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I've uploaded some new tracks.

For the last weeks I've been composing music for horror and death. Nice! I actually had a couple of bad dreams during this time. In my brother's role-playing game adventure there's a lot of nightmares and stories that helps outline the plot. For all these story-telling nightmares, filled with creepy incidents, death and terror, I've composed music. All connected somehow to the big bad guy (err, girl) - the evil witch Kha Harnia. I've uploaded a suite of this "nightmare music". There are plenty of themes and melodies going on in these dreams, weaving them together and connecting them to the story. I had a lot of fun doing "scary" music, and I've been able to twist some of the heroic themes into sorrow and horror. Fun!

Update: The "Nightmare Suite" is removed in favor of my latest piece, called "Trains!". But the nightmares can still be heard at www.myspace.com/questoftheheroes 

Another new track I've done is a more uplifting and heroic piece (I had to do it after weeks of terror and nightmares!). The track is still unnamed (suggestions anyone?) since this is one of my first songs ever written and recorded without a specific purpose. As you might know, my musical journey started just a couple of months ago, with me composing and trying to perform and record music for my brother's role-playing game adventure "Ereb Altor 386 e0". This music is always specific to a place, a person, a battle or something else in the adventure, trying to capture the heart of the story. But this track is just done with no such restrictions. I just wanted to do something uplifting and powerful after weeks of nightmares. I hope I'm slowly improving on my arrangements, but I have to get a new computer! The track is based on a slow heroic theme played four times, each time with a grander arrangement. Notable is the last arrangement where my computer didn't hold up, it simply can't work with so many different audiotracks at the same time, so some of the intruments I planned are missing. I didn't get the powerful closing I intended. Some latency problems at the end as well. Ah well...

The third new upload isn't new. Its my old track "Remembrance" but I've added a piano performance of the song after the harp, violin and flute version previously uploaded.

Otherwise, I struggle to find time to compose and trying to learn more about my equipment as usual. I've borrowed a midicontroller and a software synthesizer but haven't had time to use it yet. Perhaps that could take my simple music further, but first - a new, more powerful computer please!

Take care!

/Simon