My first demo for 2013.

The first track is a sampler that features 15-30 second clips of all of the tunes in the demo; the rest of the tracks are my full-length original compositions, and they're presented in the order that they appear in the sampler.

Enjoy!

[Score.] Demo 2013

A 30-second looped battle theme, this minor blues was written for the TIGSource Musical Challenge IX. It features a modern jazz quartet of Rhodes, bass, drums, and percussion.

Hear and read more at www.scorevgm.com

Rules for the TIGSource Musical Challenge IX:

-Make a "battle" theme for a turn-based RPG (any style: fantasy, scifi, realistic, Poke-ish).  Loopable and 30 seconds or less. (*note: my track loops so the listener can actually hear how the loop sounds).
-Must be a new track made for this challenge

Mr. AC (Keep Your Cool)

From scorevgm.com:

“Monday’s Theme” is a very lazy, easy-going tune. I imagine that if there were actually people playing this, the banjo player would be sitting in a rocking chair on a porch, hat over his or her face with a long piece of wheat hanging out (or something equally as stereotypical). The whistler would be working out in the field, harvesting, gearing up for a long, hard work week, but not getting into things too quickly. Since everyone is so laid back and unworried, they’re just strumming along, not particularly worried about being exactly in time."

First person to locate and identify the musical quote within wins a no-prize!

Monday's Theme

Imagine your character arrives at a city in time for an enormous celebration. At first, the brass sounds off the procession of a king, but soon thereafter the lively festivities begin. Inspired by Yasunori Mitsuda’s work on the 'Chrono' series.

Hear and read more at www.scorevgm.com

Two side notes:
1. You can hear the original, unproduced version of the tune near the bottom of my main SoundCloud page.
2. This tune can be looped--you can hear how if you listen to the original version, although the transition on that version isn't so smooth (I like it better as one cohesive three-minute piece, which is why I didn't loop it here!).

Fanfare and Jubilee

Originally written to be more of an epic film track, “Behemoth” quickly evolved into a menacing boss theme. Listen for the woodwinds to provide hints of a sinister insanity above the lumbering brass and percussion.

There were two main influences for this piece:
1) Imagining a giant, threatening beast (like a Final Fantasy behemoth, except a boss-type one) bursting into a room prepared to devour you.
2) The zodiac boss fights in Final Fantasy Tactics.

The first vision is represented in the image, the second is represented in a YouTube video that you can view here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkt0rCuKWSk

Hear and read more at www.scorevgm.com

Behemoth

The intro tack to my 2013 demo reel, this sampler includes 15-30 second clips of all of the tracks in the demo. 

You may listen to all of the included compositions in full by accessing my [Score.] Demo 2013 set, or just by perusing my SoundCloud profile.

The order of the tunes in this sampler are:

1. Mr. A.C. (Keep Your Cool)
2. Behemoth
3. Fanfare and Jubilee
4. Monday's Theme
5. Hypothesis 209
6. A Binding Harmony
7. Heart of the Woods

Demo 2013 Sampler

VGM composer and leader of VGM/jazz sextet The Hard Modes. To learn more about me and my tunes, please visit www.scorevgm.com. Thanks for listening!

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Behemoth

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