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Color Sky – How I composed Metro Molecule

September 29, 2014 by Ben

As you may know by now, I’m working on a standalone electronic album called Color Sky, made to be thoughtful, dreamlike and groovy. In the last post I talked about the inspirations for the album. This week I’m going to go in depth into Metro Molecule, and reveal a bit about my composition process. Here’s the track so you can follow along. Emancipator First of all, Metro Molecule is a deliberate attempt to emulate the style of Emancipator, or at […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Color Sky, composition, music production

A guided tour through the FTL soundtrack: analysis of themes.

July 11, 2013 by Ben

As I mention in the text writeup included with every copy, the FTL soundtrack is very self-referential. Lots of sounds, melodies and chords show up multiple times throughout. Here I’m going to break down three of the major motifs, point out each time they pop up, and tell you a bit about them and how they fit in with everything else. You might want to pull up the soundtrack in bandcamp so you can follow along. The Space Cruise Chords This is […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: composition, FTL, game music

The Best Book on Music Theory

June 6, 2013 by Ben

I get asked about this all the time, so here’s the best book I know of for learning music theory: It’s fifteen dollars on Amazon.com. I’ve read a lot of books on theory, but Michael Miller is the only author with the balls to actually teach the reader the actual mechanics of music theory instead of just saying, “you should just memorize this stuff because I hate math.” Trust me, this is how a lot of theory books are. Buy […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: advice, books, composition, recommendations

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