by Jason Surguine on March 22, 2009
A very patient piano player asked me back in December to arrange some of the music from Arvale II for Piano. More specifically, the title and ending music. I replied that I could do it when I have time, but it may be a few months.
It’s been a few months now, and I finally had a bit of spare time to re-arrange and put them together (since I was re-arranging the Arvale II music for iPhone already).
So… here you go (they’re in Adobe PDF format for easy printing):
Arvale II Title Arranged for Piano sheet music
And here is an mp3 of how it should sound.
Arvale II Ending Arranged for Piano sheet music
And here is another mp3 of how that should sound.
Notes for Pianists: I double-checked them a few times and aside from some readability issues (I hope you like ledger lines) and one reach that only a basketball player could make, they’re perfectly playable. You’ve gotta be a pretty advanced piano player to do it though.
If anyone does actually manage to play through either one, I’d love to hear the results, or a youtube video or anything.
And if you don’t play piano… well, at least you have some new Arvale music to listen to 
by Jason Surguine on March 17, 2009
You can stick a fork in it, it’s done! And it’s pretty tasty too!
Here are some of the more unique hors d’œuvres:
Arvale II: Waterworld
Arvale II: Oriental
Arvale II: Techie
I spent way too much time on doing these, and perhaps it was a bit of overkill to make the orchestrated and arranged quality so high for a little iPhone game, but… ah well. It seems the marketing texts were correct too, a touch over an hour of music for this game.
I hadn’t even heard some of these tunes in a long time, and I was surprised at how cool and unique some of them were and brought me on a little nostalgia trip to play Arvale II as soon as possible. Good thing there’s a lot of testing coming up 
Enjoy!
by Jason Surguine on March 13, 2009
Arvale II music tracks: 15 down, 12 to go…
I simply thought this was so ironic that my temporary studio is sitting on top of my old upright Baldwin piano which I haven’t played in ages. Even with this temp setup on a friggin’ laptop, it can already do everything my closet full of old gear (and instruments) can do, and more. Technology is pretty impressive stuff.
Now if I can just make it even smaller…
by Jason Surguine on March 3, 2009
Left Budapest, Hungary after a little over 3 years of living there. Back in Phoenix, AZ and severely jet-lagged. Not entirely motivated to work on anything at the moment. Let’s hope that changes when the jet-lag ends.
In other news, I think I may just release a short demo of that Arvale III prototype I was working on in a couple weeks if I can polish it up enough. You know, because I don’t have enough crap to worry about right now, why not burn myself out?
