New Music: Minecraft Music 1

Jake started playing Minecraft back at the beginning of 2011 -- we'd bought the beta in February and he would sit for hours learning the game; it's the creativity that's addictive.

The soundtrack is classic music2work2 -- non-lyrical ambient music from German composer Daniel "C418" Rosenfeld. I reckon if you enjoy working to the Minecraft music -- you'll probably dig music2work2.

Recently I've set up the workspace so that I can play when Jake is building; Saturday night might find him creating some crazy-ass glass walled Jacuzzi that's heated by a subterranean lava flow, and I'll be watching and playing whatever comes out of the ether.

We did look at capturing the Minecraft screen while we were recording the audio but the processor nearly fell out of the PC!

So -- for now -- here's a still of Jake's Jacuzzi and the music it inspired.

I think I'll be making quite a few of these over the years and growing the Minecraft Playlist over on YouTube

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New Strings - About The Money

Heh! I have new tones ;-p

Although the focus right now is developing the strings for Moments of Perfection (new versions coming out every day at the moment,) I’m also finishing off the next release – About the Money. I’ve spent a couple of sessions with Mike working on tones and parts this is where we’re going. I’m super excited about it.

Over the years I have shied away from attempting anything that sounds like a fast string melody as the quality of the tones I’ve been working with have sucked. I think you can get away with long lush synthetic strings, but the minute you try to sound like a real violin – you’d better have decent tones otherwise it just sounds bad.

I love the violin move at 1:22 that takes you into the break – in fact – whenever I listen to it – I can’t stop grinning!

Of course – this has opened a whole host of doors as far as composition goes but I’m kinda stoked.

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About the Money - End Theme

I have all these themes running around my head at the moment – there’s this super strong uplifting progression that has found its way onto the end of “About the Money” – here is the latest development.

Interestingly the same theme can be found in the Frustration II track and I’m kinda excited about the concept of sharing themes across different pieces. I like the idea of remixing and developing and don’t feel that a theme shouldn’t be used just because it has been previously published.

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