https://disasterpeace.com/blog Purveyor of Earworms for It Follows, FEZ, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, Hyper Light Drifter, Mini Metro / Motorways, and many other things. 63 albums and a game called January. Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT dlab.web.ssg en-us https://disasterpeace.com/blog/bodies-bodies-bodies.postmortem.html Returning to "Horror" After #It Follows, I knew I wanted to wait for the right opportunity before jumping back in to score another horror film, if at all. And so I waited, and turned down quite a few opportunities until Bodies Bodies Bodies came along. It's not exactly horror, per se. It's a b... Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:00:00 GMT 85b5bcb3f4e7cd84ae9d04cf23fcb96e5e9f42569a625ac12857ccb9d287418c https://disasterpeace.com/blog/branding-through-the-years.html Childhood Doodles I grew up in an artistic family. My mother was a graphic designer, and her father was an art director at Reader's Digest. So I was inspired from an early age to doodle, draw and come up with my own visual pastimes. Nu-Metal Beginnings As far as I can remember, this was the ve... Sun, 13 Jul 2025 07:00:00 GMT 632bee81b505a71d59159d9b738121a54389dd96e17d0127f658896d98373bfc https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-motorways.postmortem.html this is a working draft. Mini Motorways is a part zen, part hair-pulling urban planning game from the creators of #Mini Metro. It features a procedurally generated soundscape full ofrhythmic & harmonic trickery. It features something scarcely found in games—an entire soundscape created proce... Mon, 02 Jun 2025 07:00:00 GMT fa21fb7aa471a2c92abc2541533ca22bf2ab5e8f387011143c57ef0a1df6a91f https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-motorways.talk.html In which I talk about what went into the creation of the procedural audio for the 2019 follow up to Mini Metro, "Mini Motorways". Topics include procedurally generated harmony and rhythm, as well as DSP and working on sequels. Instead of a direct transcript, check out the →postmortem. Tue, 27 May 2025 07:00:00 GMT bbf93336c3e04cc492dea357695a8427005c5a28dfb42c1f3773ea2f52713aa8 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/music-video.naked.html Written over New Year's 2014, originally intended to be a remix, but completely lacking any clear tie-in, "Naked" graduated to become its own track. Will be on a forthcoming album. Music Video by Don Tancredo Thu, 01 May 2025 07:00:00 GMT 472fd90235af5ed4042f26acb5df9c335dd3d9d1407303388cbd8d2714605d22 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/paradise-marsh.sonic-procedures-talk.html A talk covering many of the audio systems in the game, including the procedural exploration music, vertex spatialization system which handles environmental ambience, as well as case studies more specific to particular props and game mechanics. Thu, 17 Apr 2025 07:00:00 GMT dcccbbd5d2d3424a4bfd25933624820ec535ea7dc51ef89f5af4ae75c32f8052 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/talk.the-art-of-the-rolling-start.html I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the University of Utah on October 19th, 2024 about concept art, from the perspective of someone who creates music and sound. Transcript The Art of the Rolling StartA Talk About Concept Art Music September 19th, 2024 Introduction Concepting is a tech... Sat, 19 Oct 2024 07:00:00 GMT 1c406c2b672c7624a9b2137355f2c1a15dcba7667627c3e0af76d338cb79b31d https://disasterpeace.com/blog/hunting-for-stars.html Don't ask me how, but Disasterpeace made it into a Star Wars game. A few years ago, not too far away... For the game Star Wars: Hunters, I was asked to write bounty hunter themes, but through the lens of things like wrestling entrance music. I loved wrestling growing up, and one of the k... Thu, 27 Jun 2024 07:00:00 GMT 5cdeab14a3796438e09c238bafcf735b1fc0d803615b0c181a26b7baddd9f966 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/merch.vinyl.html Here's a list of all the records we've done vinyl runs for. Availability may vary. Bodies Bodies Bodies Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Hyper Light Drifter (sold out) It Follows Under the Silver Lake Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar (sold out) FEZ (sold out) Tue, 30 Jan 2024 08:00:00 GMT 4e067fd4ebe16abe4f7d2969360a90ca90663bffcf4e42a0c8c6c14513e28214 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-jugglernaut.html 'Jugglernaut', written for Everhood : Eternity Edition Thu, 28 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT 486a4bf12d9e2bc384e0794de1a406e9cca15b66d348f04924daf63a6ea2de61 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/boss-fight-challenge.html 100 bosses, 5 seconds at a time. A medley of three new tracks, written for Pwnisher's Boss Fight Challenge. Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:00:00 GMT 929a55a569908d8d6f19d90c116c1052b6a999f46e4baeeab3ebbc1debb1a4ad https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-motorways.trailers.html Draw the roadways that drive the city. Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:00:00 GMT 093d33d3ceacdd327bc82b8337a72ff3110368f821299d729ddcbde212ecb42d https://disasterpeace.com/blog/paradise-marsh.postmortem.html this is a working draft. Track Descriptions Ribbiting This is the music from the release trailer. I brought back the "turtle drum" from the original demo, "First Visit to the Marsh". Despite consisting of only four samples, this drum sounds good across a wide register. The four samples cov... Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:00:00 GMT 62b8d9349873c7177587d8fdaff861793c5eb3153599f5a66751aef985b3b4a1 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/soundodger.postmortem.html Over the years I've written a few tracks for Michael Molinari's Soundodger series of games. Backtrack : Ford the River Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. "Ford the River", written for Soundodger 2. I wrote this song back in 20... Tue, 06 Jun 2023 07:00:00 GMT 85cbd355503df01b8fa87cefd12750199409722740222c17e8ddd6e244b0c961 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-undulate.html An Hour of Crickets and Music. Play the game to hear it undulate forever. Apologies for leaving the cursor out to dry. Mon, 17 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT a6291b33266f2ed84eac1de7728aad3d088d37227d71ed01d9fc82ac66286a86 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/talk-soundmaking-tools.html A talk about creative tools, for the 'High Score' Conference hosted by APRA/AMCOS in Melbourne, Australia. picard added after for comedic effect whoops ! Sat, 01 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT 9f032b1d16df4ed366194305e9fe8eacbc34265ccac06ecd1df1a5d44fdf5eec https://disasterpeace.com/blog/epic-games.lyra.html From November 2021 to Feb 2022, I had the opportunity to contribute to the audio for Project Lyra, Epic Games' Demo Project for Unreal Engine 5.0. This was my second foray into the world of Unreal, after spending five years working on the UE4 game #Solar Ash . My primary task was to explore Metasou... Thu, 02 Jun 2022 07:00:00 GMT 4d7f2362f2ac89192c22ddd2fd5a44ba73b4bac91408a752a2960ed975ae2f99 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/workshop.massive.organic-synthesis.html A video workshop demonstrating how to make synthesizers parts for music more organic and expressive. Special thanks to Tomás Palazzi who asked me to talk about this, and to EPX for giving me a forum to do so ! Sat, 23 Apr 2022 07:00:00 GMT 36dd45542d68a78fc03288e96fa4f189b47a7f8c0629ed2784f95f1dcaf36957 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/fez.an-hour-of-waves.html an hour of waves, by popular request. Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:00:00 GMT ed70e329f7b1b3801e8d4645f5767eada30be06dd3c37023569c1740d47c2724 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/workshop.mini-metro.html Dino Polo Club recently released the Workshop update for #Mini Metro , which allows users to create their own maps for the game. To further help with this I've created a tutorial video and a toolkit. The toolkit contains a written guide, as well as a JSON schema set up for Visual Studio Co... Wed, 23 Dec 2020 08:00:00 GMT 8d021b6ea73d8ee0ce4337b6aa296a1a28cfc364729f936aa0d9e7846b5d8302 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/talk-reigns.html I gave a talk at ENJMIN 2020 about the gibberish-based procedural voiceover system we built for the 2016 game Reigns. Transcript: My talk is called "Reigns: A Thousand Years of Deterministic Babble". This talk it's about a voiceover system that we created. We're going to talk about what wor... Wed, 16 Dec 2020 08:00:00 GMT 40a575e6ad6e9beffb65217faf13563f512ec6ee50c3fab31985aaa901316fdd https://disasterpeace.com/blog/sheet-music-st-valentine.html Transcribed for Piano by David Peacock Download (PDF) Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:00:00 GMT c7f1641ef0dba25cb90b5c0e440382dc7f045aaad7ff6e2d8f5cf954058697f9 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/sheet-music-oklahoma.html 'Oklahoma', originally written as a fan request, about a couple separated by geography. Transcribed for Piano by David Peacock Download (PDF) Fri, 04 Oct 2019 07:00:00 GMT 241df622af829baad2758dc85c9d925aa858fa9d2c8e40bf18c6ff1f85c1e3c7 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/foreword-fruits-of-the-desert.html My colleague Noah Kellman asked me to write the foreword for his recently published book, ‘ The Game Music Handbook’. In visual media, there is a tendency to treat music like polish. Hired late in the process, composers typically begin working on a project that's otherwise nearly complete. Our ta... Sun, 01 Sep 2019 07:00:00 GMT 4059a8b3a23eae74a7430b066f27c48a1164631ec200ae55a7a36d4fe154d61a https://disasterpeace.com/blog/turning-teeth.html 'Turning Teeth', an original song written for the band 'Silversun Pickups' from the film 'Under the Silver Lake' with lyrical contributions from Director David Robert Mitchell Transcribed by David Peacock Download (PDF) Sun, 05 May 2019 07:00:00 GMT d8c686a13504acf571a176b3c02770be2e9d563d5060c055aaf791fd4634694b https://disasterpeace.com/blog/feature-obsidian-joes-garage.html It's rare that I'd want to share what is essentially a review of my work, but I don't think I've seen one where someone so completely 'got' one of my albums as much as Joe Dorsey gets ⌾Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar. There are a lot of insightful connections drawn here that go beyond the album i... Sun, 28 Apr 2019 07:00:00 GMT dc2f0d048b70c7172f7c3a11c347d84b54bf36fc8e50e64cea6dd08f6bbc6a47 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mud-water.postmortem.html This musical excerpt features samples from a recording of 'Petrushka', composed by Igor Stravinsky. The Mud Water Project was a multidisciplinary theater project bringing together turf dancers, ballet dancers, music and spoken word artists. Utilizing acting and improvisational dance, whil... Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:00:00 GMT 0866a7d04f71c4923b0132ba1b33de5553c5f49bb7e5a129d4ccc96f9d1502d1 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/wiwi-score.html For all you freelancers out there, I built a 'project personality matrix', for fun and to hopefully help me to continue to make thoughtful work choices. The idea is to grade current/future/past projects in different categories that matter to you, which gives you a score out of a 100. It's fasci... Fri, 08 Mar 2019 08:00:00 GMT 4a147c9364ae296312ee62603d5d4c0dbf5eb46b5b7669cd820e49d28beca15e https://disasterpeace.com/blog/guest-mix-40-days-in-62nds.html I was recently asked to contribute a guest mix to Lynchland: "I thought it would be fun to put together a narrative sort of mix, only using songs shorter than 60 seconds, and keeping the work of David Lynch in the back of my head." Tracklist 00:00 The Books - PS 00:49 Joanna Broul - The Soundi... Sun, 30 Sep 2018 07:00:00 GMT e40c896dfc4d0f60d854c8defdb3bdc38b3b111c271e007c188b236e2791d797 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-diy-volume-one.html A squad of fearless geeks who stand for honor, friendship, and doing stuff.An animated series by Encyclopedia Pictura, directed by Isaiah Saxon & Sean Hellfritsch. Music and mixing by yours truly. Listen to the soundtrack ⌾here. add album ... --> Thu, 14 Jun 2018 07:00:00 GMT c2a157f5aecf273a8172787b82cc0b13e9e7cc3575217ef891eefb62e918cecc https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-metro.serialism-talk.html I gave a talk at GDC 2018 as part of a session at the AI Summit called 'Beyond Procedural Horizons'. I talk about how we combined data sonification and concepts taken from the musical approach known as Serialism to build the game's soundscape. Transcript Serialism & Sonification in Min... Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:00:00 GMT 76388e91b023812a4dd08c47776d4e9ea5822c6b5585b9ffc4a6892691bea8a0 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-abracadata.html I gave a microtalk at GDC 2018 as part of a session at the Artificial Intelligence Summit called 'Turing Tantrums: Devs Rant!'. I shared a thought experiment about exploring the possibility space of abstracted data relationships that cross disciplinary boundaries. Unlikely data marriages! ... Tue, 20 Mar 2018 07:00:00 GMT b833eba0bc28d5afa06c8ddfce2f86c329c265e0a0008ba371cb38857bcde632 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/roundup-articles.html * 2020 * Subpixel. Originally published on Gameumentary in 2017 but updated : We talk about prog rock, composing for orchestra, personal philosophy, early musical memories, workflow, social media, Level, Mini Metro, January, Under the Silver Lake, Triple Frontier, and Hyper Light Drifter. * 20... Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:00 GMT 9d1f953256931c3073dcb14378bbc9c2c5286358c9dbc5a4fb3e435c56a2ae06 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/feature-harmonic-relationships.html A nice look at the harmonic choices in games like FEZ & Hyper Light Drifter that ties them to some of the larger trends in 20th/19th century music. Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT b4d0cf53d8f7b1bbb96c1b97650207a6422c34e940b9319ec259db51ee73d71a https://disasterpeace.com/blog/feature-bridging-the-divide.html This interview originally appeared on the Native Instruments blog. You’ve found great success both in videogames and film scoring work. What are the main ways in which the creative process has differed between the two? Do you find yourself using hugely different production workflows depending on ... Mon, 01 Jan 2018 08:00:00 GMT a53bb0be532f32ce4d0453807927eda03d86215848ed64acce9a24245210f043 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/disasters-for-piano.postmortem.html 'Disasters for Piano' is a collection of my works arranged (for piano) by David Peacock. Links: ⌾Album, Sheet Music Book, Free PDF One day, I saw an Instagram video of someone performing a short snippet of 'Forgotten' from FEZ on piano. I was really taken by David's style, watched all o... Wed, 01 Nov 2017 07:00:00 GMT f0215f710868b0679ff85c5ba096f2aac8fa3e191e770bac8ca721375220d965 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/roundup-discussions.html Podcasts & Video Interviews * 2020 * Steven Melin. We discuss the major projects I've turned down, including Stranger Things. We also chat about how to discover your style as a composer and how to navigate career direction in a world of endless possibilities. Composer's Concepts We talke... Tue, 22 Aug 2017 07:00:00 GMT e4daa13ebc88f1ebe4a7406c6350307d8ffed83a7020a8480026c4803211e8de https://disasterpeace.com/blog/feature-hyperfokussiertes.html Documentary Filmmaker Lucras Negroni visited my studio in LA and we spoke over the course of two days about various aspects of my work and career. Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:00:00 GMT e75d375200ef2b0e2a892e6b92ba684c2129c67d538ab03c6134c53aa84a0a67 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/the-apple-palace.html 'The Apple Palace', an original piece for Marimba. Written during a residency at Avaloch Farms in Boscawen, NH. Transcribed by Doug Perry Download (PDF) Sat, 15 Jul 2017 07:00:00 GMT 5c083f45c736327582735202b0144fe4dc7086b1237ee087dd4d9099ed3006c4 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-metro.postmortem.html this is a working draft. While Peter and I both did quite a bit of coding on Mini Metro, we have very different ways of thinking and communicating. We had to overcome cross-disciplinary differences as well as the nuances of being from different English-speaking countries. We both learned quite a lo... Sat, 18 Mar 2017 07:00:00 GMT 1ca483df83faf8d5ccb29eee60a9e8dc6386ff8d3950d48c41bb0b2b0bb6dc7d https://disasterpeace.com/blog/the-last-general-piano.html Arranged for Piano by David Peacock Mon, 06 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT 2f2f97513af14f4d9f3744a5d6b6210cb4b175a0d8afcfc6d807b2adfe18bf26 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-curveballs.html I gave a microtalk at GDC 2017 as part of a session called 'Composer Confessions'. Transcript: I often find the beginning of a project to be the most exciting period. There's a sense that anything is possible, which has often propelled me down many avenues in search of the 'thing'. Along ... Thu, 02 Mar 2017 08:00:00 GMT 55801808768374fb9843d0daf6ddd0fad75e5db1163887a2da19c5b3e245c91e https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-bob.html Jonathan Brodsky & I answered some questions about our work on the game ‘Beasts of Balance’. Wed, 07 Dec 2016 08:00:00 GMT 374d7b5eb2e865240f00723e3e11f4d6c994d8a91f9f54f126b639ff3537ca75 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/gunhouse.postmortem.html Gunhouse was a very unique and fun project for me. I set out to create a soundtrack primarily using loops. I was inspired by a conversation I had with my friend and colleague James Primate about a talk Darren Korb gave about his work on the game Bastion. That soundtrack contains a lot of premade ... Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:00:00 GMT 87c993eed43603b9b864a7bd6028fa8e60413c05d28038e207ce41c5c46343b5 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-styleframes.html A short by Eran Hilleli. Music & Sound by yours truly. Mon, 07 Nov 2016 08:00:00 GMT 5d33e2be63a0b2c0dd0b2ef715b44aab8e0a4aad6009ffb87769f4c9beb3ef8b https://disasterpeace.com/blog/stay-in-your-box.html As an artist, being pigeonholed is an unfortunate reality that comes with the territory. It can be frustrating to be cast into the same pools as things you might find distasteful, poorly executed, or weakly related ... But these associations are rarely malicious. They are judgments, often based o... Sat, 05 Nov 2016 07:00:00 GMT 9d471db34a35e88995ee1561ddc431e9570018305e3dbd57d353d17430f32885 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-metro.musical-subway-talk.html I spoke with Peter Curry of Dinosaur Polo Club at Konsoll 2016, in Bergen, Norway. We spoke about the audio systems. Thu, 20 Oct 2016 07:00:00 GMT ab68f1a58d5dc62050d7cf501eb151bb2d174971f3904433346d86c411b01d15 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/bad-jubies.html A stop-motion short by Kirsten Lepore. Music by yours truly. Soundtrack: ⌾Bad Jubies I had the pleasure of scoring Kirsten Lepore's guest directed, Emmy award-winning episode of Adventure Time from Season 7, 'Bad Jubies'. This is one of my favorite shows and I wanted to honor the feeling of ... Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:00:00 GMT 8d1e8924cb9474faf29133dccd8aee55d3f83e5f36c80a0609ebecfbb87c980a https://disasterpeace.com/blog/in-depth-misc.html *this is a giant, everchanging collection of micellaneous tidbits about my life and career.* On The Moniker I had a habit as a kid of creating fictional entities just so I could create visual designs. I wanted to form a band, but before calling any friends I came up with a name and a logo. The gr... Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:00:00 GMT b3eeb8d2d1216da59890e0d4e1c7d4080cfde458298f0b492056f03d3f9ab6c7 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/in-depth-youth.html I grew up in a musical household in Staten Island, NY. My step-father was the music director of our church and in a Beatles cover band called 'The Blue Meanies.' He would hold band practices in our basement, and I would go down there to play the drums. My mom sings and plays the piano, and my sister... Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:00:00 GMT 25746721c87c473ecb14995197032150d1fb8009e80ecd7aca3c6f367d3fb3e7 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/hld.postmortem.html this is a working draft. How It Came to Be Alex brought me on to score the game right before we announced the Kickstarter. Our mutual friend Roger Hicks connected us. When I saw what they were working on, and that Beau Blyth (Samurai Gunn, 0space) was leading up the gameplay design, I knew... Mon, 22 Aug 2016 07:00:00 GMT 99529c8d42fa73b6e1f6ce81118a5fbf8dc20b27cb3d9f99a1f307842b97e8ae https://disasterpeace.com/blog/technique-phase-quantization.html While working on The Floor is Jelly, I really pushed myself to try some new things. Mapping music to the geography of levels, using individual raindrops to generate music on the fly… Some of these ideas fell flat on their face, but one idea that managed to squeeze its way in is one I’d like to ta... Fri, 24 Jun 2016 07:00:00 GMT 3f8bb00130a27ee8820d011a0ec803732258423542055b42de8a11c3a4fc0021 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/it-follows-piano.html Composer Kris Lennox has taken the time to arrange a handful of pieces from It Follows for piano. 'Title', from It Follows Arranged for Piano by Kris Lennox Download (PDF) 'Detroit', from It Follows Arranged for Piano by Kris Lennox Download (PDF) You can read more about his p... Sun, 15 May 2016 07:00:00 GMT b97525b80e09c8e0a91ee3ea29387b47e849da05f62bd5d06bc83abe0ef8958b https://disasterpeace.com/blog/panacea.html 'Panacea', from Hyper Light Drifter Transcribed for Piano by David Peacock Download (PDF) Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:00:00 GMT 456430f5321884d05b1239a05b8132502d31fb3628f619f4452dfb28953e7ae9 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-fisherman.html The story of one man and a daughter's quest to finish her father's life work. Created by Luke Saunders at Pixel Music is ♫Pool, from the film #It Follows. Wed, 27 Apr 2016 07:00:00 GMT 8d087369ea1de6b9aac47f3c5c32c4c74e4eea0cf04fa2b3c77f26c97498dbf3 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/contracts.html When trying to negotiate an agreement as an audio contractor, it’s important to know your ideal conditions. Contracts often contain compromises, and so it is important to know where you are flexible. If you can find projects you are passionate about, you may find that contractual deliberations go sm... Fri, 22 Apr 2016 07:00:00 GMT 5e69178713618c9a193b8d4a25663be1a20e6feb3b5563d3c1bb00251614e56b https://disasterpeace.com/blog/it-follows.postmortem.html Involvement David loved the music I made for #FEZ and reached out to me via e-mail. Our initial discussions were straight-forward. We talked logistics and expressed our interest in working together. David touched base right before he started filming and then we fell out of touch for a ye... Tue, 05 Apr 2016 07:00:00 GMT feb99f2fda24e7e90f9d2d13e2fb463b69928b6c79497386b066b3031c47e2b1 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/fez.postmortem.html Origin Story I met game's programmer Renaud Bedard at a concert I performed in Montreal. They were looking for musicians to work on the game, with the intention of treating the soundtrack as a compilation, and he asked me if I was interested in contributing. I thought it would work better to hav... Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:00:00 GMT c121139dcc43d9edfc037f03e09b39ed847eb8e91f3878ebefbcc5555d164128 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/programmed-music-of-mini-metro.html I sat down with my friend Richard Gould at Designing Sound to talk about some of the nuances of working on and designing the audio systems for the game Mini Metro, as well as share some early prototype footage, recordings and documents. Link: The Programmed Music of Mini Metro Mon, 08 Feb 2016 08:00:00 GMT 1a7e4737c383da130cafb6d46dc6e3ee02f8206174f19fe10f7fd790b359ddb8 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/waker-woosh.postmortem.html this is a working draft. Interning at MIT was an invaluable experience for me, and one of my first proper game development projects. The internship took place from June 2009 to August 2009. A group of about 8 interns would be assembled on a team with an advisor, and given an educational concept to... Fri, 01 Jan 2016 08:00:00 GMT 023d648e5c7911a5ee4e45a4e89f62838500911fa7c1aa3512db91e2bd995c1e https://disasterpeace.com/blog/guest-mix-percuss.html I was recently asked to contribute a guest mix to Kit Records: "For the last couple of years, I’ve been getting into these off-kilter, sound-collaged, groove-oriented type tracks. Because I spend a lot of time writing myself, I’m not as readily exploring new music as much as I used to. But I thou... Tue, 01 Dec 2015 08:00:00 GMT 349a66a777d29d3cb655d30bfa5299b34f16c3608b28061dce8cffb15a150f9c https://disasterpeace.com/blog/interview-wtf.html from an interview originally done for WTF Magazine (no longer online) First off, could you tell us a little bit about your musical upbringing as well as your background with 8-bit media? Well I grew up in a musical household. My stepfather was a music director at our church and he would have... Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT 4a70aaaf7110e7d9d4adc179c78565543bb70de42d947f20715795257dede214 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-midi-scripts.html After working on #Mini Metro, I was inspired to convert the basic idea of its music system into a MIDI plugin. That opened a floodgate of ideas and so I’ve been making lots of scripts in Logic over the last few months … I’ve been taking little clips here and there and thought I’d share some of w... Tue, 17 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT d0e35f804aa37612cd0b0bd7ab271857718f43bcbe562f551d193a05c46fa41b https://disasterpeace.com/blog/metric-mod-calc.html This fell into my hands many years ago from an unknown source, and I made it look pretty and put it up at a permanent link: http://bit.ly/metricmodcalc. This spreadsheet is an excellent resource if you’re interested in experimenting with metric modulation in your music. You can hear the effect ... Sun, 08 Nov 2015 08:00:00 GMT d63e539ed18e40013a4310b26df7e3ebef9cbdcf6b5b07c95b80c962d199663e https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mini-metro.trailers.html Keep the city moving. Build the subway that moves the people throughout the city. Fri, 16 Oct 2015 07:00:00 GMT 29fdfd83666663901f55af522339de30c7fa725f4aef1df0708e15a414650cb9 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/tfij.postmortem.html I met Ian Snyder standing on the GDC Expo Floor back in 2012. He was showcasing his game ‘The Floor is Jelly’, a nominee for the IGF Student Showcase that year. The game was a platformer, and a bit of something old made new. I loved the aesthetic of the demo, as well as the gelatinous physics that m... Sat, 22 Aug 2015 07:00:00 GMT af5762a5d227e46437218fb34d41b849aca1d8fabc0caacc9c68883e7ce2cdd2 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/workshop.massive.fez.html On November 16th, 2014, I gave a workshop at the Gamer's Rhapsody Video Game Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. In this workshop, I made a #FEZ style track in about 45 minutes and shared some of the production techniques involved. Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:00:00 GMT 1ff685b5bd4ad0fb5f8dce2825cc0ea5b864d111546da330071d16c1f3708916 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/q-game-gigs.html Folks have asked me this question many many times, and I think with good reason. It can seem rather daunting to find a game project to score. The reality is there’s no guaranteed path to success. My journey has been winding, but fortunate. My first gig was fortuitous. I cold emailed an indie develop... Mon, 15 Sep 2014 07:00:00 GMT bad952a32d0c1c6d3c49f503bf785abc59ec9c6ac0dc2e9885f5fb89cb07d7ed https://disasterpeace.com/blog/mambc.postmortem.html Techniques I’d like to talk about some of the techniques I explored in creating the soundtrack for Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake. I have used some of these techniques before, but others represent a new approach, and I’m excited to talk about them. With each new project, I try to reinvent myself... Mon, 08 Sep 2014 07:00:00 GMT b685c895b96fbaf6427a2d51a0081a09b61b9ff625699379a9be6a8bb090aea3 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-laments-of-an-icarus.html This morsel is in 4/4 time. The ride cymbal plays continuous sextuplets. The kick drum plays a four bar phrase, made up of alternating eighth note pairs and eighth note triplets. The sextuplets played by the drummer on the ride cymbal create the sound of a 3:4 polyrhythm. This means that in th... Wed, 16 Jul 2014 07:00:00 GMT f0fd0334cbe318ca34f1048750e67b45398e3dd03ee67bd80afaa20ccc48cb27 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/torom-tellum.html Nearly lost to time, this is one of the only television projects I've worked on - an animated short for Nickelodeon. This featured a musical collaboration with Emmy award winner and accordionist/multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Dan Cantrell, and was sort of an oddball thing for us to wo... Wed, 02 Jul 2014 07:00:00 GMT aca9ab5af25833c1938617dd802f537e17db9f8894078043422a70dc86885db3 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-tfij-rain.html This is a demonstration of the audio system for the rain levels from 'The Floor is Jelly'. Sound by yours truly. Track is called ♫Rain in C Minor. Fri, 30 May 2014 07:00:00 GMT 121725caa0a0ea7e2cfb57d35b1351ad425100730da0f19d084fcbef941de39c https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-loop-ring-chop-drink.html The mundane story of four troubled persons living in the same apartment building. A film by Nicolas Menard. Sound by yours truly. Soundtrack available ⌾here. Thu, 15 May 2014 07:00:00 GMT c73d9b4dd1027f5b5282ae73d602a6122d2908b2f4efbad87e65b669377c1034 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/outerlands.html Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT 19a6157956378f38b66981cc73df8c1e778d0d9b706e0bb3019c15896970a03e https://disasterpeace.com/blog/guest-mix-pangs.html Data Garden is a Philadelphia based journal, record label and events producer encouraging the discovery of electronic music through the windows of history, science and community. They do really cool things, like releasing all of their digital downloads as codes on artwork that can grow into livi... Sun, 09 Feb 2014 08:00:00 GMT eb6d8db009ec215d12dca30e448d18257f9a3f6ec51045ed2ede14fea270d636 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/fez.deciphering-french.html A very thorough and thoughtful look at both the music and sound design in FEZ. It's in French, but the closed captions are very good! Fri, 31 Jan 2014 08:00:00 GMT c84ef3ca83b05866a331066d4fa37a48291f150f901c2cda36e2e17cd3ed8c5a https://disasterpeace.com/blog/famaze.postmortem.html The Choice of FM Synthesis I had wanted to do an FM soundtrack long before FAMAZE came along. At that point, I had done a bunch of chiptune stuff but most of it was in a particular kind of style I had created that was inspired mostly by NES music. I had dabbled with FM here and there, but nothin... Fri, 01 Nov 2013 07:00:00 GMT 7170af2ffc1f6d5ad290b239c91217bb8768090d8911ecef866570c082eb67b1 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/film.somewhere.html Somewhere, our limbs lost in the distance.A film by Nicolas Menard. Sound by yours truly. Soundtrack available ⌾here. Thu, 24 Oct 2013 07:00:00 GMT 369f1eeb342db4c5ca5ae1ba6bdb9988c53cd6955c97707fe444c410e889130f https://disasterpeace.com/blog/feature-game-sauce.html originally written by Nicholas Yanes. Published here for posterity (original link is defunct) Rich Vreeland, more commonly known as Disasterpeace, has always had a passion for music. After playing the guitar throughout childhood and his teenage years, Vreeland pursued his interest in music by... Thu, 05 Sep 2013 07:00:00 GMT f1232f975063f27f304a890d84b96ab3cad4dc08cdc25021ea676ce15f4a9e22 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/talk.chipmusic-past-present-future.html I spoke in San Francisco about the trajectory of chipmusic and some of the techniques that make it a unique sandbox. Transcript Chipmusic.Past, Present, Future Introduction This talk turned out to be something completely different than what I had originally intended. I hope it at the v... Mon, 02 Sep 2013 07:00:00 GMT 21111a1c67abc42adf55b2fd71568127acc439de87b12600791390bb9b918cca https://disasterpeace.com/blog/feature.coding-for-music.html Preface Using code in games to actually create music, note by note, on the fly, is an underutilized idea that has potential to add huge value to games that aren’t even focused on music, by offering an extra sense of authorship to the player’s experience. From the simplest implementation, like th... Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:00:00 GMT f46c6e138a3fc45014bf40442c1eaf0381d48148096f07c09c942171c4d47cb3 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/fz.postmortem.html Origin Story Putting together the remix albums for FEZ was quite fun, and it was exciting getting remixes in from people and hearing all the various takes on the material. That was the best part! I think someone else had the idea, but I can't remember who. People started approaching me with remixe... Tue, 07 May 2013 07:00:00 GMT b1239f29d4d73a65e4be53e776ae7fe6b9a0bffaac0ecdaf5dcab5e5d039d874 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/talk.permanent-music.html I gave a five minute micro-talk as part of the 'Indie Soapbox Rant', at the GDC 2013 Independent Games Summit. Transcript For most of human history, our experience of music has mirrored the fleeting nature of life. Each performance was unique and unpredictable, heard once, and then gone ... Tue, 26 Mar 2013 07:00:00 GMT cdf26ddb9ca342931a8fa93502c12a7d9fa937300c5b9e09ca23dd5df2116945 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-dream-is-collapsing.html Listen from 0'34" to 1'30". A two note melody functions as a series of common tones over 4 chords: G minor, Gb Major/Bb, Eb Major, and B Major 7. Others will hear it differently, but I hear this as an unresolved progression in the key of Bb Major. In this context, the progression starts o... Tue, 05 Feb 2013 08:00:00 GMT 6fb845b4f43acd98829e66687a17c4cd0679b2d5ebec742bd6505b88e4282a8c https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-where-the-streets-have-no-name.html This rhythmic delay technique is commonly associated with The Edge. The guitar plays 8th notes, while the wet signal from a delay unit is set to (roughly) a dotted eighth note, creating the illusion that a note is being performed every 16th note. After two notes are played, the spaces between... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT 13f2aefee491c174b773c1d7b164f88b156baa47bcf85cd214259424c466e82c https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-misty-mountain-hop.html Like the morsel before it, this clip is another example of a common rhythm trick heard at the beginning of songs. If you’ve never heard this song before, or you haven’t heard it in a while, you may be tricked by the opening phrase, which innocently sounds like the count starts on the very first ... Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT 728f6b7157ea39c9ffaa068d6688012df294ddda486d38b458a349aa96a4594b https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-charteroak-foundation.html This is a neat little trick that you hear from time to time at the beginning of songs. The song starts out in 6/8, with an eighth note pulse implied by the only parts you can hear. However, when the drums come, they imply a different pulse and a new tempo, and that changes your whole rhythmic pe... Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT 5adffff246b55dbd3d462bc3fcb348212a0a44ae60612b6e8acc6416e2f2074f https://disasterpeace.com/blog/january.html Above is a demonstration video of my music toy, January, posted by a random person. January is a generative music tool. You walk around and look up to lick snowflakes with your tongue. The tool uses a set of rules to make choices about what pitch the next note (or notes) will be. It also giv... Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:00:00 GMT 37082e68df858e0ba76442174128811135890ae4c2c5df8b6f31aef5885d0be7 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-concerning-the-ufo-sighting.html The intro to this track has some of the most seemingly arbitrary time signature lengths I can think of, but it works to great effect and has a certain charm. There is some rubato but I couldn’t say whether it was intentional or not. If you count 8th notes, starting a new count whenever the cho... Mon, 31 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT c1de59ac61b59e357c05d6bdfdfd7ff63457b2f9d876981cdae7f61d6ca59026 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-skating.html Listen from 0'07" to 0'33". In the spirit of the season, let’s take a look at a bit of one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs. We’ll say this section is 8 bars of ¾ time in the key of C, played twice, but with some chord variation in the second half. The first 4 bars use a common thre... Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT 16352a6779395f793138e3945bd56873a8f453415fabadbc8ebbff992424d4fe https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-ambugaton.html Listen from 3'04" to 3'31". As far as I can determine, the technique on display here is called rotation, a kind of permutation often attributed to set theory. It’s rare and refreshing to see this kind of effect put to use outside of Atonal / Minimalist music. The riff in this morsel makes... Tue, 18 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT f6cccb5f4cda5db3a10cc58dcac73e20654f0ccca6f3e21a2720ed6f3a59191a https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-catalyst.html Listen from 5'09" to 5'53". Polymeter is responsible for many of my favorite morsels. In this example, The section (which you’ll hear twice) is comprised of 24 bars, but the bass and the guitar take different roads to get there. The guitar phrasing takes the traditional road, sounding off in... Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:00:00 GMT 93d4325d5115e4247ef46e27860c2f9ce00d6ff4fe1779d832fd220d9893b3d3 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-night-sight.html This track is a nice example of polymeter. Two elements in counterpoint, one in 4/4, and the other in 7/4, and come together every 29th beat (1 beat after 7 measures of 4, or 4 measures of 7) to move to a new chord, except for the last measure. This differs from polyrhythm in that the rhythms... Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:00:00 GMT c0ee8fc69f9ff0bf5d3421f367ce9d2edd2b3e7ecc01ab66bc4d4dd18657e879 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-1997.html Listen from 3'10" to 3'50". Rhythmic variation is all too common, but this is a particular style of rhythmic shifting that I’m quite fond of, called augmentation. In this excerpt, the hi-hat keeps the beat with a consistent quarter note, while everything else plays a rhythm in unison that shi... Tue, 20 Nov 2012 08:00:00 GMT 3bec409f5cf48ac01209175faa7a42720d64112d8eebd67a654deebbceac02b4 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/fez.philosophy-talk.html I spoke in San Francisco about the philosophy behind the music design in FEZ. Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:00:00 GMT dffa7324bbb7423c66ba0929bb3133f861a9928d530eb380c64f01ee1c28d315 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-artv.html "ARTV, a francophone art oriented TV channel, asks artists to reinterpret their logo for their branding. So I transformed it into a cosmic comic strip. Each box contains its little story, so have fun watching it a couple of times to enjoy all the details." A short by Nicolas Menard. Sound by ... Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:00:00 GMT a6b0852abf620bc3c2082ea74434e990600ec0e3f828a3992bf9a6a221c5e46a https://disasterpeace.com/blog/feature-game-front-1-on-1.html A very thorough write up that was done shortly after the release of FEZ. We talk a lot about the experience of working on FEZ and Shoot Many Robots simultaneously, and my musical journey up to that point. Source: GameFront Game Front 1-on-1 is a continuing series featuring interviews with ... Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:00:00 GMT f80dcdd15b2532de451d2519d1deca32692acc525770f7eedef60b1feb2761f8 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-fez-live-austin.html I was fortunate enough to be invited down to Austin by Brandon Boyer for the Venus Patrol Launch Party at Juegos Rancheros. Roger and I did a set of mostly FEZ tunes (and a couple of KRUNCH tunes at the end). Pardon the sound, I did the best I could to mix what was given to me, also things are a... Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:00:00 GMT 57e79726d343484d8ab0d8ff2696bc6f04864e591cb51c19e1c66f40ee61eeec https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-an-animated-description.html Listen from 2'22" to 3'05". This is truly an ingenious technique; sampling and cutting up a vocal narration is standard fare, but approximating its rhythm by quantizing it to percussion in a syncopated way is not. For those who are curious on how something like this can be done, check out P... Wed, 20 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT ab7c375b14a408511e236d50dbd5f78bb94ce84bedc5c46787d5589b8c89b213 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-i-know.html Listen from 1'59" out. This is an awesome track, and I love this outro bit; those two chords and the uneven rhythms in the melody. I hear this as a BMaj6 to A#7/B. I find examples like these useful because I tend to under use inverted chords, and because it’s another great sounding pedal poi... Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT 9ebc802cd4e094b4ff04bb16bca978b075381934f17541f5e52592737b08aaf6 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-book-of-glass.html Listen from 3'28" to 4'10". SYNCOPATION. And crazy amounts of it. There’s another fantastic example of this kind of syncopation in Siberian Khatru from Close to the Edge (1972) by Yes. Listen for it from 7:00 - 7:30. Music Morsels are musical fragments, collected and analyzed. Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT a261ee034d1b70941c32b8603073022fe21c1ceaa62eaf8c9005b23b6301559b https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-cm-blues.html Listen from 1'10" to 1'37". Really fantastic use of pedal point. I love the way he interweaves the pentatonic figures and the pedal in the same range. Music Morsels are musical fragments, collected and analyzed. Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT 4b5fe51bbeb5374632cea5ad65c429a2ef2cd22d14bce9a22b9075c6235e0249 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/morsel-waterworld-1.html Listen from 3'40" to 4'33". The bassline really makes this. In particular, the seventh bass note played, the major 3rd, is a great turn that toys with your expectations. The Major 3rd implies a iii chord, borrowed from the parallel major key. Music Morsels are musical fragments, collec... Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:00:00 GMT 0e08fbe96d2422b1adfe086368199c3fffa37ad00fa85b3458958e69ee289775 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-jump-error.html The official music video for 'Jump Error', from the album 'Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar'. The footage is public domain. Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT aa2553024b5273a722c018d7b48c4b08b88b12b8f981b41e5754c6125d57d12f https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-seventh-formation.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. Back in August 2006, I wrote out a rough 45 seconds or so of ideas in MIDI based around a 7/8 rhythm and tentatively called it " Weird Violence". A few days later, I started working on another idea; un... Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT ba2f8356051a676c297e47807fec826bb4980e8ca2079b1146e6e8028884fddd https://disasterpeace.com/blog/obsidian.postmortem.html "A small band of galactic travelers are bound together by mysterious circumstances. Meanwhile, in the darkest reaches of the universe, an unparalleled force dwells on ambiguous intentions." I started writing this album in 2006, four years before its release, and around the same time I finishe... Sat, 01 Jan 2011 08:00:00 GMT 9e7172b12fdcbe04b24ae3420e1d80f009af527f0541a9e4a3a8164a3000f6e1 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/vid-passcode.html An esoteric short film about the Gylos universe, home to a bunch of neat action figures. Music by yours truly. Soundtrack available ⌾here. Track Descriptions Soul of the Traveler The titular track, the film closes with this lament which aims to provide a sense of finality, and evoke sen... Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:00:00 GMT f5215a41c5717d96fdf6f98b747105de3cebc0692ad5aa98c0904e753916d6b0 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-until-the-sun-rises.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. I wrote and recorded this song in 2006. This song was a first in a lot of ways for me. I’ve been singing since I was little but this was one of my first attempts at singing on a track, as well as writi... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT a899d657ac5df885e332f5c2033dee12b00c2990738b2ed9b14cdadfacef38e9 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-one-hot-genie.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. Back in 2007 I was hired by a mobile developer to write 16 one minute loops of general MIDI music for a puzzle game. Over a span of about three months I wrote the tracks, which are pretty much all over ... Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:00:00 GMT d86304fd9f31f33d8c7878252ddc336eff6fe5083d84110b4f3f572f886d08fa https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-april.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. I have an Aunt in New York who has a piano (she has since moved). When I visit I always make time for the ivories — playing piano is one of my favorite things to do. (I loved it so much, I ended up buyi... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT 5cd9a4945ca0cd87178524fcd3b4d3d4070b5d1a9df7b0961c68672b0ac7d968 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-invention.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. This piece is what its name implies: an invention. Most of the traditional stuff I wrote for school I’ve never been too fond of but I think this one is somewhat charming. I’m probably more fond of the p... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT 1becdd96b3b01425a0c852611ec23047ec8a8836318b0c0a050decb95dd3d35d https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-marathon.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. Marathon is a track I wrote in 2007 but was never really sure it was finished. It sat on my hard drive for about a year and then I made a few cosmetic changes and gave it to Pterodactyl Squad for a com... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT b5ecdf7c2deb1fbad35b8946fdeb018bdf582dc38a7bb992c9296f509a744c83 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-labyrinth-of-the-skulltaker.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. Fresh out of a short but intense Dream Theater phase (a band which I no longer have any particular interest in) in 2004, I set out to write my most challenging piece of music yet up until that point. Wh... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT b6ca392d1dd7628817b5a2559d23c4af42e3e22983d4129d013e69d3c362ec60 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/backtrack-marbles.html Backtrack is a series devoted to backtracking to tell short stories about songs I've written. In the fall of 2005, I was planning a full-length album of video game covers, tentatively titled ‘The Distance Between Start and Select’. Being obsessed with the idea of everything being 'epic’ at the t... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT 9d5f24fdbc4c1a2cad59d6af6ac753f957cbba352c3f8ccdce69300cac5381c6 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/single-kind-of-bloop.html In 2009, I got the opportunity to be on one of the very first funded Kickstarter projects, a tribute to Miles Davis' landmark album 'Kind of Blue', appropriately retitled 'Kind of Bloop', in honor of it being a chipmusic themed retake of the album. My contribution, a liberty-taking arrangement o... Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:00:00 GMT 55e87952951f6ec9a4ca3f215f1a0ccb29acfc758d751a1f8ad447e6fed05026 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/interview-pause.html I ran a chipmusic netlabel with Eirik Suhrke (Spelunky, Ridiculous Fishing, Downwell, Super Crate Box) for six years. I'm glad we ended up doing at least one interview during that time, because it gives a little glimpse into what that experience was like. Our farewell message (taken from the ... Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT f1326b2e26c28d510cb01e699cdd9aa8e7f23d06095cce34526e798044e8ff66 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/limeade-grin.postmortem.html Limeade Grin is an album of dressed up General MIDI loops. But originally, these songs were written for a cell phone game called "Wasabi Puzzle", back in 2007, one of the very first game projects I ever worked on. It was a sushi-themed puzzle game that ended up being released without any music, f... Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:00:00 GMT 87da1fcfdc9e9931a4dc721a75be48b793367f238607b0e4cfb883dac1381733 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/interview-first.html Archived here for posterity, I think this might be the first interview I ever did about my music. I was 20. We talked a lot about chipmusic and one of my first albums, Atebite and the Warring Nations. (interview, chipmusic, youth, tools, process, technique, games, influences, Atebite and the War... Tue, 28 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT 521600ba4ac6a8fc670b82e4bfae1a2841cd5374a779503da2eb85fdda6ccfd6 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/a-little-bit-about-me.html I grew up in a complicated, but loving family. I discovered my talent and love of music as a teenager, and rode the wave of excitement I had for my gift for many years, all the way up into my 30s. I had a lot of career success along the way, but with time the way I lived began to feel detached and ... Mon, 01 Jan 1900 08:00:00 GMT 3398fda3756bb501817aaa41368faca44eec41b89da7541a136249c9cdcb1d3a https://disasterpeace.com/blog/usage.html If you are looking to use my music in a commercial setting, please contact me with detailed information to request permission. I am generally cool with people using Disasterpeace tracks non-commercially in streams, student films, videos, etc. That being said, I receive a lot of requests of this... Mon, 01 Jan 1900 08:00:00 GMT 68e762b9737f7595891f65d46bdd7f8a36fb94068bf070a2751105a0043ec610 https://disasterpeace.com/blog/contact-read-me.html Interested in joining my mailing list? Click here. Looking to contact me? I'm happy to be in touch, but before you reach out, please consider these things: My Blog May Have What You Seek I'm always looking for ways to recapture time. I started collating information about different topics on my b... Mon, 01 Jan 1900 08:00:00 GMT 74062f220122ed428edc5bc700839fc08266c3f373b64bf350b88409a962e976