OST by Carly Barton

CARLY BARTON - OST (Book + USB)

[Co-Released with Variform Gallery (2020) / Cat. V 01440 2 / Edition of 111]

“The piano has always been the most effective tool for me to meditate — to check in with myself. A way to be mindful or mindless, ponder aimlessly or with focused intent, and mostly, a way to feel through the intensity of being a living thing.”

OST collects five contemplative pieces written for piano by Carly Barton, representing a life-long dive through N64 deep cuts and anime ambience. Evoking the lonely and ethereal spaces where Nausicaä first meets a living Ohmu, and Hyrule’s protector awakes from a century long slumber, these compositions continue Carly’s exploratory work reimagining the worlds coded within soundtracks of anime and video games, otherwise seen in their year-long monthly installment based projects Vidya World (2018) and ARC: Anime Resource Center (2020). With this limited edition, Carly has self published the sheet music in a beautifully minimal Riso pressed book, and included a USB drive filled with MIDI and audio realizations of the songs in both console and arcade versions.

Tracklist

1.	⌜ Console ⌟ Wait, Sleep	2:44

2.	⌜ Console ⌟ Winter / Water	5:43

3.	⌜ Console ⌟ Undine — The Elemental	2:44

4.	⌜ Console ⌟ For My Trash, The Piano Cat	1:34

5.	⌜ Console ⌟ Ivory Blossoms In Spring	4:15

6.	⌜ Arcade ⌟ Wait, Sleep	1:51

7.	⌜ Arcade ⌟ Winter / Water	3:48

8.	⌜ Arcade ⌟ Undine — The Elemental	1:46

9.	⌜ Arcade ⌟ For My Trash, The Piano Cat	1:10

10.	⌜ Arcade ⌟ Ivory Blossoms In Spring	2:46

Credits

released May 26, 2020

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Composed – Carly Barton
Book Design – Carly Barton
Printed – Secret Room (Portland, Oregon)

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Produced – Carly Barton
Mastered – Max Wolf

Product Photography – Marcus Fischer

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.