Notescast

The basement in the new place is all bare walls with barely anything in it. It really reflects a lot of high end, including the sound of right hand fingers scraping along the strings before plucking them. Annoying, but I feel there is some sort of potential with a sound environment like this.

This is Howling, a piece I made accidentally when I messed up an app that I'm using to make another piece. I somehow made all of the event lengths way too long, but it sounds great somehow, though very different from what I intended.

Pikmin and street crossings. There’s a lot of street noise in this one, I think. Hopefully, you can still hear the speech!

Not sure where I’m going with this, but I’m getting a lot out of this Dsus4 (with the 6th) chord. (I think that’s how Hard Day’s Night opens?)

This is my summer jam, Pyroclasmic Slooch. I'm not an avid listener of summer jams, so I probably don't have all the hallmarks of the summer jam. This more like "what I imagine summer jams" are like. (Greatly informed by Strong Bad, now that I think about it.) I had more robot voice in it before, but the guy pointed out it didn't really fit in.

In an earlier version of the summer jam, I accidentally drifted off into some kinda Pantera riff.

When you can’t quite remember the desert music from Super Mario Bros. 2.

This attempt at adding solos to this piece was bad, but entertaining!

I started writing something to generate a solo for a piece I'm working on. It's not ready yet, but it does produce stuff that can sort of be used to accompany narrative speech. Here's one of the solos it made over some olde timey radio .

Once in a while, I think I’ve thought of a great riff while running, so I record it. Then, I listen back and am like what is this

Vanishing for the sake of real estate

Driving with cats

The guy kept complaining about having to do his writing assignment, and while I was sitting here making sure he did it, I kept picturing the guy from The Unforgiven video from the ‘90s, being forced to write two pages about a small moment in his life.

I stopped in at Halal Guys Chicken and Gyro, and I was impressed that they were playing this music. It turned out that they were not open, but their door was unlocked. So, maybe they play Bruno Mars or something when customers are there.

Some rain crackle from this morning.

Sidewalk tiles, enjoyment-productivity fallacies

7DRL pre-gaming

For the "minimal viable music" Disquiet Junto prompt, I made Hull Ruptures, which is a piece built entirely from a recording I made of popcorn popping.

What powers Hat Day, al.

Weather in the ones! At least once.

Here's The Wizards' Enlightening Conversation. (The name of the song is The Wizards' Enlightening Conversation.) It's a version of Two Robots Loitering at Guitar Center from before I figured out I could get a decent guitar sound in there. I still like it, too.

This is Two Robots Loitering at Guitar Center. I wrote it via this script , which picks progressions, then modes, and fills them out with riffs and lead phrases that fit those modes. (I tried out sometimes doing some Slayer-style chaos soloing, but I learned you need a human to do that. Or better programming.) It took way longer to get working than I expected, derailing my Synthruary a bit. Once I...

The difficulty of figuring out what matters and what doesn’t.

I got a small mixer partly so that I can play my guitar through an amp modeler on my computer. I like the mixer so far and was able to get a few amp sounds that I like better than what I can get on iOS, but there are issues with it working at the low latency I need it to work at (hence the pops in this recording). I had to do a lot of poking around just to get sound going. So, I see why so many pe...

This is Winding Down. I didn't use the Synthruary prompt because I was short on time. Basically, I wrote a tool to graph this into midi. Fun fact: It does not actually slow down.