Derek (Fallen Muse)

My name is Derek aka Fallen Muse. I am a electronic music producer, game composer, sound designer, and vocalist/va. Here is some of my prior work:

You can tell I don't use genAI to write music because my average output is <1 song per year.

now this is a hell of sentence: "A recommender that’s a mediocre predictor of what you’d love in a rich, diverse world becomes an excellent predictor of what you’ll click in the impoverished one it creates." laurenleek.substack.com/p/temperatur...

I'm not very far in yet, but I'm having a good time playing Wax Heads! It makes me wish I had more time to make weird music with my weird friends.

Its time I getback into Rhythm game charting! I used to make a lot of DDR stlye charts for stepmania, and I uploaded a few of my favorites as a kind of portfolio. (I'm also open to charting for larger projects 👀) youtube.com/playlist?lis...

| _cAN ch@nge-! I made more rhythm game music: youtu.be/mSEBnPjVKu4?...

From the creator of #ButterflySoup and #PomGetsWiFi, The Crane Rider's Tale is a mystery game inspired by Disco Elysium, Zero Escape, and Chinese folktales. 🪽On Kickstarter now! www.kickstarter.com/projects/psy...

New rhythm game music! Made some drum and bass/artcore/breakcore with acid bass thrown in there for fun. I originally wrote this for a rhythm game song submission contest but I missed the deadline 😔 (if anyone else is working on a rhythm game tho...👀) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB7W...

Basically, yeah, this is true. Same thing where if you pay a musician $10 on cashapp and then pirate their entire discography, you're still paying them more than Spotify would for the same amount of music.

After barely staying awake through my 8am zoom class, I would trudge out to my living room where my roommate would normally be playing animal crossing. I would just and listen to the sounds/music. It was very comforting.

i have a blog post for this, with a list of image sites you can use! livelaugh.blog/posts/non-ai...

It’s really impossible to overstate how much society warped around the American Baby Boom, and then acted like those effects were inherent qualities of our world. The invention of The Teenager, the current aesthetics of Christmas, the suffocating dominance of Rock and Roll, the idea that people…

Was it this one? youtu.be/O515YeHQhYE?...

I made some orchestral/artcore tracks for a weeklong Game Soundtrack jam! Check out the playlist here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #gamedev #soundtrack #audio

I recently participated in an OST jam where I wrote a game soundtrack in 48 hours! Check it out: youtube.com/playlist?lis...