#but first: i got a demo of amadeus to finish and that is my biggest priority

[sibyl-of-space]

Well this is it: the last piece of music I'll write for grad school. Never mind that I'm going to record some VGM covers on campus in a couple weeks, that's for fun, not for a grade.

The assignment was to write a theme and variations for piano, drawing from various practices we have studied. Since it's the last thing I wrote for school I decided to lean less into the particulars of the assignment and more into writing something that was fun and that I like. And I'm glad I did, because I do like it.

Theme: spooky waltz (I love spooky waltzes)

Variation I: bluesy

Variation II: 12-tone weirdness

Variation III: modal mixture (very loosely based on Debussy but mostly just me writing chords I liked)

Variation IV: just used this as an excuse to write another fugue

I want to make a more complete version of this eventually with a fuller orchestration, but I'm still very happy with the composition so I threw a mockup together to share. And with this.... what the fuck, I'm done???

[sibyl-of-space]

I haven't written any new music since I graduated, and that's entirely because I was a) getting the Amadeus demo ready for private playtesting, b) LITERALLY MOVING FROM AN APARTMENT I LIVED IN FOR A DECADE, and c) getting the Amadeus demo ready for PUBLIC RELEASE.

...But it's got me thinking that I really need to write new music soon, so I don't lose the momentum I got from school, so I can keep reaffirming what I learned about my own creative process and how to keep trying new funky stuff and connecting with other musicians and weirdos. I'm SO SO excited to share everything when the Amadeus demo goes public, especially the "demo-ready" versions of all the soundtrack pieces I wrote for it. But I'm also excited because once I get past that milestone I can start writing NEW MUSIC AGAIN!

I'm so proud of all of the music I wrote so far. But I am going to have to write a lot more narrative for the actual first episode release about a year out. And that is going to require a lot more music, too! I need to remember how to draw inspiration from wherever I can get it. Virtually all of the demo OST was homework that I found a way to work into it - it's time for me to start giving myself homework now, and push myself in lots of strange directions the way many of my classes did.

I have some ideas. We'll see where they take me. I can't think too much on this now because I still have a lot of work to just finish the public-ready demo. That's going to be probably my biggest most polished most beloved project I've ever put out there. But once it's done... it's not done! Then it's on to the full version!! Aaaa! THIS PROCESS HAS BEEN REALLY COOL AND I HAVE ENJOYED THE JOURNEY SO MUCH!!! AND THERE IS SO MUCH MORE OF IT!!!!!