You can comment on each piece of music, and peoples' opinions and feedback would be very, very appreciated! Tell me what you do and don't like, please!

Also, though I do compose music for my games, that doesn't mean that all music I compose is meant for games! Agh! Most of my music is composed just for the sake of listening to, for enjoyment, not for any kind of situation in a game. Most of it wouldn't fit anywhere in a game at all.
And yet people seem to so often comment saying "I can imagine this being in [part of a game]!"...

The music is in three different formats.

• All pieces have a MIDI file associated with them. This is the file format that I compose in, and it's made up of numerical data rather than soundwaves, and as such is very small. But the numbers that make up the file refer to certain instrument sounds that need to be played, while not actually strictly defining the instrument sound itself... So one midi player could have a 'violin' instrument sound that sounds very different to the 'violin' instrument sound on mine. As such, this means that often, the midis will not sound the same to you as they did to me when I composed the music and recorded it for use in a game (if it's in a game, that is).
• Some pieces of music have mp3 files to download, which, being strictly-defined sound waves, sound exactly as I intended but are considerably larger in size. For the sake of my bandwidth, I've not got many of those here yet, but if there are any that you would particularly want me to add the mp3, I'm open to requests.
• A few of the pieces also have what's called a 'sib' file associated with them. I use a sheet music notation program called 'Sibelius' to compose, and .sib files are its native format. There's a browser plugin called 'Scorch' which you can get to view them in the browser; it's linked to on the sib file pages. What this does is allow you to watch the sheet music as it plays along, and see how I laid out the notes. I for one find it fascinating to see the sheet music of pieces that I know, so perhaps some of you will be similarly interested by this. Keep in mind that Scorch's midi soundset is different to the one on my computer and different to the one of midi players, so yet again, the Scorch files will sound different to how I intended them or how I hear them. (All the Scorch-played sib files sound wrong to me on this site, but fine in the Sibelius program itself...)

1dec09   Added on: 01/12/09 Duration: 3:26 Views: 1498

Well, I haven't managed to get one done every day, but I've not given up entirely after missing a few days! This one is a piano solo, and it might be a bit odd in places (you may think some notes are 'wrong'), but I find it interesting or something anyway... 29 comments

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Not-a-Sonata 2   Composed: 03/02/09 Duration: 3:47 Views: 386

This was a second stab at getting the sonata form correctly, but again I suppose I went off track and did something else instead so it can't technically be called a 'sonata'. I don't know why I didn't upload these in February... But I'm doing so now because I've not been keeping up with my daily compositions at all! 7 comments

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Not-a-Sonata 1   Composed: 02/02/09 Duration: 2:26 Views: 281

This is another piece I composed while teaching myself more about music theory, but never released. It was meant to be of proper Sonata form originally, but for some reason I can't recall, I never managed that and turned it into this instead. (For those of you that don't know, you can't just call any old piece of music a 'sonata' just because you feel like it. It has to have a certain structure, sort of like how you can't call a pig a bird because it doesn't have avian anatomy... y'know?!?) 6 comments

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Little Waltz   Composed: 02/02/09 Duration: 1:56 Views: 269

Egads! This is older than I thought! I don't actually know as much as I'd like about musical theory (that is, harmonics stuff, which chords follow which, etc), so this year I've been trying to learn, on and off, from online tutorials. I made a few practice pieces like this to test what I was learning, and never meant to release them, but I decided that I might as well upload them anyway for the sake of completeness... 4 comments

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27nov09   Composed: 27/11/09 Duration: 2:43 Views: 403

Gasp. I managed to keep this up for longer than one day! But can I do three?! Anyway, this isn't a piano solo, but it's not very interesting since again it was sort of forced rather than inspired... There are loads of bits that could have been so much better, but rather than refining these 'daily compositions' to perfection, I'll just leave them as 'rough sketches' so then I can quickly move onto the next one. 9 comments

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26nov09   Added on: 26/11/09 Duration: 1:42 Views: 325

As part of my daily timetable thing, I've decided to include an hour for 'composing music'; forcing myself to try to do SOMETHING even if I'm not inspired or anything. I'm hoping that this will lead to improvement, and more music; I haven't been composing much at all recently. This one is a sort of uninspired piano piece, my first try, but other attempts won't all just be piano solos. 8 comments

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Space Yokels   Composed: 23/07/09 Duration: 5:30 Views: 2700

o_O This and the last piece were initially attempts to compose a Main Theme for CARDECK... I composed a few bars of several potential themes but none of them seemed right. Some I liked musically though, even if they weren't appropriate, so I expanded them into full pieces in their own right, unrelated to CARDECK. This doesn't loop. 47 comments

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Steel Stream   Composed: 22/07/09 Duration: 3:14 Views: 853

Hmm... This is an odd piece. I wanted it to sound somewhat unusual, as I tend to like odd things such as unusual time signatures and approaches that generally just don't sound like most neat, refined, 'good' music... It turned out to be annoyingly 'repetitive' in parts, perhaps, and I'm not exactly in love with it, but it's been so long since I've composed anything at all that I might as well upload it! 8 comments

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Five Metal Beasts   Composed: 15/01/09 Duration: 1:04 Views: 1045

This was originally composed when I was trying to make a Theme for Chimaera, but it didn't fit the game at all. I do like how it turned out, though. It's in 5/8 time. 26 comments

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Whimsical Waltz 5   Added on: 14/07/08 Duration: 4:44 Views: 4553

Here is another one! This one perhaps has a different feel than the others, and it's much longer too since the main section is repeated. 25 comments

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Whimsical Waltz 4   Added on: 13/07/08 Duration: 2:00 Views: 1498

A slow one this time. 4 comments

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Whimsical Waltz 3   Added on: 13/07/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1181

I'll probably do a few of these... 1 comments

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Whimsical Waltz 2   Added on: 13/07/08 Duration: 2 Views: 1179

A second 'whimsical waltz', which again was made rustily up as I went along and could hardly be danced to... 4 comments

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Whimsical Waltz 1   Added on: 13/07/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1266

I've not composed anything in AGES, so I composed this with much rustiness. It's a waltz, of sorts, but only vaguely and only in a sort of technical sense. I doubt anyone could dance to it at all. "Whimsical" because it's rather 'random' and clearly made up as I was going along... Hopefully the rustiness will wear off in a while... 2 comments

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Dreamscape III   Added on: 16/05/08 Duration: 2:25 Views: 2033

Another one... Again, it's "abstract" and has no clear tune or consistent rhythm, instead being unfocused and crudely assembled, like a dream. As in a dream, the "good bits" and the clear images may be fleeting. (Again, I say: "I doubt many Youth Of Todays will much care for this style of composition!"!) 6 comments

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Dreamscape II (Nocturne)   Added on: 15/05/08 Duration: 2:33 Views: 1379

Another abstract, dreamy piece. The description for the last one applies to this, too. It lacks a clear "tune", and will likely be unfollowable either in certain parts, or throughout the entire thing... I like it *because* it's odd! But again, I'm unsure of its appeal amongst the audience of this site... 3 comments

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Dreamscape I   Added on: 15/05/08 Duration: 1:26 Views: 1314

Another 'experimental' piece. It's a dream. It lacks typical harmony or a clear melody; this is meant to relate to how dreams don't have a clear, detailed picture like reality; they're more of a "vague idea" or something. They also tend to change direction often, as does this. Again, this is abstract, and not conventionally harmonic, so I'm unsure of its appeal... I composed it ages ago, but never submitted it here until now because I assumed nobody would like it... 6 comments

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Madness!   Added on: 15/05/08 Duration: 3:00 Views: 1726

This rather old piece was an interesting experiment, a deviation of the typical melodic musical form that I usually use. It starts off completely "random", tuneless, chaotic; many of the notes were actually added by clicking the staves randomly without direction. This symbolised a fractured mind, insanity, etc. Someone in a mental asylum, I thought. As the piece goes on, though, order begins to emerge from the chaos... I pictured this as the mental patient getting psychiatric help sessions, and gradually moving towards sanity (somehow). At the end, he's almost cured, but there are still bits of the madness there (some vaguely dissonant bits or irregular rhythms), but he's certainly glad to be free of the torment, and it concludes with a happy tone. I like it, but since it's "abstract" in many ways, I'm unsure if it would appeal to a wider audience... Anyway, this is music telling a story, with just music alone. Just one instrument. No lyrics, which modern popular music relies so much on to get any meaning or story across... 5 comments

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Not Cards   Added on: 14/04/08 Duration: 2:15 Views: 2408

This was originally meant to be for MARDEK 3, but I got carried away and went completely away from the original mood! I liked what I was doing though, so I decided to finish the piece, but I won't be using it in MARDEK 3. Just out of curiosity though, if you listen to this, tell me what you think it would be appropriate for if it WAS used in a game! What does it make you think of? What mood does it create? 25 comments

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Ramble XXIII   Added on: 19/02/08 Duration: 9:15 Views: 1672

Not quite as long as the other recent rambles. It starts off quite simple and gets chaotic later. It might not be everyone's cup of tea. 1 comments

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Ramble XXII   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 11:30 Views: 1702

Another piece that rambles on and on. Like the other Rambles, it's just a flow of musical ideas. Piano solo. 1 comments

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Microcosm VI   Added on: 28/11/07 Duration: 2:00 Views: 2092

This one seems emotional, sad... reminiscent, perhaps. Looking back on the past, sadly moving on, memories... maybe? As with the other microcosm pieces, I didn't have anything in mind when I started composing, though. What does it make YOU think of? 4 comments

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Microcosm V   Added on: 28/11/07 Duration: 1:55 Views: 1347

This makes me think of a forest... A lively tribe of creatures lives within, celebrating life in their wooden treetop houses, and then a journey though the magical woods, ending up at the village again... Do you think something different? 4 comments

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Microcosm IV   Added on: 28/11/07 Duration: 2:18 Views: 1249

This makes me think of frigid things... How about you? 5 comments

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Microcosm III   Added on: 28/11/07 Duration: 1:14 Views: 1263

This one's in 5/4 time, so it might be hard to follow. 2 comments

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Microcosm II   Added on: 28/11/07 Duration: 2:00 Views: 1270

This is probably my favourite from the first set. 4 comments

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Microcosm I   Added on: 28/11/07 Duration: 1:30 Views: 1203

This one's quite simplistic. What does it make you think of? Anything? 4 comments

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Microcosm 0   Added on: 28/11/07 Duration: 1:20 Views: 1162

This is one of seven short piano pieces that I composed in one day. They create imagery, perhaps, but that imagery's up to you. I think of stars twinkling. What do you think of? 5 comments

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Ramble XXI   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 11:53 Views: 2319

This 's another 'ramble' - a rhapsody of sorts - which is sort of like a stream of musical ideas. It has a lot of variety, so there's likely to be parts you like, and maybe parts you don't. Listen to all of it and see! 1 comments

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Image IV - Ripples   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 3:11 Views: 1349

Ripples in water, maybe? A crystal cave? Hm? 5 comments

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Image II - River   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 2:04 Views: 1248

Think of a flowing, bubbling brook, snaking languourously through the countryside... or something. 4 comments

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Image I - Sepulchre   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 2:44 Views: 1246

These Image pieces are supposed to evoke specific imagery... they're 'programme music'. This one's meant to portray a large crypt... Sacred, yet spooky. Is it the tomb of a fallen Hero? Of dead loved ones? It's up to you. 3 comments

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Ramble XX   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 8:57 Views: 1127

I personally think this one's rather mediocre, but maybe you'll like it more than me? 1 comments

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Diurne IV   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 3:32 Views: 1202

This one makes me think of a red desert... lost ruins? A desert tribe? Sandstorm? Lost? Hm. 3 comments

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Diurne III   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 5:08 Views: 1223

This one sounds rather 'grand' to me, and I like it quite a bit! 2 comments

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Diurne II   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 4:39 Views: 1197

This one makes me think of a ceremony at a castle, some kind of carnival, and then a forest... But how about you? Music can create very different imagery for different people! 1 comments

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Diurne I   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 4:08 Views: 1182

These diurnes are the 'opposite' of nocturnes; whereas nocturnes are meant to be evocotive of the night, these diurnes are meant to create a bright, daytime mood. 1 comments

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Ramble XIX   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 10:06 Views: 1150

I really like this one! Again, it's just a stream of musical ideas. Very varied! You can't judge the entire piece by the first few seconds or minutes! (Well, you CAN, but SHOULDN'T... o_O) 2 comments

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Ardrung I   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 14:37 Views: 1453

This one actually uses instruments other than just the piano! The word 'ardrung' is synonymous with 'a piece of music', by the way. Myes. 3 comments

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Ramble XVIII   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 14:50 Views: 1128

THIS is quite a long one! Varied, too! It changes theme and mood so very often! 1 comments

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Ramble XVII   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 8:39 Views: 1165

These 'rambles' are basically just a stream of musical ideas, me putting down any musical thoughts that happened to come to mind without worrying about a main theme or mood. 2 comments

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Nocturne XVII   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 3:11 Views: 1077

This is from the third 'set' of nocturnes, and it sounds different to the others. It's more... flowing. 1 comments

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Nocturne XVI   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 3:58 Views: 1134

This is the last of the second 'set' of nocturnes. (Doesn't it sound so nightly? o_O) 1 comments

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Nocturne XV   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 7:00 Views: 1064

This one's quite long, apparently! 2 comments

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Nocturne XIV   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 3:51 Views: 1021

These nocturnes are all quite old... I composed them all in a relatively short space of time a few months ago. 2 comments

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Nocturne XIII   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 3:46 Views: 1217

I really like this one for some reason! 4 comments

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Nocturne XII   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 4:09 Views: 1063

Another nocturne! By definition, nocturnes are meant to be evocative of the night, but are mine, hm? 3 comments

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Nocturne XI   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 1:50 Views: 1222

Another nocturne. Interpret these how you will! 2 comments

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Nocturne X   Added on: 03/11/07 Duration: 4:33 Views: 1295

These nocturnes were composed a while ago! Some vague influence by Chopin, maybe? Of course, I used my OWN style too... 3 comments

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Light of the Dark Moon   Composed: 25/04/06 Duration: 10:05 Views: 2574

This is a strange piece, because I really like so many parts of it, yet at the same time it feels flat and not attention-grabbing at all... Hmm. It's divided into three parts: Light of the Dark Moon, Seeking the Dark Moon, and Exploring the Dark Moon. Though I don't know if it's clear where one part ends and another begins, but it doesn't really matter. It gives me strong mental imagery and memories... but they're personal things that are too dull to explain! 23 comments

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Hectic   Composed: 07/05/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 657

A strange, simple piece composed very quickly... I can't remember much about when or why I composed it. 1 comments

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Waltz II - Cosmos Waltz   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 3:52 Views: 500

This one is supposed to sound somewhat spacey, but it doesn't exactly give a feel of the VASTNESS of space... More like, uh... riding a little futuristic hover scooter through your daily routine with stars in the background, seen through the bubble of your habitation or something. o_O 2 comments

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Waltz I - Waltz of Bones   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 3:17 Views: 470

This one, I think, was inspired by listening to some of Danny Elfman's music in either the Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christmas... He has such an effective style for creating elegantly haunting, sort of spooky melodies... I wish I was half as skilled! So this is a waltz - of sorts - meant to make you think of, uh, bones. I bet it doesn't. (Or rather, I start with an intention, then ramble off into irrelevance...) 3 comments

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Shadow Dance   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 4:39 Views: 498

Originally called something bland like 'Waltz' or something, I decided to actually give this one a TITLE since titles seem to increase the appeal of musical pieces... Hmm. 3 comments

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Sequence in Sapphire   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 3:28 Views: 464

I intended this to 'seem like the colour blue'...? o_O I'm sure any synaesthete would tell me I was way off though. 4 comments

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Sequence in D   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 4:24 Views: 427

I've received compliments about this one specifically before, and I think it's rather interesting myself... Unpleasant to me in its technicalities, but interesting to listen to, yes... 1 comments

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Sequence in C   Composed: 01/05/06 Duration: 2:26 Views: 402

One of several 'sequence' pieces, whatever one of THOSE is. I find it mildly appealing, but it's nothing special. 1 comments

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Quest 1   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 18:32 Views: 746

This was an interesting experiment! It's a very long piece, because I wanted to try to tell a full story using a piece of music... I know it's not exactly an original idea, but at the time, I thought it was rather interesting. You might recognise the World's Saviours' Theme at the beginning; I got their Theme from this. The start bit is meant to represent a generic Hero, posing valiantly. He then gets on his horse and rides hastily across the glens or something. (Section 1) He arrives in a quiet forest, somewhat magical... (Section 2) He finds an ancient ruin in the forest... (Section 3) As he walks through it, he starts to feel as if something's tracking him... Shadows dart about, he feels wary ("Bet-ter watch my step..."). His heart seems to beat faster and faster and he speeds up, as the shadows seem to get larger and faster, so he starts to run, and- gasp! A DRAGON! He falls backwards at the size and majesty of the mighty beast... But wait! The creature only wants to talk, it seems. (Section 4) It converses with the Hero, telling him about a human sorcerer (evil, of course), nearby (DUN... DUN... DUN... DUN...!; his four-chord theme), who's been wreaking havoc on the forest or something. It mentions his name, and it brings back unhappy memories for the Hero... Apparently the sorcerer destroyed his village, or inflicted some other emotional wound on him. The dragon asks the Hero to help to defeat him. The Hero accepts, and the dragon offers to take him to the sorcerer's lair... The Hero rides on the dragon's back through the skies! (Section 5) Through the forest at first, but then they break through the canopy and the Hero is whisked through the sky and marvels at the amazing views as he travels at high speed, high above the world... The dragon drops the Hero off at the Dark Fortress of the evil sorcerer. (Section 6) He explores... It's very dark and evil. Dramatic! Eventually, the Hero reaches the top, and confronts the evil sorcerer. (Listen for his 4-chord theme!) Arrogantly, the sorcerer summons some tiny imps to deal with the Hero. (Section 7) He swings his sword frantically around, trying to hit the tiny, evasive creatures. But obviously he succeeds eventually, what with the amazing power of his righteousness or whatever. The sorcerer is annoyed. (4 bar theme!) He does battle with the Hero personally. (Section 8) He fights casually and confidently using his magic at first, and this lasts quite a while... (Listen out for the Hero's Theme! Followed by the Sorcerer's!) But when the Hero seems to be winning (his theme plays, or a variation thereof), the sorcerer transforms into a giant black monster for some reason! Gasp! The battle gets more dramatic... But it doesn't last as long as the last bit. The Hero quickly and valiantly slays the might beast, and as he does so, the stained glass windows behind them (there has to be some of these!) shatter, showing the sun rising, filling the once-dark place with light... Happiness, yay! Pleased with his victory, the the Hero heads back down through the Fortress... And either his horse or the dragon appears from nowhere and he rides off again, along the horizon with the sun in the background, and a variation of section 1 plays! (Section 9) Isn't that interesting?! The sections sort of flow into eachother, so it's not easy to know where one ends and another starts unless you have my mind, or if you've listened to it a few times maybe! 13 comments

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Pearl Whisper   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 4:51 Views: 392

There are parts of this (mainly the beginning) that I like a lot... It gives me a strange feeling and many memories, but, uh, nothing I'm going to talk about! It also feels like this was another significant piece in the history of my composing, for some reason... 3 comments

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Omninous   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:53 Views: 333

When I finished this, it became another 'lost piece' because I didn't consider it worth showing off (it's too short and simple), so I just saved it in some obscure folder somewhere and forgot about it... I'm uploading it for the sake of thoroughness now. 1 comments

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Nocturne IX   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 4:10 Views: 377

This one is also one of my favourites of the series, and I don't know why I didn't upload it before... It's sort of simplistic and repetitive, but 'peculiar' in parts, which I find appealing... It gives me an 'American feel' for some odd reason, like music by Gershwin or Copeland or other such composers, even though it bears little resemblance to their music... 1 comments

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Nocturne VIII   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:45 Views: 333

Yet another insipid, sort-of-happy one that makes me think of dainty Victorian women with huge frilly skirts or something... What went through my mind when creating these things? o_O 1 comments

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Nocturne VII   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:06 Views: 316

Eugh. I'm remembering why I never uploaded these before... 1 comments

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Nocturne VI   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:46 Views: 331

This one's not remotely nocturne-like, but it's one of my favourites in the series anyway. 3 comments

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Nocturne V   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:24 Views: 316

Many of these sound very samey in their insipidity... It's largely because instead of giving up when I thought an idea wasn't working, I just tried to finish it until the end before moving on to the next one. 1 comments

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Nocturne IV   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 2:09 Views: 317

I actually like this one more than others in this series. I played it a few times on my piano, since it's extremely simple, AND I ENJOYED IT MUCHLY. 1 comments

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Nocturne III   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:24 Views: 332

At this point, I was straying away from pieces that actually sounded apt to be nocturnes, and basically just using the 'nocturne' title for them for the sake of keeping them as a series... I had distinct imagery of like... orange cogs or something when making this? I think? Strange... 1 comments

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Nocturne II   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:27 Views: 328

Another insipid one, that feels far too simple and happy for my tastes and doesn't really seem like a nocturne because of that... 1 comments

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Nocturne I   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 3:08 Views: 314

Most of my piano music is unplayable, because it would require more hands than most people have... So, I decided to compose a series of easy nocturnes that I COULD play. Most of them turned out too insipid for me to even want to attempt to play them though, so the idea was a bit of a failure. Oh well! 0 comments

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Mount Vesuvius   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 3:42 Views: 323

Yet another piece of 'programme music', meant to create imagery of the volcano that destroyed Pompeii. I wondered for a while while composing it and afterwards why I whimsically decided to compose a piece about that, and I've never been sure... o_O 1 comments

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Mood 1   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 5:47 Views: 383

This was composed at a time of sorrow in my life... For a time I considered it to be one of my best pieces, and I could even play it on the piano, unlike most of my other stuff. 1 comments

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Monsters - Drak   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:15 Views: 384

This one was meant to represent a drak, a small dragon-like thing that you can find in MARDEK and some of my other things. I don't think it really produced the right imagery at all (it makes me think of something swooping and doing loop-de-loops through the air, though, at least), so it's at this point that I stopped trying to do the monsters thing. 2 comments

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Monsters - Snapper   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:14 Views: 362

During a period of trying to compose things to create distinct visual imagery, I tried composing pieces to describe various monsters from my games! I only did two. This was for the 'snapper', which appear in games like Deliverance and FHO. I don't know if it fits though; I think of snappers being more playful and less jerky than this suggests. 2 comments

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Liquidity   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 3:01 Views: 380

Now here's a piece I really like quite a lot! It was composed as an attempt to make a piece with contrasting rhythms; the 'upper' part being based on threes, the 'lower' bit on twos. I really like the mood that it seems to create for me. 2 comments

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In the Mines   Composed: 02/05/06 Duration: 1:43 Views: 328

A piece that was inspired by a piece of Handel's called the 'Harmonium Blacksmith'. I was going to use a variation of it in the Gem Mines in MARDEK 2, but it proved irritating to 'convert' to a version with multiple instruments, or something... 0 comments

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Elements - Water 1 (Ripples)   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:17 Views: 361

I think I was unsatisfied with this one and didn't consider it a part of the series until much later, when I dug them up and decided to just include it anyway. 1 comments

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Elements - Fire 1 (Dancing Embers)   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:41 Views: 361

Fire! I quite liked the rhythms in this one. And it changes time signatures in places, I think... 0 comments

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Elements - Earth 1 (Terranean Prelude)   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:46 Views: 339

I actually thought this one sounded quite earthy at the time... I was relatively pleased with it. I was going to make multiple pieces for each element, and this would be the prelude introduction, but I never ended up doing that. 0 comments

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Elements - Air 1 (Apparently)   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 2:30 Views: 339

I tried at one point to compose a series of pieces based on the elements... This was my attempt for Air, but really, it doesn't sound remotely air-like at all, so I only consider it part of the series in name only or something. 0 comments

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Drunken Angel   Composed: 23/07/05 Duration: 2:28 Views: 374

I found this piece amusing when I composed it! The title says basically what I was intending. I remember it being in my days of moving from DMP to Sibelius... But other than that, I can't remember what went through my mind as I made it. The voice instrument will likely sound horribly off-key in some midi players, like QuickTime, for no good reason! 3 comments

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Db1   Composed: 27/11/06 Duration: 4:47 Views: 338

I never even came up with a title for this one... The file is just called 'Db1'. I don't even think it's in a Db-related key though... It seems 'obscure' to me because I made it in a day and then saved it in some obscure folder and forgot about it. I like to listen to it every so often, and it reminds me of when it was a 'forgotten piece'... Obviously no other listeners would get that from it though. 1 comments

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Contrastia   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 3:40 Views: 351

Think black and white! Loud and quiet! Slow and fast! I still find this piece interesting... 1 comments

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Clouds   Composed: 17/09/05 Duration: 5:17 Views: 354

I think this was perhaps one of the latest pieces I composed in DirectMusic Producer, before getting Sibelius... I think I composed it at a time where I was reading the Bible, substituting the word 'UFO' where it says 'cloud', and 'alien' where it says 'angel'. Do that sometime, and you get a VERY different impression! o_O 0 comments

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Breviloquence II   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 0:46 Views: 324

Everything I could say about this, I already said on the other Brevlioquence! 0 comments

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Breviloquence I   Composed: 27/11/06 Duration: 0:55 Views: 334

I think that the idea for these two pieces came to me when 'breviloquence' was the Word of the Day on Dictionary dot com... I found the fact that there was such a word for that interesting, and decided to write a short piece titled that? I don't know. o_O This is rather uninteresting though, but since I'm submitting everything... 0 comments

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Blacksteed 2   Composed: 29/07/06 Duration: 5:37 Views: 373

This is a 'remake' of the original 'blacksteed' piece, done because I liked that one so much. This one's obviously more orchestral, using multiple instruments... A bit repetitive, but interesting anyway, I think. 0 comments

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FH: Village   Composed: 10/01/05 Duration: 1:12 Views: 371

And here it is! My very first attempt at VILLAGE music, which was for Fig Hunter. This is the basic melody on which most of my other Generic Village themes are based. Interesting! Though, obviously, this piece isn't exactly brilliant. 0 comments

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FH: The Forest World   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1:25 Views: 368

This is a pleasant, though simplistic and somewhat repetitive piece, meant for a place on Ehaiah in Fig Hunter, I think. 0 comments

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Temple of Re   Composed: 22/05/05 Duration: 1:25 Views: 386

This is another of the pieces based on a strange, whimsical idea that I had. I have no idea who 'Re' is, but I suppose it was meant to be some kind of deity to whom temples were built, this music representing one of them? Use your imagination!!11 o_O 3 comments

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Tempestine   Composed: 29/04/05 Duration: 2:42 Views: 347

This is another one that I still like, which I consider to be a significant point in the development of my composing skills (I think the dates for many of these are wrong, since, according to them, I composed like five pieces on one day? I probably just re-saved them all on that day or something, so, regretfully, the original dates of composition are lost...). I think I'd just recently heard the final movement from Beethoven's 'Tempest' sonata, and found it inspiring. This piece obviously can't compare with his, though. It's meant to be a storm at sea or something, with winds that speed up and slow down... then there's a sudden lightning storm (the lightning bolts are the sudden, sharp, loud chords)... Or something like that, anyway. Use your imagination!11 o_O I really like the ending chords for some reason. They seem unusual compared to what I usually do these days. 0 comments

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FH: Povos Minor   Composed: 12/03/05 Duration: 1:07 Views: 361

I think that this is an awful and inappropriate piece of music that was used for the first world map in Fig Hunter... It's very embarrassing because of how bad I think it is, but I'm uploading it anyway for the sake of thoroughness and completeness or something. 0 comments

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Muriance (original)   Composed: 07/06/05 Duration: 1:09 Views: 419

This is the original version of Muriance's Theme, which is mentioned in the entry for Muriance's Theme in the MARDEK section! It was composed for a pre-Deliverance RPG attempt, as were so many of these pieces... The discerning and astute listeners will notice many differences between this version and the one in MARDEK, though the causal listener might find them identical. 2 comments

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Marauder   Composed: 28/05/05 Duration: 1:02 Views: 388

This is the original Marauder music for the galleon by that name which was the influence of the ship in Deliverance! More information can be found on the 'Star Marauder' entry for Deliverance's music, but just briefly, this was for a pre-Deliverance game based on a short story of mine. I rather like this piece, despite the harshness of the midi instruments and the hollowness of the piece as a whole, because I find it amusing and think it sounds suitably 'goofy pirate ship'-ish. 1 comments

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FH: Lupin Battle   Composed: 07/04/05 Duration: 0:54 Views: 452

This one was composed much later than the other Lupin Theme (despite the 'composed' dates for these submissions being close together), when I had somewhat more experience and was in my 'second phase' of composing. It was made for Fig Hunter, where you fight Lupin, a human chief of the 'wolf bandits', who also happened to be a lycanthrope who battled you and turned into a werewolf or something. It's a silly piece of music... Vastly inappropriate, because rather than being grim and villainous, it's playful and unserious. Tsk. 2 comments

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FH: Lupin   Composed: 10/04/05 Duration: 2:10 Views: 449

Now this is an amusingly old piece! It seems that my composing went through several stages... I can't find the ORIGINAL date of composition of this, but I think was some time in 2003. At around that time, I spent much of my time making modules for the game Neverwinter Nights, and this was one of my first forays into the world of games design and coding and such. As I got better at making modules (which, unsurprisingly, I started loads of and finished like one, which was, amusingly enough, called 'Governance de Magi' and was the basis for the story of MARDEK), I tried composing music for some... My attempts at composition were embarrassing, and included things like this, which was one of the better ones. I only tried making a handful of pieces, then gave it up for a year or two. When I returned to composition, I started being more 'serious' and had started learning the piano, so my knowledge of the workings of music was slightly better. Pieces like THIS one, though, are rather more... chromatic... because I had less idea what I was doing and I was younger and more naive too. So yes! This was supposed to be the theme of some villain in something that I can't even remember... Oh, right! The NWN module that eventually was turned into the Fig Hunter game! He was in that. And, consequently, in the Fig Hunter game, where this music was used. 2 comments

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FH: Lingon Secret   Composed: 21/03/05 Duration: 1:36 Views: 428

There was an area in Fig Hunter which took a lot of side quests to unlock... a sort of techno-ish Lingon ruin, containing a powerful weapon or something. This music played in there. It seems that the instruments don't sound right on my midi players... Hmm. 2 comments

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FH: Jungle   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 0:44 Views: 355

This one is similar to 'In The Woods' in that I don't think it's too badly made, but it's really irritating to listen to... It was made for Fig Hunter. 0 comments

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In The Woods   Composed: 08/07/05 Duration: 1:36 Views: 379

This is a strange piece, because I don't think it's too badly made in a technical sense, but I find it really irritating to listen to for some reason... It was composed for one of my many pre-Deliverance RPG attempts, but never reused anywhere because of how irritating I found it to be to listen to. 1 comments

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Hymn of YALORT (version 1)   Composed: 10/08/04 Duration: 1:08 Views: 477

THIS is the earliest version of the Hymn of YALORT, probably my first composition ever, maybe! (Except for some earlier things that were so awful that they don't count... o_O) See how bland it is in the accompaniment? DUN. DUN. DUN. DUN. DUN. DUN. DUN. DUN. Exciting! The other version's not much better though... 3 comments

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Honour & Stealth   Composed: 02/07/05 Duration: 1:50 Views: 406

Back in the earlier days of my composing, when I was still so excited to be able to do it at all, I came up with many spontaneous and strange ideas for compositions that I'd never have these days (just like when I was little, I'd come up for creatures like lingons that I still use now because my modern ideas aren't as appealing to me for some reason; feels like I've lost my imagination with age)... THIS one was about NINJAS. I think I'd recently seen an impressive film called Hero, which includes a segment where the hero fights another warrior with a spear-type weapon in a temple while it rains (I still remember it), as a blind old man plays what I think was a koto in the background, eventually leading to one of the strings breaking as he got more and more furious in his playing... I still think of that clearly when I listen to this music. That film wasn't about ninjas, but I made a pre-Deliverance game (there were a surprising amount of those that were never close to being finished!) which did include ninja which talked in German accents for some silly reason... o_O I used this for their hideout, but it wasn't composed for that purpose. So, uh... yes! Isn't that fascinating?! 3 comments

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Fig Hunting!   Composed: 13/03/05 Duration: 0:49 Views: 439

This was the Main Theme of the Fig Hunter game! I thought it sounded rather 'jazzy' or something at the time. It was based on an improvised piece I played on my piano in my early days of having it... That was the only time I've ever improvised for so long (I generally dislike improvisation), and I recorded what I was playing and stored it in the keyboard's memory... I think it's still there to this day! I was going to use this general theme in the FHO Main Theme, but abandoned the idea when I found that there wasn't much I could do with it. 1 comments

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Ethereal   Composed: 29/05/05 Duration: 1:10 Views: 387

This was composed for a pre-Deliverance game where you played as a wraith, starting in the underworld which was all dark blue and purples and that greenish colour I use for the aether element... I really thought it was very appropriate and I still do! I'll probably do a 'remake' of it at some point because I'd like to use it in something... 3 comments

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Ehaiah   Composed: 15/03/05 Duration: 1:19 Views: 362

I was really proud of this one for ages... I still do like it, though I think it's very hollow and those drums are 'just stupid'... I can see so many ways it could be so much better, but I consider it also to be some kind of significant point in the development of my composing... It was quoted in the Deliverance theme for no good reason at all. (Actually, thinking back, I think it was because you were going to go to Ehaiah eventually in Deliverance, and it'd be the main theme of the game or something? Hmm... Memories.) 1 comments

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FH: Dungeon 2   Composed: 07/04/05 Duration: 1:10 Views: 340

I don't really like this one much, but it has a very intriguing feel to me (as a piece of music; I think it's a failure as a piece of DUNGEON music), giving me distinct mental imagery of the place in Fig Hunter that it was used in - a dark green cave called the 'Emerald Pass' on Ehaiah - and since it was my second ever dungeon theme, every time I do a 'second dungeon theme' in my games, I think of this... If, uh, that makes any sense to anyone who isn't me. o_O 0 comments

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FH: Dungeon 1   Composed: 13/03/05 Duration: 0:47 Views: 358

I was still in my earliest learning stages when I composed the music for the Fig Hunter game, obviously... This was probably my first ever dungeon theme, and it shows! I liked it a lot at the time, but now I, uh, don't like it as much. 2 comments

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dullbrown   Composed: 01/05/05 Duration: 1:25 Views: 343

I distinctly remember that I composed this unpleasant piece when I decided that I should try to compose a new piece every day, in my earliest days of composing... I was also inspired by a piece from Final Fantasy IX called something like 'dissipating sorrow' (though is seems to be called different things in different places...) 0 comments

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Crystal Marsh   Composed: 27/08/05 Duration: 1:28 Views: 387

This was composed for the Crystal Marsh in Deliverance. The only reason I removed it was due to the filesize getting too big... 1 comments

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Boss1   Composed: 07/04/05 Duration: 1:14 Views: 451

Or maybe THIS was my first ever attempt at a battle theme? (No, actually, some earlier ones come to mind...) This was ONE of my first ones though. I remember that it was composed for Fig Hunter, and was used in a battle against a robotic Lingon or something, which could change its element at will! That was interesting. I remember originally just using the 'Jenova Absolute' music from Final Fantasy VII, but when I replaced it with this piece of my own, I felt pleased, because I don't like stealing other peoples' work. Or something. o_O 2 comments

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Blacksteed   Composed: 28/04/05 Duration: 2:14 Views: 392

This was one of my favourite pieces for a long time, and I still rather like it. On a whim, I decided to write a sort of 'Western'-feeling piece... like something that might make you think of some loner cowboy with one o' them cowboy hats wandering the desert by himself, maybe. I eventually used this in a pre-Deliverance game, and it's quoted in Peregrin's Theme somewhat. I also did another version of this with more instruments. 0 comments

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Battle1   Composed: 01/06/05 Duration: 2:14 Views: 404

I can't clearly remember what I used this for... I know I made it for the pre-Deliverance RPGs which used the early version of that engine, but I don't know if people other than me would ever have heard it before... It was probably my first attempt at a battle theme. Now, I find it vaguely amusing and vaguely irritating at the same time because of how repetitive it is. 2 comments

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Ramble 10 - Temple Version   Composed: 17/11/05 Duration: 1:54 Views: 340

I liked Ramble 10 so much that I decided to use it for the temple music in Deliverance at first. Eventually I removed it in favour of the other temple music for reasons I can't quite recall... This is basically identical to Ramble 10 except it uses multiple instruments and is designed to loop. 0 comments

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Ramble 10   Composed: 08/10/05 Duration: 2:14 Views: 314

I really liked this one at the time! It uses a lot of repetition, but it sort of builds up repeating patterns, then gradually loses them at the end... or something. It gave me clear imagery of something I can't quite describe... Something like temples, or big bridges, or some grand architecture of an ancient civilisation or something? Hmm... 0 comments

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Ramble 9   Composed: 16/08/05 Duration: 1:41 Views: 326

I didn't use different dynamics at this point, I notice, and as a result, all the notes are the same volume, making the music sound flat. There's a bit at the end of this which I think sounds 'heroic' and I think I was thinking specifically of Zelda at the time...? So interesting, how listening to these things brings back mental images that I had at the time of composing them! 0 comments

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Ramble 8   Composed: 24/07/05 Duration: 2:00 Views: 315

I think this one is 'playful', but rather unremarkable... I remember that at this point, I was still using DirectMusic Producer rather than Sibelius, which I use now... 0 comments

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Ramble 7   Composed: 23/07/05 Duration: 5:02 Views: 351

This was my first attempt at a LONG ramble, and for ages was my longest composition. It's also the first to have the 'many ideas' idea format, sort of like a rhapsody, instead of just using one idea for the whole piece. I've used parts of this elsewhere, like in the SMECOF soundtrack. 1 comments

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Ramble 5   Composed: 22/05/05 Duration: 2:35 Views: 330

I think I was feeling somewhat lonely or miserable or something when I made this one... Or maybe I just felt like I should try making something drifty and sort of sad? I don't know what happened to Ramble 4, if ever it existed... 0 comments

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Ramble 3   Composed: 29/04/05 Duration: 1:57 Views: 328

I find this one interesting, still... Brings back memories, too. These ancient pieces have great emotional value to me because they bring back so much and they're so interesting to listen back on, but they must be quite uninteresting to listeners who aren't me... Hmm. 0 comments

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Ramble 2   Composed: 29/04/05 Duration: 2:07 Views: 321

I think I regarded this at the time of composing as a 'chords test' or something... It's irritating to listen to, probably, because of how repetitive it is. But then again, people listen to modern musical genres, so they probably won't notice anything wrong with it!!11!1 o_O 0 comments

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Ramble 1   Composed: 28/04/05 Duration: 1:51 Views: 361

A very simple and perhaps irritating piano solo thing! Probably one of my first attempts. Sounds... 'naive' to me, or something. 1 comments

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Ramble 0   Composed: 28/04/05 Duration: 1:19 Views: 309

I thought it would be interesting to upload my oldest of compositions, partly so then I have a reliable archive of my own work, and also so then people can see how my music has improved over the years or something! This is one of my first ever pieces, I think, and I like it a lot still, largely because of reminiscent reasons. I really am surprised that I was able to come up with something so simple but not tuneless even back then... I quoted this one directly in Ardrung 1. 1 comments

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MARDEK 2: Arena   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 2141

This plays in the secret Arena, so many casual players will never hear it! Unless, uh, they listen to this... 6 comments

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MARDEK 2: Trilobite Cave   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 2:00 Views: 1796

The music from the Trilobite Cave. It's supposed to create a sort of "fossily", archaic sort of feel or something... while also being sort of playful, in a way. 11 comments

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MARDEK 2: Flee!   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 2296

A frantic "hurry!" music thing which tells you that you really need to hurry up. I'm really proud of it, but I imagine it's rather forgettable to most people since it's not a battle theme. 15 comments

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MARDEK 2: GdM Battle!   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 2:00 Views: 4254

Isn't this great?! It's the excessively dramatic battle theme for when you fight a member of the Governance de Magi. In case it's not blatantly obvious, it quotes the Main Theme. A lot. 37 comments

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MARDEK 2: Catacombs   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1756

This piece is eerie and somewhat unsettling, but not "horrific". It's more amusingly creepy than actually scary. It too quotes "The Zombie!'s Theme"... 7 comments

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MARDEK 2: Evil Stirs   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1788

Generic Evil Music. A prelude to impeding evil. It quotes "The Zombie!'s Theme", from Deliverance, which I've started using as a generic theme for zombies and evilness. 4 comments

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MARDEK 2: Saviours Battle   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 3660

The battle music that plays when you fight the Saviours! It quotes bits that recur in the battle tunes of the earlier Final Fantasy games ("nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nah-nuuuh"). The first bit is basically just the Casual Battle theme though... 26 comments

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MARDEK 2: World's Saviours' Theme   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 2262

The theme of the absurdly generic World's Savious! It quotes an earlier composition of mine ("Quest 1"), and also the Main Theme of Final Fantasy (not the Prelude; the Main Theme). I wonder how many people can spot it? 8 comments

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MARDEK 2: Canonia   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1520

A dark green and brown pleasant, sleepy town theme for Canonia. I like it because I think it's really appropriate. 1 comments

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MARDEK 2: Dungeon 3   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1578

A deep, underwater dungeon music thing for underneath the waters of Lake Qur. 4 comments

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MARDEK 2: Muriance Battle   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 2397

The special battle music for when you fight Muriance. It's essentially a variation of his theme (though I don't know how obvious that is)... It's meant to sound sort of frantic and "chaotic", probably! 8 comments

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MARDEK 2: Muriance's Theme   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1759

This is sort of significant and reminiscent to me... Muriance, as a character, was in a much earlier game that I made but never released, and I composed a theme tune thing for him, which was basically a simpler version of this. The MARDEK series features many old characters of mine that were never used... It's an interesting feeling, "reviving" them and fleshing them out and redoing their music and things... Yes. Interesting. 6 comments

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MARDEK 2: Dungeon 2   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1480

A light brown dungeon theme. It plays in the Gem Mine. 2 comments

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MARDEK 2: Royal Guard   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1502

A militaristic theme that plays during the mission briefings. 2 comments

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MARDEK 2: Castle Goznor   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1455

The music that plays in the Castle. It's meant to have a proud, noble, royal feel to it. But DOES it? I like it, but I think the trumpets at the beginning are a little harsh with the midi instruments... 1 comments

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MARDEK 2: Memory   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1592

This plays during the scrolling text bit at the start of Chapter 2. It quotes the Main Theme, and also the Mighty Heroes theme at the end (few people would notice that, I bet!). 3 comments

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MARDEK: Governance de Magi   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 2114

They are EVIL, and this dark purple theme gives that impression clearly! It's also supposed to be sort of magical and mysterious though... 7 comments

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MARDEK: Rohoph's Theme   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1861

A white theme that plays when Rohoph talks. It's supposed to create a mystical feel... It should give the impression that someone wise and mysterious is talking, or something. But someone good rather than evil. Yes. Is my music as appropriate as it should be...? Does it give the right mood? I wonder... 4 comments

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MARDEK: The Woods   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1515

The surprisingly popular forest music. 1 comments

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MARDEK: Enki's Theme   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1591

The theme of Enki the Wanderer. It's supposed to have a drifting, lonely, stoic-yet-sad feel to it... Longing. Also a Japanese flavour. 4 comments

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MARDEK: Dungeon I   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1454

A dark green dungeon theme that plays in places like the Sewers and the Tainted Grotto. 3 comments

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MARDEK: Belfan Overworld   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1427

This is the world map music for Belfan. 2 comments

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MARDEK: Goznor   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 2:00 Views: 1488

The music from Mardek's hometown, Goznor. That village is a significant place, so this piece of music quotes the Main Theme to symbolise that. It also quotes the "Village Theme" used in both Fig Hunter and Deliverance! I bet few people would notice that. 2 comments

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MARDEK: Game Over   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1505

Plays when you die. Also serves as a "sad moment theme" thing in Chapter 2 (sans introduction). 2 comments

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MARDEK: Victory Fanfare   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 0:30 Views: 1634

Nuuh-nuh-nuuuh-nuuuh-nuuuuuuuh..! Nuh! 6 comments

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MARDEK: Boss Battle   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 2:00 Views: 2483

The dramatic battle music that plays when you fight most bosses! 7 comments

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MARDEK: Casual Battle   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 2212

You'll surely be hearing THIS a lot throughout the series! It's the battle music that plays in insignificant random encounters. 12 comments

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MARDEK: Mighty Heroes   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 2:00 Views: 1732

From the introduction section of Chapter 1. It's meant to create a feel of childish, innocent views of adventuring and being a Hero... All glory and no danger or sleeping in the mud. It's lighthearted and "fun", like the young boys pretend being a Hero is. 8 comments

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MARDEK: Slaying The Dragon   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1699

This music plays during the intro of Chapter 1. As such, it's one of the few pieces that's not meant to loop (instead, it leads into Mighty Heroes). 4 comments

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MARDEK Theme   Added on: 06/04/08 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1988

The Main Theme of the MARDEK series. 11 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Forest   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1238

I like this forest music! It seems so very mysterious but pleasant or something... 5 comments

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Beast Signer: Gym   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1161

This also plays in the Arena. I'm not entirely sure whether I like it or not... After a certain point, it has no distinct melody, probably, and instead has two sort-of-melodies that perhaps don't intertwine too harmoniously... Hrm. I certainly prefer the Pokemon gym music by far, anyway. But this does contain the Main Theme! 3 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Dungeon 1   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1036

It's music for dungeons which aren't particularly significant or scary or anything. 4 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Town 2   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 987

This perhaps has more personality than the last, but it's still not especially interesting, probably. 2 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Town 1   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1011

This is so insipid. 4 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Nocturne   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1070

This is the night time version of the overworld theme of Normos. It's basically the same, but slower and softer. 8 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Overworld   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 991

This pretty tune plays when you're walking around between towns in Normos during the day. 2 comments

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Beast Signer: Arena Battle   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 2 Views: 1308

This plays when you battle in the Arena in the Hub. Isn't that interesting?! Beast Signer has many battle themes apparently, and will have many more... 5 comments

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Beast Signer: Mission Beast Battle   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1420

This plays whenever you battle a wild beast (or party of beasts) that you have to defeat to complete a mission. When I first composed it, I didn't much care for it, but it's grown on me and now I like it a lot! 1 comments

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Beast Signer: Gym Leader Battle   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 2048

This is the dramatic, Main Theme quoting battle music that plays when you take on a Gym Leader! I like it a lot. Do you?! I bet you don't. Tsk. 18 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Signer Battle   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 2 Views: 1310

This plays when you battle other signers in Normos. I find it acceptable but mediocre... It's my least favourite battle theme so far. But maybe other people would think differently. 4 comments

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Beast Signer: Normos Battle   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1245

This is the music that plays when you battle wild beasts in Normos. I'm proud of it, but I've wondered since I composed it many months ago whether people would simply judge it on its 'apparent genre' of 'Techno' rather than as a sequence of notes, and would think 'I do not like Techno music, so I do not like this'. Hrm. Not that this is even an instance of that genre, but I've noticed that a lot of people do judge music like that... 4 comments

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Beast Signer: Andarion Battle   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 2 Views: 1653

I'm rather proud of this one! It's essentially Andarion's Theme but made more dramatic and battle-like. It doesn't much suit the easiness of the first battle against him though; it was designed for future, more difficult confrontations with him. Like so many music tracks in Beast Signer, this includes an excerpt of the Main Theme. Can you spot it? With your, uh, ears? 6 comments

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Beast Signer: Andarion's Theme   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1371

Does it suit him, I wonder? It's meant to sound cocky, arrogant but not in a purely antagonistic way... I had the themes of various Pokemon rivals in mind, but didn't copy any of them. 3 comments

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Beast Signer: Signer Centre   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 990

With this, I wanted to create a very different mood to that of Pokemon centres. This is somewhat 'jazzy' but not, more laid-back and less, hm... *sterile* than the Pokemon centre music, perhaps? It includes the Main Theme. 2 comments

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Beast Signer: Signer HQ   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1008

The somewhat militaristic theme of the Signer Hub. I composed this well over a year ago, maybe even two years ago, but it still sounds nice to me and doesn't get on my nerves at all. Which is interesting. 6 comments

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Beast Signer: Medication   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1044

This is Dr @'s theme. Suspicious and peculiar; in 5/4 time with the melody in the bass. 4 comments

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Beast Signer: The Hub   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 985

This one is supposed to give the impression of grandeur and of dreams coming true... It included the Main Theme. 2 comments

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Beast Signer: Remnant Colony   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1118

This is supposed to give a feeling of people who are barely surviving in a world that's entirely against them, but not giving up hope. Or something. Probably. Can you hear the Main Theme?!? 3 comments

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Beast Signer: Theme   Added on: 29/08/08 Duration: 1 Views: 1237

The main theme of Beast Signer, which appears in many other pieces in the game, as I'm sure few people would notice! 5 comments

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Tutorial   Composed: 21/06/09 Duration: 2:45 Views: 347

This one was a rare piece where I had a distinct idea in my head of exactly how it'd sound before I began... Usually I have to try to think of what might work and try several things, but, uh, not with this one, apparently! Though towards the end it gets more, uh, 'serious' than I originally intended it to be. 3 comments

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The Mysterious Tablet   Composed: 20/06/09 Duration: 2:27 Views: 386

This plays in the room with the Tablet Pieces, and is meant to create a sort of mysterious, arcane sort of feel. 3 comments

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Level 2: Ruins of a Dead Race   Composed: 06/02/09 Duration: 5:00 Views: 432

As with the level music of the first one, this took several attempts to get right... and it uses the same general structure too. I like it a lot! It's supposed to create a sort of... Mediterranean feel or something like that? 3 comments

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Echelle   Composed: 01/04/09 Duration: 1:10 Views: 602

An unusual, mysterious, perhaps 'haunting' piece... It's in 7/8, and it might be hard to follow... It was intentionally MEANT to be hard to 'figure out' because I found that very apt. 2 comments

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Boss!   Composed: 03/04/09 Duration: 1:30 Views: 924

The boss music. I tried a few new and interesting things with this, like near the end where I use the Raider Theme, normally in 3/4, in 4/4, but copy it directly and only add a beat at the end of each usual 3/4 bar to give a strange effect... Overall, I'm proud of this one. 8 comments

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Legacy of the Hindalarr   Composed: 31/03/09 Duration: 1:30 Views: 517

This plays before you fight the boss. It's meant to be a theme representing the alien race called the 'Hindalarr', who built the ship you explore on level 1 (those skeleton enemies are skeletons of them). They're sort of shamanistic, spiritual and tribal, and this music is meant to reflect that. 1 comments

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Level 1: A Dead Starship   Composed: 07/02/09 Duration: 3:06 Views: 619

Ohgods... THIS took ages to get right! I went through like six entirely different versions before this one, trying to come up with just the right mood for level 1. Originally, I was going for quiet, spooky, unsettling pieces to suggest ghosts and that sort of stuff, but then I decided to do an upbeat, energetic 'THIS IS LEVEL 1' sort of thing instead. All of the level music in Raider has the same structure, even though they don't sound the same. They all have an initial two sections that are then repeated, and then they contain a variation of the Raider Theme in the middle, and repeat their main melody again. 1 comments

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Raider Theme (Piano)   Composed: 06/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 761

This is a rather melancholy piano piece based on the Theme from the original Raider (Zero), since I really liked that theme a lot and wanted to keep it this time around. It's meant to suggest loneliness, drifting, as well as Arkus' melancholic temperament. 13 comments

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Escape!   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 817

When you'd beaten the last boss, the ship was supposed to go into some kind of self-destruct mode or something, and you'd have to manually flee through the whole ship, backtracking all the way to the first room where Arkus' ship is. This music - in 7/4, which I basically never use - would have played. I think it's too slow for what it's meant to be for, but other than that, I was rather proud of it (largely because I'd successfully done something in 7/4, though)... 2 comments

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Gruen Battle 2   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 1163

Before battling the last boss, you'd encounter Gruen again, who was probably infected with a parasite or something, and you'd battle him. This music would play; it's a variation of Gruen's Theme which also works the Parasites theme somewhere in there (though it's hard to notice). 9 comments

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Parasites   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 897

As of the time of posting, this piece isn't actually in the game yet. It was composed as the theme of the parasites that are plaguing the generation ship; in 5/4 to create an unsettling mood. It ALSO contains what was going to be the last boss music, after repeating the calmer theme twice... You were meant to battle the Parasite Queen or something predictable like that, and this variation of the calmer theme would play. I don't know if I'll ever get to use it though, which is why I'm submitting it now instead of it never being heard by anyone. 6 comments

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Gruen Battle   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 769

I actually composed this one BEFORE Gruen's Theme itself, which isn't something I usually do, and pulled the leitmotif from this to use for Gruen's Theme... I was and probably still am proud of this 'n. 2 comments

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Gruen's Theme   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 688

Gruen is Arkus' rival, of a sort, but there would have been much more to im than that had I finished the game (I still might finish it, but as of the time of posting this, it's not done)... He's a gloth, who are usually devoid of imagination and strictly lawful and bureaucratic, but he's a pirate for some reason. Yes, a pirate like Arkus, who raids dead ships looking for loot. He's sort of slimy and untrustworthy, and this theme is meant to show that. Don't know if it succeeds at all though. 5 comments

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Nnengralonging   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 680

I used to consider this one particularly moving and beautiful... It's meant to represent the nnengrals' longing for and sadness regarding the loss of their now-dead homeworld... It plays once, when you defeat the Inner Quarters boss. 4 comments

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The Rend   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 681

This one's basically a variation of the Nnengralonging track, sped up and made more 'epic' or something. 3 comments

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Engine Room   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 640

This one's in 5/4, and when I compose pieces in unusual time signatures such as that, I feel rather pleased when they turn out okay, since in my earliest days of composing, I struggled a lot to make them followable... O how I struggled!1 I use 5/4 a lot to create a 'mechanical' effect, since 5 seems more like a scientific/mechanical number than 4 due to our decimal-based number systems... 2 comments

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Observation Tower   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 696

At the time of posting this, the Observation isn't finished, and has been in an unfinished state for a long time, making its presence in the game quite a mystery. It was meant to be an optional area with some kind of ultimate weapon or silver keycard at the top or something. 6 comments

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Domed Forest   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 618

It's the music for the forest. In a dome. I could probably say a lot more about it than I am going to do here. Oh well. 2 comments

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Inner Quarters   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 590

I wasn't really ever content with this one; it didn't sound flowing or 'active' enough or something. It sounds okay now, but... eh. I shouldn't say such things though, because it's likely that my comments about my own music TAINT the views other people have of it...! 2 comments

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Sewage Treatment Facility   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 676

I was really proud of this one for ages; it was one of my best pieces... It's old now and I've heard it so many times it's lost much of its effect, but I still like it. I get the feeling that background music goes unappreciated a lot though, maybe? 6 comments

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Level Boss   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 760

A supposed-to-be strong and powerful boss theme... orchestral, again, rather than a techno feel as might be expected, and more passive than is usual for the genre (usually platformer boss music is fast-paced, heavy in drums, and adrenaline-pumping, or something)... 5 comments

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Miniboss   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 669

This has a sort of calm, passive feel to it, meant to evoke feelings of perhaps "pfft, is this all? I can handle this easily", or something, since that'd probably be what Arkus thinks about these mid-way bosses. 2 comments

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Cargo Bay   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 646

I'm rather fond of this one, but there's not much I can think to say about it. 2 comments

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Raider Theme   Added on: 09/02/09 Duration: 1 Views: 888

Also called Arkus' Theme, since it's the theme of Arkus Zei, the main character. It appears in many of the music tracks used in the Raider games. It's a rather melancholy waltz, which might seem a bit odd for the genre (upbeat technoish stuff might be expected), but sort of fits Arkus' personality, maybe? I don't know. I like it, anyway. It shares a chord progression with The Zombie!'s Theme, which appears in Deliverance and MARDEK 2, but it's not that. 2 comments

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SMECOF: Asteroids   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1227

This plays during the trip between planets. It's actually just taken from Ramble 7 (as is the end of the Ortekia theme!). 1 comments

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SMECOF: Ortekia   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1690

Final Stage: Ortekia, world of the Cyber Orteks. You may or may not notice that this contains themes from all of the other stages! See if you can pick them all out. 6 comments

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SMECOF: Ngregka   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1407

Stage 4: Ngregka, home of the Sythoids. 1 comments

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SMECOF: Crystalite   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1393

Stage 3: Crystalite, home of the Crystaloids. 4 comments

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SMECOF: Lingonite   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1379

Stage 2: Lingonite, home of the Lingons. 0 comments

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SMECOF: Tetreous   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1416

Stage 1: Tetreous, the Triobot world. 1 comments

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SMECOF: Draco System   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1356

The piano theme of the Draco System which plays on the planet selection screen. 1 comments

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SMECOF: Theme   Added on: 27/12/07 Duration: 1:00 Views: 1589

The main theme from Super Mega Extreme Cyber Ortek Flier. It's old! 8 comments

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Tropical Island   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1 Views: 422

This is yet another piece that was composed for one of my pre-Deliverance RPG attempts, which was just lifted directly and put in Deliverance. There are several of such pieces. 1 comments

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Guardian Battle   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 2 Views: 844

Apparently people rather liked this... Keep in mind how it sounds, because I'll be using a variation of it in MARDEK 3! 11 comments

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Peregrin's Theme   Added on: 17/05/09 Duration: 1 Views: 493

Some of the high notes at the end of this are painfully shrieking... This also quotes something called 'Blacksteed', which was one of my earliest compositions. I liked quoting or making use of my oldest pieces like this... And I still do! Take Muriance's Theme, for example... 2 comments

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