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Cadenza's Makeshift Jukebox

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
Hello, new Talking Time! I'm Cadenza and I make music sometimes! Here is a sampling of the things I have written in the past year or so:

Fields of Wind - A drone piece made (almost) entirely with the Mellotron flute.

Shrine of the Sea God - The very first song I uploaded to my Soundcloud account. It's a chiptune! I want to start writing more of those but I haven't found the time to do it yet.

Castlevania Chronicles - Etude for the Killer - One of two string quartet arrangements of Castlevania tunes I've made. I do intend to make more at some point, but the MuseScore midi doesn't sound very good which is slightly discouraging.

Stratus - The first piece of ambient music I ever wrote, made about a year-and-a-half ago during a rough period in my life. I discovered while making this track that I really enjoy writing music like this, so I've been doing that off-and-on ever since.

Arpeggiated Patterns for 3 MIDI Pianos - Pretty much exactly what the title implies. Kinda made this just to have something relatively recent on my account after a few months of inactivity, but you might enjoy it!

Final Fantasy IX - The Place I'll Return to Someday - The title screen theme from FFIX arranged for Mellotron trio.

Mellotriptych - A group of three related pieces that all use the same group of notes in different ways.



As you could probably guess from the above, I love the Mellotron a whole lot and use it in almost everything I write. I don't actually own a real instrument (which is a.) no longer manufactured and b.) rare/hard to find and expensive), or the digital recreation (which is, again, prohibitively expensive); instead I use a plugin pack for Ableton Live called Microtron, which attempts to recreate the sound of the original M400 model as accurately as possible (up to and including the eight-second limit for playing a given note).

If any of the above interests you and you want to hear more, you can find everything else I've put up on Soundcloud either on a track-by-track basis or in these convenient playlists. I hope you enjoy my tunes, and thanks for listening!
 
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Kishi

Little Waves
(They/Them)
Staff member
Moderator
Just want to say I listened to all those links and found them to be very good. Love the moody stuff, and it's nice to hear an arrangement of a more overlooked Castlevania track.
 

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed them!

I'm trying to work on more stuff, but 2020 in general has been sapping my energy to make things so it's been slow going. I have a big project in the works that has been especially suffering, but hopefully I'll make some more progress on it soon.
 

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
Cross-posting from the Creative Works thread:

I decided that this prompt was a good excuse to open up MuseScore again and arrange some game music. Specifically, I took the overworld theme from For the Frog the Bell Tolls and turned it into a piano trio:

(backup link in case the embed doesn't work)

Considering that I haven't used MuseScore in the better part of a year, I'm pretty okay with how this turned out.

And I guess working on this energized me a little, because I ended up dusting off an old arrangement I hadn't worked on in a while and finished it today:

(link in case the embed doesn't work)

This one's a Castlevania track instead. "Overture" has always been one of my favorite tunes in the series, and it bums me out a little that it was only used in two games, so I made this. Hope you enjoy!
 

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
Bringing back my thread to tell folks about a couple of new things I'm doing, one of them music-related and one not.

First, I just started a thread where I go through and listen to every single album that Roger Dean has painted the cover art for, which it turns out is a lot. I'm still in the very early stages of the project, so there's a lot more music ahead of me. If you want to join in the discussion (or more accurately, actually start some discussion, because as of the time of this post there isn't any), feel free to do so!

I've also started streaming! My current schedule is to stream for a few hours every Friday at 7 p.m. CST over on my Twitch channel. For the past few weeks I've been playing through Legend of Legaia, sharing what I know about the game and beating up lots of monsters. If that sounds like a fun time to you, then come hang out! And if you miss a stream, I'm uploading an archive of past broadcasts over on my youtube channel.

As for actually writing music, uh, truth is I haven't had the energy to write anything in a while. I thought I would be able to handle being in lockdown for so long a little better, being introverted by nature, but it's getting to me. I'm trying to push past it because I have a lot of ideas for songs that I want to work on, but it's hard sometimes.
 

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
Hello! I'm tired of letting my own thread lay fallow, so I'm bringing it back. This post is mostly just a status update, but I will try to share more substantial things in the near future.

I've been working on writing an EP of ambient music made entirely with the Microtron plugin I mentioned in the opening post of the thread. I've written three tracks and have started on a fourth, which I will hopefully finish soon-ish. I'll try and post some snippets of what I've got once that's done.

In the meantime, I'm still streaming, although a myriad host of technical issues have kept me from doing so until relatively recently. Right now I'm playing through the Nier Replicant remaster. If that sounds like something you want to watch, you can tune in on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7 pm CST.

Finally, I have a youtube channel! Currently I upload on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, alternating between stream vod archives and whatever Let's Play series I'm doing at the moment, with miscellaneous other videos thrown in for variety every now and then.

Thanks for looking at my stuff! I appreciate it.
 

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
I think I'm getting close to done with the writing process for the EP I've been working on! I threw together a quick little preview by stringing together 30-ish-second snippets from each of the four tracks. You can listen to that here if you want:


Overall I'm pretty happy with what I've made so far! I just need to find somebody to do mixing/mastering, haha. Hopefully I can do that soon.
 

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
That's actually kind of a relief to hear! I've been worried people wouldn't like the particular ~vibes~ I'm going for, but so far that hasn't been the case, hehe.
 

Cadenza

Mellotron enthusiast
(She/they)
The writing process for my EP is pretty much done (has been for a while), it just needs to be mixed/mastered. But I'm no good at that, and it's not in my budget to hire someone else to do it right now, so unfortunately I just have to let this project sit for a while. So instead of that, I'm brainstorming ideas for other projects - stuff I've been thinking about a while - but I gotta actually sit down and start writing again, which is easier said than done sometimes.

In the meantime, I've still been putting stuff on my gaming youtube channel. Right now I upload Let's Plays and other miscellaneous things on Tuesdays and Fridays, and stream vods on Thursdays and Sundays. Some of the games I've played include:

Akumajō Dracula - A playthrough of the 1993 Famicom re-release of the original Castlevania, which has a built-in easy mode that makes it possible to beat the game without many hours of practice.
VVVVVV - That one precision-platformer with the gravity-flipping and the rockin' soundtrack, you know the one. I made a thread for it too!
Echo - A reading of a gay furry psychological horror visual novel. It's about growing up in a terrible small town, reconnecting with old friends, shared trauma, buried secrets, and a lot more.

I also still stream! Wednesdays and Saturdays at 7 pm CST, right over here.

Thank you for taking the time to look at the stuff I do! It means a lot.
 
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