It has become obvious that I am a layorphile. I love putting sounds and riffs and lines on top of each other and building and building and building. I want songs to be a constant crescendo. I recently saw a band that did this very well. They are called Loney, Dear. I still have no idea what that name means. No, that's not a typo. It's not supposed to be "Lonely".

I came up with another name for that kind of music. I call it Promised Land music, because it reminds me of the end of a movie when the protagonist finally makes it, finally gets the girl, finally changes his life, finally brings down a dictatorship, finally gets there, etc.

When I'm feeling down or just bored, I start writing one of those songs. Here's one I recently started, using Fruity Loops.

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I've been hearing some skipping in the songs that I uploaded, but I can't tell if it's just on my end or if the skipping is actually in the file. If you're getting skipping, let me know so I can yell at my computer.

I finally uploaded my song, Potentiality. For those of you that don't already know about it, it is a song that I recorded, edited, and produced professionally with my music teacher (using mainly Sonar). I then went to a studio, sang it a billion times until it was right, and helped with the final editing.

So, my friend Evan and I are finally starting to put together that band we've been talking about for a year. The other day, he and I looked through my songs to try to choose five that we would like to complete first. If all goes well, we'll be playing at the Battle of the Bands at our school this spring. The majority of the first songs we picked are very upbeat.

Here's a sample of two of the five. It's exported from Guitar Pro, so it's pretty much crappy MIDI sounds, but you'll get the gist of it. Hopefully, the crappy sounds will only make you that much eager to hear the real version!

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If anyone wants the music for these, let me know and I'll upload some PDF's

10:57 PM

Note the lack of plural in the title due to the lack of people that actually read my blog. At least I'm self-aware regarding lack of followers. Hopefully, though, I'll be able to attract more people.

Anyway, it's been quite a while since I've posted. This is mainly due to my preoccupation with college applications, which are now about 99% finished. As soon as they are completely finished, I plan on dedicating a lot of time to music, including my own stuff and my future/current/half/imaginary band's stuff (though I might make a separate blog for the latter).

I also want to make this blog as enjoyable and convenient as possible for you. So, if you have any suggestions, do not hesitate to comment either on the blog or in an email to me! However, I haven't really decided what email address I want to use for this blog, so...just leave comments for now.

One of the main things I want comments about is how the actual music is presented on the blog. Is the drop-down menu at the top good? Would you prefer songs embedded in the posts instead? Both? Or, of course, any other option that I haven't thought of. Please let me know =)

Also, if you have even the tiniest sliver of interest in my music and my blog, please pass that on to your friends! And tell them to comment! Nothing inspires me more to post than the knowledge that people will actually read it. If you have any suggestions about things you'd like me to post about, don't hesitate to let me know!

I've got some more stuff to upload, but until I decide exactly how I want to display my music on the site, I'm going to hold off. That is, unless I'm incapable of making a decision soon. In that case, I'll just upload them using the current system.

8:38 PM

Somehow managed to get a mp3 player working, as you have hopefully noticed.
I just put up the first, horribly unfinished version of a song I'm working on that is, as of now, called 008alpha. Catchy, right? I don't really ever name my songs until they're finished, and that rarely happens, so I only have about three titled songs. Anywho, I'll leave this early version up for a bit just to see if it works.

The song is meant to be a kind of solemn, haunting prettytechno (that's supposed to be one word. the word Techno has too many connotations, as does the word Electronic. Unfortunately, I couldn't think of a better word to display the fact that electronic sounds are used, but it is not...techno-like. So I made up a new genre.). It's hard to categorize my songs sometimes because I mix so much random crap. This one has a string section that comes in towards the end. I plan to make it a lot longer. I also plan to add vocals to this eventually, but only if people don't hate it.

So, on the music box above, click the drop down menu and select the mp3 to load it, then click play. Hopefully it will work.

EDIT: Hm...this player appears to leave the quality of the sound...wanting. But, until I find something better, it'll have to do. Also, I am aware of the fact that the strings are horribly out of sync. I've fixed it since then, but I'm too lazy to upload that version right now.

7:42 PM

I thought an explanation would be useful.

A Vampire Cactus is pretty self-explanatory. At first glance, it appears to be nigh but a (mostly) harmless cactus. Vampire Cacti tend to take over unused pottery to create their home, much like the hermit crab.

A widely unknown fact about the vampire cactus is that it is able to move itself. The roots of a vampire cactus are quite strong, and actually contain muscle tissue. A vampire cactus, once settled into its new home, will dig small holes in the bottom of their pottery. Especially strong roots will stick out through the bottom, allowing the vampire to scuttle along most flat land. Unfortunately, it doesn't move very fast. This is not much of a problem for the vampire cactus, for it does not have many natural predators.

Those brave herbivores that would attempt to eat a cactus will be unpleasantly surprised upon getting to close to a vampire cactus. This is because the vampire cactus, like the venus fly trap, is a carnivore, feeding off the small bits of flesh and blood of animals. The spikes that stick out of its body are actually retractable. When prey approaches, they will rapidly extend, skewering the creature. The vampire cactus will then extend its special extraction roots through the holes at the bottom of its pot to suck the nutrients out of the dead animal.

Also, vampire cacti are known to enjoy nineteenth century literature and poetry.