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If you'd like more current news on what I'm doing, please visit one of the links below. If you'd like to contact me, the best way to reach me is through email or Facebook.

Email: sleepytimejesse@gmail.com

Website: http://sleepytimejesse.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sleepytimejesse

Bandcamp: http://sleepytimejesse.bandcamp.com/

Youtube: www.youtube.com/sleepytimejesse

Saturn Valley Online Official Website: http://www.skyon.be

The Zou: www.facebook.com/thezou - www.thezouhasawebsite.com

Two Movements from Six Pieces for String Quartet

Aside from video game music, I also compose for live performance. These are two movements from my Six Pieces for String Quartet which were premiered Wednesday (7/3/12). If you enjoy them please how your support by donating just five dollars or more for a download, all proceeds go straight into a fund for an eventual performance and recording of all six movements.

Six Pieces for String Quartet

I. Prelude
III. Poi come se in putrefazione, sospirando con molto gravita

The Legend of Zelda: A Mod to the Past

Local friend and video game nerd Richard Clinton (aka Thorkon, aka 8-Bit-Builder) is known for his original 8-bit-themed computer mods and cases. He's already been featured in Kotaku, Nintendo Power, Maximum PC, and CPU magazine with builds such as his Black Mage and Super Mushroom. For this mod he's decided to step it up 8-bits, and both being local video game artists he asked me to supply original 16-bit music for the video. So here it, 5:20 of original Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Ocarina of Time instruments doing D&B remixes of some of my favorite themes from my favorite series, set to the making of the world's very first 3-D Link home computer.

A free download of the medley can be found here: http://sleepytimejesse.bandcamp.com/
More original 16-bit music and other things can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/sleepytimejesse

I Miss You - EarthBound 2012 released!

I Miss You - EarthBound 2012

To celebrate the music of the Mother series several artists have banded together to create the most nostalgic tribute to these games they could muster. Their music takes you on a journey beyond the end of Mother 2/EarthBound, meeting new characters and even a few new enemies.

Artists include:
Shannon Mason (Pongball)
Maxo
Joshua Morse
sleepytimejesse
fluidvolt
Mouthless
Toby Fox

Every download of this album also comes with a free copy of EarthBound.sf2, the EarthBound soundfont that was used in the creation of this album. This file contains 176 authentic SNES instruments meticulously ripped from the game's ROM.
Soundfont, album concept and art by sleepytimejesse.

released 01 January 2012
All samples, instruments, and otherwise original Mother content belong to Nintendo, APE/Creatures Inc., and HAL Laboratory. No copyright infringement is intentionally made upon these companies.

http://sleepytimejesse.bandcamp.com/

Quiet Border - Piece for Piano and Electric Guitar

Quiet Border - Piece for Piano and Electric Guitar by Jesse Martin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Data Bending 1

Just some experiments in data bending.

Goodnight Golliwog - Claude Debusstep + Famitracker MMC5 (Earthbound sam...

An experiment in why the fuck not.

Lo-Fi Big Band thing - Famitracker VRC7

An experiment in funk.

Depdark Jungle - Original SNES music

The soundtrack to a lush, deep jungle.

EarthBound SoundFont + Development Log

Currently working on an EarthBound soundfont/sample pack.

This is something which has never been done before, and for of a few simple reasons:

1. The most audio samples in any SNES game, at least in my experience.

2. Compiling, identifying, setting loop points, tuning, organizing and testing every sample is very, very time consuming. This is a mind-numbing and perpetual process for a game this big.

As a fan, I'm personally excited for this project to be finished and hope you'll find it useful, too. Email me for an advance copy once it's finished, or if you're interested in testing and error reporting.

Cave Mechanics - 2A03 + VRC6

Famitracker loop for a cave or factory. Uses the Konami VRC6 expansion chip. Mastered version.

Framed roses in a SNES horror game style

Framed roses in a SNES horror game style - sleepytimejesse

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Sunflowers - Pixel Art

Sunflowers - sleepytimejesse

Kraid's Lair - Metroid cover 2a03

Cover of Kraid's Lair from Metroid (NES) in Famitracker with added DPCM drums.

Waterfall - Pixel Art

Waterfall - sleepytimejesse