Hey guys, if you are not aware (although some of my twitter and facebook followers might know) I did some sideline work for a friend, Ian. He started up a company called Floating Cube Studios to develop iphone apps, and he needed background music for an iphone game he and his team were constructing. So I helped out.
Here’s the trailer of the game, you can hear three quarters of the loopable tune that I helped design for them.
Bugs and Bubbles Poster
FCS Bugs & Bubbles Credits
Anyway, this game is FREE, so if you have an iphone, check it out. Support floating cube studios, and feel free to give them comments and encouragements! I don’t have an iphone though. LOL
Hmmm I was wondering how to catagorize this blog post… I guess since this was volunteer work, but I personally get to build up my “portfolio”, I shall catagorize it under both ‘personal’ and ‘social work’. Hehehe.
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Ok a word about the music. I must say that I learnt alot during this experience – I have never been “comissioned” to produce a piece before, and I have learnt to put other people’s tastes as a priority over my own when working as a team.
Independent songwriting is great, you get to write whatever you want, and you can identify yourself to the music. You are the BOSS and you don’t have to discuss it with anybody else. If you have fans that love the song you wrote, great. If they don’t, doesn’t have to matter too much.
But game songwriting is different. It is not about realizing the vision about songwriter, but about realizing the vision of the game creator… your tastes in music could be similar… or yours tastes could be totally different. You may not be able to identify with the music at all. I didn’t identify with this 2min+ piece of loopable music I created for Floating Cube Studios… it’s just not my style.
It was also not my 100% original creation, but an innovation from a 10 second copyright-free clip of mp3 that Floating Cube Studios sent me (Haha yeah, I’m really honest 
). And as a first timer, that really helped me to understand the kind of music they wanted. Therefore I guess the term “Sound Composer” is apt because I added sounds to the original, such as guitar sounds.
In conclusion: (1) There is no right and wrong to music, (2) put others’ needs before myself when writing a commercial piece, and (3) realise that I can expand my capacity to create styles of music that is different from my own.
Ahhh…Life is a learning journey. ^_^ I was also asked to create “sound effects”, but I was notsuccessful with those. I don’t have skills and resources to make suitable sounds, and I don’t have proper recording equipment… and I realised what an extensive field of knowledge and skill sound engineering is. Wow.
Luckily there are other sources where they could find appropriate sound effects for the game. Praise the Lord. =)
Love you all. Remember to check out the game if you have an iphone ^_^v
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