The personal blog of Eric Skiff

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Resistor Anthems

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Tracks:

1. A Night Of Dizzy Spells
   
2. Underclocked
   
3. Chibi Ninja
   
4. All of Us
   
5. Come and Find Me
   
6. Searching
   
7. We’re the Resistors
   
8. Ascending
   
9. Come and Find Me (B Mix)
   
10. Arpanauts
    

Huge thanks to Bre Pettis for letting me borrow his Gameboy and Nanoloop!

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• A Night Of Dizzy Spells
  • This is my first real composition using a gameboy, after working on a quick “hello world” piece the first night I had my hands on Nanoloop. I stayed up way too late that night playing with it, and actually had trouble getting to sleep because the music was still swirling in my mind, making me dizzy. I kept that initial, simple theme in the beginning and end. I’m seriously carrying around this gameboy everywhere I go right now. I love it way too much.
• Underclocked
  • My second effort on the gameboy takes the tempo down a few clicks and I dig into creating some of the fantastic vibrato-infused melody lines that I loved in the scores for games like Zelda, Metroid, and Megaman. This one also comes in two more flavors, one with just the delay added after the fact to give it a rich techno goodness, and a purist mix that’s straight out of the gameboy.
• Chibi Ninja
  • I have a tendency to fall into similar musical phrases unless I’m careful, so I challenged myself to write an uptempo song in a major key. I’m extremely happy with the result, when playing it back, I can’t help but smile and visualize a side-scrolling platformer from back in the day.
• All of Us
  • A blending of two styles, this tune goes from a funky little staccato and syncopation infused beat to a battlefield drum inspired passage, and then blends the two themes. Although still tonal and pleasant to listen to, it’s not intensely melody driven, so might be good for background music
• Come and Find Me
  • Somehow the beginnings of this tune sounded to me like a message ringing out through space, and it evolved from there. Originally intended for vocals above it (which might get added later) but I liked it enough as it is to put it out as is.
• Searching
  • Part II to “Come and Find Me”
• We’re the Resistors
  • An experiment with the blending of sounds from Nanoloop and seeing what I can do with Garage Band and a Midi Keyboard.
• Ascending
  • I whistled the hook for this one walking home one night, hit “record” on a voice app for my iPhone, and that became the basis for this little track.
• Come and Find Me (B Mix)
  • More experimenting with Garageband, real instruments, and nanoloop.
• Arpanauts
  • My first track with Nanoloop 1.5. The arpeggiation tools are great!