'shdemo-music'

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> RaudoKyubu about music's "leak"

**shdemo-music** - these are 690 music files in OGG Vorbis format, which were uploaded by Raimund Clement, ex-composer of "shdemo" game project. Unfortunately, the site where the news was published is not available at the moment, but the best of the music tracks were published on the official YouTube channel of Sightless Highland Franchise.

## Background

Raimund Clement uploaded all his musical & sound works on Yandex.Disk, because, according to him, his HDD in computer was almost 'out of breath', and for this reason he decided to present all the work for public viewing. Since then, he has not been in touch and has not appeared on the Internet. Be that as it may, he gave permission to use his work under the Creative Commons Attribution license, and for this reason the music was published on the project channel so that anyone could get acquainted with the solid musical content of "shdemo" game project.

## About

This is a huge collection of music. There are examples of both a hip-hop rhytms (MIDI-like), symphony orchestra (synthesized) and acoustic guitar, piano, as well as more diffuse genres such as atmospheric drones, dark ambient and even vocals (both sampled and live).

Unfortunately, it is not known exactly how this or that track was created, but Raimund Clement once mentioned that he used such software as LMMS & Audasity for work. There is no record of who owns the vocals (specifically what appears to be a female soprano in several tracks).

Music's sounding is very close to the work of Akira Yamaoka - several tracks even almost completely repeat the sound of his sound samples, which can be considered as a tribute (since shdemo-music is non-commercial pack).

Music is often repeated in the pack - perhaps these are the so-called "Takes", since upon careful listening you can notice the difference in the copies, which makes it easy to conclude that Raimund Clement simply posted the contents of his "working folder" on the Internet, therefore, there are both absolutely raw "demos" and completely completed compositions.

This is definitely not an "album", just a pack of music, so listening to it for pleasure is difficult - even in the best tracks that are posted on the channel, it is not easy to find grain.

All this musical material is planned to be used to the maximum in the game, because it has a huge potential.

## Playlist

Link to a playlist with selected music tracks that were uploaded on the official YouTube channel of Sightless Highland Franchise. All music tracks that are mentioned in the articles of this wiki come from there.

Go here.

## Similarities to Silent Hill music

A small study was carried out - music tracks, uploaded on the YouTube channel, were listened to side by side with audio from Silent Hill video games soundtracks, and as a result, musical compositions were identified that, if not copies, then at least very similar in melodic or sample's terms.

* The melody played on the piano at shdemo-music-89 is clearly heavily inspired by "Downtown Lisa's Phone Call" from "Silent Hill: Shattered Memories Complete Soundtrack"
* shdemo-music-117 clearly repeats the concept of "Follow the Leader" from "Silent Hill Original Soundtracks". Damn, it even has a "click" at the very beginning, which was in the original traks the end of previous track!
* shdemo-music-189 (from 01:02) sounds like an overly hissing version of "Don't Cry" from "Silent Hill Original Soundtracks".
* shdemo-music-211 almost completely repeats the sound effect of James Sunderland falling into a hole from Silent Hill 2.
* In shdemo-music-234 there is clear inspiration of "Exercise Book" from "Silent Hill Complete Soundtrack".
* What can be described as a "bass wah-wah wave" in shdemo-music-263, sounds very similar to "Resting Comfortably" from "Silent Hill 4: The Room Original Soundtracks".
* The overall musical structure of shdemo-music-286 and its samples clearly bear a strong resemblance to "Hear Nothing" from "Silent Hill Original Soundtracks".
* Weird drum roll in shdemo-music-325 that starts at 00:28 clearly draws inspiration from "Hell Descent" from "Silent Hill: Homecoming Unofficial Soundtrack".
* Although it is difficult to notice the similarities here, shdemo-music-360 has something in common with "Caliban" from "Silent Hill: Origins Complete Soundtrack".
* The bell-like sound that plays throughout shdemo-music-389 bears a striking resemblance to Shimomu (G) (Instrumental) from "Inescapable Rain in Yoshiwara" (second compact-disc in Japanese SIlent Hill 4 OST).
* shdemo-music-398 is almost a complete copy of "Nothing Else"- it even has a metal sting at the beginning, although in the original it was the end of the previous audio track on CD.
* shdemo-music-414 can easily be called a "cover" of "Block Mind" from "Silent Hill 2 Original Soundtracks".
* The samples and structure of shdemo-music-498 is very similar to "Raw Power" from "Silent Hill: Zer0 Original Soundtracks".

For obvious reasons, these identified tracks will most likely NOT BE USED in the "shdemo" game project, so as not to bring problems to the project with litigation with Akira Yamaoka and/or representatives of "Konami Group Corporation" (copyright owner of "Silent Hill").