Welp, this is a tiny adventure track. This song was made for the 2016 Art-Inspired Music Contest by Real Faction. The piece of art composed for was Jazlyte's "Sheepman Wheaties."

http://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/jazlyte/breakfast-mmmm

It's an old drawing from 2013 but I felt like it was necessary to compose for a work by an artist that drew in my Pico Day sketch pad. Kalen is one of those NGr's I've appreciated for a long time but never really expected to meet. He's working for Warner Bros now apparently. Congrats kid.

The drawing is about a sheep man, sitting in a cloud city, eating a bowl of Wheaties™, on a beautiful day. There were a lot of directions to go in and I chose to play up the techno vibes with a lot of chirpy arp synths. I also tried to keep things feeling organic and airy by contrasting those arps with soft evolving pads. There were very contrasting elements in the drawing so it was hard to pin a sound I wanted at first. The song really evolved around the complexity of the synth stack echoing that aeronautic machine world.

Propellerhead's Reason 6
ASIO Audio Card [does anyone not use ASIO?]
AKG 240 Mk II headphones [good]
Creative Inspire T12 speakers [decent]
3 separate 14 channel mixers [42 channels, 9 unused]
3 drum machines
6 Malstroms
2 Thors,
1 Subtractor
39 automation lanes
153 BPM [usually]
C Major

omg, c major. so uncreative, shoot me.

The wires in the back of the stack are so fucked because I used 6 Spider Merger/Splitters for side chaining all my drums to various other instruments. If anyone is familiar with routing analog, this much wire fuckery would have cost an arm and a leg. For funzies, here is an image from the stack:

http://postimg.org/image/4x47vc3p7/

That picture is just two drum machines. It's a lot of extra work to route all those signals but I like the control I get from neurotic signal programming. Easter eggs, look at that image damn it.

The speed shift around the end was a total accident while programming. I ultimately decided to keep it in because I felt like it added an interesting element to the track. Helps make it memorable. It can't be justified to the drawing other than by saying that was the one element that didn't match that I decided to keep. I could argue cloud city is falling or some plane is crashing somewhere but I'll be honest about the tempo shift. Total. Fucking. Accident.

Definitely not the first time I've done a tempo shift either so it's a little cliche for me. Let's call it a bias for now. Bias is a fair euphemism for cliche. Again, shoot me.

Final words, sorry if I talked up my track too much and didn't say enough on Kalen's drawing but he kind of had an authors comment section to write anything and he decided to write "Sheepman Wheaties." Simplicity at it's finest.

Didn't there used to be a character limit for these description blurbs?