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# Saturday, May 21, 2005

Well, I thought since Rory is comfortable posting up his personal writing stuff, I’ll try to get comfortable posting up my music for a change.

This little diddy is one that I just started tonight. Obviously, it is FAR from being finished, but that explains the title of this post, I suppose. The context in which I’m writing this piece of music is the same ol’, same ol’ in the world of game development. The game is a classic console RPG (a la Final Fantasy), and the music is the theme for the “childhood friend” of the hero. You know, the shy girl that turns out to be a lot hotter when she’s older.

Obviously, the exercise doesn’t get much deeper than that since I don’t really have a true story to base this music off of. I’m going for “setting” and “ambience”, more than anything else.

I don’t promise, but I’m thinking of perhaps posting my progress of the song as I go along so all of you can hear how it evolves over time. I doubt any of you will really be interested in this kind of thing, but I’m doing this for my own sake also, so it really doesn’t matter. Enjoy! Or don’t! I don’t care. Just remember, this is something I jotted down in an hour or so and it is just a rough draft of the song. If it were a game, the game would still be in all wireframe, and only half the models would be there (and no controls would work). You get the point!

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Sunday, May 22, 2005 4:08:59 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Just so you know, I'm interested. I like to think of my self as an 'aspiring' musician, so it's always cool to see and hear how things are made.

Good start I say, reminded me immediatly of games like zelda on the snes.
Monday, May 23, 2005 12:07:24 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
No kidding! I was just thinking that it sounds a lot like some of the music to old final fantasy games (even some of the newer ones, come to think of it)... you know they hire acclaimed japanese composers to create those, so take it as a compliment!

Hey, maybe you can create the music to go with your game tutorials!
Monday, May 23, 2005 12:33:01 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Thanks guys! I DO consider those compliments. Time will tell how it evolves though!
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:59:34 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Is this a digitized recording of "real" analog instruments?

By the way, I like it very much.

Highly evocative.
Ken Rubin
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 2:57:42 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Wow, that was really cool.
I think it fit the theme really well.
Is being a musician one of your hobbies or do you do it professionally?
Mystery Coder
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:19:04 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Ken, technically, yes. But, as in, are they real instruments that I recorded? Nope. They are sampled instruments that I used to create the piece you here, no live musicians involved (except for the ones that the samples were created from, of course).
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:20:21 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Mystery Coder,

It's mostly a hobby, in the sense that I don't make a living off of it. However, I am a published composer/arranger for Sound Music Publications. And I do have local gigs that I do in the Portland Metropolitan Area.
Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:03:28 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
This piece definetly has a FF vibe to it. Like it very much, and the beginning piano roll kinda reminded me of James Horner in his better days.

Could picture this meleody to fit with a very Goldsmith like arrangement.
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