My Hardest One Yet! (Dragon Quest - Live MIDI Art)

The Dragon Quest logo (and slime) drawn live using a piano keyboard.

Download the MIDI file and audio here:

This is the longest and most challenging piece of MIDI art I've created yet. On my last live stream, I received some requests for a DQ slime and started working on it. I later finished it off stream, but felt like it was too short for an entire video - so I decided to create the entire Dragon Quest logo as well!

The DQ logo is very difficult to compose in a way that sounds musical. It has angled, overlapping letters (similar to the Pokemon logo) as well as a 3D look (like the Minecraft logo). I've already done the aforementioned logos so I had experience dealing with those challenges separately, but not together. This one took EVERYTHING I've got, and required around 5 days of work. Hope you like it!

Here's the live stream where I started working on it (towards the end):

Technical details:
The keyboard is a Sequential Prophet XL (used as a MIDI controller). The sound I'm playing is Spectrasonics Keyscape layered with Spitfire BBC Symphony Orchestra (different string instruments are mapped to specific ranges across the keyboard). No additional parts were added, everything you hear is played live. The software I'm recording into is Cubase 11.

Composed and performed by Gil Assayas (GLASYS).

#shorts

[howtosurviveelectronichara]

This channel has truly helped me understand the relationship that mathematics plays in art and music. I am a visual artist and I have dyscalculia which means I am dyslexic with numbers. Watching this man transform sound into shape and form helps my brain understand the math that I have always struggled with. Thank you.

[goneegun]

How do you manage to make it sound like a music?? so talented man

[paraxicgaming]

absolutely amazing I've listened to it five times already and cant get enough of it, the melody scratches that ADHD itch so well, you should put these works on spotify!

[Geohara]

This is so precise! You are going full HD here.

[midnattssol]

this is insane, i really thought this was fake at first

[markmarketing]

No way, he's referencing the TM motif!

[EssaysInTheCommentsSection]

I'm more blown away by the fact he also manages to actually make it mostly sound good, but more than that, like something relevant to the art peice. Reminded me of All-trades Abbey from Dragon Quest IX

[sralvarez]

How does this fit so well for the entirety of the series? Genius.

[leoyun]

Respect from KOREA You are so talent man

[Cycherin]

Gosh...bro you got some CRAZY SKILLS bro

[notyetskeletal]

I imagine as your mind melds the shapes to the sounds you can think of what a certain shape sounds like before you play it. You must have unique pathways for these specific tasks after practicing and succeeding at it.

[Marnige]

I swear the TM jingle should be officially trademarked as your channel

[Way.Too.Awesome]

this man can make air sound good no matter what

[DarvinAvila]

The amount of hard work you have done until now to pull these off. Just amazing

[Giuseppe_De_Bellis]

Your're gonna need panorama screens soon!!! incredible! what a memory.Bravo! as usual. 😊

[guymross]

This is insanity. How is this even possible. Amazing.

[MINTCHOCODILE]

holy shit dude THAT WAS THE CRAZIEST VIDEO I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!
I'm so sad that I couldn't find u sooner
plz make more masterpieces. keep going man 👍🏻👍🏻
god that just touched my heart

[rnjesus]

Keep killing it and I’ll keep watching it. Always impressed with the artistry and creativity

[danilopolar]

That was by far the most impressive one, IT HAS THE SAME ""3D"" FELLING OF THE NORMAL ONE

[chibanintendo]

Maaann. You're absolutely on another level 🤩