This one started out an an experiment to see if I was capable of writing a song about a character where each morning is worse than the one before. It was finished and performed live by me during the Medieval Week 2024 in Visby but this is the studio version completed about a year later
The Medieval week on Gotland has for many years had an anthem called Sju Dagar Per År which ALL visitors know by heart. I wanted to make my own version with a little twist and since there is so much hair during the Midieval week (beards, dreads etc) I thought Sju Dagar (med hår) would be appropriate. The song was finished just before Medieval Week 2025 and actually performed live in front of an audience by me.
This time I wanted to try out something new. Instead of searching for the perfect melody or a cool baseline, I made a repeating pattern and tried to make a song that increasingly used more notes per second than in the verse before. Perhaps I went too far but at least it was a fun project and it also confirmed to me that I am indeed capable of composing fast melody progressions.
In the annual competition for the MSX computer system my game Doomlings placed 3rd place in ”Best game category” but it also placed 1st place in ”Best game mechanic”, 5th in ”best graphics” and 4th in ”best sound/music”. I’m very proud of my little game. Now I need to create 10 more levels to make it the size I originally intended.
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This game I built in 29 days for the MSXDev’24 competition. It’s an original idea and it’s not a fake retro game but instead it works on real MSX computers from 1984. All graphics, music and code by me.
Wrote the music for the MSX retro game Room 5 which is to be released as a part of the MSXDev’24 contest
Compiled some of the works I’m happy with and released a complete album on Spotify. Re-released the instrumental song Primeiro which once was on Spotify because it’s special to me.
At my work place (Frimis Visby) every december we serve almost 2000 people our great christmas buffee. All guests are instructed at arrival that you will need to use 7 different plates. First you take a plate with herring, potato, egg. Then you discard that plate and take a new one with salmon, paté. The reason for this is that the chefs don’t want the taste of herring onto their meatballs etc.
So, to make fun of this. I created this song that is an instruction on how to eat these seven plates. It’s intentionally created to sound a little like Peter Jöback / Saleem Al Fakir. I think I succeeded
I am part of a medieval jousting group called Bockens Kämpar where I am the herald. The founder of that group is called Riddare Bockskägg and albeit a very nice guy he also has an ego a few sizes too large for his own good. I choose to write this song to him as an exaggerated homage, almost ironic. I had to work hard with the editing to make the song feel like all it’s parts are connected.
For the first time since I was 12, I have created a real game for the MSX-system. It’s part of the MSXDev23 competition but I don’t expect to win any awards for it. Perhaps for the music though but it’s not the reason why I created it. I wanted to see if I were capable of creating a game written in Z80 assembler for a 45 years old home computer.
And apparently I was
P.S. The woman in the background of the game is my beautiful wife of course.