A collaboration with https://soundcloud.com/sacio This track is from ‘Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 7’, and can be downloaded here: https://chiptuneswin.bandcamp.com/track/fjomp
After becoming a dad (not too many days after the listening party of Vol.6) I thought: “Man, i guess my hands’ll be too busy juggling poopy diapers for next years ChipVol contribution” But it turns out my wife gave birth to a awesome little chiptune-loving toddler who’ll happily sit on my lap while i do my bleeps and bloops twitter.com/FarkAudio/status/1001464930837712897 .
I named the track after him... Or his nickname at least :P
Anyways. When trying to concoct this years contribution, i still kinda hit a musical brick wall, and yet again i turned to Sacio, going: “Hey. You cooking something for this years chipvol. man?” and, like last year, he was in the same spot as i, having several started projects, yet none longer than a minute. I got him to send me what he was working on, and immediately recognized his... Swedish cracktro-intro which eventually turned more melodious. I fell in love with the latter part and went crazy on his stems adding this and that and asking him if we’re onto something. Being swamped with school (i think?) he answered something like “Yes! Go go go!” , so throughout the months i sat down now and then adding segments, and telling Sacio to send some leads to specific parts in order to keep him adequately involved with the track instead of me totally “running away” with it.
Tuberz McGee’s review:
Like Auxcide’s entry, this sounds like a keygen for something I really shouldn’t be trying to access. I really like your sense of melody throughout your A section. You’re not afraid to reach for a larger intervalic structure for your melody. It’s much appreciated. The section that kicks in at 1:50~ is a nice welcome change as it almost feels like its become a different track that has its own sensibilities. It keeps things interesting and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t bobbing along the whole section. The abrupt modulation from B major to C major (a semitone jump, which makes it seem brighter) at about 2:50~ was nice too! It reminds me of a lot of J-Pop music, that uses abrupt modulations to generate excitement and extreme difference (in this case dropping 5 sharps/adding 7 sharps depending on how brutal you like to think of these changes), forcing you to pay attention. You’ve captured that mood entirely. I’m definitely paying attention. and AGAIN you modulate at about the 4:00~ mark. My short attention span has been tamed. I just feel that this would have benefitted from a more concise ending.
I totally agree with the part about the ending. I regret not going back to the Swedish cracktro-part instead of kinda chickening out with an abrupt ending with a sound effect. Which i think i’ve done with several other tracks as well.
"Levi, stop yelling at the washing bin!" A collab with bruh: Sacio (soundcloud.com/sacio) This is track 24 from Chiptunes = WIN: Volume 6 and can be downloaded here:
https://chiptuneswin.bandcamp.co
After starting several projects in hopes of finding the “right melody” to work with with the goal of making it to Chiptunes=Wins Volume 6 , I finally thought i landed on a project that would end up being my submitted track! Have a sneak listen at “Daarlig Tid” However, things got hectic at work and i hit a wall with this melody as well. “Perhaps I should have someone be my Dr.Watson so that I can Sherlock Holmes all over this biatch” i thought, and shun the “Sacio-light” into the night sky. I asked if he had started working on a song for this years Volume, and it turned out that he was in the exact same spot as I; a started project that also hit a wall. He was positive about doing some collab and I was about to send him my unfinished track. However, I gave his track a listen first, and immediately said “Never mind my track, Let’s go with yours, man!” and started composing like crazy, rendering that wall as crushed to smithereens! Sacio was quite busy with math exams and such, so I clocked quite some hours on the project. In order to not fully “take over” the track, I initiated a couple of short meet-ups were we would double-chip the dip.
During our second meetup, Sacio was taking care of a friends’ poodle, named Levi. And as the track moved towards its finish line, we had to come up with a name. Both Sacio and I are perhaps equally lousy at this part, although I might be the poorest in this area :P Lucky for us, Levi told us the track name via a tiny woof ;)
Eventhough the track was originally started by Sacio, he told me that he felt that it would make more sense if my name was first in the title, since I in fact clocked a whole solid amount of hours in this project.
I thanked him and accepted the suggestion.
REVIEW:
When ‘Puddel’ first started playing, I thought this was a new track from quite a different Nordic duo – namely, it has all the trappings of a xyce song, but actually comes from Fark and Sacio! It’s a pretty short track, but it manages to fit in a few pretty sneaky thematic shifts even though they happen at pretty regular intervals. Just from a compositional standpoint, it’s always fun to pick apart songs like this because it’s interesting to see how people who understand how the ‘formula’ of music works will go and stitch their variations on a theme together over and over until they have a full song. That’s not to say this track is formulaic or predictable by any stretch – merely that with enough time to analyze, you can see what Fark and Sacio were thinking in terms of timings. Is that just a me thing? Am I the only one who likes doing that? Okay…
@farkaudio: #Sacio, Fark and Levi the poodle-pup doing finishing touches on a #chiptune collab submission for #volume6 @ChiptunesWIN 🤞🏻 pic.twitter.com/QQ4WAdYJdo
@farkaudio: I considered uploading this picture instead, but Levi's sudden movement makes it look like i'm rubbing a huge, unshaven curly brown peepee 🤐 pic.twitter.com/eOTPKK7PtC
@RynMcq Does this mean there will be adorable puppy barking on the track? :O
My track “Minstemann” gets to play in the forest !
This one goes out to all the "attpåklats" out there ;)
The youngest one in the herd.
Kubbi's done an impressive job mastering this track, there were a few elements from the composition that I haven't heard this clearly since earlier versions of this track :D
I’m not exactly 100% satisfied with the 02:37-part.
The chorus is heavily inspired by one of my favourite musicians: Mosaik and his wonderful "Leandi".
Links:
Review by Bronx Kuma: chiptuneswin.com/blog/kuma-v-forg…rest-вин-review/http://chiptuneswin.com/blog/kuma-v-forge-and-chris-ks-resplendent-forest-вин-review/
I was allowed to chat on the radioshow during the release party. https://geekbeatradiopodcasts.objects.dreamhost.com/GBR-20160829.mp3
Youtube - DJ Cutmans TWiC episode: 159 “Study mix” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWm_lfAurjg&feature=youtu.be&t=2273&ab_channel=ThisWeekInChiptune
Here’s the chatlog from the event: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sj03lMpXlGE29ca6WPpiK62SmtU2mEl-G9npdhZA0HY/edit#
Last night, the lovely guys at Chiptunes = WIN held a party at GeekbeatRadio releasing the fourth volume!
My “Kalle Kanonkule” kicks off the entire album, being track #1 ! ! :D :D :D
Look how happy Kalle is! (unlike his target)
Joseph Edison reviewed my track as well over at the “Kalle Kanonkule”Youtube-video
“There are a lot of things that happen behind the scenes of the ChipWIN compilations each year, and one very important task is selecting the track order. A newcomer to the ChipWIN compilation, Fark gets to fire the first shot across the bow with ‘Kalle Kanonkule,’ a somewhat modern-sounding blend of keyboards and chip synthesis. The piano solo that begins the track is quite intriguing to me, as I immediately want to hear where the music goes next and how it blends (or stands out) from the expected chiptune elements. That ability to make the listener invest in your music and create a sense of urgency about what happens next is quite difficult to achieve, and I think Fark really nails it with the opening.My second favorite thing about ‘Kalle Kanonkule’ is the syncopated nature of the rhythms during a majority of the track. Rather than a standard four-on-the-floor beat and complementary synth lines, Fark shifts the attacks one sixteenth note pulse – or ‘tick’ in chip terminology – early. This creates a complex rhythmic layer upon which he builds the main idea of the track, and it works incredibly well. In between statements of the neat groove are short passages with more improvisatory, solo-like synth lines. Although the drums continue the same subtle off-kilter rhythm, these sections feel much more grounded and steady with consistent attacks on the downbeat of each measure. This is a very catchy and danceable tune that I would love to hear live. ~Joseph Eidson~- -
Read more from Joseph Eidson on The ChipWIN Blog - -”
http://chiptuneswin.com/blog/author/jeidson/
DJ Cutman (the master who mastered this track) included this track in his recent TWiC-stream, as a “Chiptunes = Win Volume 4″ special!
https://soundcloud.com/djcutman/twic113
(Kalle gets introduced at 26:19)
This song is something i started working on for approx. one year ago. I was hoping it would reach a sufficient level of energy and quality so that I could submit it to Chiptunes = WIN. I considered adding more “TWHOMP”s but it turned out that two was enough, even though the removed ones did a fine job as fill-ins.
I had secondary plans for this track as well - I was planning on gathering some animator friends in order to conjure up an animated music video. I started rolling that tiny ball with this tiny
simplistic animation start, but it didn’t get any further past that point :/
Anyways! Feeling proud being featured among this particular bunch of talented chiptune artists. Reading feedback on my track in the IRC chat during the stream was also quite a new and fun experience for me.
There’s an enormous amount of quality chip tunes in this compilation, so do check it out!.
Listen to the saved Geekbeatradio-stream here:
Part 1 (Radio hosts talking at 0:13:00 and 2:03:00)
I received the honour of editing the music video for the Norwegian band; The Fjords’ latest release: “All in”, produced by Helmet.
A music video with this concept/plot is something I’ve long dreamed of doing my self, but I amboth relieved and glad that it was none other than my friends at Helmet that beat me to it, as they’ve done an immensely great job with this video. They apparently share my nostalgic childhood filled with playing video games and eating hot dogs, and the thin borders of reality between those two.
Editing this was a breeze. The director told me to not look at the script and just do my own interpretation with the shot material. But since the creators did such a thorough job shooting and logging the material, I believe it resulted in a video being somewhat close to the same product that the creators envisioned.
In addition to editing the masterpiece, I do feel however, that I have to take some credit for the musical alteration during the choking scene since I, during the editing process, suggested that a build-up/crescendo’y would compliment the dramaturgical increase during the final showdown between the protagonist and antagonist in this scene.
It's been about twenty years since I visited the Nth dimension, and since I heard the original theme song.
I'll never forget you, beetle-ant-gremlin-candy ninja-thingy you <3<br /> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZOOL: NINJA OF THE «Nth» DIMENSION and ZOOL 2 are registered trademarks of Gremlin Graphics Software.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zool_2
Just an idea I had a few years back on the old poop joke. Like anything. This gag has probably been done a thousand times already, but at least we had fun shooting it (a statement which is confirmed by totally believable laughter at the end.)
Music: A W.I.P melody which I'll finish when things calm down a bit at work
The Giraffe (with eng subs!) - Aired on Newton 16.02.14
The production team behind Newton hired another producer, and she placed an animation order of how giraffes use their necks when they fight, and how they even get to live with all that throat.
Anyways. Since this was her first time using me, i figured i'd test her a bit by adding some swearing (still SFW-graded though) and see how she'd react.
Turns out, she didn't flinch, but the network, (NRKSuper) did.
So while she edited this animation in her episode, she had to adjust the swearing bleep, so the viewers wouldn't hear the beginning of the swear-word ;)
Check out other animations like this one on our "Scribbles"-channel:
I've never considered myself an animator, I lack any sort of finesse/delicate touch and I've never been able to draw a line even 60% straight. But i do, however, consider myself somewhat experienced with the art of timing. And since I mostly operate with easily drawn stick-figures, the pacing while doing frame-by-frame animation makes it a bit easier than doing full-fledged figures alá Disney/Bluth/Krisfaluci etc.
Anyway...combining my knack for sound design and these scribbles with my sense of timing and humor, I've ended up with a style which obviously have sparked a bit of interest among several customers. (albeit not being the most original animation style, at least not from a global perspective)
So, I've made a Vimeo-channel containing some of the scribble-animation done via those kind of jobs. Mainly "Newton" (the Norwegian science show for kids, mentioned quite a bit on this site, I guess :P)
Most of these animations have aired on TV, and uploading them has been OK'd with the TV station that aired them.
Sadly, these are all voiced in Norwegian. But i'm considering uploading some english subtitles.
Well, at least slapstick is an international language, right :D
Fark - “Dritglad” from the upcoming album “Lillebror”
Even happier.
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-This song plays within the same harmonies as the calmer and more orchestral "Glad" does.
-This song has a 2.0-version where Cygnus did a guitar solo at the end. (this version will be available when the "Lillebror"- album releases)
-This song was used in a video I recorded, and edited. A video that shows 100 female eighteen year old top A-students who was invited to check out different technology-based classes. This would hopefully result with a recruting effect for the as of yet undecided top students in Norway.
"NTNU - Teknologicamp for jenter" http://youtu.be/zhw6RR4_hvI?t=3m51s
Fark - "Tohjulssykkel" from the upcoming album: "Lillebror" After outgrowing the tricycle, and after thousand attempts at trying to stay upright without having three wheels placed in a triangular formation, Lillebror finally understands the importance of keeping a high momentum in order not to faceplant. --------------------------------------------- Every now and then, when trying to compose music, I end up with two results which highly differ from each other. But still they sound somewhat related, so instead of trying to merge them into one song, I try to differentiate them enough so that they earn the right to bear their own song title. This song was the second result while i originally was composing "Trehjulssykkel" (which means "tricycle" in Norwegian. And since this song sound a bit more... you know... mature (an adjective rarely used for describing my music) this song was titled "Tohjulssykkel" (which means "bicycle" in Norwegian)
For my company; Kindergarten Media, I've edited a new showreel, and I've also finished a melody which was (in a beta stage at the time) used in the second season of the science show for kids called: "Huset"
"Radioresepsjonen" is a popular radio show here in Norway. In one of their columns about children's books, they demonstrate how easy it is to write books for kids. One of Norway's most famous musicians; Bjørn Eidsvåg made a cameo and delivered a wonderful and parodical story about a young boy called "Sivert" who has an abnormally large head (which deep down really is a story about one his own sons; "Simen")
This inspired Kindergarten Media's Petter enough that he wanted to get this story visualised (since he too suffers from having a big head)
After a few years going through different animators, it was finally done earlier this year. Petter wanted to delay the release until Radioresepsjonen got back on the air after their hiatus.
My involvement in the project:
I did the music and SFX, (and creative inputs during the production)
Sivert Animation break-down by Mograf.
Source: http://p3.no/radioresepsjonen/se-bjorn-eidsvag-sin-barnebok-som-tegnefilm/ (in Norwegian)
Excerpt from a Norwegian newspaper: https://twitter.com/eidsvag/status/342620778468085762/photo/1
Last sunday, Selda did her final episode as the TV Hostess for "Newton" (you know, that childrens show about science I keep mentioning throughout my productions)
Everybody noticed her surprised reaction and when she mouthed those three sweet words, this immediately called for a good ol' dubstep remix.
And as a proper way of saying good bye to a good friend and colleague and wishing her well, I quickly made this short little tune (so that I could get a break from writing on my "super secret project" as well (will be revealed later this year).
At work, people on the same floor probably wondered what was going on, when I was in the vocal booth yelling several "WTF"s, until I got just the right one with that little "break" in the vocal chords, which kinda gives of that perfect sincerety.
Anyways, this was a nice way of getting to test out my recently upgraded Reason ;)
(did you catch the easter egg? (remember to turn on annotations.. and i'm not talking about that super-obvious present at the end ;)))
