This is the first track I completed for the RPM Challenge 2020.

Random Seeds

Morning in the Suburbs

This is my first complete (albeit short) track with alternative tuning. It is one of the last tracks I wrote for the RPM Challenge 2020 and I was running out of time, so stepping outside my comfort zone was risky. I decided to go for it anyway, since the first melody had been playing inside my head for a while and I didn't have time to say no to ideas. :D

The tuning is based on 5-limit just intonation, but the characteristic second interval is 13/12 from the root and the sixth interval is 13/8 (perfect fifth above the second).

Enticed

This is the third track I completed for the RPM Challenge 2020 and the first track where I managed to synthesise a proper horn section. I also spent quite a bit of time practising solo writing, where the challenge is to maintain the mindset of a soloist while writing down the notation (which is orders of magnitude slower than playing live).

Confident Trickster

This is the fifth track I completed for the RPM Challenge 2020. I improvised the intro in Kunquat but didn't find a proper context for it right away. About a week later, the rest happened.

Self-reflection

This was the last track I completed for the RPM Challenge 2020. It may sound like a last-minute filler (indeed, it was less work than most of the other tracks), but I have actually wanted to make something like this for a long time. I stumbled upon the Lydian ♭7 scale while I was preparing the flute model and testing it with keyboard. Also, the flute is tuned in just intonation with a septimal (7/4) seventh degree.

Mountain Range

I took a snippet of melody from one of my other RPM Challenge tracks and took it into a completely different direction. I was initially inspired by the sounds of Disasterpeace (e.g. Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake) and Eirik Suhrke (Spelunky OST), but then I accidentally ended up summoning my inner Kenji Kawai.

Bathtime with Ducks

This is my eighth completed track for the RPM Challenge 2020. I could only afford a single night of work on this due to the approaching deadline, which made me a little worried about introducing a full blend of various instruments. In the end, I decided to go with my instinct and let my excitement push me forwards, and I was very happy with my decision. This is also my first piece that uses accordion as part of the accompaniment.

The Gathering

In my mind's eye I saw a child who dared to dream big.

This is my fifth completed track for the RPM Challenge 2020. It grew quite a bit in complexity, especially considering that I was only halfway done with the album and had less than a week of time left.

Little Big Dreams

I was walking home during evening twilight when I saw a couple of birds on a tree branch. That is when this one started.

This is my sixth completed track for the RPM Challenge 2020.

Evening

Sorrow's Embrace

I started writing tracker music in the late 1980s and kept doing it until 2001 (Soundtracker -> NoiseTracker -> Protracker -> Impulse Tracker 1 -> Fasttracker II -> Impulse Tracker 2). These days I make music with my own tracker (http://kunquat.org) which I have spent too many years developing.

Tomi Jylhä-Ollila