Conceptual Birdbath is here!

I’ve released Conceptual Birdbath, a virtual boxset of 100 unreleased and rare tracks spanning my entire music career! I also did a listening-party stream of the entire thing today, with commentary and guests, which was incredibly fun. Thank you to everyone who tuned in and to all the guests for making it an amazing time!

Conceptual Birdbath’s cover art was designed by goodbye.computer, who did a tremendous job making it really striking and stylish! I had wanted to work with her for a while and I’m happy that the stars finally aligned to make it possible for this release.

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Til Our Particles Scatter and Conceptual Birdbath

I’ve been working since early last year on a new album called Til Our Particles Scatter. It’s a bit of a departure from my previous releases, in that it’s a rock/pop album and every track is a collaboration with a vocalist! Songwriting is complete and I’m just coordinating vocals for the remaining tracks at this point. I released a double-A-side single last fall as a preview of it, Your Sound / Dud Gold, featuring rachie and Renko on vocals. Your Sound also has a music video!

Meanwhile, I’m putting out some new old music soon. A lot of new old music. Three and a half hours of new old music. It’s called Conceptual Birdbath, and it’s 100 tracks that never made it to any of my albums or OST releases. Album outtakes, sketches of tracks that were never developed further, tracks I wrote as samples to use in other tracks, tracks from cancelled projects, one-off commissions, and more. Mostly sourced from the 2010s onwards, but there are a few earlier tracks as well. All mastered to fit together side-by-side as a coherent listen, sequenced as four 25-song “discs” (it’s a digital release, but pretend), each disc a grab-bag of genres and surprises. It also comes with info on every track’s origins and inspirations. Here’s a condensed preview of Conceptual Birdbath.

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Voices at the Edge of the Universe

It’s been a super busy year, but here’s one last music release from me before the end of 2022, the Voices at the Edge of the Universe EP!

Featuring an assortment of faux-sampled hip hop, shoegaze, space folk, and electronic pop, this is a sampler of tracks from the soundtrack to Studio Élan’s in-development yuri visual novel Summer at the Edge of the Universe!

 

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Heart of the Woods OST on vinyl

The soundtrack to Heart of the Woods is coming to vinyl, in a beautiful 2LP set from Very OK Vinyl with new artwork by adirosa and two bonus tracks by me! Preorders are up now!

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Future Human preorder

Preorders are now live for my synthwave album Future Human, releasing May 6th! This one’s been in the works for a long time and I’m thrilled to finally be putting it out soon. You can hear the first three tracks now on Bandcamp!

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Current Projects!

Studio Élan has recently announced two new projects slated for 2021 releases, Summer at the Edge of the Universe and Lock & Key. Summer is a romantic adventure story centered around space travel, and Lock & Key is a story about retired magical girls investigating a series of murders. I’ll be providing the soundtracks for both, and you can hear a preview of the Summer at the Edge of the Universe soundtrack now via SoundCloud:

 

 

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Love Our Parks

Studio Coattails has released the first two chapters of the visual novel National Park Girls! I provided its soundtrack, a peaceful acoustic folk and bluegrass fusion with quartet strings. The insert song “Broken Wings” features vocals by Lisa Reimold. You can find National Park Girls on Steam and itch.io, and the soundtrack is available there and on BandCamp.

 

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Snow Is Falling

Two weeks ago, Studio Élan released our debut visual novel, Heart of the Woods. The response to it has been overwhelming, and we’re absolutely thrilled that it’s meant so much to people! I contributed half of its soundtrack, released on the OST “Snowfall”, including the music from the trailer above.

You can find Heart of the Woods (and its soundtracks!) on Steam and itch.io.

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