Corneria Sound

Chaos so Dense, Light Can’t Escape It is an Avant-Garde piece based on the Black Hole map and level music from Star Fox on the SNES. I honestly do not know what I was thinking when I did this, but it came out nice. Makes extensive use of a sample library called “Virtual Drumline 2″ from Tapspace. I didn’t use any drumline battery, but I used a good number of the other sounds.

Original Music by Hajime Hirasawa - Song Copyright: Nintendo

This formerly untitled piece is one of my favorite ones. This was my first piece to use the EastWest Quantum Leap Symphony Orchestra Gold Pro XP sample library. All works prior to this one used the Garritan Personal Orchestra. Most of the percussion is from VDL2.

Original Composer: Hajime Hirasawa - Song Copyright: Nintendo

A Lylat Brass Christmas is a delightful medley of Chrismas Carols and Nintendo game music, mainly from the Mario series. Inspiriation came from several sources, but mainly from a group called the OneUps (then called the OneUp Mushrooms) that did a song called “Super Mario’s Sleighride,” which was a similar VG Music/Christmas music medley. This is the last of the “old style” Lylat Brass Ensembles. In retrospect the sleighbells were a bad idea. I had written gaps in the second trumpet part to add some realism for instrument switching.

Mercenarios de Lobo is a mild Spanish-style orchestral arrangement of the Star Fox 2 Star Wolf Theme. This piece was a fun way to push the trumpet samples to their limits! I just wish I had Virtual Drumline when I did this, as prior to my purchase of that library I had no latin percussion sounds.

Original Composers: Kozue Ishikawa, Yumiko Kanki - Song Copyright: Nintendo

This is to commemorate the 15th anneversary of the release of Star Fox in North America. According to what I could find, “jyugo” is Japanese for the number fifteen. This piece is a concert arrangement of the Star Fox credits. It is more intended to be an orchestration of the original rather than a “remix” so there is much similarity with the original, but with much better samples and a concert-style performance.

Original Composer: Hajime Hirasawa - Song Copyright: Nintnedo

This piece was an experiment in asymmetrical meters and polymeric composition. It is unfinished, and I do not have plans to finish it. Next to “Chaos so Dense Light Can’t Escape it,” I consider this one of my most creatie pieces. This predates pretty much everything in the “Game Remixes” section, and doesn’t truly project my current skill level, but i feel that is signifies the beginning of when my skills began to improve beyond “kid playing with MIDI.” There is a lot that I like about this piece and I may do a similar one in the future.

V to the X Power is an arrangement for Vibraphone and Orchestra of the Sector X BGM from Star Fox 64. I have always liked the vibraphone. Believe it or not, this started out as an original and then somehow it turned into this…

Original BGM By Hajime Wakai - Song Copyright: Nintendo

This is my longest work, and arrangement of the Zoness BGM from Star Fox 64. Zoness was once the vacation spot of the Lylat System before it was ruined by Andross’ pollution. In four movements, it tells the story of how Zoness went from paradise to toxic waste dump and ends in the fourth movement with the defeat of the Sarumarie and a renewed hope that the planet could possible be returned to its prior state. This is the oldest game remix work that I feel comfortable placing on this page. It was one of my first to use the Garritan Personal Orchestra.

While not a game remix, here is a quick mockup of a Star Fox 12 days of Christmas idea I had.

This is not finalized, and the weakness of the samples shows, but it is fun. In case you can't understand the lyrics:

On the nth day of Christmas, Team Star Fox gave to me
12 Grubtub mushrooms
11 Phantron Copies
10 extra arwings
9 ghostly fathers
8 hatches open
7 homing launchers
6 hyper lasers
5 GOLD SHIELD RINGS!
4 Aparoids
3 smart bombs
2 barrel rolls
And an Arwing in the Great Fox.

This is a medley from The Legend of Zelda, Twilight Princess.

This is the first piece on the new Lylat Brass pseudo-album that I will be making in 2009. This piece takes several pieces from Twilight Princess and reduces them to Brass Quintet. The trombone plays the part of Wolf Link, howling some melodies.

This is a short version. A longer version is in the works and will be coming later, along with more details about Lylat Brass.

No, there is no sheet music.

Original Composers: Toru Minegishi, Asuka Ohta, and Koji Kondo

This is another old one.

I made this in response to a challenge that the SNES Corneria theme could never be orchestrated. I proved the guy wrong. :D

This was fun. I think I will do this piece again sometime.

Original composer: Hajime Hirasawa.

Korobeiniki, AKA Tetris A Type, is a Russian Folk song famous in the west for being used in the original Gameboy version of Tetris.

This is an Ernesto Lecuona-inspired piano solo arrangement of this theme.

Sheet Music available in file attachment: