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Music
Here you can find songs I've composed, and some short snippets about their creation. Enjoy!
In the Eyes of a Child
This was the first song I composed for a game. Previous experience was writing poems and songs with no sheet music. The tunes were only for myself via memory. But this was obviously different.
First, I didn't have a program to work in at the time, and I didn't have a personal PC either. So I made this song in a free browser base step-sequencer. This limited what I could work with (only having a piano midi), but I believe that actually helped this song.
I was trying to go for a creepy version of a song a child with some experience would play on a piano. I believe I succeeded. I did so with a couple things used throughout the song.
I tried to keep the melody and harmony simple, with a slower tempo and avoiding any notes shorter then an eighth note. The strongest decision I believe was the tritones on the down beats; purposely being dissonant to create an uncomfortable feeling.
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It's Alive
This was composed as level music for a game jam project that unfortunately never released. It was my first composition using Cakewalk via my own PC.
I experimented with instrumentation on this piece. Using a mix of synth instruments and a electric spark sample for a percussion. I tried to create a rising and lowering of tension throughout the piece by having a loop that gains instruments as it progresses. My favorite parts are the peak and valley being punctuated by solos from the lead.
I would probably try to add more complexity if I were to rewrite this now, but for a looping track created in a short time span, I'm very happy with how it turned out.