Three Landscapes (2015)
Three Landscapes was the last set of pieces to be written for this album, after Peter requested a set of EWI duos. These are probably the most heavily inspired by video game music and Peter's YouTube channel. All three are particularly inspired by Keiichi Suzuki and Hirokazu Tanaka's score for Mother 2 (or Earthbound).
Labyrinth meanders through dark and lonely corridors; the musical movement is a depiction of our protagonist's mood and reactions to the shifting light levels of the labyrinth as we move from torch to torch.
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About Peter:
Peter Smith comes from a background as a classical clarinettist, completing undergraduate (2009) and postgraduate (2012) studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where he has also been a casual lecturer in musicology for the past five years. As a freelance clarinettist, he has had numerous engagements with high profile ensembles, including the Sydney Chamber Opera, the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra, and Halcyon, and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous recitals at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Peter also currently teaches clarinet performance at the Australian Institute of Music.
In recent years, Peter has increasingly devoted himself to the EWI (Electric Wind Instrument). In addition to using it as a concert instrument (his recital as part of the Australasian Clarinet and Saxophone Conference in 2013 is almost certainly Australia's first solo classical EWI recital), Peter has built up a loyal online following producing multi-tracked covers of music from video games. He has released 4 albums of his own covers, and appeared on numerous cover album releases by Gamelark, The Materia Collective, Pixel Mixers, and Multiplayer. He was also a guest musician on 'Determination: Purple Side' by RichaadEB and Ace Waters, an album of covers from 'Undertale' which reached No. 1 in the Bandcamp charts in 2016.
His video game music covers can be found on his YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/user/Soundole