My 21-Day Composition Challenge Entries

"I was wondering why I'd been brought back again... why my long-deserved sleep had been cut so short."
"The goddesses needed someone on your level. That much, I felt. For what, I didn't yet know. It was sudden. Perhaps you'd been defeated. I watched, and waited for the answer to make itself known."
"... What is it that you have done, with all that I have taught you?"
"Spreading hope for the future in front of them, healing their loved ones the way you did, only to return to them with sinister intent."
"Greeted as a trusted friend, able to tear their hearts out through their backs."
"I shudder to imagine what you might do next, should I falter."
"Why you have done all this, I could not say... nor could you, I imagine. 
Perhaps you just wanted to see how the heavens would react."
"Soon, you will know. I am about to show you."

- The Hero's Shade after the last key NPC is killed during a Butcher Run

Amazing artwork by my good friend, Charger342.
MIDI from http://johnwilliams.free.fr/midi.php?critere=film. Arranged by me. The MIDI's mixing isn't as accurate to the real song as this, but the sequence itself is solid.

(From March 2022. Honestly, I'm only posting because RotS had its 20th anniversary last month, and I still really really love the painting Charger made and want people to see it.)

Battle of the Heroes (OoT/TP Arrange)

based off of robot 64 (zkevin), obviously

groove.r64

i have been listening to too much michael jackson

Song name: what a mario world - underground (ym2151 + ymz280b)
Written by RRThiel;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker
Additional samples made with Caustic 3

vocal mix (will be public in 24 hours from now)
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my love will never be out of sight

what a mario world - underground [ym2151 + ymz280b]

i wonder if you can guess what the joke is

Song name: water mario world - underwater (s-smp)
Written by RRThiel;
Arranged by John "Joy" Tay;
Arrangement inspired by Dean Evans;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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water mario world - underwater (s-smp)

Deltarune Chapter 3 - SWORD (FM Cover)

fang's heist by https://x.com/saxashitter
ost cover art by https://x.com/y2rika9
song by ZrUltra (me!)

Fang's Heist - Ready for Round 2?

original

this was made to test a cool chord progression someone posted on instagram

Astro Facility Zone Act 1 (unofficial)

needed a song to test these instruments with

Song name: Daytona URA - Let's Go Away (Advertisement)
Written by Takenobu Mistuyoshi, Shun Aratame;
Performed by Azumi Waki, Marika Kohno, Machico, Ayaka Ohashi, Chisa Kimura, Hitomi Ueda, Saori Onishi, Takenobu Mistuyoshi;
Lyrics by Shun Aratame;
Arranged by Yuya Hirosawa, John "Joy" Tay;
Made with tildearrow's Furnace tracker

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Daytona URA - Let's Go Away (Advertisement)

Stand Up Against Myself [YM2612 + SN76489]

Fang's Heist by x.com/saxashitter

Thumbnail Art by x.com/y2rika9

Fang's Heist - Beautiful World

Prompt: Write a melody that starts on beat 2 or 3.

Let's start off with some JRPG-styled VGM, shall we? ;)

YM2151 (OPM), Made in Deflemask

01 - An Easy Lesson

Prompt: Compose a piece in a minor key.

Just a track in B Minor. I played a crap-ton of Phoenix (the arcade game) and was inspired to write this, I even tried recreating a sound effect from the game but failed miserably. Oh well. :)

AY-3-8910, Made in VortexTracker 2.5

02 - Phoenix Boom

Prompt: Use a Compound Meter (time signature).

I decided to use a 6/8 time signature for this one. Just a simple waltz track. Another inspiration for writing this was the TI-99/4A (a home computer) and the game "Alpiner". Fun times! :)

SN76489, Made in Deflemask

03 - Alpiner Waltz

Prompt: Compose a Piratey-sounding jig.

Welcome aboard, matey!

YM2413 (OPLL)

04 - Welcome Aboard

Prompt: Create an awesome ‘Game Over’ theme that’s less than 10 seconds in length.

I wouldn't really call this "awesome", though.

YM2151, Made in Deflemask

05 - Hit The Bricks, Junior

Prompt: Get in touch with your inner penguin and score an upbeat snow-level.

Yeah, "upbeat"... not! ...or at least I don't look at it as upbeat. Oh well.

SID 6581, Made in GoatTracker

11 - Winter-y Sheep Friends

Tobikomi

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