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VRelium: Furever Christmas

I’m pleased as punch to have performed at VRelium’s 2025 holiday show, benefitting The Trevor Project. I did not come up with any holiday-appropriate music to sing.

Gilly’s Winter Melodies

I performed a set with Gilly’s Cave of Music for their holiday show! I decided to just do it acoustically, like the good old days.

Lorenzo’s Music Podcast

I was a guest over on Lorenzo’s Music Podcast, where we talked about a bunch of topics including VR-based performances, creative self-expression, and the future of federated music streaming, among other things. Thank you so much to Tom Ray for having me on!

On success: a recap and a look ahead

It has been one year exactly since I last wrote about my thoughts on what it means to be successful, and I’d like to share where things have gone since then.

TransPaws × Trans Academy staff hangout

I performed at a private gathering for my fellow Trans Academy volunteers as well as the volunteer staff of TransPaws. I had a cold! I tried out a few completely-untested new backing tracks! It was fun.

Skyline Aurora Festival

I performed a half-hour set with Skyline Festival on November 21! The show was for the benefit of Feeding America, a very important charity in this day and age.

November updates

We’re close to the two-thirds mark of the month so I figure I should share what’s been going on! It’s all good stuff, I think.

Oops, All YouTube!

After going through the rigmarole of making nice visualizer videos for Refactor, I noticed that I’d already done that a year ago! In fact I’d done it for a few albums and I’d forgotten about that.

YouTube self-management update

If you follow my YouTube channel you’ve probably been at least somewhat inundated with a bunch of videos on your feed with my music reposts. I’ve finally figured out a process I’m more or less happy with, and am figuring out the best cadence for doing things.

My current plan is to do two releases per week; on Mondays will be what I consider my “real” or “authored” albums, and Thursdays will be what I consider “jam” albums. The categorization of these is a little wishy-washy, but for example, things I’ve done for Novembeat and Strawberry Jam are “jam” albums, while things like Refactor and Songs of Substance are “authored” albums.

Let’s Novembeat!

Hey y'all! As you might know, I coordinate an annual song-a-day challenge called Novembeat, where in November you try to make something musical every day. Several of my albums have been produced that way, and last year, in lieu of doing the traditional challenge (aside from a handful of low-effort experiments) I mostly used the month as a push to finally finish up Transitions.

I’ve always found Novembeat to be a very helpful thing for feeling unstuck with my own musical pursuits, and I’d highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get a bit more practice with any aspect of the music creation process.

My suggestion is to only do it to the level for which you feel it’s helpful. Don’t burn yourself out on music trying to produce something if it isn’t flowing; the point is to challenge yourself, not to push yourself to the breaking point. Most years I haven’t actually done something every day, and getting anything done means there’s now more music in the world than there was before, and that can only be a good thing.

Anyway, think of this as an invitation to join in. Or if a weekly-ish cadence is more your speed, check out Song Fight!, which I wrote about recently.

Goings-on in the Sockiverse

Hello! I think it’s been a while since I’ve talked about what’s going on with the band and what sorts of things are happening. So here’s a casual collection of updates along those lines.

Ubuntu Summit 25.10

I had a (prerecorded) set broadcast as part of Ubuntu Summit 2025 as part of the music festival stream. My set on its own is embedded below.

Review: Kunaki CDs

My first batch of CDs from Kunaki arrived today, and here’s a brief review of how they turned out.

(Short version: They’re great!)

Bandcrash: Not just for self-publishing

If you’ve poked around this website you probably know that I wrote and use Bandcrash to build the embedded players for the music previews. You might also be aware of it as the tool that I use to publish my albums to my itch.io page as an alternative to Bandcamp. But I also use it as a tool for a bunch of other things in my music — including part of how I publish things to Bandcamp and other storefronts.

Here’s some ways in which I use it.