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janice

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janice

@alsojanice

=^._.^= projects with @lifeformed

Joined February 2012

janice
@alsojanice
Sep 22, 2023
thank you everyone for your patience & support❤️ here is📦for you. inside are little piano sketches from the TUNIC soundtrack. really really, thank u. thinking of how to make up for hiccups in your music routines helped us reframe something frustrating into something positive🙂
lifeformed
@lifeformed
Sep 22, 2023
The TUNIC OST (and others) are back online! The weeks of musicless uncertainty were worrisome. @alsojanice and I were lucky to have everyones patience & support. We want to show our thanks by releasing for free some of our initial piano concepts for TUNIC: janicekwan.bandcamp.com/album/tunic-pi…
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 12, 2023
How The TUNIC Soundtrack is Being Silenced gamespace.com/all-articles/n… thank u @Screenag3r and @GameSpacecom ❤️
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 23, 2023
in 2018 @lifeformed emailed these chords to me (A# F G# C C# D# -> G# D# F# B C# D#) i wanted to hear what they sounded like so i played them out which turned into the track "secret legend"
Greg Stedman
@blythus
Sep 22, 2023
Replying to @lifeformed
What was the very first track you two composed for the game?
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 24, 2023
@lifeformed sent an early version of “The Weight of Rain” in 2018 and asked what kind of environment it made me think of
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janice
@alsojanice
Aug 4, 2023
🌊"porous" a new EP exploring the music in sounds of everyday life, now out on #bandcamp
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 27, 2023
Working on “Flux is On”, I had @lifeformed’s earlier sounds in mind-sounds of lightness, play, and innocence. This track uses arpeggiators which can have the challenge of sounding random or repetitive. The exercise for me is working with something that has a direction of its own.
lifeformed
@lifeformed
Sep 22, 2023
Replying to @lifeformed
Also, to make up for lost time, we also wanted to post some fun facts and tidbits about the tracks on TUNIC daily over the next week or so. So check back here for some of our thoughts during the 7 year production period of the game. Let us know if you have any specific questions!
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 25, 2023
Replying to @lifeformed
Working side-by-side means the process of getting ideas out, we do in front of each other. I feel quite vulnerable when starting any track bc "bad ideas" are a part of the process, so supporting each other’s flow is more important to me than editing for creative direction.
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janice
@alsojanice
Aug 6, 2023
🚇from "fluoresce" - the "porous" EP is now up for streaming
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 26, 2023
A little bit of both: for sounds recorded out-and-about, they’re mostly because we just like the sound and then bring home to experiment with. For sounds recorded “in studio”, they’re often because we’re looking for a specific sound or curious how they’ll sound in a track.
Dallas 🎶🐦‍⬛
@DallasCrane_
Sep 24, 2023
Replying to @lifeformed and @alsojanice
How did you conceptualizar the sound palette? Did you say, “I need a synth sound, I’ll use these birds here to get it” or the reverse, you had sounds gathered and followed them?
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 24, 2023
Replying to @alsojanice
here are the first impressions i sent back:
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 24, 2023
Replying to @alsojanice
the way he builds a sense of environment with music amazes me. save for the “cave” aspect, the description it conjured in my mind was so close to what the west garden is today.
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 25, 2023
Replying to @lifeformed
I think what's been helping me ease into it is reframing creative ownership in my mind. Instead of whose ideas are better, whose passion is going to guide this section.
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janice
@alsojanice
Sep 27, 2023
Replying to @alsojanice
Sometimes melodies can be bold & upfront, sometimes they can be more subtle, folded in notes between notes, inviting more of the listener’s own interpretations.
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janice
@alsojanice
May 26, 2022
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bandcamp
@Bandcamp
May 26, 2022
“Go with the direction that makes you happy, not the one you think will make people happy. Even if you have to risk more.” l8r.it/SPhY