About the Band
There are so many people in this band! You wouldn’t believe how many people are a part of it. That’s why we do things in so many different styles and use so many different instruments.
Okay, not really
This “band” is actually the solo musical project of a single person, who goes by “fluffy.” They feel awkward about writing about themself in the third person, however, so the rest of this is going to drop the conceit.
About me
I’ve been making music most of my life, but ended up going into software engineering as my primary career. I worked on some pretty cool stuff, some of which you’ve probably used at some point.
While it was fun for a while, stress and burnout combined with a chronic pain disorder eventually led me to essentially retire from working in tech, and now I have music as my main thing. I also do some video editing, and still do some programming as well, mostly for personal projects.
As of right now, I live in a small town just outside Seattle, where I operate a small recording studio from my basement, and in which I make music for myself and others, especially games, films, short videos, podcasts, interactive experiences, what have you.
I also currently run Novembeat, and sometimes help with Song Fight! (mostly on website maintenance).
I am usually happy to take on commissioned work for others; please drop me a line if you’re interested in working with me!
I’m also interested in collaborating with other musicians! If that’s something you’d like to do, feel free to reach out!
Other stuff about me
- Pronouns: she/her or they/them
- Age: older than Pac-Man, but younger than Pong
- Favorite colors: purple, red
- Favorite pattern: plaid
- Homepage: I have a more general website which is essentially a shrine to my ADHD
- Also I have ADHD
About the band name
I used to release under a bunch of different names and purported identities and I got tired of juggling it all, so I decided to lean into the idea that it’s a single person pretending to be a bunch of different people.
I was the first one to release music as Sockpuppet (I made absolutely sure the name wasn’t taken at the time), but unfortunately there are other bands and solo musicians who didn’t do their due diligence and it’s an endless source of confusion. That wasn’t part of the plan but I guess it’s kind of fitting.
About the creature(s)
The usually-plaid creature I represent myself with is my fursona, also named “fluffy” (named after me, not the other way around). It is an amalgam of a bunch of things I find cute, and I call it a “critter,” or if I’m feeling fanciful, an “anthropomorphic human.”
Sometimes there’s a porcupine, which represents a prior iteration of my identity, and sometimes there’s a platypus, which represents a mostly-deprecated alter ego from back in the day who I still sometimes draw upon for inspiration.
The footer text you see on each page is randomly chosen at page render time and can be used to test my website’s caching behavior. The text sources include, but are not limited to:
- Inside jokes
- Random lyrics, both from my own songs (including ones I haven’t written yet) and from some of my friends, plus a few you might have actually heard of
- Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies
Originally it was just going to be a copyright notice, but where’s the fun in that?