VAMPIRE KILLER

MIDI ripped from the game Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
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Vampire Killer 2k02 (Vampire Killer/Clockworks MIDI VST cover)

Originally composed by Michiru Yamane for Castlevania Bloodlines (1994) for the Sega Megadrive and Sega Genesis. Arranged in Dn-FamiTracker using the Konami VRC6 chip.

Castlevania Bloodlines - Iron Blue Intention [VRC6]

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Iron Blue Intention is track 7 of 10. 

Castlevania: Aura of Holy Might is a remix album of exciting tunes that takes you through the 8-bit and 16-bit era of the Castlevania franchise. 

The genre and style of this music captures the classic "Konami Sound" that fan’s loved throughout the 80s and the 90s. 

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Castlevania: Aura of Holy Might

Iron Blue Intention (Castlevania: Aura of Holy Might - Track 07)

Vampire Chiller ( A Vampire Killer cover )

I arranged “Calling from Heaven” from KONAMI’s Castlevania: Bloodlines.
コナミ VAMPIRE KILLER の Calling from Heaven をアレンジしました。

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I arranged “Calling from Heaven” from KONAMI’s Castlevania: Bloodlines for a chamber-sized string ensemble: 1 violin, 1 viola, and 5 celli (3 providing rhythmic stabs, 1 used as body percussion).
Following the violin, lost in its own aestheticism, the loose, free-tempo cembalo enters, sounding unsettling and hallucinatory, or perhaps self-absorbed.
This is followed by the violin's introspective arpeggio, which then merges with the choir.
I especially like the structure of bringing the original intro to the very end of the piece.

While arranging, I have been considering the intention behind the original piece’s uncommon key of C♯ minor or D♭ minor. This key is unlikely to be a choice of mere muscle memory, which suggests there was a deliberate intention.
Naturally, it could simply be that the composer felt C♯ minor was a natural fit for the piece and chose it for that reason.
Alternatively, as an artistic device, the composer might have metaphorically adopted the idea that keys possess their own emotional color (a concept from well temperament) and set keywords associated with C♯ minor to the piece.
Another possible explanation is a practical one, such as adjusting the range to suit the hardware synthesizer used.

Another hypothesis is this: the piece is in a Baroque style, a cornerstone of the composer's work, and evokes a period when 415Hz tuning was common. Separately, the composer also practices healing music. It is possible that from both of these contexts, they regard music tuned at 415Hz as natural.
In other words, the piece might have been composed on an instrument tuned to 415Hz, but written in the key of D minor, which is generally easy to play; this would result in a sound that is effectively C♯ minor by the modern 440Hz standard. Alternatively, the piece may have been composed as a Baroque-style work in D minor at the standard 440Hz tuning, and then transposed at the end—perhaps as an artistic gesture—to approximate the 415Hz tuning relevant to its cultural background.

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK IS HERE
https://youtu.be/j4dBoJ97fxQ

[LISTEN ON OTHER PLATFORMS]
- YouTube (To get lost in the visuals) https://youtu.be/qeFU_znDQI8
- SoundCloud (To feel the full resonance) https://soundcloud.com/sdr0x07b6/calling-from-heaven-v100-arranged-castlevania-bloodlines-konami
- NicoVideo (Let's create a storm of comments together) https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm45240909

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コナミ VAMPIRE KILLER の Calling from Heaven をチェンバーサイズの弦楽にアレンジしました。ヴァイオリン 1 本、ヴィオラ 1 本、チェロ 5 本（3 本は刻み、1 本はボディを叩くパーカッション）。
ひたすら耽美なヴァイオリンに続く、テンポに拘束されないルーズなチェンバロは、不安で幻覚的にも聴こえ、あるいは自己陶酔しているようにも聴こえます。
その後ヴァイオリンの秘めやかなアルペジオを経てクワイヤと合流します。
原曲のイントロを一番最後に持ってきた構成が気に入っています。

アレンジしながら、原曲が C♯m もしくは D♭m というめずらしいキーなのはどんな意図かずっと考えていました。このキーが手癖とは考えにくいため、意図がありそうです。
もちろん純粋に楽曲として C♯m が自然に思えたのでそうしたかったとか、あるいは芸術的演出として、古典調律のようにキーが楽曲の色彩や情緒に影響すると比喩的に採り入れて、嬰ハ短調にまつわるキーワードを曲に設定したのかもしれません。
あるいはハードウェアの音源都合でのレンジ調整という実用的な理由かもしれません。

もう一つ推測してみたのは、楽曲は作曲者様の作風の主軸の一つであるバロック音楽であり 415Hz チューニングが一般的に用いられていた時期の曲調であること、また作曲者様はヒーリング音楽を実践されており、どちらの文脈からも 415Hz 基準の音楽を自然なものとして捉えておられる可能性があります。
つまり 415Hz チューニングの楽器を使いつつ、一般的に弾きやすい Dm で書いたなら結果的には 440Hz 基準でいうほぼ C♯m となる、もしくはごく普通に 440Hz の Dm でバロック音楽を作曲してから最後に演出として文化背景に合わせた 415Hz チューニング相当にトランスポーズした、という理由かもしれません。

オリジナルサウンドトラックはこちら
https://youtu.be/j4dBoJ97fxQ

[他のプラットフォームで聴く]
- YouTube（映像とともに没入するなら） https://youtu.be/qeFU_znDQI8
- SoundCloud（より迫力のあるサウンドで聴くなら） https://soundcloud.com/sdr0x07b6/calling-from-heaven-v100-arranged-castlevania-bloodlines-konami
- ニコニコ動画（みんなで弾幕を厚くしよう） https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm45240909

Calling from Heaven (chamber strings) v1.0.0 ARRANGED - Castlevania: Bloodlines - Konami | バンパイアキラー

I'm a IT enginee, programmer. I arrange game music as a hobby.

ITエンジニア、プログラマ。趣味でゲームミュージックのアレンジをしています(･ω･)

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I'm a solo indie artist that enjoys making computer-based soundtrack music.

My style / genre is based on combining rock, electronic, and orchestral elements.

My inspiration for getting into music comes from the Castlevania and Final Fantasy series.

I hope you find something you enjoy. Cheers!

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Vous l'aurez compris, je suis un pur autodidacte et en tant que tel, j'ai encore énormément de choses à apprendre. Et si il y a bien un domaine dans lequel je dois me perfectionner, c'est celui de la M.A.O. C'est pourquoi j'ai crée cette page, afin de vous faire partager mes modestes oeuvres et de récolter en retour vos opinions/conseils. 
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I'm Dermot.  I arrange chiptunes in FamiTracker, 0CC-FamiTracker and Dn-FamiTracker, and I programmed FamiTracker-related calculators in JavaScript for both halflife fades and pitch slides.  A 7-Zip archive of my FTM and NSF files along with my calculators can be downloaded from the link provided.  I update the archive whenever I make or update a chiptune.  I was originally invited by my friend Pongball to share my music on SoundCloud, and I'm grateful for her support.  But while I've made a lot of musical arrangements, I've always strictly been an amateur, never a professional, and my free SoundCloud account has been running out of space.  And in truth, I actually get more useful feedback for my music on my YouTube and FurAffinity accounts than I do on SoundCloud, so I've provided links to my chiptune collections there.

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