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A bit of music every day for a month. How hard can it be?

Aaaaargh, get them off!

Perhaps my favourite piece of the whole month in its simplicity.

The prompt for that day was “Dodge”, but I was quite tired when I got to start working on this. So I ignored the prompt and made something calming instead.

I envisioned this as the background music for a map screen in a video game. Didn’t quite end up there, I think, but I like the feeling of this one nevertheless.

An arrangement of Woodstock from memory (the harmonies in the verse suffered greatly from that, I probably hadn’t listened to the song in over a year at that point).

...in which Aljoscha used the bitcrusher effect of goldbox for the first time.

I did not get very far with that one... this is the only piece of the whole Inktober where I flat-out didn’t have the time to complete it. Trying for a proper fugue didn’t help of course.

Most fun prompt of the month!

Hmm... too cheesy, and the strings just do not sound nice (and are not arranged particularly well either).

I think I did this one in under 15 minutes because the day was almost over and I still needed to do the daily piece.

It is salsa. Get it? Yeah...

In hindsight, the beginning sounds a bit like some Hans Zimmer score.

I remember this took a lot of time, with something almost resembling actual orchestration happening at the end.

Huh. That modulation to make the loop work is... something.

The idea here had potential, but the execution is just a tad too weak for my taste.

Wow. I am disappointed in my past self that the best I came up with for that prompt was a fake chorale. Uhm, I was probably low on time that day?

Hell yes! Beepbox offers this interesting mode of writing that is not quite improvisation (because mouse input is not in real time, and I have not yet looked into keyboard-based live input), but pretty close to it (I would not compose that solo part like this). The result is quite fun in any case.

One of the few inktober pieces I mostly did in my head and then simply wrote down at a later point. I worked this one out on the commute after work. And I couldn’t point to why it felt so familiar, until Sam’s immediate comment of “Laura Palmer”. Which explains everything (if you have heard the Twin Peaks intro often enough).

Surprisingly good to keep on endless repeat.

Such a nice prompt.

This was probably the Inktober day where I was the least inspired. All instruments are unmodified random choices.

A rondo. Actual chamber music. Huh...

Another day where I was pretty low on time. I did not even come up with the music that day, but recycled something I had noodled on years prior.

Shallow music indeed.

These retro sound pieces are always so fun =). Any similarities to first-generation Pokémon battle music are purely coincidental.

Another very uninspired one. I mean, Haydn did the same thing 250 years earlier. And my execution is pretty weak. In my defense, I was low on time again.

Wanted to go for a sleeping beast with the prompt. I don’t remember how the reverse sounds thingy entered the picture.

Sparkly indeed.

Surprise, a soundscape!

This one was fun to write!

And a calm piece to mark the end of inktober 2023. I was very low on time for this one, but that ended up working out nicely.