#blake robinson

[nayva6]

I really love the song "Parts and Pieces", so I decided to make a badge with it!! For now, it's just a drawing, but I'll show you the finished badge later

You can write me any song, and I'll draw some merch for it:D

[syntheticorchestra]

It has been a while

So this Tumblr account turned 14 years old last week, apparently.

The last time I posted here was just after Chrono Trigger Symphony Vol. 2 came out. Yikes, that was a while ago and I honestly didn’t really plan to disappear for over a decade.

It's crazy when I think how different things are nowadays and where I've been since my last post. I finally finished the full Chrono Trigger Symphony, and not long after I was given the opportunity to score the soundtrack for a certain Adventure-Line-Following video game that turned out to be a cult classic.

I also got to work on my dream project in the form of Lost in Random. Given a brief of "we want 30 minutes of music" and complete freedom in doing so, I ended up writing about four hours of gothic-horror, my own take on the 'Burton' sound.

I'm truly privileged to have been involved in the origins of Spitfire Audio - it has literally allowed me to pick and choose the projects I want to be involved in, a luxury that I know many other composers don't have.

People finding me more recently are probably more familiar with my side-hustle; a project with Gloom Darkheart where we write catchy little murder ditties. "An Unhealthy Obsession" has gone viral twice since I last posted here, with over half-a-billion plays on Tiktok this year alone in videos featuring so many fantastic creations from talented artists. The project has expanded from two murderous motifs to over 18 glorious blood-soaked-ballads now, collected under the Music to Murder to umbrella.

I've had ups and downs. Moved houses, found people, lost people, written hours of Orchestral arrangements, learnt so many skills, forgotten so many more. It's strange to look back and realise how much time has passed since I last wrote anything here, and how much of life has happened in between.

Anyway, if history's anything to go by, I could vanish off here again and be back with another update when this Tumblr turns 20. Or maybe I might use it to post the odd thought, rambling, achievement, or something in between. We'll see.

Oh, and yes - I'm still working away on Multivaders here and there.

Anyway. In the mean time, if you want to get stuck in to some of the things I've done this decade:

Listen to the Lost in Random soundtrack,

Find your next music to murder to,

Check out some of my arts & toys,

Have a poke through my photography,

Follow me on the socials.

[if-it-all-burns-down]

BRSO FANS HOW ARE WE FEELING THIS FINE DAY??????

[pearly-sadness]

cooking food whilst listening blake robinson feels like i'm preparing poor lunch for my dear victim tied up and locked in my basement

[tripleratskill]

I NEVER OPENED BLAKE'S SPOTIFY BEFORE

I DIDNT KNOW HE HAD SUCH A BADASS PFP THERE MY GOD IS THAT HIM??? I HAD NO IDEA!

THIS PHOTO IS😭

[martin-is-a-real-person]

*listens to Exploring Stanley by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra*

*feels more dissociated*

*continues to listen to Exploring Stanley by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra*

[th3-0bjectivist]

     For variety purposes while I’m doing FOLLOWER APPRECIATION DAYS on my blog I think I’ll stick with posting videogame music for the duration. There are two reasons: 1. I’m having fun providing commentary for it and 2. I’m racking up a decent amount of hits providing the listener with tracks from one of my favorite childhood and adult pastimes, which I barely talk about on my page by the by. If you don’t dig it, you can just ignore it, and I promise I’ll return to posting standard music in about a week or so. Let me tell you a quick story about my childhood. When I was a kid, unless your family was rich or something, you had to stick with one console; the Sega Genesis or the Super Nintendo. Until the Playstation and Dreamcast emerged on the market years later, I was a Nintendo loyalist and therefore had access to one of the best and most expansive game libraries of ALL TIME. One of those games was Super Metroid, a side-scrolling action-adventure title set in deep space. It made a lasting impression on me due to its oppressive and isolating alien-ridden environments, its protagonist Samus Aran (a trailblazing and ass-kicking woman in the annals of gaming history) and, of course, its absolutely phenomenal soundtrack. I was fiddling around on Soundcloud the other day and stumbled across a 30-track rendition of its soundstripe called Super Metroid Symphony. When I played this number, Arrival on Crateria, I instantly became a kid again. This is synthetic orchestral music from The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra which as faithfully as possible follows the tone and spirit of the original compositions by Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano. Don’t ever say great music can't come from a videogame, smash play and tell me this isn’t eerie as all hell or that it doesn't suck you right into the atmosphere of an alien world. Anyone who has played this will flashback to when Samus lands her ship on the planet Zebes during a thunderstorm. Hope you enjoy some nostalgia! 

[cannedsandwich]

art credit: @/RainbowCraftz on twitter