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my neighbor joe

By monstret on February 23, 2026 12:01 am

Soundcloud version with some quick improvements that makes it easier to listen to



This was supposed to be inspired by Studio Ghibli soundtracks (the works of Joe Hisaishi).

I was massively over-optimistic in terms of time and ultimately failed learning orchestration and scoring. 
I will try again in the future, sorry team!


Wins: I did read up on secondary dominants and modal interchange etc and learned a bit

I don't know about the orchestration and scoring, but it has the piano and and synthy sheen elements I remember from Joe Hisaishi's Ghibli soundtracks.

Lovely little tune, you nailed the brief here!

ineff wrote:

I don't know about the orchestration and scoring, but it has the piano and and synthy sheen elements I remember from Joe Hisaishi's Ghibli soundtracks.

That's better than I could have hoped for! Thanks for listening.

Water_Feature wrote:

Lovely little tune, you nailed the brief here!

Way too kind, but I'm in the mood to lap it up! Thanks again for checking it out.

I'd say mission accomplished! Love the chord at :34.  Such a nostalgic feel to the piano especially with it's lovely pace as if dancing in a circle.  Excellent work! 

Tone Matrix wrote:

I'd say mission accomplished! Love the chord at :34.  Such a nostalgic feel to the piano especially with it's lovely pace as if dancing in a circle.  Excellent work!

Made my day seeing this. Need to work more on making it sound more human / dynamic / emotional in performance but I'm generally happy with the chord progression. It's no Tone Matrix but we all got to start somewhere!

This is lovely and triggered Ghibli scenes in my mind.

SoundCloud link! Had to hop over there, know you must’ve been invested in this to make another cut! I’ve been tempted by that before

This is lovely. My brain wanted the piano to do a little more but what it is doing is great

MRDRCAT wrote:

This is lovely and triggered Ghibli scenes in my mind.

prophisee wrote:

SoundCloud link! Had to hop over there, know you must’ve been invested in this to make another cut! I’ve been tempted by that before

This is lovely. My brain wanted the piano to do a little more but what it is doing is great

no, what's lovely is the two of you!

regarding soundcloud: yeah that's my usual workflow - 1) nearly miss the sunday deadline 2) spend a few hours on sunday evening to try to better realize what I wanted to do 3) upload on soundcloud  4) now I've wasted the sunday evening time I had on last weeks track instead of this weeks track so the bad cycle starts again

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