Wrote it during the summer, it’s weird like the other stuff from around the same time.  (ignore that date stamp, I just edited the id3 tag.  Should be something like June 2008).

Oh, almost forgot to mention: it loops!

20th Century, eh? Like the nerdiest, difficult listening music. Set theory, 12-tone rows..

So! Cutting to the chase, I stayed up a few hours past my bedtime and made a 12-tone row Nintendo piece. I call it  NINTENROW.

(ah, hahaha.)

Anyway, it’s an overworld/area map and then it steps into pause mode, and then battle mode… and a little victory ditty before going back to the overworld/area map.

I used the following row: C F D# G# A# G D A B E F# C#
and its inversions and retrogrades.

I feel so nerdy right now, it’s awesome.

zath_EsamNaesQuaSneoq.mp3

18-Jun-2008 18:50

5.0

Mostly used my keyboard (roland xp-80) and a voice sample from the AT&T text to speech operator.

So, to celebrate, I took part in the optional assignment for Composition class which was to write something “Electronic”. By Electronic, they meant something in the classical sense (like Musique Concrete, using sound effects and bits of random recordings and no real tonality to speak of).

zath_E_Tore_Be_Ye_Ten.mp3

28-May-2008 02:30

3.1M

So it’s like a bunch of crazy sfx that I recorded, arranged in a way that probably only makes sense to me.

“Whoever heard of an eggshell sending a distress call?” she demanded. “There has to be a transmitter somewhere, it stands to reason.”

Why should you stand to reason? It didn’t make sense. Why didn’t you lie down to reason? So much more sensible. Rests the cerebellum. He was just about to remark on the fact when he realized that Romana was gone. Searching for the transmitter, no doubt.

Still, why shouldn’t an eggshell transmit a distress call? Particularly if it was broken.

Something along the lines of Monday but with more sounds I made instead of all sounds I sampled.

zath_motivated_by_discomfort.mp3

23-Jan-2008 12:00

424K

The teacher said she really liked it! :)

Er, dunno about that title, really. Just thought of it right before printing it for class.

This version is double-time, and it ends up sounding groovier than the regular one.

zath_rhythm2.mp3

16-Jan-2008 03:59

372K

I give you…

monday.mp3

10-Jan-2008 14:38

2.7M

Here’s all of the things I posted before the whole format changed:

10/22/07: Dive into the Box – A “mashup”, with contents from Orbital’s “The Box” and “Dive into the Heart” from the Kingdom Hearts soundtrack. I accidentally opened both songs at the same time and they meshed in my ear, so I tried to mix them together. Apologies to Orbital and Square Enix, no infringement intended.

11/21/07: Aquarius Francaise – So I was amused by the fact that Boards of Canada called a song called (and a vocal sample that said) “sixty-ten.” In French, once you get past 69, there is no actual “seventy”, but it goes “sixty-ten, sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve,” etc… so in the song “Aquarius,” I replaced the English counting with French. Why bother, you ask? Guess I thought it was funny enough to spend a few hours on. Apologies to Boards of Canada and AT&Ts text to speech operator, no infringement intended.

11/23/07: arpeg and luup – a pair of little snippets where I was testing VST instruments and getting used to Renoise.

11/24/07: Abalandia, Caught at a Crossroad, Epitaph, and To Rule at the End of the World. These are old! I tracked them when I was in high school. I’ll put up the Impulse Tracker versions on the Archive page soon.

11/29/07: Wind Quintet – something I wrote for composition class at school. The instruments are VSTs too (although there is a recording of live players out there somewhere…)

12/07/07: MedSci Remix from System Shock 2 – I’m not entirely satisfied with it, but I dunno if I’ll go back and work on it anymore, so here it is as it stands. Maybe it’ll get submitted to OCRemix! Apologies to Irrational Games, you know the drill.

12/15/07: BGR Music.
BGR is a Play By Email game I’m participating in. Often there are scenes or locations that I’m interested in scoring music for, and I had a little time to throw together some snippets. It was also an excuse to try out more VSTs.
Aftermath – It’s scary and something terrible happened here.
Discovery – Oh, scratch that. Something terrible is happening here. And someone is dead!
Land of the Dead – A departed soul has to spend time in this sort of limbo outside the realm of the living. It’s weird there. This tune is very loopable.
Internment – Luckily, there’s a hall of resurrection. This could also double as “game over” music. :)
Breath of Life – That dead guy is alive again!

I’ll have more stuff to post soon.