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hvb
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here's my idea of a 2022 retrospective... i summed up every song that i made this year and recorded some statistics about the lot of 'em.

  • X-hour Battles (predominantly 1-hour, meaning made in 1 hour each; occasionally in 2 or 4): 308 songs totaling a length of 7 hours, 23 minutes, 54 seconds.
  • Full Songs (fully fleshed-out compo/compilation tunes & personal releases, both released this year and some reserved for future releases) - 105 songs totaling a length of 4 hours, 37 minutes, 50 seconds.
  • among the full songs there were 18 collabs done within this year, 15 of which were with unique persons.
  • 4 songs were covers.
  • this means the full sum of my entire musical output for the year was (drum roll): 12 hours, 1 minute, 44 seconds across 413 songs. just over half a day worth of music!

overall, those numbers are pretty satisfying to look at; if you'd asked me to guess i'd have probably thrown out a number like 8hr or so. on the other hand, it's kind of uncomfortable to think about the cost of having done so - i hyper-focused on music and basically nothing else this year, i.e. to the detriment of all else. i barely talked to anyone, grew more distant from virtually everyone if i was even talking to them within the last two years anyway, and failed to step back into being social in-person, which is something i've still not braced myself for from the start of the pandemic onward (i used to have a social life! really!). i've selfishly kept to myself and grown more bitter about my own life decisions and oscillate between feeling quite lonely or comfortable in aloneness but i am certainly alone. music has provided an enormous shelter from that because at least if i wasn't doing anything else, i was creating; and i was creating A LOT and learning A LOT. 2022 was easily my best year for music in that regard, and i hope to take a more focused approach to what i want to create in 2023 now that i've essentially done a mountain of legwork. i know somewhere in my heart that i really need to stop being such a hermit but at the same time i know from how i still feel that it won't be as soon as it should be, and everyone is going to drift even further away. it's as if i'm not ready to break the hyper-focus just yet, because with clearer plans in my head this is only the beginning.

that's what's on my mind going into this new year... we shall see what becomes of it. at the very least, expect some full releases from me, starting with a compilation of my absolute favorite 2022 compo tunes from around the web in February, with lots more to follow.


hvb
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the year is basically 2/3rds over and i decided to check in with The Numbers to see where i'm at.

actually, with respect to the overall length of "all music i have made in 2023", i'm right on track to match with 2022 - i count 7 hours, 50 minutes and 29 seconds of music, which is very very close to 8 hours, and the 8th month of the year is wrapping up. that's exciting! last year was pretty much exactly 12 hours of music written.

even cooler though is that compared to last year, the ratio between "Full Songs" and "X-hour Battles" is way different; two-thirds of the total runtime is Full Songs which has already surpassed last year by a fair bit.

i guess we'll see how the rest of the year shakes out but most of my remaining plans involve future album material, so i dunno if i'll reach 12hr again and it'll be more Full Songs ofc. i'll write more about this at the end of the year so i don't get ahead of myself here, and do a more careful examination of whether i met my goals...


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in reply to @hvb's post:

That is an impressive amount of music output. Wow. And there's no objective gauge for quality, but I think most familiar with your work would rate it as "bonkers high" or something similar. Somehow you achieve both quantity and quality, and this is impressive and speaks to a prolific talent.

Responding to your older post - if you do decide to jump back into personal social connections more at some point, I hope you can find it enriching and complementary to your craft.