Japanese Game This week I composed two variants of a song for a Japanese video game. They are both based on the same melody, which is intended to be sung by a woman in Japanese. […]
Soul Searching; for Video Game I’ve been composing a lot of music for a series of machinima videos. These videos are animated using the Grand Theft Auto 5 engine. They are being produced by “That […]
Video Game — 4 Atmospheric Variations While working on a score for a video game, I composed a melody, a motif that I thought could be very flexible. I could use the same melody for […]
Escape from the Morons; for Video Game My son has been editing video game playbacks, putting video game clips against music. He loves the game “Escape from Tarkov”, and asked that I compose similar music. […]
Joyful Jam In preparation for the “Global Game Jam” in January, 2022, I played with a tune that I titled “Joyful Jam.” This is a moderately cheerful tune, primarily electronic, with a few organic instruments […]
DualKitty For the “Global Game Jam” in January, 2022, I contributed music tracks to the game “DualKitty” (about 90% of the music used in the game) The theme for this Global Game Jam was “Duality”. […]
Adaptive Music When producing music for a video game, it is often useful to compose adaptive music. This is music that interactively adapts to the actions taking place in the video game. I recently started […]
Trio for Guitar, Bass, & Alto Flute This is a short trio for guitar, upright bass, and alto flute. The guitar is a 12-string. The alto flute is similar to a standard soprano flute, but […]
Acoustic or Synthesized While composing music for a video game, a question came up. Should the style be acoustic or synthesized? That is to say, should the instruments be standard acoustic instruments, or should all […]
The Sand Knight I am involved now with a couple of video game development groups. One of these groups is developing a game called “The Sand Knight”. You can try playing an early version of […]
Odd Meters As mentioned in an earlier post, I am involved with a video game in development, called “The Sand Knight”. In fact, you can try out a very early version of the game on […]