Those darned musicians... Breeding like sewer rats!

[trompkins]

Artist: Maciej Stankiewicz
Site: http://trompkins.awardspace.com

Yes, another one. Will make noises for money, apparently.

Preferrable formats: the streamable ones, but I can also make mods and midis if need be.
And, uh, on the off chance that anyone around is cooking up a smash hit for C64 - I make sids, too.

Well, that's about it, here's a small reel (http://www.archive.org/download/trompkins/_reel.ogg) - have a listen for yourself.

[lennard]

Hi Maciej, I like your music but it's pretty dark for the casual game space. Do you have any lighter stuff we could listen to? I couldn't find a price sheet anywhere on your site - what do you typically charge for a couple minutes of loopable music?

[trompkins]

Hey, Lennard, thanks for the comment.

Hmmm, I'd think the opening and the closing snippet of the reel aren't that dark... But You're right, most of my pieces seem to be a bit on the gloomy side.

Here's (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/_snap.ogg) a quickie 0:30 lo-fi loop I just whipped up - I hope it's enough to convince You I'm also able to do somewhat lighter things. (I wonder if anyone can tell where I lifted samples from... Hint: the source file was compressed with NoisePacker 3.0)

Pricing... Ah, it's *SO* tempting to give You a standard, circumlocutory answer - that everything depends on the kind of project You have in mind, the degree to how much I like it, the current phase of the moon and all that... I think ~$100/minute for a quality orchestral piece is a fair price; of course You're free to haggle if You feel it's not. The more casual, non-orchestral stuff I'd offer for, say, ~$60/minute. Everything negotiable. How about that?

[Davaris]

Pretty cool music. :)

[trompkins]

Thread reanimation.........SUCCESSFUL
This thread is now undead.

Just popping in to showcase some new-ish stuff:

ad arma (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/ad_arma.mp3) (2:35, 4.11MB) - your standard battle bgm with choirs, &c.
the feet of many (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/the_feet_of_many.mp3) (2:16, 3.31MB) - how to rip off Mr. Soule, example no. 461

carouselle (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/carouselle.mp3) (2:44, 4.32MB) - Tiersen + Glass + aliased saw waves
go! go! mr. hero (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/go!_go!_mr_hero.mp3) (2:05, 3.29MB) - a brief taste of 8-bit action
df_wu mei (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/df_wu_mei_[loop].mp3) (1:15, 2MB) - fighting game bgm loop
df_shikiisi (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/df_shikiisi_[loop].mp3) (1:08, 1.82MB) - ditto
df_dave (http://tic.art.pl/tmp/df_dave_[loop].mp3) (1:11, 1.9MB) - ditto

More noise here (http://trompkins.awardspace.com/).

Oh, and I'll better leave my email this time: maciej.stankiewicz{-at-}gmail.com

[~LK~]

I love the slant most of work seams to take. Really nice.

[whisperstorm]

Great stuff! I'm envisioning how it would work in my game... Like your style!

[GrahamGoring]

Ooh, some *really* nice stuff on your website. Some of the grandiose orchestral stuff really reminds me of the lovely music on Final Fantasy Tactics (not in that it's a similar composition, just the epic sense of scale it has).

Sadly I make freeware games and am skint. :P

[trompkins]

Thank You, gentlemen. Now... Hire me!

Sadly I make freeware games and am skint. :P
:D Yeah, and it seems that You deal in speccy remakes exclusively... Well, I don't mind doing an off the wall remix of some retro tune from time to time, for charity, to balance my piss-poor karma. (Just to let You know, You know).

[GrahamGoring]

Thank You, gentlemen. Now... Hire me!


:D Yeah, and it seems that You deal in speccy remakes exclusively... Well, I don't mind doing an off the wall remix of some retro tune from time to time, for charity, to balance my piss-poor karma. (Just to let You know, You know).

Hurrah! Although I've got music for my current one. :)

Good luck getting one of these pro's to cough up some dough. ;)