2014

beach hut

kyubey - car ride

とぼけがおさん、ライブに誘ってくれてありがとうございます！
song i made specifically for tobokegao's 30th birthday

the other dude in the pic made curry for the live event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbvXwbQlg4s

happy 30th bday tobokegao!

rose of sharon - lily of valley

mmmbop2 - Dawn Elegy

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 ☄️⛈️🌊

11 - plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - III. seafloor spread

09 - plate tectonics (feat. ZBW) - I. transform fault

06 - the forest is for the trees (feat. october williamson) - II. chorale

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!

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This composition was first set to a more aggressive style with the Comanche as a basis for a Prelude for Orchestra.  With some help from Suno.com and work in the studio it is now rearranged to an interesting compromise with a merging of the thematic material transported and reformulated.  Jazz elements deliver an interesting interplay with the Western native American themes (why not?). The Rocky Mountains were called the Shining Mountains by the Ute (an Indigenous people of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau in present-day Utah, western Colorado, and northern New Mexico., U.S.A.). 

Visions of the Shining Mountains

“Breath of the Strings — After Midnight” is an intimate late-night jazz journey told through the voice of an upright bass. Every track is a story whispered after the world has gone quiet — warm rooms, soft lamps, empty glasses, and emotions you can only admit when the night is listening.

Led by deep, expressive upright-bass lines and supported by soft Rhodes piano, brushed drums, and gentle sax, this album feels like stepping into a tiny jazz club long after closing time. It’s emotional, comforting, nostalgic, and cinematic — the kind of music that lets your heart breathe again.

Created for Sunny Bear Radio, and officially released under DJ Sunny Bear, this album is part of our mission to bring music into the world to help support Sunny Bear Rescue. Thank you for listening, sharing, and letting these quiet stories into your night.

A lot of songs put out (including this) so far has been older music DJ Sunny Bear made. 

Come sit in the glow of the low strings. The room is warm. The lights are dim. The music is ready to heal something soft inside you.

9. Soft Hands, Soft Strings

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)

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quarkimo

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