So, what do I work on instead of homework?
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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!
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!
Another one of these assignments for Composition. This time, the teacher wanted us to feature a motive and then mess with it using augmentation and stuff.
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The teacher said she really liked it! :)
Er, dunno about that title, really. Just thought of it right before printing it for class.
The teacher provided all of the notes for the melody line, and it was left up to the students to determine the rhythm that these notes would be expressed in. She also said we could add a bassline/left-hand part. The point was to figure out what notes would make good points of arrival and emphasize those while letting others take a more supporting type of role.
This version is double-time, and it ends up sounding groovier than the regular one.
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Everyone’s friend, the charming sysadmin McGrue, helped change my icky web page that I made myself to a WordPress css & php database thingy (thingy being a technical term). So I think that’ll help me want to update more often (crossing my fingers here).
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.