rounding out this string of Cool MIDI Music it is time for today's daily song post...!
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today's song is: Spirits of the Mountain, for the Roland MT-32 (proto-MIDI device)
this tune was written for a mountain-climbing-themed compo in the fall; as one does when faced with such a theme, i thought about Celeste and how the moving parts of that game's music slowly build and evolve and change fluidly. i was just talking about this with a friend yesterday--making music like that is a certain weakness of mine, because i'm always compelled to alter things immediately upon repeat and wind up with music that changes pace significantly faster instead. even when i try to get myself to write something with that kind of pacing and economical use/reuse of material, i end up foregoing that strategy in favor of my instinctual change-ups instead, as though i just can't help myself. in this particular song, i think i landed somewhere in the middle of it all; i didn't 100% nail what i was going for, and the track isn't as long as i'd hoped, but i still did incorporate elements of the slow-build too. it could probably be stretched out a lot further comfortably. i just... repeating drum/chord/bass patterns, man, i'm so allergic to it. but i'm going to pin this down eventually!!! i swear it!
