Celestial Blade: Eclipse is a sword fighting rhythm game where you must win duels and allies in order to save your planet. This game was made in a week for the Women in Games Jam.

It features:
☆ Beatmapped songs
☆ Reactive dialogue; by failing rhythm sections players will unlock new interactions between the characters. 

Play the game: https://hlywa.itch.io/celestial-blade-eclipse

Celestial Blade: Eclipse OST - Moon Meets Sun

Celestial Blade: Eclipse OST - Crossing Swords

Celestial Blade: Eclipse OST - Clash of Knights

A relaxing icecream date at night. Made for Wrong Number VN: https://red-baby.itch.io/wrong-number

Wrong Number - Icecream Date!!

Character theme for the main character's best friend, Ash, a serious fellow. Written for Wrong Number. Play the game here: https://red-baby.itch.io/wrong-number

Wrong Number - Ash's Theme

Frog Knight

Forest of Faery

Forest of Mist

Credits track for Wrong Number, a BL VN. Play the game here: https://red-baby.itch.io/wrong-number

Wrong Number - Credits

art by Tenkain @tenkainu (twitter)
music, cello + vocals by me

a soundtrack made to accompany an interactive fairytale set above and beneath the winter waves, reworked into a haunting medley conjuring icy snowscapes & stark mountaintops ❄️ 🌊

if you'd like to play the game, it's available here (downloadable and in-browser): https://starlingoboe.itch.io/she-who-longs-to-return-to-the-water
(words + audio by me, programming by pke1029, art by Tenkain)

winter waters (a dark fairytale)

'seasons of piano' is my debut solo piano mini ep.

this is a light piano suite inspired by anime osts, 20th century French piano writing, & the colourful daily life of... everyone. it tells the story of different moods that a relationship can experience, from a playful summer to the cold wars of the winter, soon over with the rebirth of the spring!

sheet music & performance notes available on my site at https://starlingoboe.com/seasons :) i'd love for fellow pianists to enjoy adventuring through the sceneries of my little suite :)

cover illustration by Alice Lee https://www.byalicelee.com/

dayfever season

reverie

do canopies form clouds

melon soda

Made for a panel at PAX Aus in October 2023, "Same Game, Different Music" where five composers rescored a trailer from Hollow Hero then discussed our approaches, hosted by original composer Alec Shea.

Trailer with voiceover here: https://youtu.be/0-v4d-nuNII
Original trailer here: https://youtu.be/HFMWpMGMMkg?si=0iJTRadAFs-UMWi-

[Fantasy Trailer Rescore] Hollow Hero

art is by HeroForPain: https://www.deviantart.com/heroforpain/art/Stranger-Things-Never-ending-Story-805078916

stranger things x limahl - neverending story (dreamy instrumental)

daydreaming after school (solo piano)

lyrics:

if you are listening
i think that my eyes are draining away as tears
i’m rain-blind

spring, and i haven't shaken off my melancholy yet
wait for me
if you wait, i'll know that there is something i can do

i'll come out to please you only
won't change but i will change for you
not that this is good for me but i will change a little

oh, fix me
i want it to be you
want to be held by you so carefully
let me be seen
and you would know me
to be broken

if you are listening
i do not think myself acceptable 
at the moment

i'm too scattered, too confused
and my heart beats too fast for sleep, for sleep

how could these hands hold another’s? a baby’s?
a flower, sweep away a tear?
could these hands bake bread?

oh, teach me
i want it to be you
want to be held by you
so carefully
let me be seen
and you would show me 

if i shake, store me in the attic
i will feed on mice and turn them to balls of self disgust
if you open a window
i can even leave by the moon door, leave

leave me, leave me be 
it can’t be you
oh, leave me
i know it can't be you
i want to be held in your hands
so carefully
let me be seen
and you would know me to be broken

to the sleeping you (demo)

FFX - suteki da ne (cover feat. english horn)

lyrics: 

i am sorry for the ways in which i confuse you
i am embroidered with confusion myself
studded with it

as though shrapnel could patch up these gaps in my heart
these black holes 
i am the moon but only feigning sleep
there's life yet in me

i do not think that a moon rock is really what you want
what you were looking for 
not that i know, not that i know 
i am only a wilted flower swooning for you
when i’m allowed to
when i allow myself to

i am almost blossoming under your gaze. 
it is not even that i want to unfold
no, i want to fold up tightly
blow this slightly wavering sense of self 
far away from me 
and close 

i do not think that these moon tears are really what you want
what you were looking for 
not that i'd know, not that i would know 
i am buried in silver deeply swooning for you
when i’m allowed to
when i allow myself to

but the world spins its towers
petals blow away
and i want to protect this separate peace 
for as long as i can
long enough to be 
a little safe at least

do you think that a moon flower is really what you want
what you were looking for 
not that i know, not that i know 
i am only a frightened bird still swooping for you
when i’m allowed to
when i allow myself

moon flower (demo)

lyrics: 
reaching out a hand
to petals falling down
nobody would let their fingers drown
smiles turning cold
and corners turning down
sadness flowing down without a sound

we're slowly falling
like in a distant breeze
we’re falling slowly
i wonder if the ground that we’re falling to
will be a comfort and a shelter 
or warmer than this winter

rain came again in summer
dampening all my wonder 
lonely again i cried out
heart filling with my self doubt 

now i’m falling into you
and out of view
i wish i could see you again
if only some day we could be together
in this heart of rain
i am a flower
it’s like i’m your flower
because i believe that one day i’ll be yours, well
my heart is blossoming and i am
fallin’ fallin’ fallin’ fallin’
fallin’ fallin’ yeah

my heart is flooding now i’m 
fallin’ fallin’ fallin’ 
fallin’ fallin’ yeah
i am a flower
it’s like i’m your flower 
one look at you and i am 
fallin’ fallin’ fallin’
fallin’ fallin’ yeah

you call my name
it’s like i fall
into your arms where we are warm
the past is gone
the future’s clear
i never knew i could be
someone that you hold dear

we’re slowly falling
like in a distant breeze
we’re falling slowly
i wonder if the ground that we’re falling to
will be a comfort and a shelter
a disneyland of wonder

eyes on the blazing blue sky
once more i try not to cry
wishing so much to have you
wondering how i'll find you

the flowers bloom, the seasons turn
from start to end we’ll live and burn 
i know that i will make you mine
it’s you and me girl and i will never let you go
you loved me first i’ll love you last
i’ll be your future and your past
i won’t forget the day you said
you loved me           

now i’m falling into you
i fly to you 

my heart is flooding now i’m 
fallin’ fallin’ fallin’ fallin’
fallin’ fallin’ yeah
i fly to you and i am
fallin’ fallin’ fallin’
fallin’ fallin’ yeah
i am a flower
it’s like i’m your flower
one look at you and i am
fallin’ fallin’ fallin’ 
fallin’ fallin’ yeah

seventeen - fallin flower (acoustic english cover)

lyrics: 







sometimes i feel like i am too much
like i care too much
like i cry too much
like i can’t explain how much i want 
the things that i want to do

like when it feels impossible to write however much i want to 
as i wade through oceans of self doubt
tears stored at the dry well of my eyes

i look outwards at the world 
all the world is noise
i cannot hear you
i cannot hear me

those days i feel like it’s all too hard
like i try too hard
like i cry too hard
like i want to do too much
that i don’t yet know how to do

i grow fearful.
i grow tired. 
i do not grow;
i do not grow.
i do not know how, anymore.
i am clenched all over now;

i do not work
i cannot work:
i am a broken clock that ticks the time
incessant noise
you are running out of time.
i am too tired, too old, i say.

but there's too much underneath 
i burst open,
suddenly i am
a burning fire-brand
exploding into the night 

sometimes i feel like i am too much
like i care too much
like i cry too much
like i can’t explain how much i want 
the things that i want to do

and i am old
i am not perfect
i am imperfect
i do not work perfectly all the time
i am not fine
but still 
there is light
there is light
there is light

light (demo)

to everyone who is cold / sad + who should feel treasured

lyrics:
to you
imprinted on my heart
even now
i want to tell you that
it will be all right
it’ll be alright

i hope
your eyes are filled with stars
for a while
and this cold winter is kind to you
please stay safe at home

i know
you work so hard
so you won't fall apart
but i wanted to say

how i’m sorry
for the hurt that time reveals
how i worry
that my words made wounds that will not heal

but how you shine so brightly
you cast light through these halls
in the sadness and the dark
i’ve never seen you flicker

everyone falling catches hold of something strong
and though we fell through
i’ll hold fast

to you
imprinted on my heart
even now
i want to tell you that
it will be all right
we'll make it through

hold fast (demo)

...and love and magical girl-ing is my destiny~ ☆

This track was created for a magical girl parody visual novel project which has since been shelved.

Updated mix / master on Spotify and Youtube: https://youtu.be/nou3VE3aVaY

Magical Girl

Loch Mess is a 2-player cooperative puzzle game developed by Ailurux, featuring two Loch Ness monsters (Nessie and Lochie) who are on a quest to eat all of the pies (and puddings!)

Released in 2021. See the Steam store page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1391650/Loch_Mess/

Loch Mess - Puzzling For Pies

This track plays during the main menu in this visual novel created by WitPOP.

A summary from the game page follows!

'Ever wondered what the side characters get up to in a BL story? Here's your chance to find out.

When a transfer student arrives, Peter recognises the face of his former childhood friend, Danny. Danny brings back painful memories of the past, memories Peter would rather forget, but Danny seems to have other plans.

No, you don't play as Peter in this game. You don't even play as Danny. Instead, you play as Peter's friend, Jodeci.
Will you help Peter face his past trauma, or stop Danny from getting too close to hurt Peter again? The choice is yours.'

More about the game here: www.witpopgames.com/im-a-side-character.html#/

I'm a side character in a BL story! - Main Menu

yearn to bloom is my favourite track from aivi & surasshu and sabrielle augustin's lovely soundtrack to ikenfell, rose thorns is a close second :) here's my folk-inspired interpretation of aeldra's theme, featuring changing time signatures, tin whistle and oboe.

also on yt here: https://youtu.be/hfHdZVh57Jc

Ikenfell - Aeldra's Theme (folk? cover)

You exit a train at the wrong station -- lost, alone, you don't seem to understand what people are saying anymore, and don't know how to get home. As you explore the station and help the other inhabitants of the space, memories start coming back to you...

I wrote and recorded four tracks for Ticket to Leave over a weekend during 2021's Global Game Jam. Each character is represented by a different instrument - hear them all come together in the fourth track!

Art is a screenshot from the game. Game page (under development): https://globalgamejam.org/2021/games/ticket-leave-0

Ticket to Leave - Waking Up

Ticket to Leave - The Busker

Postcard Memento is an AR/ARG game about uncovering memories from a lost postcard. The year is 2030 and you find a postcard dated from 2020, hand-made from one lover to another. Using your handy 'memory camera', you scan the lost postcard to reveal its embedded memories. One final puzzle remains: where is the secret location that the lovers were going to meet?

See gameplay video here: https://youtu.be/3tHGLEWAW-Y

Made for the 2021 Global Game Jam! See credits and download the game here: https://globalgamejam.org/2021/games/postcard-memento-3

Postcard Memento - Title

composer of music for games, film + other media.
occasional singer-songwriter.
I also record oboe/cor anglais, tin whistle, cello and piano!

header art by Alice Lee https://www.byalicelee.com/

hear more of my music at the links below ↓

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