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    FREE PLAY | VGM/Jazz Festival

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    Posted · Edited by Muuurgh
    Added GoFundMe link

    The event last weekend was really successful! All of the bands had killer sets, and raised $1,700 on our GoFundMe campaign. If you tuned in, thank you! :D 

    Everyone's Twitch streams will still be up for another week, and then I hope to archive the event on YouTube. Easiest way to access after the fact is by going to our schedule page here.

    If anyone has any feedback after watching the event, I'd love to hear it.

    Also, our GoFundMe will remain open for another week. With the amount raised to date, we were able to get to $50/person for all of the artists involved and about $740 for the AbleGamers charity. Any further donations will go straight to AbleGamers, and I'm hoping that we can get to a round $800 for them at least (would need $65 in donations, and the minimum donation is just $5!).

    FREE PLAY | VGM/Jazz Festival

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    Hi, everyone!

    On August 31 from 6-11pm EDT, five VGM jazz groups are teaming up to bring you FREE PLAY, a free, international music festival that will be streaming on Twitch. The bands participating are:

    - VGM Collective (New York)
    - The 8-Bit Jazz Heroes (California)
    - Nice! Edmond is Super Sumo-wrestler (Tokyo)
    - The Consouls (Sydney)
    - The Hard Modes (Virginia)

    We'll be playing back-to-back hour-long sets in what will be the first strictly online international music festival (I think! if not, the first strictly online VGM and/or jazz festival, but happy to stand corrected ^_^). Also, alongside bringing some great live music to you, we're raising money for the AbleGamers charity!

    We hope that you'll tune in! I'll leave this post short, but for more information please head to:

    1. Our corresponding GoFundMe
    2. The official website
    3. The event on Facebook

     

    Persona 5 - Beneath the Mask (jazz arrangement)

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    Finished up a 2nd video using footage from our recording session from late April. This time we play Shoji Meguro's "Beneath the Mask" from Persona 5, which is both a favorite of ours to play as well as a crowd favorite from our shows. Over the last year I've digested more of Meguro's catalog than any other video game composer--I'm excited to have completed this particular work and released it for your enjoyment.

    Also, similar to my "Corridors of Time" arrangement, I snuck in a quote from another one of this game's tracks, as well--let me know if you catch it!

     

    Chrono Trigger - Corridors of Time (jazz arrangement)

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    Hey, everyone! Late last year I posted some live clips from my VGM/jazz group, The Hard Modes. Since then I've written a bunch of new arrangements for the group that we've been playing locally, and about a month ago we recorded some of our repertoire. I wanted to share the first of the bunch with you--the beloved "Corridors of Time" from Chrono Trigger, written by Yasunori Mitsuda:

    I never really intended to arrange this tune, especially because it seems like a lot of people cover it (and cover it well!). But, I kept hearing it while I was at MAGFest this year and was infected by the groove so much that I felt like I had to give making something unique a shot. The resulting arrangement is pretty straight forward with the exception of some harmonic variation and the incorporation of 3 additional Chrono Trigger melodies therein.

    Hope you enjoy, and would love to hear your feedback. Thanks for listening!

    Super MAGFest 2018

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    On 12/21/2017 at 1:41 AM, RealFolkBlues said:

    Good luck with Gundam.  Back when I used to actually play competitive games I would come to MAG partially to restore my humility.  I'm pretty decent at Soul Calibur, for instance, and last year I did like a 20 win streak at the arcade on Soul Cal 2 before I got DEMOLISHED by the best Kilik player I have ever seen.  Dude utterly destroyed me.  It was beautiful.

    As to jamming, I'd love to do this, but I feel like there's always something going on in the jam space (and clinic space) except for maybe the wee hours of the morning. 

    Haha that's awesome. The challenges (*RIP*) used to give me my yearly dose of humbling. At the end of every year I thought that surely I'd come back stronger and crush some of the new ones faster than I would have before... never happened XD

    Super MAGFest 2018

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    Here's to hoping I've played enough Gundam Versus on PS4 to win a few matches this year......

    Do you all ever get something happening together in the jam space? Considering bringing my horn again this year, but when I had in years past I found myself doing other things rather than just showing up at random.

    Symphonic Gamers Orchestra

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    Haven't listened to the whole thing to give you a track list, but you can at least tell which game the tracks are from via the pop-ups in the bottom left. On the bottom line before the closed bracket it'll have a roman numeral (as long as it's from one of the core series and not the first FF game). It reads: "From [Final Fantasy (number)]" (to avoid confusion, "from" is the word that's on the right side of the brackets").

    Final Fantasy VII - Cosmo Canyon (jazz arrangement)

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

    Posted

    Debuted this arrangement back on 9/30 with my jazz/VGM group, The Hard Modes (I'm playing sax). I counted it in a hair too fast and ultimately rushed the melody--the groove definitely could have benefitted from us laying back a bit more. My excuse is going to be that this was the second-to-last tune of the show and I was amped up from how the night had gone to that point :-P 

    Also, fun fact: the groove was influenced by Bernard Purdie's work on Steely Dan's Home at Last.

    If you'd like to read more about the project as a whole you can also check out my website. Thanks for listening!

    Final Fantasy VIII - Find Your Way (jazz arrangement)

    in Post Your Game ReMixes!

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    On 10/19/2017 at 8:43 PM, Gario said:

    Damn man, you really get this track for all it's worth. Great idea using that base as the foundation of a jazz improve; I never would've thought of that, but in hindsight it makes tons of sense. Good performances all around, to boot! Here's hoping we hear more of you on here!

    Thanks so much! I'm fortunate to have some great players in the group--they brought it for the whole performance and especially kept things on high octane for this tune. Definitely looking forward to writing more and sharing it with you all.

    Journey - I Was Born For This (jazz arrangement)

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    Hi, everyone! I recently completed an important phase of a long-term jazz/vgm arrangement project that I have going on called The Hard Modes. I wanted to share it with you all and get your feedback.

    I premiered 7 arrangements at a live show a couple of weeks ago and recorded the show using a Zoom H2 recorder as well as a no-frills camcorder. I'll be posting the tracks individually over time, but if you like what you hear you can always check out the other parts of the set through SoundCloud or YouTube (though we didn't capture 2 of the arrangements on video).

    First up is my arrangement of Austin Wintory's I Was Born For This from Journey, which was actually the last tune of our set. Some notes:

    • The sound quality isn't great on either medium, but the sound recording sounds better than the video.
    • That's me on tenor sax!
    • The throwback near the end of the tune was a surprise even for the band; the spot just called for an open solo.
    • My original arrangement was inspired by Ornette Coleman's work, although to get the work together for the show we had to simplify some of the sections a bit, which is why I labeled this a Work in Progress (ultimately, the arrangement should be freer than it is--we'll get there!).

    And without further adieu... enjoy!

    If you'd like to read more about the project as a whole you can also check out my website. Thanks for listening!

    Fanfare and Jubilee

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted · Edited by Muuurgh

    Finished remastering another older tune of mine. Starts with a brass fanfare as an introduction of a noble figure and leads into a Mitsuda-influenced theme that represents a medieval party of sorts. Woohoo!

    https://soundcloud.com/scorevgm/fanfare-and-jubilee-remastered

    Like the last tune I posted, I'm really hoping for some feedback on the production side of things if you hear anything I should try out.

    Thanks for listening!

    Woods Theme

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    This is EWQL? How'd you get them this dry? I thought I'd have to purchase the mic positions to do something like this...

    Yeah, that's what I thought at first, too, and it was making me really frustrated, heh. Playing around with the decay, sustain, and release of the instruments helps, as does turning off their release trails.

    Woods Theme

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    I really like this song. 0:16 where you hear the main melody(I think?) is really good. I can totally feel this working perfectly for a 'woods' theme. Love that chorus..(comes back at 0:50).

    I will say I'm not the biggest fan of the verse, I bet you can make a better melody than that. Especially since the chorus is so good ;)

    Really well done!

    Thanks! And I appreciate your honesty with the verse, haha. That's actually something that I'm working on in general; more often than I'd like, I feel that I have good ideas starting off tunes but then I hit a sort of wall. In that case, I end up forcing a 'meh' verse, which is what I believe happened here.

    This is really nice I really like composition and the kind of intimate feel of the instruments (I've been listening to far too many wet booming "Hollywood" mixes or attempts at that rather) what library is this?

    Thank you, as well! I'm a fan of drier mixes myself. As a listener, I want to be able to hear each part distinctively, so that's what I go for when composing.

    The library is EastWest Quantum Leap Symphonic Gold. The samples sound super wet right out of the box, so I always have to adjust them a bit to get them to blend to my liking.

    Woods Theme

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    Posted

    I liked the piece, very 'foresty' and light, however I would either turn the velocity or volume of the Hits down some, make them softer, and it would bring out the flute a lot more ^_^ Other than that, this was an amazing composition. :)

    Thanks, Blodeuyn! I'll give that a spin.

    Transistor

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    That was a good read. I have to admit, I was kind of hoping to see some Yoko Kanno/GitS:SAC in his influences... but if the OST is anywhere near as good as Bastion's was, I'll be happy. :-D

    Thanks, Melbu. Yeah, I think we're in for some good stuff, especially when you consider that he started just doing his thing for Bastion without anything really specific in mind. It's intriguing that he's more focused on getting a certain sound from the get-go.

    What do you listen with?

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    when i'm in my bedroom and just want to chill with some music, i'll use a pair of sennheiser headphones into a fiio dac and headphone amp.

    I've got the little brother to those headphones, the Sennheiser HD598 model, which are fantastic and significantly cheaper. If I'm going to listen I plug those babies in, but if I'm just want some more-or-less "background music," I just play off my laptop speakers because that's all I have otherwise (one day I will correct this egregious fault of mine, however).

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