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This is a little guitar song that I strung together over the course of a few spare moments this past week.

It's been a minute since I last wrote a song.

A big reason I got into free software was due to my formative experiences with buying commercial software, mostly for writing music.

This song started with the one funky synth at the beginning, but quickly became a study in maintaining a cohesive sonic atmosphere as the size of an arrangement increases.

This is a noodle I wrote in the span of three hours or so.

When I was young, every winter my family gathered to a cabin to welcome the snow.

128x128 pixels, DB32 palette.

32x32 pixels, A64 palette.

I wrote this song in a flurry of activity late one night.

I've never written a song like this before.

This song is another guitar exploration, this time trying out nylon strings and different strumming patterns.

This song is a study in acoustic guitar.

This is probably my first attempt ever at writing a piece entirely for strings.

48x48 pixels, animated GIF, two colors.

This is a 32x32 pixel sprite made with the Virtual Boy palette.

I don't know why, but something about the sound of the harpsichord at the end of Halloween World made me think: this would probably sound pretty good as a chiptune song.

The basic idea for this song came to me a couple of days ago while making a smoothie.

This little pumpkin sprite comes from the Darker Days tileset, a little tileset I've been working on for Halloween this year.

This song is a second attempt at an idea I started a few years ago and never finished.

A 64x64 pixel sketch.

With Halloween coming up, I've been working on a graveyard tileset for a hypothetical top-down 2D game.

This is my first ever of what I'd call a "drum study".

If you were to ask me why I made this song, I'm not sure I could answer you.

When I was younger, my grandparents took me to see the Nethercutt Collection.

I don't have much to say about this one, at least not yet.

We'll Be Home Soon reminds me of my family growing up, before my parents were divorced.

I guess you might call this a light study.

I like to think that music is an exploration rather than an activity with a goal.

I stumbled across the Kars plugin while researching Linux synth plugins.

This song was the result of a challenge.

This song represents a number of firsts.

This song is the first anything at all I've ever produced on Linux that sounds like anything.

This week, I came up with a new saying and a new operating principle for my life: put your worst foot forward.

There's no more bass left after this is used up.

I held on to this song for a long time before I ever shared it with anyone.

I've had an original Novation Circuit groovebox for a long time now, and was under the impression that it no longer worked.

Today, the power went out at my house.

The "dumb" TV is dying.

Life is complicated.

There was once a great hero in my life who said to me, and I quote: "I still fly coach."

I've been working as a software engineer for my entire career up to this point.