“Syntheticity” has gone through any number of name changes. It started out as “Technojazz”, then later became “Diridian Syndicate Theme” as part of a video game project. When that project went belly-up, the song ended up lost in an obscure folder on my old Windows XP hard drive. When I finally stumbled across it while perusing old musical archives in search of music worth fixing up, I have to admit I was pretty excited to see “Syntheticity” again…
I wanted this piece to be a simple, catchy town theme – not the typically dull background piece associated with that style of VG music. I like the instrument mix and pace and am pretty damn happy with how it’s turned out so far…
“Home” is short, simple, and peaceful. I hope that listening to it brings back a comforting feeling – like coming home after too much time away…
Truth be told, much of the percussion in this song came into existence via random mouse-clicking. At the time I wrote this piece, I was totally frustrated by the way my percussion tracks had all started to sound the same…so I resolved to write a percussion track unlike anything else I’d ever done. Several hundred mouse clicks later, the first rendition of “Lost Islands” was born…