Just turned green for the luckiest day of the year.

Happy St. Patty’s! 🍀

Also untitled Tennessee remake and Ostinato 2 are 1 bout of inspiration away from completion. It’s starting to look like a ton of songs are going to release in quick succession. Maybe I could throw them in a playlist and call it the remix album or something cause that’s the majority of what I’m making right now.

It’s been difficult to step back into making electronic music. It just feels like I can accomplish so much more with muse sounds. Musescore has their fair share of synths and such anyways. It’s just a totally different way of making music that I find a lot more immediately enjoyable. I can just throw down notes, they’ll sound good, and then focus on the actual music rather than spending huge amounts of time tinkering with the sounds till it sounds semi decent (and even then, you’ll never get FL mobile to produce sounds half as good as musescore when it comes to anything their soundfont supports).

Slight rant over. I’ll still try to use FL mobile for stuff solely because I have so much history with it and want to maintain that part of my compositional style. But yeah

So yeah. Been 4 months since I really uploaded anything on this acc. Whoops.

After presage I got the sinking feeling that my music was starting to blend together again. So since then I’ve been broadening my horizons a bit. I randomly generated an ensemble of 4 instruments 3 separate times and made short 2 minute pieces. The first two had no other restrictions but the last one had the additional stipulation of being a whole tone piece. I also said I’d never post them, as they functioned solely as compositional exercises and not as actual pieces.

I’ve gained “experience” writing for instruments not generally seen in a normal ensemble. Also trying to make my scores look nicer, spell notes correctly, and overall just be a better composer. Having a friend who’s majoring in composition certainly helps lmao.

Rest assured I got some good stuff in the pipeline. We’ve got a new Missouri, a remake of Tennessee, a remake of Ostinato (probably the most intriguing one imo, and also the one most likely to come out first), and some original works as well. The Tennessee remake in particular has hit a snag but hopefully it can be revitalized before the day I die LMAO

TLDR: stay tuned. I have plans….. big plans.

Ostinato is back on my other account btw. Kinda forgot to do that a long time ago.

Recently found an old phone associated with a ton of old music. Most of it is too garbage to even post without being considered spam, but the chosen 7 are the ones I decided were good enough to publish for archival reasons on my second account. Go and have a listen if you’re interested in hearing my 14yo self try to put notes on a screen.

These 7 songs fill the gap (hence the name) between my first two accounts. After 5 years of waiting, lol.

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I feel like an internet personality advertising my bluesky account like this but like how else are people gonna know I'm there? Never even had a twitter account.

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(also I’m cooking up another piece to be released November 17)

I’m very pleased to announce that I’ve been chosen to serve as a judge for this round of NGADM! They needed a backup lol. Wish me luck!

Actually I’m just a full judge now for consistency purposes. So yeah that’s pretty cool

We finally have a new banner and icon to go along with the release of my NGUAC submission Zenith! Thought it was time for an update. The old banner looked a bit antiquated and the old icon is too associated with the “50” part of my name back when I was doing that series. Well that series has been done for over a year now (damn, time flies) so I decided to refocus onto the “steak” part. The banner retains that old red white and blue but the icon is now a steak, just like it should’ve been for a while now.

Oh my next track I think is gonna be a banger so stay tuned.

Left my decently priced over ear headphones out in the rain today. Very fun.

So how have your days been?

Hey everyone! I’m here to announce that the entire 50 states series is FINALLY an extended EP on youtube! This has been a long time coming. I got it done within the span of a day, so finally there’s a better way to binge the whole thing!

https://youtu.be/iPeshDKr_R4?si=6CS7pH1-phxxztLL

Complete with chapters, 2.5 hours of a slowly zooming out image, and text at the beginning and end (and definitely no secrets in between!)