These are some of my oldest songs, all but one of them written back when I first started writing songs with lyrics. They have been slightly polished and cleaned up and remastered, but are otherwise as they were originally released.

Some of these are outtakes from aborted album projects. I still had a ways to go before I was ready to release these songs properly. Sometimes things take a while to ferment.

This is basically a companion album to Transitions, in which most of these songs were finally redone for modern ears, in a way I’m finally happy with. The artwork, on the other hand, is a reference to my very first album.

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• Track: Repair My Heart [Song Fight!]
• Track: Five Minutes [Song Fight!]
• Track: I LOVE YOU [Song Fight!]
• Track: Alright Alright [Outtakes]
• Track: 120 MPH [Song Fight!]
• Track: Repair My Heart [Plus 5]
• Track: Fool in the Middle [Song Fight!]
• Track: Paper Cuts and Spilling Guts [Song Fight!]
• Track: 120 MPH [Plus 5]
• Track: I LOVE YOU [Plus 5]
• Track: Birds of Our Own [Plus 5]
• Track: Shipwreck [Song Fight!]
• Track: Birds of Our Own [Song Fight!]
• Track: Sunny Again [Song Fight!]
• Track: Alright Alright [Song Fight!]
• Track: Stronger Than [Song Fight!]
• Track: Shipwreck [Plus 5]
• Track: Listen Close [Plus 5]
• Track: Stronger Than [Plus 5]
• Track: Listen Close [Song Fight!]
• Track: Alright Alright [2005]

Due to technical limitations this recording only contains my projection backdrop.

I volunteer for Trans Academy as the lead composer and as an assistant video editor. Here is some of the music I composed for the YouTube channel.

In addition to composing the main thematic elements and producing all of the above audio tracks, as lead composer I direct a team of musicians to maintain consistency around our musical branding and also provide guidance and education to raise our musical standards overall. I also work closely with the video editors to ensure the quality of the overall audio mix.

I also frequently perform at Trans Academy events with the goal of encouraging more people (especially members of the trans community) to start producing and performing music, and I love the connections I’ve made as a result, particularly the members of my team who have come on board as a result.

About Trans Academy

Trans Academy is a 501(c⁠)(3) non-profit organization committed to fostering a safe, inclusive, and educational virtual environment that empowers the transgender community and their allies. They provide peer support, voice lessons, vocational skill training and networking, resources to navigate gender identity, and opportunities for meaningful connections. In doing so they create a supportive space where members can engage in empowering conversations, access valuable resources, and celebrate the diversity of gender identities.

For quite a while I had been working on an album called Transitions, in which I was rerecording some of my oldest Song Fight! songs now that I sorta know what I’m doing. While doing this I decided to also do a second companion album, Deadnames, in which I would provide remastered versions of the original recordings.

I came to realize that a bunch of the songs that I was planning wouldn’t really fit Transitions, and that their original recordings didn’t really fit with Deadnames either — but those songs were still overdue to be released, and gosh darnit, I’d already gone through the effort to remaster them! One song in particular really wanted to be released in its original version as a single, and I came to realize that all six of those misfit songs could instead go on their own little EP. So I gave them a bit more love than a simple remaster.

The result: Here’s Notions, an EP in which one particularly silly song is joined by five other particularly silly songs. I hope you enjoy it.

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• Track: Robot Baby
• Track: Wait Right Here
• Track: A Grand Parade
• Track: Material Change
• Track: The Supper Club
• Track: After Hours

This performance of Valley Highway was recorded at the Trans Academy Moonlit Academy concert series.

I make a lot of music for things. Some of it ends up being used, some of it doesn’t. Much of it deserves to be heard anyway.

Some of the things that this music was originally made for:

• Deck of Desire, an extremely adult-oriented deck-building game
• Full Course, a canceled visual novel about cooking and mental health
• Magnolia’s Early Morning Walk, a work-in-progress meditation on life
• The Trans Academy on VRChat, a non-profit organization that provides a safe educational space for gender-diverse people
• Spooky Sushi, a virtual reality game jam prototype
• Other games that never got off the drawing board

Are you interested in having music like this in your project? Drop me a line, or see my commissions page.

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• Track: Academy Tour
• Track: Veggie Baggle
• Track: Lina and Lucas
• Track: Ghost Sashimi
• Track: 3 AM
• Track: Darklight
• Track: Legacy
• Track: Interpose
• Track: Underwater
• Track: You Call This a Caprese Salad?!
• Track: Delicious Candy [every anime theme song]
• Track: Water to Wine
• Track: Wild Battle
• Track: dancingcube
• Track: Lo-Fi Beats to Trans Your Gender To
• Track: 3:30 / Walkies
• Track: Let’s Go !!
• Track: Turn the Paige
• Track: Ghost Sushi

Music made for the 8th Strawberry Jam game jam.

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• Track: Up to Noir Good
• Track: Snake Tits
• Track: Lo-fi Jam
• Track: A Quiet Desperation
• Track: Daytime
• Track: When the Morning Comes
• Track: Daytime Vibin'
• Track: Maid Café
• Track: Up to Noir Better
• Track: Decline
• Track: What’s a Little Cannibalism Between Friends?
• Track: Have Maria Over for a Swim
• Track: Coffee Shop
• Track: Tea and Coffee
• Track: Night Ride
• Track: Have Marina Over for Lunch
• Track: Bouncy Tits

Usually I do a whole album in a month for Novembeat but this year I was dealing with some annoying physical and mental health issues so I took it easy this time around and just made some small video game soundtracks. But what happens, happens, and some music is better than no music.

Also I’m not pretending to be a whole band this time. Sorry for breaking the illusion. It’s just me.

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• Track: Block Stacking
• Track: Shenanigans
• Track: Toy Mouse
• Track: Preparation
• Track: Drumrush

I’ve been producing a meditation podcast called Transformative Meditations. Every single episode gets its own unique, original backing music, and these work as meditation music in their own right, particularly with psychotropic/psychedelic therapy involved.

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• Track: Fretless Porpentine
• Track: Embodied Consciousness
• Track: Floating
• Track: Detachment
• Track: Aspicrations
• Track: Chasing Sunbeams

Music made for some game jam games among other things.

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• Track: Lounging About
• Track: Rondo
• Track: Dungone
• Track: Interlude
• Track: Abstract
• Track: Initiation
• Track: Magic Battle
• Track: Panic
• Track: Floating
• Track: Patrol
• Track: Chill Time
• Track: Ship Full of Jerks (theme)

I composed the primary music for the Ship Full of Jerks podcast, a science fiction and pop-culture podcast hosted by Ryan Thomas Riddle and Mark Farinas.

The client’s request was simply for “space bossanova. Like 50s spacey.”

Soundtrack for a game jam game

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• Track: Desolation
• Track: Healing
• Track: Garden Ambience
• Track: Chill Ambience
• Track: Breathing
• Track: Destructive Ambience
• Game: Treestoration

An attempt at making a bunch of background music for video games that may or may not exist.

These are available as loopable game assets

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• Track: On The Run
• Track: Night Drive
• Track: Battle Stations
• Track: Sunbeam
• Track: Kingdom
• Track: It’s Good Enough
• Track: Canonical
• Track: Bad End
• Track: Off-Kilter
• Track: Frozen Lands
• Track: Fugue
• Track: Moonrise
• Track: Following
• Track: Country Cooking
• Track: Sunrise
• Track: Starry Dream
• Track: The Obligatory Underwater Temple
• Track: In the Kitchen
• Track: Shadowband
• Track: Space Whales
• Track: Underflow
• Track: Flight or Fight
• Track: Try Again
• Track: Overt Agent
• Track: Dancing

OST for a game done for Global Game Jam 2022.

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• Track: A Forgotten Ending
• Track: A Liminal Space
• Track: A Story About a Rat
• Track: A Sandy Tomb
• Game: The Balance of Sappho

Novembeat is an annual song-a-day challenge where folks from around the world are encouraged to make something musical every day in November.

For 2021’s Novembeat, Sockpuppet decided to stick to a theme: songs that capture the feeling of various coffee grinders.

For much of the month, the band was displaced from their recording studio due to a plumbing emergency, so they were only able to produce around an hour of music over 17 tracks, instead of the original planned two-hour epic coffee journey. It’s probably for the best, since there’s only so many feelings that coffee grinders can evoke.

Many of the tracks from this were also used in the game Hallowed Grounds, which was developed alongside the recording of this album.

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• Track: 1Zpresso JX and K-plus
• Track: Wilfa Svart Uniform
• Track: Mortar and Pestle
• Track: Baratza Sette 270
• Track: Weber HG-2
• Track: Oxo Brew
• Track: Baratza Encore
• Track: Niche Zero
• Track: Wilfa Svart Nymalt
• Track: Turin DF64
• Track: Percolation
• Track: The Grind
• Track: Comandante C40
• Track: Hario MSS-1 Mini Slim Plus
• Track: A Krups GVX114 I bought at a thrift store for $5
• Track: Mahlkönig Vario
• Track: Fellow Ode
• Game: Hallowed Grounds
• Video: Novembeat 2021: Lo-Fi beats to Grind Coffee To

Most of these songs are things done for Song Fight! or Song Fight!-adjacent contests, and represent a real turning point in Sockpuppet’s composition and production without forgetting the roots of where this music came from.

Two of these songs are covers, and are subject to standard copyright:

• Space Cadet was written by Seth Gibbs and originally recorded by Brother Machine
• A Problem of Perspective was written and originally recorded by Charles A. Wolff

All other songs are Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

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• Track: Meat Grinder
• Track: Falling
• Track: Fibromyalgia
• Track: Good Luck Charm
• Track: Space Cadet
• Track: Golfpunk Rides Again
• Track: A Problem of Perspective
• Track: Better Luck Next Year
• Track: Isle Dauphine
• Track: Strategies to Live
• Track: A Long Plastic Hallway
• Track: Freak Flag
• Track: Behind a Mask
• Track: Don’t Come Here To Live

The real collaboration was the friends we made along the way.

For Song Fight!

Credits:

• fluffy: lyrics, arrangement/production, lead vocals, keys, bass
• Ken Mahru: lyrics, music, guitar, backing vocals
• Huan-Hua Chye: backing vocals

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• Lyrics: Lyrics: We Did Everything We Could