Music, Free Software & Bad Jokes

I re-arranged another piece from the SuperTux Soundtrack: The Forest Dance from Milestone 2, which can be played on piano and soprano/alto recorders. This is fairly easy to play and should be suitable for beginners.

Here’s another piece of music for you. It’s called Oldschool reEducated and was created for the Streaming Music Compo at the Breakpoint 2008 demoscene party which I attended last week with the guys from my demo group, fractal MiND.

I’ve cleaned up and published source material (i.e. Rosegarden projects and MIDI files generated from them) for most of the SuperTux songs. You’ll find links to them on the Music Page. The license is CC-by-sa 3.0, same as the songs themselves.

Happy remixing!

I’ve been waiting a long time for this.

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from Berserker of the Band Blutdurst; they recorded a song using Battlecry-generated lyrics! It’s called “Victory” and you can download it for free on their website (in German) or listen to it on their MySpace page.

Today I’m releasing a new song which I’ve been working on for the last two nights.

Today I received an email from an eight-year-old SuperTux fan asking whether there were sheets available for the SuperTux music so he could play it on the piano. I remembered that I did a quick-and-dirty piano arrangement of the Credits Theme at the SuperTux Developers’ Meeting in May, but when I found it and looked at it, I realized that it was not very playable at all.

Latest stable release
The latest stable release, as well as older versions, can be downloaded from the SourceForge project page.

Latest CVS snapshot (recommended)
This is a snapshot of the latest development version. Since the latest stable release is horribly outdated, this is probably the one you want.

To get the latest code from CVS:

Did you ever want to write a Power Metal song, but you couldn't think of any lyrics? Then Battlecry is the tool for you!

Here you can download most of the music I created in Ogg Vorbis format. Rosegarden sources (.rg) and MIDI files (.mid) are available for some; missing ones are currently only available upon request.