Music by Leif Chappelle

The music catalogued on these pages represent a body of work collected over the years from all assorted genres and styles. Feel free to take a listen, read up on a few descriptive snippets, or even post some feedback on a particular piece.

  • Styles

    Theme BGM Groove Cinematic Ambiance Introduction Action

  • Instrumentation

    Solo Chamber Orchestral Electro-acoustic Rock Electronic Jazz Chiptune

  • Descriptors

    Looping Haunting Playful Nostalgic Retro Beautiful Contemplative Live
    Delicate World Chill Episodic Chaotic

  • Length

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    On a Forest Path With Slugs

    The first part of a new four-movement suite Two Weeks in Another World. Solo guitar in a symmetrical A-B-C-B-A form; an adventure into a brief setting with careful footfalls.

    10 Listens | 10.10.10 | Download
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    Becoming

    A tree, viewed from one side: beautiful, lush; from the other side, hollowed out and rotting. The concept of turning around to discover hidden truths. Shedding our unnecessary leaves to become something potentially greater, or nothing at all.

    64 Listens | 11.09.09 | Download
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    At Night

    Wandering slowly through the dark, memories begin to come back to me one at a time. My feet had traced these steps years ago. As had many others’. A car rushes by and I realize the enormity of the city, even at night.

    117 Listens | 07.26.09 | Download
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    Cavernous

    A bit of a contemplative piece, built to live within the space it creates aurally. Wet limestone walls, the trickle of water running through the subterranian valley. Composed entirely with pxtune, then remixed and mastered in SONAR using Guitar Rig for some additional effects.

    72 Listens | 07.12.09 | Download
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    Into the Earth, Into the Sky

    A piece in multiple parts written to accompany a dance choreographed by Karen Brown with the same title. Using primarily guitars, rhodes piano and drums, the music provided a more modern counterpoint to a dance personifying trees of the varying seasons.

    40 Listens | 11.11.07 | Download
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    Misty Plateau

    A demo piece written for a project I ultimately wasn’t hired for, but I liked the music well enough to keep it around. Imagined as the transition from an industrial steampunk city into the wooded glory of the outside world at dawn.

    40 Listens | 04.07.07 | Download
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    Observations of Nature

    A piece in three sections written in accompaniment to Karen Brown’s dance of the same title. Waves crash along the shore at night, only the moonlight washing over the creatures that begin to dance among the coming and going tide.

    26 Listens | 11.11.06 | Download
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    Reticent Mound

    As if the title wasn’t a dead giveaway already, this piece is an homage to Akira Yamaoka’s wonderful horror stylings for the Silent Hill series.

    20 Listens | 10.31.06 | Download
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    Spinning in the River City

    Living at the epicenter of a sprawling urban landscape, one turns and begins to take in the rhythm and movement of the people and surrounding life. Time passes regardless.

    21 Listens | 10.31.05 | Download