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.