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Autumn Tidings

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As it turns out, I do still exist, and ’tis the season to be spooky (or at least somber and moody), so in the spirit of Halloween, let’s play a bit of catch-up with a few of my semi-regular October pieces over the intervening years since my last update.

 

 

2024 – Crimson Spiral

The most recent of the bunch.  A tense little harpsichord sonata that I’d roughed out a few bars for last year, and ended up returning to over the past couple weeks and finishing with atypically little turmoil.

 
 

2023 – A Path Through the Bramble

Another harpsichord piece (there’s just something classy and autumn-y about the harpsichord, you know?).  This one gave me a lot more trouble, and I wasn’t sure if I was going to properly finish it, as it wasn’t quite clicking until I changed a single note by a single semitone in one chord, and then suddenly everything fell into place, and I ultimately ended up reasonably happy with it.

 
 

2022 – Susurrus

Just a solo piano piece this time.  I like the sound of this felt piano in theory, but it always feels terribly difficult to equalize, and mastering has never been a strong suit of mine.  I suppose I’m generally O.K. with how it turned out, though, provided it’s not played back on speakers that exacerbate the messier frequency interactions.

 
 

2020 – Tell Us How You Really Feel

I think it’s fair to say that 2020 was a pretty awful year for the world at large, so this was something of an anti-tribute to it.  This piece is more of an experimental, grungy, angry, corrupted semi-mechanical cacophony of bad times (but still generally melodic, as I have a hard time committing to straight-up ambient compositions).

 

 

Bene scribete.

Pumpkin Punch / Stress Fracture

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In lieu of sufficient progress on certain matters to make a worthwhile announcement quite yet, here is…yet more music.

Eh? Ehhhhh???

 

 

This one’s just a short bangy harpsichord piece I did while feeling glum. What better than baroque tones to express feeling bad, but, like, in a classy way? As always, SoundCloud compression trashes harpsichord, but feel free to download if so inclined.

 
 

 

And here’s an experimental synth piece I did with a neat little waveform shaper called Glass Viper. I constructed all of the sounds in it just by manually drawing in and layering small audio waveforms (which it will frequency-modulate to pitch-map), and only really scratched the surface of what this synthesizer is capable of.

Anyway…

 

Bene scribete.

Trovami Sotto la Luna

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WHERE HAVE I BEEN.

Good question!  Short answer…doing big things.  But more on that later.

For now – new music!

 

 

I had the urge to write something classical, which I realized I hadn’t done in some time, so I threw together my take on a baroque harpsichord toccata (well, maybe not “threw together”; I actually spent a lot more time on it than I meant to).  As usual, SoundCloud’s streaming compression crumples harpsichord dynamics, but alas.  Feel free to download if you’d like a giant FLAC file.

 

Bene scribete.