Blood Stained Rainbow

Blood Stained Rainbow is a collection of classic fantasy and soundtrack inspired themes for various characters and settings that have deeply inspired me. As my first three major projects were all concept albums revolving around central themes, I thought it fit to leave the triptych where it lay and work on projects unrestrained by linear visions. The art was done by the talented Stella Bennett (@puppydog.village) who, without any real prompt aside from "anchor", managed to create a beautiful emblem of nautical themes.

Reverie is the main theme of my second Dungeons & Dragons campaign, with audio recorded from my family's Kawai upright piano and additional instrumentation added synthetically. As most of my music is made almost entirely within the DAW, this was a new experience and one I anticipate I'll do again now that I know more about the precautions I need to take for recordings. If one listens closely, the sound of water can be heard at the very end, and although it's somewhat thematic with my established deep sea motifs it is actually, in fact, my dishwasher finishing a cycle.

Erasure is a song with a strange history, and one very befitting to its name. Originally a song for a character within Dungeons and Dragons, I finished the first full demo with an mp3 that had some of the best instrumentation I've ever done, but with minor mixing issues that could probably easily be fixed.
This, however, was not the case.
Due to a memory leak the master file did not save, and over the course of many months I had to recreate the entire song from the bare bones of whatever I had 10 minutes after starting the project, using only the sound of the original. In the end I managed to piece it back together, bringing it back from its own self-imposed erasure and keeping the same title I used for the original demo throughout.

Epitaph is a theme I made primarily for a friend of mine who lives in the US, as a theme for them to use within their RPGMaker project. As a theme of a location or person that will probably appear within the game and be seen multiple times, I made the theme out of simple rhythms and melodies are moved between instruments, forming canons and countermelodies that offer a simple complexity, and allowing it to loop fairly seamlessly and not get boring or irritating too quickly.

Gyll's Theme is the theme for Gylligan Samson Viceroy Feldegast IV, a gnome professor played by one of my oldest friends in my Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It blends atmospheres of mystery and wanderlust with string instruments representing the adventurer side of the character and dark, synthetic whispers and sounds to tell of secrets that lie within. This theme is often used with permission by Chris Price of Hex Ed Oz, a podcast about LARP from his perspective as the owner of one of the bigger Sydney-based groups known as Scy'Kadia.

Beyond the Searchlights is the theme I made for a character I met while at the aforementioned Scy'Kadia, a strange and elusive smallfolk by the name of Ignit. Able to go invisible for much longer than any other single person and yet constantly at the epicenter of trouble, I was inspired by their constant shenanigans to try make a theme for them,.