Hi, I'm Misty, a furry music composer!
Hi, I'm Misty, a furry music composer!
I am currently a Sophomore at Uni, majoring in Music Composition, with a minor in Spanish Language and Video Game Studies.
Composing is my passion, which started back in 2020, when I was looking for something to do during Covid lockdown. I taught myself music theory and composition techniques via YouTube (8-Bit Music Theory, Adam Neely, and Gavin Leaper), and the Music Theory for Dummies book. I fell in love with composition, music theory, and everything related, and now I'm working on making it my career! I play the piano, drum set, and orchestral percussion! Below are some of my favorite pieces I've composed:
A Walk in the Park
Shellebrate / Aquamarine
Pokémon Battle - vs. Misty
Composition Project
Assessment 2
Speedy Hands
A Walk in the Park - This song I wrote for a Celeste map pack I was making about a year ago (if you'd like you can check it out here!) I based it off a concept about how modulating leaps down the Circle of 5ths is used frequently in movie scores to create various (usually somber) tones. I tried it out in my own piece and I believe it came out really nicely.
Shellebrate / Aquamarine - This song comes from an album I made, in the style of Splatoon bands, this one is a song that would play during the Splatfest events. The songs are usually upbeat, fast-paced, electronic pop-punk songs, and are about a minute and a half long, so they can play once through and start a second repeat before the music shifts to the one-minute-left song (Now or Never). I took inspiration from a lot of official Splatfest songs, like "Ink Me up / Squid Sisters" and "Till Depth Do Us Part / Deep Cut". The artwork was done by a friend of mine, Soft Soap Factory on Instagram.
Pokémon Battle - vs. Misty - This song was inspired by my friend Noelle, who suggested I write a Pokémon battle song. I brought it up to my composition instructor, and he was really excited to work on it! I pulled inspiration from a bunch of different places, namely Champion Nemona Battle (Pokémon SV), Champion Iris Battle (Pokémon BW2), and Colgera Battle (LoZ: ToTK). I also made the visual element myself: which is my fursona as a Pokémon trainer!
Composition Project - This song originally started out as a final project for a Virtual High School class I took my junior year (2021-22) of high school. The assignment was to create a duet between a piano and another instrument, the instrument provides the main melody and the piano provides chords and a counter-melody. The rest was free reign. I recently was looking through my old compositions, came upon that one, and decided to extend it. The original piece was just the intro, A section, and D section, but I extended it almost 3 fold so it wasn't an 18 bar loop.
Assessment 2 - As the title suggests, this is the project for the end of Module 2 in my music theory class. The assignment was to create a song using mixed meter/asymmetric meter, and it needs to be in ABA structure, with the B section starting in a different time signature than the A section. I took it and RAN with it. I took inspiration from a few places, however the one I like the most is Frothy Waters from Splatoon 3, which inspired the second half of the B section, with the increasing time signature. Don't ask my thought process of the chords because I don't know now and didn't then either.
Speedy Hands - An arrangement of 2 different Minecraft songs—Dry Hands and Wet Hands—to be played in Mario Kart (inspired by a video I saw of a fan made Minecraft-inspired Mario Kart track). It is transposed down a half step for ease of reading/playing; no jazz band wants to play in A Major.