Gamedev mom who hates capitalism
you should not be a 10x engineer or whatever, you should be focusing on the vision and ideas and emotions that make your project interesting and beautiful and touching. some of the greatest indie games of all time have absolutely nightmarish codebases because the creator was rightly focused on the player experience
if it shipped, it works
the day in which bandcamp passes on its revenue share directly to artists, so that all of your purchase goes straight to them (minus a bit for Paypal, who do not want to play along.) I only have three recommendations this time because I'm in the process of packing up my entire apartment to move house (more on that in a bit) but what I do have for you is All Good Stuff. Bangers through and through.
Slut Hymn - Baths
https://bathsmusic.bandcamp.com/track/slut-hymn
This is the first single from what I imagine is a new album by Baths - maybe my favourite of Will Wiesenfeld's musical projects. As you'd expect from him it is very laid back and also kind of quietly tense - jittering drum parts against beautiful chord voicings. I'm very excited for the rest of the album.
Cubic Zirconia - Katy Kirby
https://katykirbyon.bandcamp.com/album/cubic-zirconia
Katy Kirby is one of my absolute favourite songwriters and her arrangement and instrumentation is amazing. There's a level of detail to her music that is almost disarming at first - what sounds extremely straightforward is revealed to have all these points of focus the more you listen.
bone & blood - queenjazz
https://queenjazz.bandcamp.com/album/bone-blood
This is, as jazz says, "a bunch of music about being depressed". There's a kind of Blonde Redhead vibe to some of this stuff, and some really incredible distorted/processed vocals. I love 'conceit(concede)'.
I telephoned a man called Craig ("did you say your name was Greg?" / "Craig!") yesterday and he's going to bring a big container outside my house in a matter of days and then I'm going to put almost all my stuff in it and then Craig's going to take it to the Midwest. He doesn't do this for free.
I'm also returning the lovely acoustic guitar I borrowed to a dear friend who is starting lessons, and I'm going to need to get another one of those. Craig will not add new items to the big container. He only takes what's there and a guitar isn't.
Moving is extremely expensive. We're getting there, but it's intense both to the soul and to the bank account. So if you've been waiting to pick up any of my music, this Bandcamp Friday would be a wonderful time. I've got more music coming down the pipe, but here are the two big tracks I've worked on recently:
The Stellar Combustor - PALISADE
https://notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/the-stellar-combustor
This is the theme for the midseason arc of our main show. It's the soundtrack for a weapon strapped onto the sun that boils with fire and malice. It samples a recording that someone made of some wind that immediately got bad reviews on the sample platform because it "doesn't sound much like wind." I think it sounds like a machine spinning up and someone wailing. I love it. My goal with this track was to make something that - the first time around the melody - sounded deeply sad and then, the second time around, sounded full of a kind of awful dread. Going from that sadness to that dreadfulness was a challenge but I think I got there.
The Farmers' Almanac - Live at the Table
https://notquitereal.bandcamp.com/track/the-farmers-almanac-grandpas-farm
I composed this at about the same time as the Stellar Combustor but luckily didn't have to arrange it until that track was done. They are very different. I wanted to write some cute music - a beautiful melody, some nice precise harmonies - something that'd sit well as a town theme in a farming game. A lot of the way I write harmonies here (and across a lot of my composing) comes from English folk music and hymns from the 18th and 19th century. Here, especially, from the tradition of the West Gallery Bands, groups of musicians from the local parish and community who would accompany singers on the violin, clarinet, flute, serpent etc. These were gradually (and sadly) phased out by priests who felt that they could have more control over a single organist than a crew of people from the village who love to play the violin, but their arrangements and style are fairly well documented and I tried to get some of that here, especially in the midsection.
You might like to check out the rest of my music at https://notquitereal.bandcamp.com/ to see if there's anything else that takes your fancy. I got a case for my strat yesterday, but I haven't packed it up yet. Still work to do.
eggbug rider will always be with you
credit to my gf for commenting basically this
