Mood: Calm/Beautiful

I actually wrote this three years ago but forgot to release it...

Download: https://www.steven-obrien.net/#treadow-~-forest-theme-download

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (meaning you can use it for free if you can give credit, see link above for instructions). If you want to use it without giving credit, a license can be purchased from https://www.steven-obrien.net/#treadow-~-forest-theme from just $30/track or $12/month

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7smo3QML5GCk1IFkMRQR5R?si=c6a389cd351e498d

Download: https://www.steven-obrien.net/#some-pretentious-name-download

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (meaning you can use it for free if you can give credit, see link above for instructions). If you want to use it without giving credit, a license can be purchased from https://www.steven-obrien.net/#some-pretentious-name starting from just $30/track or $12/month

Download: https://www.steven-obrien.net/#dreaming-download

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (meaning you can use it for free if you can give credit, see link above for instructions). If you want to use it without giving credit, a license can be purchased from https://www.steven-obrien.net/#dreaming from just $30/track or $12/month

Download: https://www.steven-obrien.net/#staring-at-the-clock-download

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (meaning you can use it for free if you can give credit, see link above for instructions). If you want to use it without giving credit, a license can be purchased from https://www.steven-obrien.net/#staring-at-the-clock from just $30/track or $12/month

Fun story behind this one:

In late 2013, I was hired to write the score for an indie MMORPG which was about to be kickstarted (For $100,000! Astonishingly, it failed!). The developer had gotten rid of their previous composer, the Kickstarter was just a week and a half away from beginning, by which time, there needed to be a trailer and tech demo complete with ~15 minutes of music. To make matters worse, I had a week-long holiday booked three days after I was hired, which meant I only had 72 hours to write ~15 minutes of music. Fun!

Somehow, with little-to-no sleep for those three days, I managed it, and I think the results turned out alright. It's not my best work, but considering I was falling asleep every 5 minutes and in excruciating pain towards the end of writing it, I think I deserve a pass. I hadn't listened to most of it since I first wrote it, and I figured it was good enough to upload.

Despite all of that work, the Kickstarter ended up being pushed back a month (because visual artists are wimps and can't go three days without sleep, apparently). Even worse, after writing another two more tracks for the game, I was eventually dropped from the project over creative differences, the music was never used, and I never got paid for my work. :)

Anyway, the moral of the story is to put rejection provisions into your contracts (or just don't become a composer, that's also a very reasonable course of action). Hopefully someone here will find some use for the music, it's all up under Creative Commons. Enjoy!

Fun story behind this one:

In late 2013, I was hired to write the score for an indie MMORPG which was about to be kickstarted (For $100,000! Astonishingly, it failed!). The developer had gotten rid of their previous composer, the Kickstarter was just a week and a half away from beginning, by which time, there needed to be a trailer and tech demo complete with ~15 minutes of music. To make matters worse, I had a week-long holiday booked three days after I was hired, which meant I only had 72 hours to write ~15 minutes of music. Fun!

Somehow, with little-to-no sleep for those three days, I managed it, and I think the results turned out alright. It's not my best work, but considering I was falling asleep every 5 minutes and in excruciating pain towards the end of writing it, I think I deserve a pass. I hadn't listened to most of it since I first wrote it, and I figured it was good enough to upload.

Despite all of that work, the Kickstarter ended up being pushed back a month (because visual artists are wimps and can't go three days without sleep, apparently). Even worse, after writing another two more tracks for the game, I was eventually dropped from the project over creative differences, the music was never used, and I never got paid for my work. :)

Anyway, the moral of the story is to put rejection provisions into your contracts (or just don't become a composer, that's also a very reasonable course of action). Hopefully someone here will find some use for the music, it's all up under Creative Commons. Enjoy!

Track is Creative Commons. Press "... More"/"..." then "Download File". You can use this in videos etc. as long as you link back to this SoundCloud page and give credit.

Unused Solemn Introduction Piece No. 1 by Steven O’Brien

Download: https://www.steven-obrien.net/#prelude-i-download

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (meaning you can use it for free if you can give credit, see link above for instructions). If you want to use it without giving credit, a license can be purchased from https://www.steven-obrien.net/#prelude-i-download

Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3NTYOpUfnQO2jriVqgV6PG

aka Prelude No. 1 in C major

Sheet music: http://imslp.org/wiki/24_Preludes,_Op.2_(O%27Brien,_Steven)

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