Chris Carlier | Short Songs

Welcome: A Quick Overview

Hi all,

Hope everything is going great for you, wherever you are.

I haven't done one of these in a while and we've got some new folks here so I figured it'd be a good time to give a quick update, with links to some of the projects we've done.

First and foremost, we've made 4 albums of short songs, all with downloads available to patrons at any time:

  1. Short Songs For Patrons (2019) - This was the first one. It didn't have an special theme. It was just as it stated: become a patron, get a short, personalized theme song. A bunch of people did sign up, and I was happy to produce and record in a variety of styles.

  2. Short Songs For Patrons II (2020) - For this one, I asked patrons to give me a feeling or mood for their short song. This yielded some really fun results, from Latin jazz to orchestral chamber music stuff, some chiptune, and some heavy rock!

  3. Short Songs For Patrons III (2021) - For the third installment, I asked patrons to send me a photograph for which I'd create a tiny soundtrack. I was blown away with people's personal and interesting photos! This was the most challenging but most rewarding project yet!

  4. Patron Quest: The Search For The Mystic Fountain (2022) - With SSFPIII, I'd purposely avoided including any 8-bit/chiptune sounds. Maybe I wanted it to sound more serious or something. I'm not sure. This left me kind of missing and craving that crunchy chiptune flavour, so I actually re-recorded each song, in entirely 8-bit sounds and wrote an accompanying adventure story (included in the download).

  5. Michael's Regret (2023) - This is part 1 of a 3-part story-and-music project I'm working on. The music is big and orchestral - very movie-like. The story follows Jacqueline and Ervin, two young people, as they race through time, itself, quite possibly to save us all.

  6. SSFPV (2024) - This is on right now! Tell your friends to sign up and get a short, personalized theme song.

In between all that, I post music playlists, monthly updates, behind-the-scenes stuff, text/ringtone pack, patron-only livestreams and a bunch more. Check out the archives and find all the goodies!

That's about it for now.

As always, thank you for being a patron and helping me make all this crazy stuff. It means the world to me!

Reach out any time,

Chris