I just uploaded two new tracks. For the direct posts, here is Meditation and Stalemate.

As you can probably tell from the title and the photo, I like contrast

and variation. Although it is obvious that musical works should have various contrasting sections within them (otherwise they would get boring fast), often people don’t think about the importance of what I like to call meta-contrast (okay, I just made that up now, but it clarifies my point). Pieces of music should vary within an artist’s repertoire. Some composers only write orchestral pieces. Some only compose on the piano. Others only use electronic sounds. My philosophy is to make use of the widest spectrum of musical sounds, instruments, themes, styles, and genres as possible.

Thus, it is appropriate that I uploaded these two tracks – Meditation and Stalemate – at the same time.

The first one is called Meditation, not because it’s an awesome title (because it’s not really), but because it really made me think of ancient Asian influences. But like I said, I love contrast, so it has a bunch of electronic instruments and sounds as well.

Meditation:

The second one is called Stalemate simply because it is going to be in the upcoming Neo Chess by Metallic Cloud Games. The other song I wrote for this game (Checkmate) is going to be the theme of the game. Stalemate is meant to be in the background during gameplay. It contrasts vastly from Meditation, as it is jazzy, uses modern instrumentation, and has no electronic parts (well, to clarify, of course it is somewhat electronic, because I composed a lot of it using the sample instruments in Logic Pro, but I used completely acoustic samples).

Stalemate:

After listening to both tracks, you now understand what I mean by contrast and variation. Or maybe not. But either way, I hope you liked them.