music for dumplingsquid's bitsy games

by carrie z

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of INSOMNIACS (Original Soundtrack), The Adamant Gambit (Original Soundtrack), Satie: Complete Piano Works - Volume 11, live piano 2021-11-03 (near side of moon in shadow), kyriálygyilkosság, Satie: Complete Piano Works - Volume 10, Satie: Complete Piano Works - Volume 6, jitsugen, and 14 more. , and , .

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1.	Der Gespensthirte (from "Ghost Stories") 02:08		buy track
2.	Lark and Quarron Remember (from "Stay") 01:09		buy track
3.	a bee, wandering (from "Mellifluent") 02:07		buy track
4.	Bathypelagic Lagan (from "Charybdis Trench") 01:35		buy track
5.	the weather shore (from "a walk, the morning after the storm") 01:55		buy track
6.	Staying Up Late (from "My New Roommate Is A Void Monster") 01:26		buy track
7.	S̴t̴a̷y̴i̶n̸g̶ ̵U̸p̶ ̵L̸a̴t̶e̷ (from "My New Roommate Is A Void Monster") 01:26		buy track
8.	Dentata 1 (with loving apologies to Laurie Anderson) (from "TEETH QUEST") 02:27		buy track
9.	Who Will You Choose? (from "GUY DECIDER 2022") 03:07		buy track
10.	Festival March for the Former Chief Malacologist of Scull-in-the-Mud, Whose Travails Have Called Them Away Toward Some Obnubilated Realm; May Peace Be With Them (from "A Field Guide to the Snails of Scull-in-the-Mud, Newly Revised With All Known Species, As Commissioned by Helikoi the Mollusk-King") 01:44		buy track
11.	Hyporchémie (from "a ghost's guide to office romance") 01:49		buy track
12.	smoke, twisted in fibers (from "Bind Off") 01:33		buy track
13.	All Crowns Shatter - I. blood (from "Three Methods to Unseat a Fairy Monarch") 02:00		buy track
14.	All Crowns Shatter - II. name (from "Three Methods to Unseat a Fairy Monarch") 02:00		buy track
15.	All Crowns Shatter - III. heart (from "Three Methods to Unseat a Fairy Monarch") 02:04		buy track
16.	I'll Miss You (from "Some Sounds That Remind Me Of You") 00:52		buy track
17.	Šiṭir Šamê (from "The Traveler and the Whale") 02:15		buy track
18.	Asatum, Asatum (from "The Runaway and the Bear") 03:55		buy track
19.	Nāšru Šamê, Tašma’tum (from "The Passengers and the Eagle") 05:56	lyrics	buy track
Excerpts from The Šamaš Hymn, an Akkadian hymn from Neo-Assyrian period between 911 and 609 BCE. 27 tētenettiq ginâ šamāmī 28 [š]umdulta erṣetu taba’’a ūmešam 43 ana šiddi ša lā idê nēsûti u bērī lā man[ûti] (III.) 17. tuš-te-eš-šir te-rit-ši-na ša šuk-su-ra ta-pat-tar 18. ta-šim-me il Šamaš su-up-pa-a su-la-a ù ka-ra-bi 19. šú-kin-na kit-mu-su lit-hu-šú ù la-ban ap-pi 20. a-na har-ri pi-i-šu dun-na-mu-ú i-ša-as-si-ka 21. ú-la-lu en-šu hu-ub-bu-lu muš-ki-nu 22. um-mi šal-la maš-ta-ra gi-na-a i-mah-har-ka 23. ša ru-kat kim-ta-šu ni-su-ú alu-ú-šu 24. [ina(?)] šú-ru-bat sêri ri-‘-ú i-mah-har-ka 25. […]-par-ri ina te-še-e na-ki-du ina amêl nakri 26. [il Šam]aš i-mah-har-ka a-lak-tu i-ti-ku pu-luh-ti
20.	Lark and Quarron Remain (from "Stay") 01:09		buy track

about

Here is all the music I have made so far for the narrative mini-games written by Emma Conner (@dumplingsquid) with the Bitsy engine. You can go to dumplingsquid.itch.io to play all those games and I recommend that you do so because I like them a lot.

The Bitsy engine (by Adam Le Doux) intentionally imposes harsh constraints on game design. Emma does a great job at telling different types of stories within those constraints, and I try to do a similar thing in these scores by trying out different instruments and different types of music within certain constraints I have imposed on myself.

I hope you enjoy!

- cz

credits

released December 9, 2018

written/performed/recorded/mixed/mastered by carrie z.

instruments played by carrie on this album:
acoustic piano (2,20); electric piano (1,5,9,11,13,14,15,19); soprano recorder (2,20); chikuzen biwa (3,12); accordion (1,4,6,7,11,13,14,15); ukulele (6,7); otamatone (14,15); taishōgoto (5); filing cabinet (13,15); knitting needles (12); TEETH (8); field recordings (3,16,17,18,19,20); vocals in English (9); vocals in the ancient Akkadian language (17,18,19). also, digital synthesizers and processing (3,4,6,7,9,10,14,15,16,17,18,19,20).

track 19 features celloandbehold on cello and backing vocals.

public domain audio files from freesound.org used on this album:
track 11 incorporates "Fireplace" 132534 by inchadney

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i like sounds.

here you may find some small game scores, some noise music, and my ongoing attempt to record the complete works of Erik Satie on various pianos.

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