After a calming weekend at the beach and gaining inspiration from a latin jazz song, I decided to make an ominous grave yard soundtrack. Perfect timing for a month-early start to Halloween.

Omad Tbi

I've been wanting to leave the key of C and the major key world and decided to take a little dip in it. I tried to make this a little dreamy and a different tone from my last piece. The title is named after the fruit that the campus Chaplin gives out as I had ran into him before composing this.  

Photo: "South Pasadena 20140712" by caligula1995 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Tangerine

I had two songs in my mind when I was making this song: The Cat, by People Under the Stairs; and Intraspettro (CARRAIN ReMIX)by Carrain The Wanderer. One of the instruments I used is named "Called Quest" and I instantly was drawn to it for its static chill vibes. I decided to base my song around it but only got done with the first half. Then I took Intraspettro for some inspiration and turned the song on its head and focus on a percussive drive. Shout out to my dad for following me.

The Trinicat

This track was created only from the audio of me saying "Dew". I manually changed the pitch and effects to create the different sounds and instruments. I liked the ambient effects more than the melody, but figured I should post public because part of the artist journey is not being great all the time... or something like that.

Deww

This is more of what I wanted this song to sound like. Maybe it'll be one I continue to come back to. 

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The Trinicat Vr.2

It's short but I'm quiet happy with how this song turned out. It was my first time using Musecore to score a piece so it was a load off of my shoulders to be back in familiar grounds. I have been wanting to do a piece with inspiration from the ocean and am really happy with how it turned out. 

Photo: Megan MothersheadKerr, Creative Commons, some rights reserved

Bobbing Apples

To conclude my Electronic Music course, we were paired with a team in the Game Development course to make a soundtrack and sound effects for their final project. My group's video game is "Iris for Persephone", a Greek inspired game following a wizard farmer who wants to gift his wife with irises but needs to ward off hungry evil bunnies. The has two game play styles. One is a day time farm simulation and the other is a night time farm defense game. 

I was tasked with the night time portion, "Stressful Night." My biggest goal in this piece was to make it ominous but catchy, much like my favorite songs from other video games like Stone Tower Temple and Narshe Mines. I listened to a lot of traditional Greek music and what others like Assassins Creed and the 300 have done to have an action or ambient soundtrack that is Greek inspired and took some notes from them. One of note is the "Bouzouki" solo I included near the end of the song, edited from Olympiakos by Christian Faivre. 

It has been a great pleasure making music this semester and I plan to make more in future, albeit with less frequency because I have no deadline or grade attached to it. Hope y'all enjoy!

Photo: "Moon over the farm" by hickdon is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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