This was featured on the Nerdfit Valentine’s Day album Love, Lasers, & Lackluster. I decided to step away from the singing wave channel, and figured I’d base a chiptune cover on an old meme: the fact that Sara Bareilles sounds like she’s singing “I’m not gonna Raichu a love song.” Most of this track is a straightforward chiptune cover, but when Sara would ordinarily sing “write you,” the song cuts out and the Raichu cry from Pokémon Red and Blue plays instead. I also imitated a few Pokémon sounds throughout the song, and it ends abruptly with Raichu being caught and the victory fanfare playing.
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All Star (MAGShrek’d remix)
This is an LSDJ remix of All Star, by Smash Mouth. The song features some custom wave channel instruments (such as the BRK instrument and the Clean Electric Guitar midi patch), and some sample kits (such as the Colossus Roar, a MAGFest staple.) I didn’t attend MAGFest 2013, but my roommates mentioned that there were posters for Shrek on ice everywhere at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center. About a week later (perhaps coincidentally), the first trace of the “Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life” meme appeared. A small circle of my chip scene friends started referencing the meme, so I assumed Shrek had become a MAGFest meme.
The following year, I attended my first MAGFest, and I wrote this cover to perform at Chipspace Open Mic. For every subsequent year that I attended the Fest, I played a slightly different version. Those differences are as follows:
2015 – Improved the “whistle” solo, included a sample of Dan screaming “Get outta here!” from Game Grumps, to accompany the Mycaruba sample. The Grumps were set to attend that year, so I made these changes in the hopes that any of them would be nearby while I was playing.
2017 – Replaced the samples in the breakdown with Buck Bumble vocal samples (the full set including this version can be found here)
2018 – Replaced the whistling with Meet the Flintstones and replaced the Game Grumps samples with samples of Joel’s reaction to 7 Grand Dad
2019 – Changed the notes to Meet the Flintstones, used Snow Halation in part of the whistling solo (later uploaded to SiIvaGunner as Main Theme – Shrek: Fairy Tale Freakdown)
2020 – Removed the entire melody and replaced it with Haunted House (a live performance including this version can be viewed here)
K.K. Chip
This song was my way of demonstrating custom waveforms in LSDJ, by creating a singing Wave channel. More specifically, I recreated K.K. Slider’s samples using the Game Boy’s wave channel, and used that to create a medley of various chiptunes. The first third of the song features songs from Game Boy games, and the remainder of the song features songs from artists within the chip music scene.
Last Christmas (You BRK’D My Heart)
This was featured on the Nerdfit Christmas album, Jingle Jawnz. I had recently recreated the “BRK” sample (a sound effect included with LSDJ, and a running joke within the chip community), in the wave channel, and decided to use it as the lead instrument in a song. This was the result, and it was the beginning of my “singing wave channel” experiments.
Kirby Stole All of the Ice Cream
In 2013, some chip scene folks and I teamed up to create an album full of remixes of Storm Blooper‘s debut single, Someone Stole All of the Ice Cream. My contribution was a Kirby-styled remix, featuring sound effects from Kirby’s Dream Land, Green Greens-inspired instruments, and some samples. The outro references the 0² theme from Kirby 64: the Crystal Shards, with some chip-step wubs.
Botknights
My senior thesis at University of the Arts. It’s the tale of two slacker knights, in a strange land of cyber armor people, who decide their responsibilities are too boring and decide to go on an adventure. The film features voice acting from my classmates, and an original chiptune score (with a cover of a royalty free track by Kevin MacLeod) which I created in LSDJ.
Attorney at Claw
I created this film as my junior thesis at University of the Arts. It’s a nonsensical ocean-themed courtroom scene starring Crabby, a recurring character of mine. This was my first attempt at creating a (somewhat) cohesive, dialogue-driven story with multiple characters.
Beachball Bane
This was my sophomore film at University of the Arts. For it, I decided to experiment with textures and puppeting in After Effects. The film stars Crabby, a character I used in Flash cartoons when I was first learning to animate.