http://www.zath.org Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:23:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Figured I'd post something I did a few years back for a game that didn't really come out (but gave those of us who were working on it a lot of amusement).  My contribution was all of the chiptune covers of 80s (or not) songs.  Here's one of them: Everybody Wants ... http://www.zath.org/2010/02/26/a-chiptune-cover/ So, what do I work on instead of homework? zath_wayoutvrc6wip01a.mp3 17-Jan-2010 03:16 2.2M I'm not going to let myself complete it until I've got some breathing room at school, but... it's so fun making chiptune covers! http://www.zath.org/2010/01/17/wip-cover-of-orbital-way-out/ Album by Wyatt and me from some ten years ago. Also, listen to it on TheSixtyOne.com and give us some hearts! http://www.zath.org/2010/01/04/reverb-project-transmissions/ At the end of last term I was hard pressed to finish writing a 4-movment sonata for cello and laptop.  Long story short, I have something to upload! zath_starbuild-tape.mp3 17-Jul-2009 23:13 2.2M It's the "tape-part" for the second movement of the sonata.  The sonata as a whole was called "Take It Back" and investigated ... http://www.zath.org/2009/07/17/starbuild-tape/ Video by Zaratustra, Oboe by William McGlothlin, Composition and Sequencing by me! http://www.zath.org/2009/06/17/nintendoboe/ Zaratustra created a game called Fugue back in 2002.  It was for an Hours of VERGE competition (where you have a certain number of hours to create a game from scratch).  He used a public domain song to go with it, but he wanted something that fit the game a ... http://www.zath.org/2009/05/03/song-and-remix/ Last term I submitted a solo viola piece in three movements and was 1 of 4 entrants accepted into a composers competition at my school.  The brief was to write a new piece for a specific instrumentation (fl cl ob bsn f.hn tpt perc vln1 vln2 vcl1 vcl2 cb), use ... http://www.zath.org/2009/03/06/count-the-ways/ Those of you who are subscribed to this blog (what, there's 3 of you?  How many of those are actually me?) have pined away at a grayed-out blog title on your RSS reader for far too long.  It's making me uncomfortable.  So!  I'm going to pick up with more zath ... http://www.zath.org/2009/02/14/advance-to-current/ http://www.zath.org/2009/02/11/what-ive-been-working-on/ zath_autocracy.mp3 18-Nov-2008 02:44 2.6M 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! http://www.zath.org/2008/11/18/autocracy/