Push Back the Night

By Kevin December 19th, 2011, under Music, Songs

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This song is a remix of Going Alone, Everyday Warfare, and an older song called With the Sun. Most of the instruments are acoustic, but the song still has an electronic feel.

Drill

By Kevin August 31st, 2011, under Music, Songs

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I wrote this short song as a project for a music technology class I’m taking. I had to write four parts, and each one had to loop while they came in one at a time. I made the decision to make the song drum ‘n’ bass.

The song is only a minute long, but I’m probably going to reuse the ideas in another song when I have the time to write something longer.

Video Game Music

By Kevin April 13th, 2011, under Music, Songs

Happy Theme

Sad Theme

A friend asked me to write some music for a video game she’s making. The game is about a girl travelling through a forest to bring flowers to her friend, so the songs are light and simple string trios. The happy theme and sad theme are supposed to be looped.

The music in this post (but not the other songs on this site) are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Subterranean Train

By Kevin January 29th, 2011, under Music, Works in Progress

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This is a song I’m working on. I’m trying to create an image of an action scene with a futuristic underground train, like a high-tech mine cart chase.

Myrcadia

By Kevin January 29th, 2011, under Music, Songs

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I think this is my best song so far.

My friend Madelyn is writing a novel, and I wrote this song about it. People live on each of the planets in the solar system and have special powers depending on where they live. This song is about Mercury, which has great architecture and cutting-edge technology.

Magnificent Storm

By Kevin January 29th, 2011, under Music, Songs

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This is a song I wrote for my high school school band. At my alma mater, all of the seniors have to do a research or creative product. In addition, the band lets seniors volunteer to play solos at the last concert of the year. I used this song to complete both projects.

Going Alone (Perseverence Mix)

By Kevin January 29th, 2011, under Music, Songs

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This song covers a gigantic range of emotions. It starts out with a slow, haunting melody before suddenly turning into a monstrously faced-paced techno behemoth. It slows down again for the ending, but it doesn’t let up until it’s carried you through a veritable storm.

Saving Traden (Hand of God Remix)

By Kevin January 29th, 2011, under Music, Songs

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This is one of my favorite projects. The song has an epic string melody played over dark chords and driving backgrounds. The piece gets more intense throughout, reaching huge climax after huge climax.

Tempest

By Kevin January 29th, 2011, under Music, Songs

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This song is hard to describe. One of my once said it was “weird anime music,” and I don’t completely disagree. It’s just not an orthodox piece of music.

Skytrain

By Kevin January 29th, 2011, under Music, Songs

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Writing songs about trains is great. They’re so large and powerful and make the most rhythmic noises, and I’m not talking about  the trains themselves.

This particular song has a half-dozen mechanical synthesizers all racing each other frantically. There’s a super-glitchy drum solo at 2:43 that I’m proud of.