Name: A Childhood Dream by rainstorm1977
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Description: I composed the first part of the song in 2014, for the project of a second 3SID Collection; the track was going nowhere, so I left it unfinished, until 2018, when I finished it and arranged it for two SIDs.

An old track I did 30 years ago. Just a snapshot to check how it would sound with synths and stuff... ;)

Tronic - Game Soundtrack - STUDIO REMIX

I composed the first part of the song in 2014, for the project of a second 3SID Collection; the track was going nowhere, so I left it unfinished, until 2018, when I finished it and arranged it for two SIDs.

A Childhood Dream

Thanks to Rolf Greven for hardware recording and David Youd for musical proof listening.

BWV 1043 Concerto for Two Sid chips in D-minor

Rondo from Beethoven's Sonata No. 8

This is the only tune of the 3 that has a proper title. The expression "Ayloch Nalem" is written in the ancient and mysterious Naissur language, which hasn't been fully deciphered yet. So I actually don't know what that expression means, but I liked it! I hope it hasn't a bad meaning!

The tune, that I started composing on June 5th (right after finishing "Tetraider III", which I started after writing the "Classic Ballad" tune for "Armonia"), picked up again on June 10th and then again on June 13th, and finished on June 14th, is a sort of "experiment", again, with harmony (of course!). This time I wanted to use something different to play (or, better, to suggest) the chords. One day I was listening to some songs from a singer who had joined the Eurovision Song Contest some years ago: she sang a song in english which I didn't like, but when, years later, I found out that same song sung in her language I instantly loved it, and I started listening to her other songs. One of those songs had a strange instrument which played with a nice effect. I tried to reproduced it on the SID with poor results, comparing it to the original one (which was "filtered", I think, but filtering it in my tune as well was really compicated), but since I didn't have much time I decided to leave it as it was, adding a nice reverb effect, and I built the tune around it!

I used some reverb on the melody too, and that's the reason why the bass and drums are so "simple" (or "poor", if you want).
I wish i had written a proper intro and a few more melody parts, but I had to perform it on June 18th and, again, I didn't have enough time...

Ayloch Nalem

Armonia - Tune 03 - Ayloch Nalem

On July 1st 2019 Qze roW of Atlantis asked me if I had or I wished to do one SID for a co-op demo with Delysid.
I hadn't got any SID done but I replied that I was interested to make one. So he showed me the demo (as it was back then), and I found it great!
My tune had to start on an owl picture drawn by Lobo which really blew me away and, of course, inspired me a lot! That's why I (later) named the tune Sc-Owl-Ing (which also references a verse of the quirky "The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles", by Jethro Tull)!

Not being able to memorize things for a long time makes you do interesting discoveries! :D
In fact before getting to the definitive tune (that I started composing on July 8th) I wrote 2 other tunes: the first one (July 4th) was very very simple and maybe too merry, so I discarded it pretty soon; the second one (July 6th-7th) was too "epic", and it probably suited a shooting game better (so maybe one day, if I still remember I did it and where it is, I may develop it); moreover, I found it was much faster than the tune that should have played before it in the demo.

And then on July 8th I finally came up with the melody of the current chorus and started a new tune (with that falling bass sound at the beginning to mock the current TV shows and ads! :D )!
The ending gave me some troubles: I wanted it to abruptly shift key (to mock Eurovision Song Contest songs... :D) but I wasn't sure how much halftones it should have gone up to.
On July 14th I decided they would be 2, and so the tune was finished. Or wasn't it?

In the night between July 18th-19th I started to work on a coda to accompany the newly added credits. I did a few tries before getting to the current version, and on July 20th the tune was ready to be put into the demo, which later would win the C64 Demo Competition at ATWOODS Summer Open-Air 2019.

The demo is really entertaining: there are lots of cool visual effects and many different parts, and Mythus SIDs are really cool! If you haven't watched it yet you can download it from the following link:

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=180604

Thanks for reading! :)

Sc-Owl-Ing

Sc-Owl-Ing (from ASOA 2019 demo)

Conversion of music from Millie & Molly (C64)

Swimming deeper

Reflects the current mood of many on Thursday 26th March 2020

Small

Thursday

A simple cover of "Childish Games" by Lstn, made in CheeseCutter (8580 SID chip only). For the original SID file, please visit DeepSID.

Children

My first tune in SID Factory II. It's a remix of "All Around The World" by ATC. It's also my first attempt at creating something I call "filter speech" which is speech emulation using filter and pulse in just one voice.

All Around The World

I started to write this tune... on June 4th 2018. I didn't remember that, honestly, and it's really odd because today it's June 3rd 2020.
At that time Atlantis was planning to do a demo for the Datastorm 2018. I think we had already come up with the theme and (as far as I remember) I was asked to write a tune. I finished it on July 22nd. I don't remember much about the composing process, except that it was painfully hard because the tune is one of the longest I've ever written.

it's made up of 2 parts. The 2nd part is a sort of tribute to one of my favourite bands. In fact I wrote two solos that were meant to sound as if the soloists of the band had played them. Of course they would have played much better solos than the ones I wrote... :)

In the end the tune was not used for the demo and remained sealed in our vaults... Until recently, when Doc Science asked me if we could use it for the scroller he was coding for the "Most Unreadable Scrolltext Scroller Compo (Mibri Edition)". He showed me the scroller and it was really amazing! That's why I asked him if I could write a new tune. Actually I never liked my "Datastorm" tune very much, maybe because it was too dark and gloomy (it was made on purpose, though), so my new tune turned out to be a quite merry one... maybe more suitable for a shoot'em up game than for Doc's scroller... :D

So finally we decided (and I must thank Doc Science for that!) to keep the old tune, which fits much better!

You can download the scroller from the link below:
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=191398

I also absolutely have to mention SRT for his magnificent graphics, part of which you can admire in the thumbnail, and Mibri, who inspired and co-organized the compo (with Genesis Project's hedning), broadcasting all the entries during the live shows on his twitch channel (https://www.twitch.tv/mibric64)!

Unlayereadibility

Unlayereadibility (Most Unreadable Scrolltext Scroller Compo)

Hello everybody! I'd like to gather all of my best music works on this Soundcloud profile, and I hope you like it. Feel free to comment and _enjoy_! :)

A Childhood Dream

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