i like chiptune

dang, i haven't done one of these in AGES

BOY was it cramped inside that center of the earth!

BLAST the time machine sent us back to 65,000,000 BC!!! We'll have only our wits to get us out of this deadly predicament!! 

30 minute swapoff compo with LunacyEcho!

 

I added random stuff to make it bad

These caverns are still too cool 4 u etc etc 

 

ohc465 sequel or NOT!!!!!!!

whoa this one .. evolved

david wise inspired

How many arps can you put in a single song? I don't know

u start thinking about nature and stuff but then things get AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 mic no alterations (but yes splicing gg)

"lyrics""" here https://pastebin.com/ivc2JNLy

 

DONT READ UNTIL YOU HAVE LISTENED AT LEAST ONCE

youve been giving it away

you dont have too much to say

and even if you did it wouldnt count

 

because we've walked this road before

just like any other time

why dont you just turn that line away

 

ANGELS!

flying with some other guy i said

ANGELS!

i bet they're getting really high i said 

ANGELS!

lalalala
ANGELS!

i bet it's better than heeeeeeeere

 

alalala solo

 

i know you've been trying

to get yourself away

i know you've been saying

why cant i staaaaayyy

Well the first time I saw you

You just looked right past me

Well then I thought to myself

What good could I be

If you don't see me

Well I guess ill just get on home to die

 

 

Well I wrote you a song

Hoping you would sing a long

But you didn't know the words

Somehow that was a surprise

I guess that I've learned

It's best to share your songs before you sing them

 

Oh oh oh

 

Well I went online and this is what I found

That just one verse is not enough for a song

I guess that means

I'll have to write some more lyrics

 

asdf

bah i listened to too much lo fi today lolz

you dont need to talk no more cuz ive got things to say

you already had your chance you threw it all away

 

other lyrics but no time LOL BYE!!!!!!!!

In a place

You were before

In a time

I knew no more

You threw a note

Into the sea

Leaving time

For you and me

 

solo ad libbed ENJOY

You said you need a new heart

But I just couldn't offer

 

You said, "all done"

But we weren't even started

 

You said you need a new love

But I don't think we had one

 

Anyway, anyway, at all

spiritual successor to you are just a cat

done 100% with the soundfonts from chrono trigger

focused more on the sea than the tree thing

ahh this wind up toy reminds me of days in my past :')

cute firefly boy goes to court a cute firefly girl at the cute firefly waltz only to be PUSHED OUT OF THE WAY BY A BIG FAT FIREFLY OH GOD NO but he has fun anyways

u never know when a library is going to JUMP OUT OF A BUSH AND SURPRISE YOU!!!

infinitely unfolding geometric sequences // each pattern subtly different than any seen before

 

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FantomenK inspired thing

FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS! COMPO FOR LIFE! STARLA FOR DICTATOR!

 

spiritual successor to my OHC409 lol

 

 

he can play piano i promise he's just a little nervous :))))))))))

that was weird

can you feel the energy?

AHHHHHHHHHHHH DEADLINES AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGG

o god 2 distracted 4 ohc 2 day

still a little sick, stuffy nose, apparently that just means ill sing more HA!!!!!

lets gooooooooooooooooo

wanted to do songs inspired by other songs. honey is sweet which got me thinking of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-xJxtWdMeY

all things
are connected

EVERYONE SING ALONG WITH THE CHORUS! U GET TWO SHOTS.

you are just a cat any way
and you dont know how to say a cat's okay
dont know how i never never noticed this before
maybe its because you never never scatch at the door
you are just a cat any way

the verse lyrics are stupid im not gonna put them here LOL

got started really late AND then ableton crashed halfway through and i lost all my instruments >:((((((((((( anyway here's wonderwall

oops i made a notwist song

no wait...

oops i "made" a notwist "song"

whats mixing

had to start 30 min late smh

I was going to write an entire mythology story thing inspired by the video but i only got through the first verse when i became completely sidetracked by a random chord idea i had and then the song spun out of control lol

i hope u like the lyrics "by the seashore" because thats like 99.9% of this song

It's been a long long time since I've seen your face round here, round here
It's been a long long time since I've seen your face my dear, my dear

Say how
You really missed me
But you dodged all my calls and I can't think of something you'd sayyy AYY AY

oh my god there's no theme fit no WAIT i can say the WORDS OF THE THEME YES

what's mixing

i'm on the wall
im very small
you cant see me
it's far too crowded in the lourve

fun fact, no one can see the mona lisa and also it's very small, and this is a great reason to write 80s dance songs about it

it took me like 10 minutes to make each of those sounds... which is why there are only 6 of them

?????

well we lost this one guyz. let's try again next time.

you travel to the DISTNAT pAST where they play... wtf is this weird genre? i have no clue, ive never heard of it before. it must be ancient.

then you travel even FURTHER BACK! where will you end up? who knows! no literally i mean who knows because thats where the song ends. literally no one will ever know.

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im sick i blame lack of coherency on that

will you make it out?

composers note: i spent 100% of the time making drums and then i realized there was a deadline ???????

i did a spooky song like 5 compos ago but i think this one is better

me and lunacyecho did a 30 minute swap off!

we're actually both chilling here at dropbox come say hi

:D

sunrise in some creepy alien world.

you're probably not safe.

i made a ghost song because this would be spooky

less vocal processing

more bad vocals

woo

that went in a different direction than i had intended

it took a lot of work to get here

this is dumb

i was at the office today so no real entry from me but i ran onto the office piano and did an improv

i took a quote from the spoken thing in the middle of the song as the title

the only company you have is the ever-present ever-changing rhythm of the sea.

they say they never found the disks. if so, what of my memories?

vocoder + pitch correct is a INTENTIONAL ARTISTIC AESTHETIC not because my singing is garbage YOU WOULDNT UNDERSTAND

since ICE CREAM

right on time

this is garbage rofl

i started 40 min late so in theory this is perfectly on time

its actually early

tbh

i started this song about an hour late :(

blah blah blah blah blah blah stupid descriontipn goes here

this became a huge mess

watch them grow!

s2g i spent 40 minutes on the drums

This is a song about beer the song

space puts you into a trance part 2 with a weird rhythmic thing

dedicated to my on true lofe

CHIPTUNE

every soul passes through here after death.

some spend hours here, others hundreds of years.

adrifttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt

or something stupid

the fireworks put you into a trANCE haha GET IT a tTRANCE ha HA HA HA HA HA

i really got sucked into thinking about how cold and dark and mysterious it was 

also i mixed this on the only available headphones which were beats so im like 99% sure i got the levels wrong

snowflake emoji

ITS NOT OVER YET

these always end up weird cuz im at my parents house w/o a midi controller of any sort

did a synthwavey thing

also like normally i would be more careful about mixing and stuff but im sick and i just dont care

following the path of an electron!!!!

?????????????

This relates to the theme.

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this was a collab me vs lunacyecho and also featuring the rap talents of etherealwinds (who we didnt ask to be included but we did anyways ha ha ha)

OH AND HE SAID THE WORD DAN.

this is a mysterious place

^ one of the 3 lyrics

the others are hopefully obvious

uhh that was reallly hard D:

sneaky sneaky

these caverns are far too popular for u to have a shot tbh

behind every door, only another room as expansive and empty as the first

those are totally fireworks

also like i recorded a couple more minutes of solo than this, I SPARED YOU, YOU ARE WELCOME

the chill and the hot cancel out

dog

did u know? today's ohc is 3 consecutive numbers. this rare astrological phenomenon only happens once every 1000 years.

what lies beneath?

i think this would have been agood song if i had more time

also it had more reverb and then i was like nah lol

somehow the idea to do a solo in the middle section didnt occur to me until like 1:19:30 through the compo -_-

i was kind of focusing on the feelings of having a bonfire in winter

OH GOD THE DROPS

DROP

ha ha get it

wait my song doesnt have drops nvm

coming 2 u from indonesia this time!

coming to you live from cambodia!

i mean srs i am traveling in cambodia right now. so it was kind of weird to see a theme that was about a foreign place lol. also i had to get up at 9am for this IT BETTER BE WORTH IT.

also also i did this with only my laptop trackpad. it was hard and dumb

inspired by https://soundcloud.com/zircon-1/across-the-ocean

how do you make sounds louder i just copied the channel a few times lol wut

please forgive me for being late i was stuck in traffic rip

tried to go for more production value

the ents and us are so different ... tehre is such a large cultural gap... but as it turns out... we both understand... HOW TO DANCE OMG

(resub to fix a stupid render error)

(also imagine what this song would be like if i had a midi keyboard with more than 2 octaves on it -_-)

im hanging out with friends so i told them to sing some stuff for my song. which i then sampled.

im not sure who trolled who better here

wow this ended up sounding a lot like iron and wine. except iron and wine never had a square wave solo, their loss

- live guitar!
- live vocals!
- live square waves!

i tried to do a psychedelic song... and there were a lot of solos... like... a lot ... this whole song is a solo (?) ... thats not true

also i sung lol its hard to even hit one note right. how do you guys do it?

i need to start on time for once argh this is a mess

i spent like 98% of the time just writing like 3 melodies. then i spent like 5 minutes adding a drum track and baseline.

i had no idea at the beginning what this had to do with microcosms but then eventually i realized the song was a pretty good microcosm of my styles... which is a funny coincidence that happened to actually work out for the theme heh!

composers note: WHAT A MESS

oh no its a spoki zombie party oh no help ah oh no (oh no)

i ran out of time to do an extensive solo hm

incl improvised solo i had no time to clean up oops

i just wanted to jam on those chords for a while so i did

the witches' hut only opens when there's an eclipse. not a very good business model, if you ask me.

hidden behind one of those trees... is a perSON!!! :O

and hidden behind that person.. IS A DISCO BALL!!!!!! :O :O :O

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uh i tried to stick to the theme but then this happened? mixed in a cafe, plz excuse poor mixing

trying to do some new things?

May or may not be inspired by certain Yasunori Mitsuda compositions.

you travel through an empty world and just before you give up you find a broken spaceship.

the technology is ancient, but familiar to you.

you begin to repair it...

pRONOUNCE THAT PARTBOT HA HA HA HA HA BLASTRON CANT SAVE YOU NOW

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inspired by this guy https://soundcloud.com/malmen-1 but then it started going in a different direction

chords

sometimes you just have to wait out the storm...

this is the happiest song i have ever done. i need to go take a shower with some sludge or something

a little repetitive :0

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sry this is late i spent the first 10 min eating -_-

i wonder what we might find!

i'll get my revenge if it's the last thing i do.

but first, let me listen to some chiptune

don't forget to take a moment and breathe.

this is definitely a forest. i assure you. just don't mind that guy over behind the ivy dropping some mad grooves on that electric bass...

you can do it! yeah! uh.. yeah! woo! ok

well that got weird

deserts are slightly groovy.

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THIS WAS ACTUALLY ON TIME BUT THEN ONE OF THE CHANNELS RENDERED TOTALLY EMPTY WHAT THE HECK SO I DELETED AND RERENDERED

looking up at the mountain / climbing the mountain / the view from the top

NOTHING IS GOING TO STOP YOU NOW!

hm

the toxin sets in slowly... it gives you time to think...

and in your final moments...

you realize...

YOUR LIFE WAS AWESOME AND YOU HAVE NO REGRETS

YES

YOU WIN MAXIMUM SCORE

GOOD JOB

uhh ahh oh no

this song has a lot of notes

SORY ITS LATE I GOT SUCKED IN FORGIVE ME

exactly as simple as it seems

So I was already expecting to do bad with this because I've had this awful flu all week and, if that wasn't enough, my laptop completely broke, leaving all my music software gone. But eh I decided to grab this like 8 year old laptop (with an old copy of FL...9) and do a little something.

But I was such a noob that after like 45 min I went into sound preferences and somehow broke all sound output on FL and ALL SOUND ON MY ENTIRE LAPTOP. So I threw up my hands and rendered out what I had done so far. Which was nothing. I dont even know if the rendering worked because... no sound.

Worst OHC entry ever incoming.

real title: "YOU CAN PRY CHIPTUNE FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS" (i was worried it was too long)

description: see title

yay!

incl random improv i didnt have time to make into a song. it sounded nice tho ;.;

i can help you

the ONE TIME i finish on time...

...

lolz nah thanks starla for reopening! I'm thankful for OHC :D I had fun writing a lil fearofdark inspired piece.

i wonder...

i wrote a song. then i got insanely savage and vengeful and synonyms thereof like that and DELETED THE WHOLE THING and wrote this in the last 15 minutes of compo.

i played a lot of improv piano today.

i dunno... i'm sleepy

why have you brought me here?

the stars bathe you in their beautiful light

bleh i really cant mix this crap in an hour.

or ever.

it's lonely up here...

:(

i only decided to enter the compo like 20m before the deadline... forgive me for the vocal glitches heh

my friend gave me some vocal stems so i decided to chop them up and use them for OHC :D

title taken from what it sounds like the vocals are saying

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one of these days i'll get an idea BEFORE 40 minutes after the start of compo.

finally managed to open that stupid treasure chest that has been taunting me for so long, only to find.....


grooves?

ok

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sound design week again! man this is so much fun. i made all those instruments during OHC

lol i dont even know

so i was all ready to have the first part go into this dancy groovy solo section, but then i realized that the reason i was doing that was because i thought people would like it, not because it was actually what the music wanted to do. so i deleted the whole section and let the music do what it wanted to do instead

...

OH GOD

oH MY GOD

AGHGHHHHHHHH

.....

what's that melody? we must get closer, so we can hear it better

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so somehow i made a dance music??? THAT WAS NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING

also forgive me for late, i got started about the same lateness becos work

who will believe in me if i don't believe in myself?

on the 0th day, god created the solo.

you can do it! you're the best!

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composers note: sound design day today! that was super fun. i was really getting into this.

when all seems at its worst, you find yourself distantly recalling a melody from times long past...

and you realize...

YOU MUST FIGHT ON!

...

.......

i dunno

doing something different

into the beautiful and mysterious lands of chiptopia!

what did you expect?

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mixed on my new speakers, idk how that will come out.

this is one of my favorite ohc pieces.

^ not a lie

i mixed this well

^ LIE

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i've been listening to essentially nonstop chillout music so yeah.

;.;

I wrote this much.. and then my brain turned off and i couldn't write any more.

???????????????????????

starts out orchestral and then i just randomly threw more and more elements into the mix in an attempt to distance myself from the music i wrote in the past... i made a goal for myself that once i clicked on a sample i HAD to use it. also featuring 200bpm... for some reason.

i guess its still kinda johnfn-y... dont care :D

reminiscing about things long ago and wishing you could change things.

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trying to set goals for myself like no obnoxious buildups and more than 1 chord progression per song

this is my 100th ohc and i wanted to do something epic... so i did.

... or maybe it's just long and boring... not sure yet

thank you <3

he has returned

chillin

a song about exploring a new world or something

super duper rushed but that's the point right

NOSIES GO HERE

drifting in dark space... no civilization for light years in any direction... who left this here?

crap for a theme that was supposed to be "do an awesome song" i really screwed it up!

can't get that melody out of your head...

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i spent the first 30 min or so doing 0% of this song. maybe i am losing my grip... :o

Never trust old men who give you old mysterious boxes, and disappear along with all the evidence that they ever existed when you try to find them again.

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that was FUN!

Maybe you chose to forget.

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This piece is a disaster sorry I wasted all my time trying to mix it

featuring live acoustic guitar! (again)

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omg i resisted the urge to to something really energetic

featuring live acoustic guitar!

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i released a mini album of 4 improved OHC songs from the last month + one new song. check it here johnfn.bandcamp.com/album/thoughts

all proceeds will go to the "johnfn needs an guitar pickup" fund, which i'm sure you'll agree (after listening to this song) is a worthy cause

this world is the world of your nightmares.

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so this ohc i decided to do dnb for the first time ever??????????????????

i submitting this from a coffeeshop because the wifi in my house = derp

COMCAST SUCKS

PRAISE PHILZ COFFEE

OMG I'M ON TIME FOR ONCE

or i would be if freaking OHC didn't have this flood protection

every sound here has been synthesized from recordings of my own voice. except the kick drum. HOW MAKE KIK DRUM.

sorry this sucks

i think that finding aliens would be a happy experience because we would no longer be alone.

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composers note: blkajdsflkjsdflkj the hypercomplicated arrangement was a bad idea

i wanted to write a really intricate piece with a lot of details so then this happened. i'm really happy with it mostly because it sounds quite different than my standard stuff.

yay for FM!

in the middle of your desert expedition you find an oasis. thank god too, or else this song would have been really boring.

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Check out my ludum dare game! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=3187

I had an unmoveable conflict during OHC today. But I didn't want to miss OHC for the first time in about a year(!), so I snuck out and submitted this thing. It's a single take piano improv I did earlier today. I spent about 15 minutes on it - 5 minutes to play, and 10 minutes to fix a few minor issues.

I hope you like it!

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I'm pretty sad I missed such an epic theme though!

I choose flight.

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composers note: my real choice of super power would be the ability to mix any song perfectly in an hour

I tried to do something way out of my comfort zone and write dance music. Then I forgot that I have no clue how dance music sounds.

There is always something to hope for.

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i started this song deciding to make a really unconventional song but then... it sorta just became conventional.

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i started late please forgive me ;.;

This is one of those themes that you can really go overboard with... so I did.

3 part song, first part represents past, then present, then future.

Started 10 minutes late so ended about the same lateness.

I spent almost all my time just composing new melodies lol. Wats mixing.

DISREGARD TRANSITIONS ACQUIRE DB GLITCH

Who am I?

...

Ah yes, I remember. I am world-renowned chiptune composer, Dark-zu-ra(ISQ)

uh....

yeah...

...

for some reason i decided to synthesize ALL the synths in this song during ohc. started late, but still finished basically on time.

i feel good about this one. it has the best melody i've ever written in ohc. mixing is a little off but... eh

ITS OHC

I imagine that seeing a doppleganger would be a very dark, scary, mysterious experience, with lots of dissonance and stuff.

The "story" of this song follows the theme description almost to the letter. The confrontation comes at 3:00, and then after you banish him there's an outro that suggests things will never be the same.

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Piano is the best instrument, why does anyone even bother writing other instruments other than piano. There is so much melodical space to explore.

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I have no clue why that took me so long. It still has so many mistakes. :X

... and they want to GROOVE

O_O

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composers note: rushed 6ever

tough theme!

the way that i interpreted it was that you were looking back on childhood through the lens of memory. so there is one theme which is pretty prominent - the first time you hear it, that's representative of the time that you spent at school. that theme is constantly being reinterpreted through the entire song, which represents how the passage of time effects how you remember your time at school.

i know this is pretty far from the theme, but... tough theme. so deal with it!

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me, starting OHC at a reasonable time: "finally, i'm not starting 30 minutes late! this is ganna be great! im gonna blow everyone's mind!"

me, 30 minutes later: "i hate this idea, time to restart"

I hope you can excuse the many many many errors in this piece. Most of it is raw improvisation with only the barest of fixes :X

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i have been doing a lot of piano work recently so... yah

first thoughts: "hmm, isn't time is short the theme EVERY OHC"

second thoughts: "omg i had a lot of caffeine today"

this is maybe my first ever ohc where the song almost matched up to what i wanted it to be. i hope you enjoy :X

i started 30 minutes late on this one... and it shows. D:

finally got my keyboard back though. bad improvised piano comin atcha

so today i've been moving around and i decided that while i was on the go i would drop into a cafe and do OHC. so it seemed pretty nice and quiet when i was scoping it out, but as soon as i sat down the owner started playing this insanely loud movie with drive by shootings every 5 minutes and giant semis kept driving by the door and people are shouting at each other and...

well, you get the idea.

basically i couldn't mix at ALL.

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EDIT: someone was nice enough to extend the deadline for a long time, so i went somewhere quiet and quickly remixed it!!!!!!!

still sounds bad tho. i can't mix that fast xD

the person putting on the show is me. featuring

* live singing!
processed enough so that you can't tell i don't know how to sing
* live guitar!
i don't know how to process live guitar so prepare for TONS OF ERRORS

no live piano unfortunately, i don't have my keyboard with me. :(

My take on the theme is that you finally finished that thing you've been working towards for so long, and so you take a moment to relax.

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another song ruined by TERRIBLE MIXING. when will i learn how to mix in an hour? I should have just removed those plonks, but they made the song sound so nice ;.;

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Speaking of being pushed to the point of exhaustion, check out the game i made for ludum dare 27! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=3187

It has a pretty sweet soundtrack too ;-P

you step outside and breathe in the fresh air. an unexplored path lies before you - where will it take you?

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i'm very happy with this one.

by the way ludum dare is coming up this weekend! if you like making games, or if you've never made a game but you're interested, check it out! www.ludumdare.com

the only disappointment i have with this song is that i intended to be more experimental with my OHC tracks, but this isn't particularly experimental. however i am otherwise very happy with it.

much like a dream this song moves from mood to mood, idea to idea, dissociatively, and although it seems cohesive while you're listening, by the end you start wondering what just happened.

something happens - perhaps you revisit an old place, perhaps you see something you haven't seen in a while, and an old memory is retriggered and you are transported back to when you were a child.

you take a break from your epic journey at the milestone inn.

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oh my god that took a long time to do. it's not perfect but i like it

feeling really uninspired for some reason. writers block? idk. help???

tough theme.

my deep interpretation is: darkness is scary, and sad.

took a gamble on structure cause I can't really mix very well.

got started 20 minutes late on this one. however i was really inspired and nearly finished on time anyways, but then ableton crashed. haha.

thanks to Ramaniscence for reopening! I AM LOOKING AT YOU ARCANA.

i wrote this song without a midi keyboard. there are advantages and disadvantages. i kinda like how it turned out though, although i ran out of time to mix it correctly.

it is hypothesized that life on earth came from an asteroid that itself carried life.

what if there was another such asteroid? what would it sound like, as it crashed into another earth?

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Mini Ludum Dare THIS WEEKEND, HOSTED BY ME!!!!!!! http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/06/22/minild-43-announcement/ do it!!!!!! I even made a music theme. :D

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Download the project file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qqcl9z13gym1c5p/ohc246%20shooting%20star.als

Uploaded from my sisters droid in the middle of a lake with no WiFi anywhere. The thigs i do for ohc.

Gonna miss listening party obviously.

i wrote this song while thinking about graduation, which is coming up in a few days. graduation is supposed to be this big deal and a lot of people i know are feeling satisfied with their 4 years at college, but i'm not - i kind of feel like something is missing.

so i wrote this song about that.

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(started this song 20 minutes late due to running around for graduation requirements and stuff...)

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I am running this month's mini ludum dare (!!!!!) http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/2013/06/09/this-months-mini-ld-is-up-for-grabs/

So you should totally participate :D And if you have any theme ideas let me know. I'm thinking of doing something audio based...duh

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Download the project file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/12xhww9ywfqrrk5/ohc244%20changes%20%28noimprov%29.als

be careful of the lost sanctuary; it is old and full of dangers, though great riches await those who endure it's trials...


had some struggles with matching the theme for some reason but eventually got some ideas.

download the project: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1520757/ohc243%20Project/ohc243.als

had to resubmit because the original had like 10 minutes of silence after it.

this is my 50th OHC

which isn't exactly a HUGE milestone compared to some people here, but for me it marks about a year of work, and a year of insane improvements

and to say thanks to all the amazing help i've gotten from the OHC i decided to write a song that referenced as many OHC artists as i possibly could. of course i couldn't possibly hope to get to everyone but i tried my best!


as usual, here's the link to my project file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1520757/ohc242%20amalgamation%20letting%20go.als

first part: yay space travel!

second part:

"uh...guys?"

"..."

"you are aware that the orion nebula is like... REALLY far away?"

"..."

"like... REALLY?"

WELL I GUESS WE'LL JUST HAVE TO GO FASTER THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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gonna try to start a thing of posting my project files up here, if i can remember. here's this week:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1520757/ohc241.als

i played around with an idea for 30 mins, then decided to trash it and start over.

in an alternate universe, perhaps you would have heard that one instead :O

concept for this one: stepping through a door into another world.

resubmitted to add limiter :X

whats that lurking in the mists?

...can it be?

did DDRKirby(ISQ) and Trancient fuse into some epic endgame monster?

aw crap

EPILOGUE

nah, it just looks like a wannabe DDRKirby(ISQ)/Trancient monster

you gradually descend beneath the waves. it's pretty down here.

gonna miss some of the chat sorry, i will leave those who i missed notes in my voting comments!

man so this one was super fun but i mixed it so poorly! i'm sorry! i hope you can hear the cool song behind the terrible mix :D

also ludum dare is coming up - ludumdare.com - check it out :D

30 min switch off with Confusedman

HOLY CRAP I COULD NOT TO JUSTIFICATION TO HIS AWESOMENESS

way outside of my comfort zone. i shouldnt be doing stuff like this on OHC!

getting the melody right took SO long. and it's still WAY screwed up. i think the song should have been in 3/4 or something, that's how bad it is.

tried to be a little more ambitious... kinda failed... this whole song is a mess... someone has to remind me to figure out the hardest parts of songs (melodies, solo) first!

i've been falling into patterns and doing the same things in all my songs. so i decided to do something totally not my style at all.

part 1: your hometown
part 2: the journey (!!!)
part 3: remembering fallen people

part 1: as the theme prescribes. as you can see, i gave up on this pretty quickly

part 2: you finished theme week! lets play some nice sounding piano music.

more experimental -> less quality, bleh! but on the other hand i really do like the opening.

my first time using ableton, so everything is gonna suck for a few weeks.

my imagination for this piece was definitely a regiment of troops marching off to war.

the motif at the end of the song the sound of the fields after the war. was your pride worth it?

i need to learn to stick to the theme more. i did it this time and ended up really enjoying myself.

... you see the one you love waltzing with that jerk you hate! and you have an epic battle! trying to kill the guy!

notes - dont think ive ever worked so intensely on an ohc entry before! it's still very sketch like, particularly at the end, but that's OHC for you :p

pensive longing for the one you love followed by realization you should actually tell her what you feel instead of sitting around all day moping.

pretty pleased with this one, my only big problem is that the melody parts and the arranged parts are kind of separate

having problems rendering properly loud with fl studio/win, sounss fine when i make it (using aiso) but when i render i cant hear it (as loud) anymore >:o any ideas/tips?

all praise be to great starla for reopening.

earlier today i said to myself "in the past i haven't followed the theme.. this time, i'm going to follow it NO MATTER WHAT."

and then THIS happens.

whatev i followed it anyway. come at me

first part: you extract revenge, but you dont loose your cool because you're too chill for that.

second part: you dance on the grave of your enemy in a cheesy RPG cutscene.

the person who should not give up is you

the thing you should not give up doing is listening to my song

the reason is that the 2nd half is much better than the first half

and if you're wondering why i kept the first half, it was only cuz it fit with the theme in this meta way.

:D

you start thinking about how sad the aurora borealis is.

does johnfn keep submitting the exact same song, hoping that ohc wont notice? details at 11!

answer: yes.

blame the reason this one is bad on my lack of a keyboard

sorry i missed last time. i actually wrote a song, just failed to upload it on time. dumb X(

this is my first OHC with a MIDI keyboard! hooray! really lets me explore a lot of melodic space... not so much time to choose instruments though :p

it's gonna take a while to get used to using it during OHC.

technically speaking, christmas is at the end of the world. or at least the end of the year. wait, this doesn't make sense.

also, is this my worst ohc ever? DETAILS AT 11! (spoiler alert: yes)

in the first part kids are playing happily in the snow

(I REALLY TRIED TO STICK TO THE THEME I SWEAR#$!)

in the 2nd part kids roll in and kill everyone

He may be gone, but his ideas will live on.

Notes: wow, this is the first OHC i've done that i'm fairly pleased with! (cue everyone hating it during the listening party)

While everyone else has decided to writ epic entries, I decided to chill out and write an easy going one.

And to continue with my unconventionalism, i decided to barf all over the mastering stage so it sounds like crap!!!!!!! intentional i say! INTENTIONAL

walking back home. enjoying nature. the birds are a-flutter. opening your doo-

HEY

WHAT

OK THATS IT. EVERYONE OUT.

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sorry this is basically a troll entry. started 40m late due to thanksgiving. it was fun anyways though for reasons you may see.

In the first scene, the bugs and you rejoice. Bugs are friends. You are friends with bugs. Bugs are nice. It is nice to be with bugs. Nature is nice.

In a deleted scene, you accidentally step on a bug.

In the last scene, the bugs hunt down and kill all of your family.

Don't mess with bugs.

5 seconds into OHC: "I hate this theme"

2 minutes later: "heh THIS THEME IS AWESOME"

I really had fun here! Hope you enjoy also.