Category: Single Tracks

Battle of the Bits, Compo, Single Tracks, Vocal

Find the Best of Both Worlds

chunter

For Battle of the Bits Outrun Chillwave　botb-outrun-artwork

The point of the contest was to make a chillwave (80s synth retro) track with some sort of inspiration from Sega’s mid-80s arcade racing classic. There were many good and surprising results throughout.

It is my experience and understanding that sounds many people attribute to synthesizers in that period weren’t really synthesizers at all, so I tried to use as few as possible.

Vocal by Momone Momo, with additional vocals by Sekka Yufu, voicebanks for the UTAU singing speech synthesizer.

UTAU→ www10.atwiki.jp/utau2008/
Momo→ www36.atwiki.jp/momonemomo/
Yufu→ sekkayufu.web.fc2.com/

両端世界のドライヴ、 
海と海からへ、 
峡谷からスピードで、 
分野から急いで

Ryōtan sekai no doraivu 
Umi to umi kara e 
Kyōkoku kara supīdo de 
Bun’ya kara isoide

We’ll find the best of both worlds tonight 
Let’s find the best of both worlds tonight

 

Compo, Single Tracks, SounDevotion Competition, Vocal

Pictures of Success

chunter


Player appears above

This won SounDevotion Competition Round 75!

Pictures of Success is a song by Rilo Kiley.

When a person is late paying a utility, the company will send a bill on an alternate colored paper, like pale blue, pink, or yellow, to warn the person that disconnection is imminent, hence “the bills keep changing colors;” I’m not sure if this sort of thing is done outside the US.

This was the second to last vocal I rendered with the Megpoid Gumi English demo before it expired. I didn’t finish making it right away because the cover song I released before it flopped badly, but considering the “special theme” of “commercial sound” and temporary covers allowed, I thought it might be good to give it a try here.