drop it again one week later. Luckily my experience and technical possibilities have evolved greatly during that time which enabled me to lift the quality of this track into new heigths. However, getting back into the piece after half a year wasn't easy sometimes and often left me with a headache.

The piece is portraying all sorts of excitements one could get from orchestral music. You'll spot some obvious influences like Powell's Dragon score as well as nods towards Zimmer and Alan Menken which have always been my favorites. However, with this piece I was aiming for a signature sound, with thematic quality high enough that one could easily mistake it for a suite to an animated movie. This piece was supposed to be used for my application at Berklee, but knowing what they charge composers I'm currently rather doubtful that I'll make an entrance there, it's just too expensive.

Dreams of Flight contains 4 movements, similar to a symphony but not following the rules excactly. So I want to use this term with caution.

1. Once upon a Nighttime

The piece makes a calm start with woodwind solos and light orchestration. This part was inspired by Irish Folk music, putting a strong storytelling aspect into the piece. It ends with a buildup that hints at the main theme.

2. Building upon Dreams

A typical montage arrangement introducing the main theme and its continuation. The second part was obviously influenced by Powell's Dragon score, ending with the "musical line of awesomeness", rowing a line of exciting themes.

3. Journey

At this point the piece will calm down and move back to a similar sound as heard in the first movement with the focus on wind solos. In the second part it goes back to the familiar montage sound, but with a lesser presence focusing on explorationary aspects. It ends with a buildup towards the last movement.

4. Limitless

The most powerful and epic movement, throwing everything around that was introduced in the former movements. Several ups and downs here with the focus to never run out of energy. It ends with the maintheme similar to the second movement.

This piece would've never been possible without the great players who performed in this piece. I'd like to thank everyone who had the patience and time to record for this piece!

Kristin Naigus: Oboe, English Horn, Tin & Low Whistle
Sean Lin: Clarinet
Daniela Koch: Flute
Berker Sen: Bassoon
Mario Hinke & myself: Some choir voices

Special thanks to: Robert Eisenhauer (for introducing me to a flute player), Toniko Pantoja (for keeping me motivated), Mario Hinke (additional motivation) and Eastwest Quantum Leap for their excellent libraries.

Dreams of Flight

Primoris from Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run, remixing the Metroid Prime 1 Menu/Credits Theme. Collaborative effort with Erik 'Echo' Scerri.

Check it out on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/511709

Primoris

Guardians of Old from Harmony of a Hunter: 101% Run, remixing the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Luminoth Theme. Thanks to Jonathan 'Buoy' Gjertsen for the acoustic guitar.

Check it out on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/511706

Guardians of Old

To download follow the link: 

http://www.shinesparkers.net/harmonyofahunter/download/

Based on "Final Mission Resolve" by Kuniaki Haishima for Metroid: Other M
Original MIDI programming and additional orchestration by Luis A. Flores
Mixed by Stephan Wells
Mastering by Lee Barber
Album Artwork by Nate Horsfall

Harmony of a Hunter 101% Run is possible thanks to Darren Kerwin and Torbjørn Brandrud

Unfinished Business (Harmony of a Hunter 101% Run)

This here is a track made in a sneaky/suspicious mood for the NATA competition on Newgrounds. I'm not too proud of this one, to be honest, but I do hope it does well in the competition!

Made with FL Studio, Omnisphere, Vengeance, East/West Ra and mda ePiano. Thanks goes to camoshark for helping me with a chord at the beginning.

Check it out on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/528535

Shady Operations

This here is an adventurous piece of music made for the NATA music competition held on Newgrounds. In this contest we have to make a short track that portrays a particular mood, my mood being adventurous.

This uses FL Studio, East/West Symphonic Orchestra Silver and East/West Stormdrum.

Check it out on Newgrounds!
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/528993

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