A piano and viola piece I wrote for the 2 Hour Album Challenge. The theme was “Thirteen”, which I took very unoriginally as 13/8, and ended up approaching it quite like a pianowrimo piece, and then (after the 2 hours!) wrote it up.
Whole album: here.
The Orange County Women’s Chorus got in touch about a performance of two of my Four Hildegard Texts, one of which you can now watch / listen to below:
This was performed as part of their concert program, The Sisterhood of Cecilia, which began with music by Hildegard herself.
Thank you! A beautiful performance.
Aha! The trailer for Mythicland is now up on youtube. I did the music and sound effects for this last year:
I’ve been busy working on something again lately which hopefully I’ll be able to share soon — why I’ve been kind of inactive on here. I have snuck in some time for some more Crisis Core demakes though, and a music box, over on youtube.
Happy new year everyone!
A quick blog entry to recap what I can remember that I forgotten to recap…
Various things that should be coming up soon-ish include:
Things that have been happening recently:
Another little tune made with the same sound set I used for Let’s Adventure.
I’ve been experimenting with Scratch and tried using that to make the animation — couldn’t get it to reliably stay exactly in time and had to finesse it a bit with imovie, but still a fun idea:) The art is by piyapong89 on pixabay.
The last thing I filmed before Christmas, this gorgeous piece from the end of the Advent Children movie, by Nobuo Uematsu. I watched Advent Children last Christmas Eve, for the first time since it came out (and in the Complete version which I guess I hadn’t seen) and honestly loved it this time round. Also felt like I’d been missing out on the soundtrack all these years. I’ve made a ff7 soundfont version, a music box version, and now…
The first melody is on the oboe in the full orchestral version too so I wanted to see how an oboe and piano take would sound.
I had to practise that piano part quite a bit!! (And even then don’t expect me to ever manage it live.) And the oboe, phew, a lot of sustaining needed.
Update to this post — I’ve now written two more of these pieces using texts by Hildegard. Also rejigged one of those to another key so now all four of them are more comfortably singable by a standard SSAA configuration, rather than me really straining to get a low D! (Means the top line goes up higher than I am comfortable on now, but that’s kind of the point: I’m not really a soprano!)
Anyway, proposed final order to the set is now:
O virga mediatrix, sancta viscera tua mortem superaverunt et venter tuus omnes creaturas illuminavit in pulchro flore de suavissima integritate clausi pudoris tui orto. O branch and mediatrix, your sacred flesh has conquered death, your womb all creatures illumined in beauty’s bloom from that exquisite purity of your enclosed modesty sprung forth.
translation by Nathaniel Campbell.
O choruscans lux stellarum, o fulgens gemma: tu es ornata in alta persona Tu es socia angelorum et civis sanctorum. Fuge, fuge speluncam antiqui perditoris, et veniens veni in palatium regis. O glittering starlight O shining gem: you are adorned like a noble you are a companion of angels and a citizen among the saints. Flee, O flee the cave of the old betrayer and come, O come into the king’s palace.
Translation (adapted from) Peter Dronke
And uh:
Virtual choir performance!
I should post the sheet music of this soon.
A very silly and fun video where I make a multitrack video of a piece I originally wrote for midi
— using instruments i have in my house, which can include anything that produces sound, whether or not I have any prior… expertise…