worm-blossom

This happened the very first time I opened beepbox. Thank you @Adz for the link =)

I did not figure out how to add more channels, nor how to do more than 10 different patterns per channel.

I think this is the third beepbox thingy I made. No panning yet!

Sketched this after experiencing the ending of Outer Wilds. Apologies for the horrible violin sound, I was using beepbox to jot down the music quickly, not for actually sounding nice.

This one builds up too slowly, and then is all over the place.

This is place for sketches, right? Well, this is a sketch. Which I never developed.

This sketch was intended for two electric violins (with an octaver), I think. It would need a lot of fleshing out, but I do like it. I occasionally get this stuck in my head completely out of nowhere.

This is a sketch of some pop music for piano and vocals. I was visiting London and needed to kill some time before my departure. Remembering that Soapdog spent a lot of time at the British library, I went there to pass the time. But it hadn’t opened yet. I wasn’t in the best state of mind at the time, so I simply sat outside the library and waited for an hour for it to open. During that time, I came up with this little piece (and was happy once the library opened so I could actually charge my laptop and jot it down).

Never wrote lyrics for it.

This one is simply too boring.

The first few bars are based on a piano thingy I came up with as a teenager. And for some reason I added a second part that harmonically sounds like Selling-England-by-The-Pound-Era Genesis? Also, the percussion part would need some balancing for this to work better.

Aside from the musical problems, I can also tell this is an early one because I had originally saved it as an actual beepbox URL (as opposed to a mod offering more advanced features).

Some fun ideas here, but nothing more than a sketch.

Not happy with this one. See (hear?) here for a somewhat better execution of the same building motif.

Written some time after hearing Alt-J — The Ripe and Ruin.

Somewhat piano-concerto-ish sketch without proper substance, but it sounds nice :3

A little canon, to the words of Eichendorff’s Wünschelrute. Was asked to write a short canon, but we never actually sang this =(

Technically this is a complete piece, I’m filing it as a sketch because it is not intended to be listened to as a beepbox thingy. I merely used beepbox to notate it...

A quickly abandoned project of writing a fun piece for four-handed piano that would quote a bunch of pieces sang by my choir at that time. The only quotation that made it in there is Brahm’s Vineta.

Some sketches for piano + bass + woodwind that don’t quite form a coherent piece. The part that is excluded from playback should have proper quintuples, but beepbox can’t do them (or at least I don’t know how). I quite like these, might turn them into a self-contained piece eventually.

From the 2023 Inktober.

This was intended as chamber music to play with some friends. But then it just stops, guess I had to work instead of composing, or something like that.

An incomplete sketch for four-handed piano.

This could have become a nice relaxed nocturne, but somehow it got stuck.

A really simple piece for choir, setting a poem about the Willow Fairy that Sam had found in a book.

Just another piece that went nowhere. These happen.

Drafted this for a weekly update, but then realised this would be for the week of Chrismas, and went with a more Christmas-y one instead.