Category: Music

After another nearly six-month hiatus, I’m back to writing music! I’ve tried out a few new techniques in timbre and mastering in this track; hopefully they’re successful! 🙂

The first track of 2017! This one has a very simple premise, but I think that the treatment of that simple premise makes it into much more. It’s also just loud and fun!

With Christmas now not too far away, it’s time to start remixing and reworking carols again! We Three Kings is one of my favourite carols (musically speaking), and sharpening the 7th in the chorus always makes me happy. I’ve “done” it a few times; this is my take for 2016.

The melody for this one came to me waiting for a lift one day after work. I tried doing an orchestral thing with it, but that just didn’t seem to want to work — but this dance version fits it quite well, I think!

It feels good to be writing music again; it’s been a while! It’s also fun to write a trance piece again.

I’ve tried a new compressor in this track; the Reaktor ensemble “Flat Blaster”. I’m pretty pleased with the results — it’s not too “sausagey”, but still nice and tight.

Insoluble by Barry van Oudtshoorn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

If you’re interested in using any of my music in your games, videos, or other multimedia productions, let me know!