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I'm calling this microtrack I just came up with A Short Life. 05.02.2026 0:13 ↓

I'm calling this microtrack I just came up with A Short Life.

The guy sometimes just starts riffing mid-practice. 06.01.2026 2:52 ↓

The guy sometimes just starts riffing mid-practice.

Kid intonation makes Hall of the Mountain King a touch scarier. 06.12.2025 0:19 ↓

Kid intonation makes Hall of the Mountain King a touch scarier.

Avant Keyboard Cat 21.11.2025 0:18 ↓

Avant Keyboard Cat

The guy worked out a major variation of Korobeiniki (Tetris). 03.11.2025 0:36 ↓

The guy worked out a major variation of Korobeiniki (Tetris).

Hey, a 15/8 groove. 01.11.2025 0:52 ↓

Hey, a 15/8 groove.

Rests, the loudest part of the whole piece! 18.10.2025 0:20 ↓

Rests, the loudest part of the whole piece!

Trying Can Can with the full orchestra.<br><br>Watching these kids’ rehearsals … 18.10.2025 0:16 ↓

Trying Can Can with the full orchestra. Watching these kids’ rehearsals drives home how much music context matters to the music experience. You know music comes from people. In this case, I know that they’re kids and that they’re learning. Sometime I only know that it’s some bedroom ambient guy with a computer. Whatever I know informs everything I hear. That’s why this mistake-packed playthrough i...

Can Can, a work in progress 18.10.2025 1:21 ↓

Can Can, a work in progress

Sounds heard from the Longy bathroom 18.10.2025 0:17 ↓

Sounds heard from the Longy bathroom

Maybe running a VPS is a bigger deal than I say it is 02.10.2025 5:32 ↓

Maybe running a VPS is a bigger deal than I say it is

The guy independently discovered spiccato. 29.09.2025 0:13 ↓

The guy independently discovered spiccato.

There’s some really big octave+ stretches for the left hand in Kakariko Village. 18.09.2025 0:20 ↓

There’s some really big octave+ stretches for the left hand in Kakariko Village.

Piano store ambience 13.09.2025 0:36 ↓

Piano store ambience

Here’s some riffs from my “Used Riffs” folder. 23.08.2025 0:45 ↓

Here’s some riffs from my “Used Riffs” folder.

I made these digital/machine-type sounds with my nostril! 09.08.2025 0:13 ↓

I made these digital/machine-type sounds with my nostril!

The 5th and 6th grade summer camp string orchestra consisted of:<br><br>- Four v… 09.08.2025 6:26 ↓

The 5th and 6th grade summer camp string orchestra consisted of: - Four violins - Two violas - Eight cellos - One bass I guess cello is having a moment! Suffice to say, those aren't the proportions they have in Serious Orchestras, but obviously you gotta let the kids play what they actually want to play, and that config didn't sound bad at all. They also had a subset of the high school orchestra p...

Castlevania Rush E 03.08.2025 0:08 ↓

Castlevania Rush E

Intense Chicago cicadas 28.07.2025 0:24 ↓

Intense Chicago cicadas

Super Mario range challenge 17.07.2025 0:42 ↓

Super Mario range challenge

The H2N is solid. I used it to record the guy's recital (he played Für Elise), b… 18.05.2025 3:15 ↓

The H2N is solid. I used it to record the guy's recital (he played Für Elise), but I also recorded video with the iPhone. The iPhone audio distorts in few places and has muddier bass. (It is still amazing given that its mics are tiny.) The H2N did pick up the sound of my feet moving, but that could have been my mistake for putting it on the floor.

I bought a Zoom H2N handheld recorder from Goodwill, and I knew there was a risk… 16.05.2025 0:08 ↓

I bought a Zoom H2N handheld recorder from Goodwill, and I knew there was a risk there but was still disappointed that it added a quiet but audible pitched noise (maybe around 1760 Hz?) to its recordings. You can hear it in the first bit of audio I attached. So, today, I took it to the basement and took it apart to see if there was anything obviously wrong with it. Nothing. I put it back together...

We went to the <a href="https://necmusic.edu/events/brass-bash-andrew-mccandless… 07.04.2025 3:32 ↓

We went to the NEC Brass Bash (well, half of it because it ran too late for the guy), and the played an all-French-horn Jurassic Park! The best piece, though, was Eric Ewazen’s Concert Fanfare. I didn’t bootleg that, but here’s MUSIK UND KUNST PRIVATUNIVERSITÄT DER STADT WIEN performance of it . Half of the power came from the acoustics of that concert hall, though. To this day, large acoustic per...

Some nice hard rain is happening. 01.04.2025 0:27 ↓

Some nice hard rain is happening.

The guy is trying to learn Cave Story on cello now. 29.03.2025 1:12 ↓

The guy is trying to learn Cave Story on cello now.