Put on some headphones and jam out while you climb up the infamous Mt. Om!

Consider buying the OST here: https://quarkimo.bandcamp.com/album/surmount-original-game-soundtrack

And grabbing the game on PC/Switch: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675000/Surmount_A_Mountain_Climbing_Adventure/?curator_clanid=43590953

ty for listening~

Buy on Bandcamp here!

Surmount (Original Game Soundtrack)

artwork: @sparklecats2009 & @ezip
music: @damifortune
piano arrangement & performance on "four seasonal offerings" (tracks 1-4): @rewitkin
guitar performance on "the forest is for the trees" (tracks 5-8): @october_stereo
flute performance on "plate tectonics" (tracks 9-11): @ZBWMusic
saxophone performance on "yukimarimo" (tracks 12-13): @dorkus-64
violin performance on "it rained after the fire" (track 14): @retropetet
drumset performance on "blue whirl" (track 15): @cryptovolans

Written with a ROLI Seaboard, soundchips from some very old machines, a piano, a field recorder, and some excellent instrumental recordings from friends.

Elemental Fusion is an album of collaborations with instrumentalists. In most cases, I asked friends to record a few minutes of improv or pseudo-improv to use as a springboard for writing a piece of music. The tracks would then be built around whatever they sent me, often chopped up and manipulated. The result is serendipitous; these works were pushed in unique, unexpected directions by my collaborators' performances. The compositional challenge was thrilling.

This album also interprets the word "fusion" in other senses - it is a spiritual successor to the similarly-named pair of diametrically opposed EPs I released in 2022, Elemental Harmony & Elemental Chaos, combining their respective styles of "melodic chiptune" and "ambient glitch" into one work that lives on a spectrum between them. It is a blend of acoustic warmth and digital processing. It is also a synthesis of many different styles, sounds and techniques that I've come to enjoy employing in my writing.

Elemental Fusion is perhaps my most challenging and varied work to date, and I think about it as a recital of sorts for the classical concert stage, a statement of purpose. To that end, detailed program notes are included with the album!

--HVB

Elemental Fusion

tickets here ☄️⛈️🌊

01 - four seasonal offerings (feat. rewitkin) - I. a fresh dewy coronet

The First Ascent Of Mt. Om

Race To The Top!

Campsite

Enigmatic Bulb (Zone 3)

Trodden Paths (Zone 1)

New Tully

A Specter Descends

Mountaineer Maker

Embark!

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Made for April's Beep Bishop competition, Stock Showdown! Based off of Radiant Guy.
https://tinyurl.com/2dztrsg5

can you turn that down a bit? i can't see you

knower - overtime (second section transcription/recreation i guess? idk)

Variety of EMD-esque songs, many with middle-eastern vibes and instruments

Down Minor Down

Order arises not from control, but from understanding. Every fragment of existence remains exactly where it belongs, woven into the silent mathematics of the cosmos. Between the pulse of the stars and the breath of thought, a balance unfolds, eternal and invisible. Harmony is not the absence of chaos, but its perfect arrangement; the silent alignment of all things within the geometry of being.

Radiant Silence

‘MEMETiC_T3ßŁÅŘÅĊȚ’ is a downtempo micro granular deepdive, into unseen worlds of #experimentalIDM #globalbass #ecstasy #tipperandfriends #charlesthefirst #latenightvibes #glitchhop #NikolaTesla #neuro

TESLÅRACT

composer for video games & animation~
constant genre wanderlust, but rooted in
digital fusion...thanks for listening!! <3

CONTACT: ryanyoshikami@gmail.com

Icon by Lara Reyes (https://twitter.com/kuneh0s)
Border by Isa Hanssen (https://twitter.com/isawiitchtalk)

Enigmatic Bulb (Zone 3)

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