Jamie Antonisse

Level One - I made this one first, in the basement of the IML, with three things in mind: this should be bad sci-fi music (theramin), bad game music (one midi-synth note over and over), and clearly low-budget music (noticable when the "instruments" are just some sad dude at his computer). But I still wanted it to be catchy. It'd been years since I'd done anything over one minute long on Garage Band, so this was really about getting my feet wet again. Almost everything on here is either sequenced by hand or recorded in Garage Band using my internal mic.

Level Two - I explained this in overlong detail already, but this song is one of my faves even though it starts slow. It's not so much sci-fi homage, but a lot of Mario Level 2 homage and Mega Man. The whole thing was a labor of love... I sequenced all the gritty stuff by hand, including the building drums. I THINK most of the loops you hear at the very beginning, though, are standard Garage Band samples.

Level Three - I think Matt sensed I was getting away from the game's tone... so he asked me to do a track that was less musicky but more evocative of sci-fi horror. This one was the quickest to make from start to finish... maybe two and a half hours. A lot of built in samples thrown at the timeline, some fun with guitars... I had to throw in some bad keyboards, just to make sure the video gameness wasn't lost in the sci-fi camp.

Boss Fight - Matt had been listening to a lot of DVDA during out game production, and he'd said offhand that a boss battle track would be cool, but I don't think he expected this. I think the idea grew in my head because, after three sci-fi videogame tracks, I wanted to do something different. This took the better part of Labor Day to make. 2/3 original recordings, a lot of tweaking, but I have to give credit where it's due... most of the samples are just slight adjustments to built-in Garage Band loops. Some lyrics (and falsettos) tm and c my roommate, Adam.

If there are any people interested in learning/ using Garage Band that want any of the underlying compositions, I'm happy to share them... but they're big files. Just write me/comment, and I'll find a way to get em to you.