Name: ZEN - Intergalactic Overture by The Swi in My 8-Bit Weekly Challenge Pieces
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Description: Decided to try participating in the weeklies again. The prompt was to orchestrate an 8-bit era tune for a larger ensemble, and this was as far as I got for this week. Hope you enjoy!

Here's a playlist compiling all of my entries to the 8-bit weekly challenges, so you can see the power of what I can do in one week!

My 8-Bit Weekly Challenge Pieces

Made for the 8bmt discord's weekly challenge 2022 week 22: arrange a piece of video game music into a beach jam

I done did an arrangement of Nobuo Uematsu's "The Place I'll Return To Someday" from FF9

The Beach I'll Return to Next Summer

Made for the 8bmt discord weekly composition competition.

Some *ZANY* intro music for a spooky saturday morning cartoon!

Saturday Morning Dracula

No Spoilers

Decided to try participating in the weeklies again. The prompt was to orchestrate an 8-bit era tune for a larger ensemble, and this was as far as I got for this week. Hope you enjoy!

ZEN - Intergalactic Overture

Made for the 8bmt discord server weeklies innit

Lenna's Theme Eurodance Remix

Written in the style of Joe Hisaishi - For a weekly challenge on the 8-Bit Music Theory Discord

Whispers from Across the Breeze

Written for a weekly challenge on the 8-Bit Music Theory discord

Rowan Grove

Is it cringe to make covers of your own tracks?

Trainer Battle 8-Bit - Pokemon Pisces

Late lunch

For Orni during Summer Santa 25.

Going through Orni's extensive catalouge two environmental tracks "The Open Sea" and "Fields" really stuck out to me in how different and yet similar they are. I decided to make a metal medley out of them - the changes between 3/4 and 5/4 work really well in that genre. I had a ton of fun reducing the very complex layers into 4 guitars and 1 bass (and a surprise towards the end).

Foto by Azmodea

From the Ocean to the Fields

8-bit Music Theory Summer Santa 2025 arrangement of "Until Our Paths Cross Once More"

Original composition - Toby
Harmonica, lead sheet arrangement - me https://soundcloud.com/mtaur
Mixing, guitar - https://soundcloud.com/moebius-the-composer
Piano - https://soundcloud.com/lucas_kelly
Drums - https://soundcloud.com/the-architect-120514334
Vibraphone - https://soundcloud.com/rkirsling
Bass, tenor sax - https://soundcloud.com/timmitei

Live versions recorded at Aretha's Jazz Cafe:
https://youtu.be/kLoeQs77ruw
https://youtu.be/xp_Tjnfvhl4

Until Our Paths Cross Once More

A Quick Wind Quintet arrangement of the Stage Clear Cue from the original NES Castlevania!

Weekly Challenges

Castlevania - Stage Clear

An older Weekly Challenge entry wherein I abuse the pedal to achieve some nice harmonic effects.

Weekly Challenges Vol. 33?

Entering the Desert Kingdom

This is an entry for the 8-bit weekly challenges, so titled because it was originally the third and final movement of a larger-scope work, but alas time constraints made it the one movement of the piece. Thankfully I have since learned to always write a self-contained movement into my plans for my inevitable failure.

Weeklies

Movement #3 of 1

Another entry for the 8-bit Weekly Challenges! This time the prompt was to arrange something for winds exclusively, and having done a lot of wind arranging, I figured I had to enter.

Weekly Challenges Vol. 2021

Mimiga Town

Here's another 8-bit weekly track I've decided to upload to Soundcloud! This is a brass sextet arrangement of the opening cinematic & title screen of pokemon red, blue and yellow, hope you enjoy!

ZEN - Intergalactic Overture

The Swi

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