RAW
for chamber ensemble and audience

Allison Damon, trumpet
Derek Easterday, tenor sax
Andrew Tjandra, cello
Rachael Fasano, hammered dulcimer and percussion
Eric Peterson, percussion

Synthwave sampler track for SYNTHDREAMS VGM Pack album.
Includes samples of all 15 tracks in the pack.
The perfect music for emotional moments, intense battles, and funny interactions for your video game!

Sadness Protocol

Original big band arrangement of Ruder Buster from deltarune. Original music by Toby Fox. Arranged by Derek Easterday.

Ruder Buster for big band (midi)

RAW, volume iii

Project Unity is a composition written for classical orchestral instruments, choirs, organ, electric guitar and bass, and an 80's synthesizer.  With this instrumentation, there is both a sense of unity throughout the piece, but also unity within diversity. Each major ensemble (instrumentalists, choir, percussion, and electric instruments) is featured throughout Project Unity, and the choral feature is meant to have us ponder and reflect on why we need unity in the world. Why is it important?

Musically, there are 3 themes you will hear throughout the piece. The major
seventh chord is used frequently in the unity theme, moving by mediants and
conveying change and the beauty that we can find within it. The second theme is
spearheaded by the synthesizer and electric instruments and the third by the
choir.

Project Unity, LIVE

This is a fun, silly song that makes fun of the concept of Zen with the premise that the narrator's sense of "zen" is fragile and shouldn't be f*cked with. The song mirrors this dynamic by starting with a calm piano line that quickly evolves into an aggressive synth line. This dynamic is further reinforced with a spacey, trancey bridge followed by an especially aggressive ending. The song was spontaneously recorded in Ableton in a cabin near Nelson, BC and then mixed in Seattle, WA and Brooklyn

Don't Fuck With My Zen

Psalm 96 is a unique piece for choir (SATB) and orchestra. It does not utilize the entirety of the text, rather it has excerpts focusing on a few of the main themes. Psalm 96 is primarily in a minor key, with a few moments in major where we see God's light.

Psalm 96

Animal Friends: Dog loves Cat

Ernest finds the Ghost-Hunting business ain't what it used to be