attempt no landing there

We watch the blue giant from afar. Our existence only a heartbeat long in the eyes of the galaxy. As we get closer, we hold our hands, knowing that finally we have arrived at our destination. Our new home. Slowly, the planet grows larger as we get ready to meet the new place face to face.

alternate titles: vacuum orbs, void globes, null marbles

IO's Mission Commander is trying to trouble shoot an issue

Wassup Thunder told me to use Uilleann Pipes in tonight's compo. I so jammed 'em in with stuff from my space ambience template. Mayhap it works?

My latest commission project is writing the soundtrack for "Zero Lives", a retro-styled precision puzzle platformer with shoot 'em up elements: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1581880/Zero_Lives/

I'm specifically being commissioned to bring my trademark "9-bit" chiptune style, so I channeled that as best as I could here to make a high-energy track. I already made one song for this soundtrack at 140BPM, so I chose to write at 110BPM this time and tried to use a different sort of progression to change things up.

The C - F# interval gives things a bit of a spooky feel in the first half, but later on it settles into a more energetic vibe. The melody/riff at 0:44 (G-F-Eb-C Bb-C) is the musical motif of the soundtrack and was also featured in my previous track. I'm aiming to have this recur throughout the OST in some form or another as that was part of the request.

The same section features an interesting filter effect where the lowpass filter on the pads is linked to the peak volume of the drums, giving the pads an sort of rhythmic/percussive pulse.

The pulse wave leads are doubled here, with the second channel playing more softly, pitched higher, and delayed slightly for an echo -type effect (a fairly common technique in chiptune). In this case, this is in addition to -- and not in place of -- my normal longer delay/echo effects, so there's a lot of echo going on here.

This maybe still fits the theme, as "space station" music?

another compo, another song where i only manage to write a verse and a chorus

(i guess it's time)

pack my things and go

'cuz i don't want to

deal with your shit no more

i bid you adieu

with all you put me through

and all i bled for

won't take more blows from you,

my so-called mentor

call disconnected

call it what you want,

but don't call to ever touch base

why ya still askin' for me?

ain't this you meant

when you said that you wanted space?

Fly by rocky worlds are lit

Spectrometer is my only sight

Return the data bit by bit

Antenna orientation

Fleeting thoughts appear so randomly

Push me away from them I'm free

Lingering lost passions, lost loves

Tell myself I won't be missed

The days the years zoom by

As black as the darkened sky

My dreams like magnetic disk

Stored in perpetuity

Watch another set of rings fly by

Scanned once again against the sky

My mind wandering so free

But I wonder if I'm free

Away, away

I thought I'd rather be alone

Away, away

Savor radio kiss from you

Away, away

Remind me why I'm far from home

Away, away

Don't neglect my memory

My mission's ecstacy

[verse]

Alone inside a capsule in the void

I speed along without making a noise

In space you'll never have to hear me cry

Yelling out that I have missed you by my side

Though I will go where no one's gone before

I think about you stronger, ever more

I wish I could go back and stop this voyage

What's out those can't compare to simple joys

[chorus]

As I round the rings of Saturn

In the end, it's only matter

With the space that stands between us

and our love as hot as Venus

Count the days 'til we're together

Our devotion spans forever

In the vacuum my heart's yearning

Like a gaseous cloud, it's burning

[verse]

I spin and find myself right on a path

Rebound around a planet heading back

This unexpected turning of events

Will bring me back to you, my love again

Im still away on vacation for 9 days. I intend to get back on Sunday. As a result all of my tracks are on GarageBand, which can produce some good sounding tracks.

All of this was made before the compo, in 1 hour ( I checked the time). I tried to make it spacious to wellfit space, as well as add bells and pads for atmosphere. The drums are there for groove and movement. Has 3 distinct sections, each kind of simple, but complex. Like this one, hope you do too.

Relive the excitement of GALAGOTRONUS! This arcade classic will soon come to the inside of your screen! And this time, no quarters!

COMING SOON TO SWITCH

(that's a lie jk)

I merged two of my previous space themed OHC melodies together to create this brief journey through the final frontier. Shorter than I wanted, due to some early troubles getting things together, but I completed the parts I most wanted!

I found a monster in the reverb filter.