RickyRister | munomoto counterpoint.mp4 @RickyRister | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Came across one of my old project files, and thought some of you might be interested. I guess you could call it the very first draft of Phantasm Paradise.
"My first idea was to have each of the team members be represented by a leitmotif, and then have all 5 of those leitmotifs playing in counterpoint. And then once we go back and compose the other boss themes, they’ll feature the leitmotifs.
Eventually I sorta gave up on the idea. (especially after I brought up my idea to the other composers and they were like “we’re absolutely not doing another leitmotif hell after EPA”) I still scattered some of those melodies around the song though.
I remember when Tokiko was arranging my song, he was struggling with the intro because “why the hell are there so many random disjointed melodies?” and I just answered “they’re counterpoint remnants.”"
- rickyrister.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/random-thoughts-on-coud-one-year-later-part-2-the-songs-themselves
The finished song, in case you haven't heard it yet: youtu.be/MamNoeA5mqo
Came across one of my old project files, and thought some of you might be interested. I guess you could call it the very first draft of Phantasm Paradise.
"My first idea was to have each of the team members be represented by a leitmotif, and then have all 5 of those leitmotifs playing in counterpoint. And then once we go back and compose the other boss themes, they’ll feature the leitmotifs.
Eventually I sorta gave up on the idea. (especially after I brought up my idea to the other composers and they were like “we’re absolutely not doing another leitmotif hell after EPA”) I still scattered some of those melodies around the song though.
I remember when Tokiko was arranging my song, he was struggling with the intro because “why the hell are there so many random disjointed melodies?” and I just answered “they’re counterpoint remnants.”"
- rickyrister.wordpress.com/2022/10/07/random-thoughts-on-coud-one-year-later-part-2-the-songs-themselves
The finished song, in case you haven't heard it yet: youtu.be/MamNoeA5mqo
![[SttJ Stage 2 Boss Theme] Thought Amalgam ~ Unknown Hypothesis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z-2Aekjr8Vs/hqdefault.jpg "[SttJ Stage 2 Boss Theme] Thought Amalgam ~ Unknown Hypothesis
SttJ got bashed hard when it came out for many reasons, not the least of which was because its music sucked.
Somehow, I’ve managed to find myself as the composer for SttJ, so now I’m slowly working to “fix Sparen’s mistakes” and replace its OST.
I managed to finish 5 songs in time for the first update.
“SeitenTouji 1 - Adamantine Memory Blade is a third person Touhou-style shoot-em-up game featuring an all-male cast in the world of Daiten Daichi. Play as Teiki Tetsurou and discover this unfamiliar world while also perhaps saving its fragile peace in the process.”
-Sparen
Download: http://www.bulletforge.org/u/sparen/p/seitentouji-1-adamantine-memory-blade
Music Room comment:
Taro Oshisou’s theme.
My songs usually have a predictable structure.
But this one is almost unchanged from the improv.
I guess this is the sort of chaos you can only get
by sitting at a keyboard and just playing.
“Fun had while composing” rating: 8.5/10
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle")
