Battlecake featured in Songs for the Cure

Jan 25th 2010

Awesome indie game composer Josh Whelchel (Spirit Engine 2, Bonesaw) runs a project called Songs for the Cure, a cancer research fund-raiser CD featuring indie game composers and game music artists.  It's a yearly release (now in its 2nd) and has featured the likes of the illustrious Kyle Gabler and Alec Holowka - last year it made over $6,000, and this year the goal is $10,000.

Josh mentioned to me the other day that Battlecake (my game music arrangement band) would make a nice addition to the album - most of our recordings are still in progress or at least unmixed, but luck would have it that we had exactly one tune finished (and it's a doozy)!  Songs for the Cure '10 is due out in March - check it out, and feel free to donate to the cause!

Bird & Squirrel at International Family Film Festival

Jan 20th 2010

I recently scored a short film called "The Bird and the Squirrel", and I found out recently it was selected for the 15th annual International Family Film Festival.  It will be screened in LA this March - congratulations, Becky!

Bird and Squirrel Soundtrack

Dec 30th 2009

Rebecca Scully contacted me the other week about writing an original soundtrack for her short animation.  It's very cute, and kind of like a fable - you should check it out here!  I went with a mostly solo piano style, a lot of it improvised (very carefully, of course!).

This is the closest I've ever synced music to action - definitely a learning experience.  I'm predominantly a games guy, but this is a great example of the power of linear media (films, books, recorded music, etc.).  It's fun to be able to have an authorial voice that comments on and foreshadows events moment-to-moment =D

sin(Surfing)'s had almost 100,000 downloads!

Jun 1st 2009

100,000 is a lot... cool. I like this. Way to go Greg and Raph!

Battlecake!

May 2nd 2009

It is with great pleasure that I introduce to you: Battlecake!!

Battlecake is the videogame music arrangement/cover band we started in September 2008. Since then we've played 6 major and not so major concerts, including setting up and putting on our own 3-hour show to a ticketed audience of over 200 videogame music appreciators.

I'm the floppy-haired keyboardist from the videos. I recommend anything in our Carnival 2009 playlist as that's our latest and most awesome show to date, but our one-time-only acoustic/jazz set has some great moments.

[Why would a hard-rocking videogame semi-metalish band do an acoustic set? Because we didn't know the gig was acoustic until 2 weeks beforehand, and it seemed like a fun challenge.]