This came in second in SounDevotion competition, round 44!
A snow flurry invites a walk, but a devil lurks in the woods.
A semi-orchestral progressive background music kind of piece.
This time around I accidentally rediscovered something I read somewhere a long time ago- slight delay can help individual parts (especially unison parts) stand out in a mix where playing the parts dead-on exact may make them disappear into each other, even when panned apart.
SounDevotion round 43 was a remix round, the challenge being to remix any piece by classic and current module tracker Mick Rippon. His great works can be found at http://mickrippon.com
This is more like a cover with slight rearrangement than a remix, though I have deliberately tried to create this from memory- some samples were taken from the .mod file but none of the note data was used. The note data was referenced only once because I couldn’t get the notes in the panflute hook right.
Listen to the original to find out how much better Mick is at note embellishment than I am, and also to study the masterful use of four columns.
I remember copying this to a tape with a handful of other .mod and .sid files I found in an FTP site. This was part of my introduction to what a tracker can do, and part of how I learned that music can be passed along and preserved in ways that do not require a record contract. It is also part of my appreciation for those that can do a lot with a little; when this tune was originally created I was still using MIDI sequencers and was trying to escape a sound that was called “cheap” and “quirky” when I should’ve worked harder at giving that sound more personality.
Mick Rippon’s music, and music like it, are influential to this sound; the notion of creating the best music you can with the equipment and software you have at the moment.
This is for the Indamixx + Renoise + Create Digital Music contest, detailed here: http://bit.ly/4oB6Cm
Released under Creative Commons license by-sa ver 3 in accordance with the contest rules. Please ask me if you wish to use the music and the license is not understood.
This is a piano piece often used to teach students how to play using both of their hands without breaking rhythm, and it’s been used as video game B.G.M more than a few times. This was entered in SounDevotion Round 41, the theme was to remake a (small “c”) classical music piece.
