Title music for Ass Without a Trace 2.

Game: Ass Without A Trace 2

This is the overworld theme for Yamatsu.

Game: Psycho Burst

This is the horny theme for Yamatsu.

Game: Psycho Burst

Yamatsu wanted a soundtrack for a Binding of Isaac/Enter the Gungeon-like, with intimate scenes, and with combat music reminiscent of Armored Core.

Game: Psycho Burst

This is the remade version of Stronger Than for Plus 5. I wasn’t able to do a full remaster as many of the Logic instruments no longer exist in the basic library and I didn’t have any bounce files that I could reuse, but oh well. This seems good enough.

Lyrics: Stronger Than [Plus 5, 2006]

I am stronger than you

I am stronger than you

I am stronger than you Not a thing to do When you cried I knew I am stronger than you I will always try To live to see you die You know always that I I will always try I am stronger than you Not a thing to do When you cried I knew I am stronger than you Don’t know what I’m going through You can’t see from my point of view You will be on my mind You won’t be hard to find

I am stronger than you Not a thing to do When you cried I knew I am stronger than you I will always try To live to see you die You know always that I I will always try I am stronger than you Not a thing to do When you cried I knew I am stronger than you Don’t know what I’m going through You can’t see from my point of view You will be on my mind You won’t be hard to find

I am stronger than you

Originally for Song Fight!, 2024

Song Fight! has been running for a long time; it started in 2000, making it an extremely old website by today’s standards, and it’s probably one of the first and is almost certainly now the longest-running songwriting communities on the Internet.

In 2024, the 1000th title was posted, “A Grand Parade,” and for this we all decided to dig up as many past participants as possible to try to get to 100 songs. We succeeded at this!

At one point I was entering under an alter-ego, <3, a vessel through which I was trying to express some gender-related stuff, and she was pretty popular. So for A Grand Parade I opted to bring her back for another song.

Lyrics: A Grand Parade

I do not want you going outside right now There are so many things to see It’s going to overwhelm and how You will not be very happy

The giant duck is gonna quack And the dogs are gonna bark in back And the Marshall of the big parade Doesn’t care if you feel safe

And the TV man is gonna say It is such a lovely sunny day And I know you want to go out and play But I want you to say inside

I do not want you going outside right now There are so many things to see Why not stay inside and meow? I just want you to be happy

The clowns will juggle and the bands will play And the noise will scare you far away So let’s stay cozy all the day Inside where we are safe

I do not think you will want to be Outside out there away from me So let’s just drink a cup of tea In the morning we will play

I do not want you going outside right now There are so many things to see I am feeling overwhelmed and I just want to be happy

An extended/enhanced version of the battle theme from Deck of Desire, an extremely NSFW card trading game.

In the original game there was a much shorter version of this song, in both chiptune and symphonic versions, as well as a bunch of other music. The game itself has been essentially abandoned as a “prototype” (despite having been very popular, and still tops my download analytics on itch.io years later!), but I had some ideas about how to expand the soundtrack into a full musical experience.

Maybe someday.

Game: Deck of Desire

A looping background motif for an augmented art installation.

I composed a prototype of this while playing with a Sawbench, a minimal MIDI-controlled analog synthesizer, and eventually repurposed it for the art piece, making it a bit more ambient in the process.

People keep comparing it to Boards of Canada, which seems like a band I need to actually listen to someday.

A lo-fi background music track for a series of videos by the Trans Academy.

This is the primary “logo” motif of the Trans Academy, with my favorite gimmick of using an evolving chord progression to recontextualize the simple motif in different ways.

Gameplay music from Spooky Sushi, a VR game jam game.

In this game you play the part of a conveyor sushi restaurant waiter, and must quickly tally up the bill for patrons based on the colors of their plates. I was trying to evoke the feeling of having to juggle several things at once while being simultaneously single-minded about it.

Game: Spooky Sushi

Main menu music from Spooky Sushi, a VR game jam game.

In this track I decided to play with the idea of having the same simple looping melody that repeats while being recontextualized by the changing chords underneath it.

Game: Spooky Sushi

This is another track that I composed Just Because. I was treading on the edge of consciousness and then this just popped into my head. I tend to write a lot of my music that way.

Sometimes I compose music just for the heck of it. This is one of those songs that just kinda popped into my head and I had to make it.

Caroline’s character theme from Full Course.

Caroline was to have an interesting story arc, and was going to have two character theme songs because of one of her traits. This particular song is for her extrovert mode (“Candy”), and was inspired by modern anime music. Its working title was “Every Anime Themesong.”

She also had an introvert mode, “Strawberry,” although I never started work on that theme before the game was canceled.

From Airship Chef by Yamatsu, https://madebyyamatsu.itch.io/airship-chef

Game: Airship Chef

From Airship Chef by Yamatsu, https://madebyyamatsu.itch.io/airship-chef

Game: Airship Chef

From Airship Chef by Yamatsu, https://madebyyamatsu.itch.io/airship-chef

Game: Airship Chef