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.
I want to thank Gamesboro for having me perform on a very interesting night.
Most of the entertainment of the night could not make it, leaving only four of us with myself closing off the night to an audience that exceeded my expectations. The store made a great venue, the staff were great, and the audience attentive; I would definitely do this again.
There were a lot of lessons that I take from this experience and I hope that this event becomes annual or semi-annual in some form. Thanks to all that were there.
When I first saw the post advertising a chiptune show being set up so near to where I live, I knew I had to make a point to attend it at the very least. In the beginning, I didn’t think I’d be able to perform at it, but after some thought, I realized that I have plenty of material to draw from and I have the equipment to be able to perform. It’s an honor to have had someone select me to perform in a show that will be headlined by Minusbaby, and it’ll be nice to meet E.S.C. and Goatslacker and many others on the bill; I’m looking forward to August 28.
More details in the post that announced the show in the first place:
http://8bitcollective.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=222390#p222390
Edit 8/18- Ticket presales through the GSU bookstore:
http://www.gsubooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=107&products_id=6844
Don’t forget which way the road turns
The apex of the corner is the insidemost point, when you drive through the corner at the fastest possible speed at or beyond the limit of friction or the tires. A large corner may have multiple apices.
This SounDevotion Competition piece was not a good follow-up to Simple Things, it came in near last in a tough round that has far more excellent pieces. It betrays my influences like Kraftwerk and Orbital. I may yet work to improve this piece; it’s not too bad, it was up against very tough competition.
The DSK plugins tax my poor laptop’s CPU so badly that I decided to make a terse solo piano piece. Sixteen tracks later, it became this. I created it by soloing the tracks as I went, then rendering to test the mix, over and over.
Drums are from mini drumZ if I remember right, the VST disappeared when I optimized.
I’m actually very happy with the result I got from this. I used automation on some of the VST parameters to control decays and bends and such in ways I never could with midi sequencers, and if they’re paying attention, I bet the DSK plugins wouldn’t be so bad on my PC if they didn’t have all those effects on them (which I shut off anyway!)
This tune won SounDevotion Competition Round 39!
Enjoy.
