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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS9phkBXx5c Xion's character isn't the only thing shaped by memories. The way her theme evolved and was shaped by different people as they showcased their interpretations of it reveals many things about the potential of fandom when it comes to the production of media and the learning of new skills, as well as leaving lasting impacts on listeners. How did the wish to participate in an on-going folk process of covers end up shaping the way "Vector to the Heavens" and "Musique pour la Tristesse de Xion" are perceived by general online audiences? Been a while since I share anything here, but here's me sharing the current state of my research about Vector to the Heavens! This is... definitely a lot more academic than I'm used to, so I'm curious what you guys might think about it! I put a ton of love into the research, the editing, and everything else that went into this video. I hope it pays off!

Earlier this year, Kingdom Hearts music was confirmed to be played during the BBC Proms on August 1st, 2022, alongside several other video game franchise songs, such as from Final Fantasy VIII and The Legend of Zelda. Recently, the audio performances have been made publically listenable online, and the Kingdom Hearts tracks have been given their own section. At 49:35, an orchestral rendition of the iconic "Hikari" can be listened to. What are your thoughts on this excellent Kingdom Hearts tribute and the other video game-dedicated performances that took place? View full article

Hey yall, I recreated the KH4 trailer music with some other musicians and thought you might enjoy it! It sounds super accurate to the real deal too! I know others have done their versions of this first, but I've really been working super hard for the last month to make sure it's the highest quality possible, so I'd really appreciate the support https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D1XZaBC9sc

An unexpected but welcome surprise struck Kingdom Hearts fans' timeline yesterday as voice actor Erika Harlacher released a short musical puppet show based on our favourite video game franchise Kingdom Hearts. The Disney x Square Enix collaboration is no stranger to adaptations outside the video game world with it being adapted into novels, a Manga series, and at one point it was almost made into a cartoon series. Now, although not official, it has been adapted into a musical puppet show. Who could see that one coming? The short was created by longtime voice actor Erika Harlacher. Harlacher is most known for voicing Ann in Persona 5. But she has also provided her voice to well over a hundred different projects, including additional voices in several Square Enix titles like Final Fantasy VII Remake, NEO: The World Ends with You, and of course Kingdom Hearts III. The short, titled Puppet Kingdom: Musical Hearts was published on both Youtube and Twitter, and retells the first chapter of the original Kingdom Hearts game where Sora first meets Donald and Goofy in Traverse Town. The song is titled The Trio Song, and according to Harlacher she has 5 more songs already written that she may publish later assuming Disney lawyers don't put a stop to it first. Harlacher, who herself is an avid fan of the Kingdom Hearts series, states that she's been on and off working on this project for a year and a half. With the project being so well made, it has received praise from other known members of the community and fellow voice actors. Including a shoutout from Goofy's official voice actor for 30+ years, Bill Farmer. If you're a fan of Kingdom Hearts, or just appreciate great puppet artistry, we urge you to check out the project! With enough support, maybe we'll see more of it! View full article

Hey guys, I figured as a way of introducing myself, and letting everybody kind of get to know me, and the things I enjoy doing. Well, my name's Damon. Most people like to call me by my middle name though; Storm. Also, if it's not obvious by now; I enjoy video games, and then I also enjoy my passion: Music. Particularly playing lead guitar. Eh, I've been playing since I was like.... 15-16? Yeah, sounds 'bout right. I'm 30 now so...(GOD ALMIGHTY, I'M GETTING SO OLD 😭) Let's say 15 years then. Minimum anyway. Always has been my passion ever since I got into it. Unfortunately, the past few months of life have really firetrucked me over hard, and never let's up. Basically a few months ago my family, and I were illegally evicted by having our power cut off. Also, I'm almost 100% certain that no-one at the time couldn't be evicted due to the pandemic. My mother's sister-in-law still did it to us anyway, out of spite. Once my mom married her husband, he moved her trailer from Silk Hope, onto a property his parent's owned, and he was supposed to inherit. Long story short, we all lived at that property for the past 11 years. Rent free, and never had a lease for the 11 years there. My stepdad ended up getting murdered 2 years ago. Instead of him inheriting the property like planned; his sister got it. Again, for the year after her brother's murder, she did not once ask for rent, and never wrote up a lease at all. We would've been more than happy, willing to pay rent if wanted. One day, she gets some grudge against my mom, and does everything without notice just because she wanted us out. She ended up calling our power company, telling them to cancel the power at our property. Her dad was the land owner. Even though we paid light bill ourselves, every week, and had already paid that week, and still had money on it at the time of disconnection. It was the middle, hottest point of summer. She knew we had an inside dog, and knew we didn't get home from work until late afternoon. Didn't care. I'm glad we came home early. We came in the house to find the power off, and our dog panting to death. Barely move from being stuck in the house with no power. All the food we had went bad. With no power to run any utilities, or storage for food. We couldn't stay there in the dead hot of summer. We had to waste every dollar we had left to stay in a hotel, and eat out. No hotel had stove/oven to make our own. We never planed on leaving. Never planed having to spend our savings barely having enough to lay our head. That was our home, we lived there the past 30 years of our lives. Even have the title to it in my mom's purse. We NEVER abandoned it, we couldn't live there. llegally having utilities cut. we had to find a place to get by. We had to leave all our belongings there. I only have 2 pair of pants/shirts to my name now. My whole life is in our trailer. I had every intention getting my $8000 of music equipment, who wouldn't? Everything I owned. Not just mine, my family's too. Gone. We recently heard that someone moved Into it, and supposedly renting from my mom's sister in law. But we never received any notice. made sure to check our mail at that property. The thought of all our stuff, everything to our name, spent our life towards, sentimental things. my mom's husband. His ashes are/were in that trailer, gone. Even after everything she's done to us, she is even constantly stalking, harassing, and defaming my mother, and even stole my mom's old phone to start going into my mom's bank account from another phone, and cashapping herself. We have not said a word to this woman since we left, and have ignored every threat. Yet, she STILL continues to harass, and stress my mom, knowing she has extremely high blood pressure. I just don't know what to do, and my mom and I are constantly stressed, our blood pressure is above lethal, and threatening values.and going through hard enough times. Like I said, I only have 2 pair of shirts, and pants to my name. My whole life was in our place. I'm just about given up on life. I haven't been this low, and depressed in a long time. My music, and playing was my passion, and world. It's the one thing in my life that gave me purpose, and happiness. I've been without that now, and don't have the means to replace it. Especially since the instruments were more sentimental as my last tangible thing of my grandmother and grandfather's memory.. So I'm left with completely nothing, and no way to get it back. That's not even the kicker that stings, and hurts though. The thing that hurts the most is that it wasn't the worth value of everything. It's all the sentimental value I lost. Two of the guitars that I had ended up stolen were the only memories/gifts I had left of my dead Grandmother, and Grandfather. As they were the ones to buy those guitars for me way back when I started, and I never wanted to get rid of them because it was the only tangible thing I had to remember them by.. It sucks all around though; my main focus that drives me, and the ONE thing in this Hell on Earth that brought me happiness, and a sense of being is no longer a part of me, and I won't lie. It's really starting to get to me lately. I've been going through bad depression anyway the past year or two since my dad was also murdered about 2 years ago now. I just thought I'd atleast post a few videos I recorded over the years for you guys to enjoy, and hopefully like atleast... Maybe the positivity, conversations, and comments from you guys can help me out in this dark time in my life... Here's just a couple of examples/videos of me... Hope you guys enjoy. Avenged Sevenfold - Afterlife Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/Kg-trZQW6Bc Avenged Sevenfold - M.I.A Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/SFqhMi2vWnw Bullet For My Valentine - Pretty On The Outside Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/p64YDEiOPqc Avenged Sevenfold - A Little Piece Of Heaven Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/YB7nlNWLDeA Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You Tonight Part 1 Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/FDBiRx1fu5s Slipknot - Snuff Acoustic Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/o-DT2CvMuhY Avenged Sevenfold - Clairvoyant Disease Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/QBFxeeq0f2A Killswitch Engage - My Curse Guitar Cover: https://youtu.be/BplpmsGU1OQ Well... that's just a couple out of hundreds anyway.... Hope someone here enjoys it.

Good morning everyone! It's been a very long time since I shared something with this beautiful community, I am Keyblader_95 and maybe some of you (but I doubt) remember me as a self-taught italian musician under the pseudonym of WoBlade. My current pseudonym is Khlavem and I long to become a video game/movie composer, and speaking of which I've recently participated in a 7 days long game jam as composer and I'd like to share with you the result of our hard work: Geist not Guest! It's a video game made from scratch by a team of italian programmers and artists in which you control a little ghost who lives happily in an abandoned house.. HIS house! But one day a group of orcs working for a moving company arrived to place forniture in the abandoned house in order to make it fit for residential use, so the little ghost decided to play tricks on those invaders and claim back his sweet home! Regarding the music unfortunately I joined the project halfway through and I only had a few days to deliver the OST before the deadline, so I had to work on the project mostly late at night because I had to deal with my main job during the day.. not to mention I started working on the project right after working on another one, and a big one, for which I also worked very hard, often late at night and during rest days, so the combination of stress, weariness and limited time didn't allow me to work as I wanted to.. if I have to be completely honest I'm not happy with what I came up with because I was afraid of not finishing in time so I didn't spend enough time studying the essence of the game and I ended up making a spooky mood OST that was actually too serious for a game like this one, which follows a spooky theme but in a light-hearted way.. But given the circumstances I'm happy of the overall quality of the music, after all! Now, without further ado, I present you "Geist not Guest"! I hope you like the game and music, please feel free to leave a feedback, I'd appreciate it very much! Enjoy 😁 https://ares9323.itch.io/geistnotguest

Here's something I've been working on for a while- a rearrangement of the track "Replicas", by Takeharu Ishimoto. This was my first attempt at rewriting something from KH3 with the intent of fixing things I didn't like about it!

Just posted my cover of The Final World ~ Night. This one was my first commission so it was a cool experience (and definitely a different process than my other works) I also drew the thumbnail/video art really fast Hope you guys like it!

This one's been cooking for quite a while, so I'm super happy to be posting it... Performances were by David Russell and Piano Game Knight, two awesome pianists. I'm very happy with the result

So I haven’t posted here in quite some time. I did take a break from Music for about a year but I am back and I decided to make a new arrangement! So here is my latest work! I really loved what Yoko did for Yozora’s theme and i thought i could blend it well with Dearly Beloved as well as Somnus from FFVersus13/15. I thought the Parallels in each theme would make a good mix. https://youtu.be/oGUqLzcFjqI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2KGcuh07rw In this video, I will be tracing the connections between 52 different versions of Xion’s theme, following the journey from when her battle theme was called “Dirge of the Fourteenth”, until today, where we know it as “Vector to the Heavens”, establishing how there are many hidden influences between all these versions, including some of the official versions included in the games. I did a LOT of research for this video, and although there were some issues with the editing, I'm still very excited to share the results. I know it's a very long video this time, but if you're a fan of KH music, I believe you'll find it very interesting I also tried to make this one as easily digestible to those unfamiliar with musical terms, as possible. I hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/VuQm9MBrUUQ Here's an arrangement I made, inspired by Melody of Memory. It mixes several tracks including Dearly Beloved, Destati, and Kairi's theme into a single piece! Hope you guys like it edit: Idk how to embbed videos in posts anymore! haha

During the Kingdom Hearts 2020 trailer released earlier today, it was revealed that the long-awaited Kingdom Hearts III official soundtrack will be releasing later this year. While there is no definitive release date as of yet, a window of autumn 2020 was provided. Which songs from the OST are you looking forward to listening to? Let us know in the comments! View full article

Hello everyone ! I hope you're all doing well wi the lockdown ? Here's a new montage for you on Kingdom Hearts with a little "Dark Road side".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ZITsfrfTQ After working hard on this one for the last few days, it's finally done. Hope you guys enjoy it! It's been super fun to arrange this but I'm super glad it's done. This is an ear arrangement of Yozora Battle version- from Kingdom Hearts III: Re Mind. Instrumentation has been simplified for convenience's sake. Some liberties taken with the strings cause I'm not that good lol.

So I finally got my hands on this recording (We played this somewhere around November), and i was happy to finally post it. This was part of a VGM presentation I helped some friends with, my condition being that I could pick and arrange one track from KH. I picked this one cause it's hype af. I also managed to convince us to play Megalovania (Probably my favorite arrangement that I made that I've ever played live, was definitely SUPER fun!!!), which I'll probably post in the next few weeks. Anyway, hope you guys like this one! I was actually supposed to be playing the flute in this one, but had to switch to the piano when the pianist kinda refused to play it (He went on to play the percussion in this one instead, which was pretty vital for the mood so I'm actually happy about that!) . So I had to adapt some of the flute parts into the piano and didn't really have a bunch of time to practice for the piano specifically, so that's why I got a couple of slip-ups in there. By the way, if anyone thinks I've been posting too many threads advertising videos, let me know. In that case, I'll probably make a thread specifically for these. Anyway, let me know what you thought!

This one's been in the oven for a while and I'm proud to finally post it. Hope you guys enjoy it!

Hey all, Hope you all have been well and thanks again for all the love and support for Project Kingdom XIII; it really meant a lot to me. I'm excited to announce that I'm working on another project based on another Square Enix based property along with a huge community of musicians and producers called the Pixel Mixers. Our project is called "Beyond the Mist", a tribute album to Final Fantasy 9 where we....pretty much are covering the entire OST. You can read more about it here: https://www.blog.keyjayonline.com/beyond-the-mist-trailer/ And we just released a teaser which you can totally listen to here: Thanks again everyone and ENJOY!

I personally like The 13th Struggle.

I like the remix that we got.