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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MOP - Opening Theme Developmment

Was playing with this over the weekend as I had been struggling to dial in the string parts for the opening 1/3rd of the piece. With the piano track dialed in it’s a lot easier to break the sections down and work on them individually.

I went back and listened to the melody from the inspiration piece and realized that it would work just as well at this slower tempo. This mix is pretty grim and the parts aren’t quite there but I know where this is going now.

While Mike continues with the mix on About the Money – I will be focusing on the completion of MOP.

The image - Planet Rise - is another painting from Sami that will be used at the end of the film when the two lovers ascend into space – I think it is stunning – you can see the full image by clicking on it.

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