A few of my albums are up on Spotify now! go here to listen & follow. At the moment we have one album of piano and one of game music, which I guess is a pretty representative sample.
Sorry for the lack of updates here – I have been posting videos on youtube, and also working on a couple of other projects still in progress…
So, remember “aerial combat” one of the midi tracks I did last week? I’ve made this a whole thing, a whole mini soundtrack thing.
It’s inspired in a general way (and name-wise!) by Keiki Kobayashi’s Ace Combat soundtracks which I hear are really really good, but I’ve so far only listened to one track of them, and the track he did for FFVII:R, The Valkyrie. Then I wrote “The Absolute”, from this soundtrack, decided this was a fighter pilot/space shooter thing and wrote the rest. So I’m not sure how similar Space Combat is to Ace Combat, but…
Mainly, it’s all about the 1990s midi sounds 😀
I took part in a 2-hour song challenge – the theme was technology, so here we have a piano piece that needs a little extra-human help. Inspired obviously by Nancarrow, in a very general way, nothing like as crazy!
It’s also quite light and bright, which I wanted to go for in contrast to a lot of the “technology” ideas I first had that were more dark and brooding.
Words by Paul Gerhardt, translated by Catherine Winkworth.
To God’s all-gracious heart and mind
My heart and mind I yield;
In seeming loss my gain I find,
In death, life stands revealed.
I am His own whose glorious throne
In highest heaven is set;
Beneath His stroke or sorrow’s yoke
His heart upholds me yet.
If happy sunshine be Thy gift,
With joy I take it, Lord;
If o’er dark stormy seas I drift,
I hear Thy guiding word;
If lengthened life, with blessings rife,
Before my feet be spread,
So Thou my Guide wilt still abide,
With joy that path I tread.
But must I walk the vale of death
Through sad and sunless ways,
I pass along in quiet faith,
Thy glance my fear allays;
Through the dark land my Shepherd’s hand
Leads to an end so bright,
That I shall there with praise declare
That all God’s ways are right!
Yes I shall there with praise declare
That all God’s ways are right!
…yes, midi is standard, not a particular “sound”, but also it kinda is; we know what that means. Plus it’s a catchy title.
These ones in particular I was trying to go for a 90s game midi ‘feel’, very quickly and unabashedly.
Aerial Combat in particular though I kind of am tempted to redo with full sound, even though it also feels very native to this format at the same time, heh.
I made some fuller recordings of a couple songs:
Thousand Thousand (original version from October)
O Wouldst Thou in Thy Glory Come — this one from way back!
Sort of a Christmas song!
A tiny ‘game’ where you read a line of poetry.
Music:
New recording of one of the earlier Catherine Winkworth songs.