Last month, me and Marko Rantanen went shooting around the Helsinki metropolitan area for Helsingin Sanomat omakaupunki.fi ad campaign. “Oma kaupunki”, which translates as “My city”, is a site where people can exchange tips, events, news and services. The campaign theme is “Greetings from the neighborhood. This is what Oma Kaupunki is made of.” All [...]

Composer and orchestrator Thomas Goss has a great video series on Youtube called Online Guide to Orchestration. He goes through the different elements and techniques of the craft in an interesting manner. He also has great score-reading videos in which he breaks down classical pieces, one of which I’ve embedded as an example below.

Yesterday, someone on Reddit posted a chip track they had made on MilkyTracker, a multi-platform Fast Tracker 2 clone for modern computers. Naturally, I had to try it out immediately. I still remembered most of the commands, but the interface was a bit hard to use after almost 15 years. For example, copy and paste [...]