フォニイ / phony [3-N163]

Icthyophaga leucogaster - the 'Fish-eating White-belly'

ARRrRrR YE SCALLYWAGS!!! GO FLY THE PLANK!!!! YARRRR

Ahem. White-bellied Sea Eagles, as their name suggests, are a species of eagle that prefer places along the coast or near water. It's an opportunistic carnivore, which means it feeds on most prey it comes across, including carrion - though fishes are its main prey. For marine prey, they use a rapid down-and-backward grab while flying low over the water surface.

Part of the White-bellies' courtship ritual may feature an acrobatic feat where two birds lock talons in the air and cartwheel downward, letting go and re-ascending once near the ground (though I've not been lucky enough to see this irl). This behaviour is not exclusive to courtship though, and may be associated with aggressive defense of territory.

Locally, these birds are our heaviest and largest raptor species, measuring up to 85cm (33.5'). You might hear them before you can spot them - their loud honking calls are often heard during their breeding season. In flight, they have a shallow 'v'-shaped pose and their black flight feathers at the outset of their wings conspicuously contrast with the rest of their white plumage from afar.

The calls recorded in this track were taken from Sungei Buloh where there have been a few recorded nesting pairs over the years. Anecdotally they seem to be mobbed by House Crows (Corvus splendens) very often while in flight (in the recording a pair was being followed around by a flock of minimally 15~20 crows).

Lastly, while this bird was originally placed with Bald Eagles, Steller's Sea Eagle etc. in the genus Haliaeetus, this name, with genus Icthyophaga, follows the International Ornithological Congress (IOC)'s world bird list, following a genetic study that placed it in a newly-revived genus apart from the original from 2018. Ultimately where the line is drawn between one genus and another is a little arbitrary, so you might still see papers from recent years not mentioning genus Icthyophaga at all.

For further reading and references:-
Wee, Y.C. (2007). "Aerial display: White-bellied Sea Eagle". Bird Ecology Study Group. https://besgroup.org/2007/03/12/aerial-display-white-bellied-sea-eagle/

Gill, F., Donsker, D., Rasmussen, P. (eds). (2025). "Taxonomic Updates". IOC World Bird List v15.1. https://www.worldbirdnames.org/new/updates/taxonomy/#:~:text=Icthyophaga%20leucogaster

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-bellied_sea_eagle
Bird Society of Singapore: https://singaporebirds.com/species/white-bellied-sea-eagle/
E-Bird: https://ebird.org/species/wbseag1/

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DAW (deprecated): www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk

VSTis:-
- Cakewalk TTS1; piano, harmonica, bells, trumpets, yangqin, additional bass, wave sfx (deprecated)
- Ample Bass TR6 (https://www.amplesound.net/en/pro-pd.asp?id=43 )
- V-Station; lead synth, brass synth (https://downloads.novationmusic.com/novation/legacy/ )
- Dexed; flute, higher bells (https://asb2m10.github.io/dexed/ )
- Steven Slate Drums 5.5; drumset (https://stevenslatedrums.com/ssd5/ )

Spritework was made in Aseprite: www.aseprite.org/

This track is distributed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Birds from the Void Deck II

Icthyophaga leucogaster

2016年10月28日発売の美少女ゲーム「Liber_7 永劫の終わりを待つ君へ」の試聴曲です。

オフィシャルサイト： http://lass.jp/

Liber_7

The Damned (vo:リブユウキ) - (c)Lass「Liber_7 永劫の終わりを待つ君へ」

横スクロールアクションゲームのBGMをイメージした曲です。

物語の終盤に立ちはだかる、唯一の「縦スクロールシューティング」面をイメージしました。
残る敵を殲滅すべく、戦闘機に乗り込んで大気圏を突き抜け、敵の拠点であるマザーシップを目指す…といったステージです。

OUTER SPACE

横スクロールアクションゲーム風の曲です。

青空に浮かぶ雲や虹などを次々飛び移っていくような、アスレチック面を想定して作曲しました。
清々しい背景とは裏腹にアクロバティックな構成で、気が抜けない…そんな雰囲気です。

Original musics

BLUE SKY

Twilight Summer

THE SKY WARRIOR

genre:
Future Bass

source:
A Flower Studded Sake Dish on Mt. Ooe


TOHO SYNDROME is a Hardcore-oriented 東方Project arrange album. It has something for everyone - Harstyle, Psytrance, Gothic, Future Bass, Dubstep, Speedcore and so much more. I collaborated with ShinkoNet and Saga Rebelion to bring you this piece, and we are happy to present you some Touhou goodness.

original themes by ZUN (太田順也)
from the 東方 (Touhou Project) game series
produced by zetoban
featuring ShinkoNet, Saga Rebelion
art by sole gioioso

Umami packed Mountaineering

秋～冬にかけての寒々とした夜空をイメージして作曲しました。

知っている方もいるかもしれませんが、この曲は他サイトで4年前に公開した曲のアレンジ兼フルバージョンです。
知人からのリクエストにより、今回アレンジすることにしました_(┐「ε:)_

Cold Night Sky

This track is from the second incarnation of Nintendium-118, a collaborative chiptune compo hosted by the PSG Cabal themed around the elements. Each entrant was randomly assigned an element from the periodic table, and had to create a chiptune track based around it. This year's release features a healthy mixture of newcomers and alumni from Volume 1, leading to a compo that is familiar, yet also refreshingly novel.

You can download the entire album through these links:
FLAC: https://www.mediafire.com/file/rp70qleuldtkk44/Nintendium-118_-_Volume_2_%2528FLAC%2529.zip/file
MP3: https://www.mediafire.com/file/e19gemanh2bsqqv/Nintendium-118_-_Volume_2_%2528MP3%2529.zip/file

Created by Petet (@symphonynth)
"oxygen: life-giving, refreshing, with combustive potential.  2A03 + VRC7"

Mastered by MelonadeM (melonadem.carrd.co/)
Cover art and title designed by Teuthida (https://twitter.com/Teuthida256)
Organized by Aquellex

Nintendium-112 Vol. 2

Petet - (oxy)gentle Skies

久々のスーファミRPG風BGMです。
海に面した小さな町をイメージして作成しました。
SFC音源ということで最大8和音ですが、少ない音数でもしっかり盛り上げられるよう心掛けました。

潮騒の町

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I am a music composer mainly working in video game music and instrumentals.
Also, I am a representative for Independent music label “Sound Sepher”.

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強烈なサウンド・退廃的でスローなサウンドを得意としており、その二面性を活かして様々な楽曲を発表しています。