Having fun with creating silly music

There is just something that does not click in my brain when it comes to music, or so I thought. When I say this to other people, the usual advice is that “you just have to practise more”. That is probably true, but I never got around being good enough with an instrument to get creative with it. It was the hurdle that took the enjoyment out of music for me, because I wanted to make songs, not fight with the instrument.

But then came a day where I tried making music digitally, and that changed the whole situation around. It is a lot of fun to just mess around with music in that way, and I started to understand why there are so many people who like music production. And there is this awesome genre of music that I discovered, called chiptune music, which also feels very fitting as video game music.

Previously I made it in a little program called Bosca Ceoil, the name of the program is literally music box in Irish. There still is an active fork of the program called Bosca Ceoil: The Blue Album, which also works in the webbrowser. With it you can quickly create this kind of music, within minutes you can make a small tune like this:

With only a single instrument, you can already add a lot of variety, but it is way more fun to add more instruments. It is amazing what some people can make with just a few simple sounds, they can make the entire audio for a video game with it or mixtapes that last hours. You can probably do a way better job than me, so I would encourage to give it a try and have fun.

For now it is more a personal experiment to make music, but who knows what I will do with the music in the future.