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Sunday, August 31st - Ishtar Sink, Venus

Hey all!

It has been a minute. I figured that today, as the one-year-anniversary of The Discarded Instrument releasing, would be a pretty good time for an update. Let’s get into some projects.

Hope for the Future for Piano

Hope for the Future for Piano is coming along nicely. I’ve finished the piano arrangements, and I’m getting my good friend Rosa Nagashi to mix the vocals and master them. See my previous update for context, but the Paul artwork and 3D model are going great. My friend Lilian is making great progress on the drawing of Paul, and Strider_AU passed his work off to RatDadJoe for completion a little while ago. Also, I’ve decided Paul’s character is named “Pauline” and not “Paula” because Pauline just sounds better to me. I did also get a friend to paint the original Paul figurine for me, it looks great.

Pictured above: my very own 3D-printed Paul, now painted.

I had wanted to have a music video released alongside this project, but that may have to be delayed, as the footage we got has some serious framerate issues and makes for a pretty bad experience. We’d have to redo pretty much the entire thing, which isn’t worth delaying the rest of the project over in my opinion. Additionally, the ability to purchase digital copies may be delayed as well, and the ability to purchase CDs will be delayed by a long bit, and there may only be a very limited (think under 10) copies available for purchase, at least to start.

That said, I do have an exciting announcement: three of the five mixes will feature newly recorded vocals from Laura Intravia, the featured solo vocalist from the Destiny franchise! I’m incredibly excited to have her take on this song. I hope to release this project very soon, but it will be done when it’s done. I’d be surprised if it slipped to next year though. I’ll have more to share soon.

TDI Anniversary - The Gate

This is a piece of music I’d made with the intention of being a “ninth” movement to The Discarded Instrument and Music of the Spheres, similar to how other composers wrote an additional "Pluto" movement for Holst. The idea is this: For the first seven tracks, Marty named all of them after the Geomantic symbols for the planets. The Nocturnal symbol for the Moon is "Via," or "The Path." There are sixteen symbols, split into nocturnal/diurnal, but Marty only used seven of the eight nocturnal ones. The eighth one is the "lunar node," which is basically like solar/lunar eclipses. Well, we have a theme for the Moon, Sun, and Earth, so I made this combining those themes into one. It's supposed to be the ninth piece for The Discarded Instrument, hence it being on piano. It doesn't have any tempo mapping done yet, so please treat this as a demo. I figured it would be nice to get this out for the occasion today.

It’s stylistically most inspired by Holst’s Neptune.

Music of the Spheres: Lo-Fi Edition

Some of you may remember the first of these two mixes from my last log. This was an experiment for a Lo-Fi version of Music of the Spheres from Destiny. I think the first one is pretty cool, but I'm pretty mixed on the second one. I've decided to just release these two as "Side A," in homage to actual vinyl record formatting. I'm currently considering this project as on "indefinite pause" as I move to work on other things. It was still a cool thing to try! My heart just isn't in it right now.

Music of the Cubes

Since my last log, I’ve released most of the remaining 8-bit (or “chiptune”) remixes of Music of the Spheres. I noted in the last one I put out that it would be a while before I released the last two. Between The Tribulation and The Hope, each of these had an element I needed to finish first before I could do the Lo-Fi mix. I’m happy to announce that, as part of the work for Hope for the Future for Piano, the remaining hurdle for The Hope here was finished, and I should be able to make that mix soon. I may opt to wait to upload it after The Tribulation though, as The Hope is the final track of Music of the Spheres, so it may still be a while. In the meantime, I have a full playlist of the current ones available on YouTube here.

Geomantic is finally out on Spotify, and now, Apple Music!

Pictured above: the album art for Geomantic: The Collection

Geomantic: The Collection is now finally out on Spotify, and the entire collection, including our previous releases, are finally available on Apple Music! You can find links on the Geomantic: The Collection page here.

We had to split the collection into two separate releases, as we weren’t able to upload an album with more than 35 tracks on it. Volume 1 contains the original Geomantic: Ruminations on Destiny release and Geomantic Revelations. Volume 2 contains The Dawning Carols and Mixes from Ishtar Sink. This is roughly how we would’ve split it per-disc on a physical release anyway, so I’m not too bothered by it.

Sorry that took so long!

Original Music

As a final thing, I did want to re-iterate that I posted some original music inspired by early Destiny music since the last update.

I wrote an action piece loosely inspired by “Fallen S.A.B.E.R.” called “A Hero (and Not by Choice)”

I have a piece inspired by “The Hope” that I wrote for my friend Lilian’s birthday called “Lilium in Bloom.”

I followed that up with a piece inspired by “Traveler’s Promise” called “Equipoise.”

I wrote another piece inspired by C Paul Johnson’s public event drums from the first Destiny game called “Extrication.”

Lastly, I wrote a piece inspired by Guardian called “Septennia.”

And that brings us to the end of this log. I do have some other projects in the works, such as continuing the Wideload Games documentary, a remaster of Mike Salvatori’s Stubbs the Zombie soundtrack, and the upcoming follow-up to Breshi’s Fight Forever album.

Cheers everyone!

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