Composed by Sean Hogan
Arranged by aivi & surasshu

aivi & surasshu - The Emerald Sea (Anodyne Remix)

24 ringtones, one for each hour!

this EP is a tribute to my newborn baby! aivi and i woke up at all hours to feed him and take care of him. although it was hard, i also loved every moment. i wanted to express my love for him and aivi with these songs!

i wrote a lot of these at night, while watching the baby monitor after my baby went to sleep. the cover art by genie is inspired by that view. it features 24 toy creatures, each inspired by one track on the EP.

the glowing orb in the middle of the cover represents our baby--the center of our universe.

11am

midnight

10pm

10am

09am

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"5" is a 4 track EP, a deeply personal work that deals with the death of my mother to cancer 10 years ago. This project represents a therapeutic approach to my feelings, both good and bad, and an attempt to express it in music.

on "5", i wrote a song for each of four stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression). the 5th stage, acceptance, is still in the future.
credits

composed, arranged, mixed & mastered by surasshu
cover art: Beem (prodigalbeam.com)

void

puzzle

stasis

lost

i was so honored to be asked by the doodle team to do music for their extremely ambitious doodle, celebrating the life of pioneering game tech developer jerry lawson (aka the man responsible for inventing the exchangeable game cartridge, leading the way for the NES, SNES, megadrive/genesis and so on!)

i approached each in-game track with limitations suitable for the time (so the 8bit track and 16bit track are at least somewhat within range of what would be feasible on equivalent hardware of the time)--while the "edit mode" and "menu" tracks are meant to be "outside" the machine, set in jerry lawson's workshop, an optimistic and happy creative mood!

please check out the doodle and read more about jerry lawson's history here: https://www.google.com/doodles/gerald-jerry-lawsons-82nd-birthday

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In Game (Lauren Brown Version)

In Game (Momo Pixel Version)

In Game (Davionne Gooden Version)

In Game (16bit Version)

In Game (8bit Version)

My winning Famicompo 5 original entry! Famicompo (http://midr2.under.jp/compo/top.html) is a yearly competition hosted by Japanese NES guy K-, a veteran NSF composer guy, and draws hundreds of entries every year. It's a really fun thing to try to write some great music with the Nintendo chip, although I cheated a little bit by also including the VRC6 chip (as some people will know, Konami installed extra chips into some of their Japanese games, for example the Japanese version of Castlevania 3).
    
    Anyway, I tried to go for a real summery spacey disco vibe (a bit like Japanese electro group Capsule) and this came out.

HOT JUPITER

Composed for Temmie's amazing Dwellers of the Mountain's Forest animation, which you can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD06fwGHNlc&feature=youtu.be
Strings: Jeff Ball

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