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#8. The Human Axioms
Okay, this project was a bit weird. It started probably back in 2015 as something entirely different and ended up as... well, you can watch the YouTube videos and decide how successful it was. As my first ever attempt at something more like ambient music, there are some bits I really like and some I don’t. I’ve also extracted the music tracks so you can listen on Bandcamp or Spotify on their own.
Extra #1. Penultimate Fantasy (Alternate Universe Video Game Music)
This project started out with me goofing around at the piano and with a VST. Then I decided to compile all the ideas into this. Basically the way “Alternate Universe Video Game Music” works is that I pretend a game existed which didn’t, and then write its soundtrack. This soundtrack was generated pretty off-the-cuff and there’s not a ton of cohesion. Yes, the title is a deliberate pun on Final Fantasy, but the project is not meant to be an alternate version of FF. In fact, I feel like this album in particular pulls stylistically from Dragon Quest more than anything. Either way, I’m not trying to make the music indistinguishable from the existing RPGs, only to make it sound like it could have come from that era.
#7. Camp Hope: An Original Musical
In 2012 I was the composer for a children’s musical performed by one junior high theatre class in Kirkland. It had its one performance and then it sat on my shelf. Then in 2018 I went back and re-edited it. At the moment, I’m only putting this blurb here for completion’s sake, as there are no scores or recordings available. Currently I have no plans to make any recordings or produce this show, simply because I do not have the time or energy to do so. If that changes, I’ll put something here.
Too much dithering?
#6. Please Play These Pieces Instead of Killing Yourself
By the summer of 2018 I had a bunch of ideas in my back pocket. All of them were slow and sad tunes. I figured, why not just make a set of slow, sad tunes? I promise this isn’t entirely a troll album, despite the title, though it is gimmicky and most of the pieces are not designed with a traditional audience in mind. There are seven pieces in the sheet music, I promise. However, I only recorded five of them and I never intend on recording the other two.
#5. Rainbow Sokoban OST (Alternate Universe Classical Music)
At the end of 2017 I started creating another video game project. This time I took a well-known game - Sokoban - and decided to see what I could do if I added one small twist and focused the game very narrowly on that twist. It’s not much, but it’s a nice attempt. The original version was called “Just Boxes and Switches” but I eventually changed it to “Rainbow Sokoban.” That means you might find both names out there. The game is available to download and play if you have a Windows computer. Pre-pandemic I thought I would be iterating a bit more on this, but I doubt I will ever return to this project as-is. At least the music is complete.
There are a lot of buttons here - that’s because I’ve made multiple versions of this and placed them on multiple pages.