starstreak wip

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

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!

Big Wall

Follow My Lead

Olimark's Theme

Under A Friendly Roof

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

the sapling knight and the snow clam ascend a castle made out of jelly. it's hard to walk in there.

the floor is soft

play

for a change no samples, using Nexus, Sylenth, Serum synths, some marimba, played bass
 and real guitar plug in.. 
and hopefully a happy vibe
of all the vids, this's worth watching, best analysis i've come across
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVU2X95oEg4

Times they are a changing.

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)