Lately I remembered one of these old pieces that I wrote and thought it would work good in the latest game I’m working on (recycling!), which is that medieval-themed Gradius-style shooter I was talking about a post pr two back.

The piece was originally the typical country fair dance song you have in every cliche RPG at some point. Instead of looking for that old midi files I decided to write a fresh arrangement from memory. There’s two guitars playing sort-of a round, a lead on flute, and percussion. I these parts out in Tracktion’s midi editor and assigned them realistic instrument patches from Sample Tank SE. Two different Nylon string guitars, Ocarina, subtle bass and wood-block percussion. I call that the “clean” version.

Then I thought it could use some kick. I want my game to have a little bit of that 80s Psygnosis vibe to it also. I imported the track into FL Studio and put on some rock&drums and bass.

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I’ll post a link to the corresponding video game level if I ever finish it.

Apparently I recorded this last September sometime. Not sure why I didn’t post it. Sounds pretty lush to me, for one guitar part…..

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The game will involve this marshmallow man jumping around a young boy’s gums and attempting to kill all of the teeth in his mouth. When you kill them all with your marshmallow gun, you win. Tooth decay, yay!

For the full effect, let it loop over and over until you are driven mad.

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Spent a little more time working on this than the last one, I’ll admit. They say that if you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all. This song’s kinda like that.

This is actually something I’ve (sort of) done before, but have been tempted to do several times. I’ve always loved songs like Sonic Youth’s “In The Kingdom 19″  or the Minutemen’s “Take 5, D” – songs with spoken word over them, or songs with found lyrics that have a weird poetry to them.

So that’s why I have thought occasionally about making songs from tweets.

And that’s what this is: http://twitter.com/vomikronnoxis/status/12068252341

This isn’t really as much a found piece of poetry, because I think Rob intended it to be read that way. But that’s why I liked twitter anyway.

Hopefully I’ll have more stuff up soon.

My name’s Noam. I’ll be posting mostly acoustic sketches here and there. Excited to join y’all.

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Time to get this blog-party started again. I’m going to try and do as much music as I can at all times. Sometimes it will be a whack rap(?) about Avatar. Other times it might be a whack rap about something else. Maybe there won’t always be whack rapping. Hopefully someday there will be dope rapping. Maybe even dope rapping about the latest IMAX 3D blockbusters.

Sorry I missed last week. I’ve been fighting off a rude cold and did not feel like anything at all.

However well executed, this song is about being both unrealistically optimistic about a relationship and overprotective of your own space. My own space? I don’t know. I don’t know.

There just aren’t enough good Thanksgiving songs, are there?

This submission does not help that situation!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.