This is a a Jazz Arrangement of Velvet's Theme from Tales of Berseria. I made this for insaneintherainmusic's Jazz Challenge. Everything heard is from samples in Xpand!2 and Ableton Live. Enjoy!

Velvet's Theme Jazz Cover

I pumped this one out in a day while I was backstage during the dress rehearsal of a performance. Just a fun track I pulled together.

Electro

I really like how this track turned out. I really began utilizing the mixing tools in Ableton Live with this track and I think it shows. This was also the track where I began experimenting with electronic sounds, which turned out to be super fun!

Pursuit

Something I whipped together in a couple days to celebrate the holidays. Enjoy!

A Loony Holiday

I've started composing for a new game with the Harvard Game Devs! It's gonna be a 2D Danmaku game (think Touhou), so I've been listening to a ton of ZUN and trying to replicate that sound. I think it turned out pretty well for a first attempt.

Pushing Upstream

This was a planned track to be used in a game project I participated in last year. Since then we've moved on to other things, and this piece didn't get to be incorporated, but I like how it is (despite being somewhat unfinished), so I put it here for people to see.

For anyone interested in playing the game demo, I've put a link here!
https://nightworks.itch.io/bossbattles

Boss Battles

This was an interesting one to make. When making this one, I tried to mix vastly differing instruments and make them work together (this case being the acoustic drums/violin in contrast to the to synth-like waveform instruments). Until the drop, this has more of a minimalist approach with the beat getting fuller and the instruments layering on top of each other. Once that drop happens, the instruments split off into their own independent lines, creating a more traditional "boss battle" feel.

Spider Battle

Just a silly trap remix of ElevatorStuck. Nothing of high quality here.

ElevatorTrapStuck

I had been listening to a lot of J-Rock songs, so I sat down for like 6 hours a couple months ago and cranked most of this out. It ended up sounding a bit more "video-gamey" than intended, but I was definitely utilizing the form of J-Rock songs I've listened to. I remembered I had it today so I decided to touch it up a bit and here we are!

The North Ablaze

This is the first boss theme for the Bullet Hell game I'm working on. You might notice that I borrowed elements of thematic material in Pushing Upstream, although here, I wanted to have a more "personal" feeling to it. Hence, an energetic and sort of demented "dance."

A Zestful Dance With The Ocean's Queen

This is a chill remix of Tear's Theme from Tales of the Abyss that I did for a YouTube cover competition. Even though I didn't win, this was a fun experience and definitely pushed me out of my comfort zone compared to my previous works.

Grand Fonic Hymn Remix

The premiere of my work for piano and cello! This was a piece I wrote for the Harvard Composers' Association Spring concert in 2019, and this was definitely a fun one to put together, even with limited time! This piece definitely has a JRPG "battle theme" feel to it, and I particularly enjoyed writing this piece to be in that space.

Cello - Ben Baker
Piano - Seiko Matsuzaki

Hailstorm

Composer and Producer at Harvard University (Class of 2021). Focus is mostly in video game music, but with an interest in classical and minimalist music.

Samuel Markowitz

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