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Clarence's Big Chance OST

by Tobias Cornwall

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1.
Title Screen 02:02
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2.
Good Morning Clarence 03:54
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3.
Suburbia 03:24
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4.
At The Office 03:40
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5.
Minigame 01:48
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6.
Night On The Town Rag 03:37
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7.
Restaurant Ambience 03:21
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8.
To the Future 01:42
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9.
Ending Theme 01:46
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This is the soundtrack for the Flash game Clarence's Big Chance, which I released in 2011.

What a weird game! So different to the other stuff I've made. It's one of few games I've actually finished, and I reached the end quickly, too: I started in late November 2010 and finished sometime in either February or March 2011.

The soundtrack is as silly as the game itself. I remember digging around in the Windows default folders for whatever reason one day and finding a couple of sample midis, one of which - town.mid, in the folder Windows/Media, which is apparently still there on copies of Windows 10! - was an upbeat funky/jazzy kind of piece that was so different to anything I ever had composed or would compose. It brought to mind corporate culture and living in the big city - worlds I'd never known - and I used it as the game's background music during the earliest prototype stage. It was a huge influence on this soundtrack that I eventually composed.

I just googled it and found this page about it; it's composed by Nathan Grigg: midis.fandom.com/wiki/Town
It really transports me, both to my younger years when I first found it and composed this soundtrack, and to a big American city view of the world that I've never directly experienced.

My attempts for this album aren't as competently-composed as that, but I'm still really pleased by how they turned out; I think they do a decent job of painting a quirky modern world, and I like details such as how "At the Office" and "Minigame" are essentially the same piece, with the former like tacky lift music and the latter a sped-up spike of cyber mania. The Clarence's Theme melody is one of my favourites that I've ever composed, and I still occasionally play it on my piano while fiddling around trying to come up with ideas.

It was also interesting trying to compose a ragtime piece, though I didn't really know what I was doing!

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released February 3, 2011

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I'm a self-taught composer who's been at this since I was 15 (DOB Feb 1988). I mostly make indie games and the soundtracks for them, though I've also composed a bunch of non-game music for the joy of it.

My music uses MIDI soundfonts, and I compose in Sibelius. I'd describe it as 'idiosyncratic'! I seem to naturally use non-Ionian modes, with a particular preference for Mixolydian. ... more

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