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Episode 19 - Thursday June 11th

Episode 18 - Saturday May 30th

I've been doing a bit more movie-making than music-making these days. I made this a few weeks ago, and then, after putting my thing down, I flipped it and reversed it.

Episode 17 - Kinda Like a Psychedelic Trip to the Old West Question Mark?

How are you doing? I think this episode is what it feels like to go through a Game Boy's mind when he's social distancing himself. 

Episode 16 - On Saturday March 28th, A Game Boy Distances Himself

So yeah! This is a scary time! (I'm fine, thank goodness) So let's be smart and careful and open-minded and thoughtful and creative. Yesterday, I did an open mic for the first time in years and it somehow wasn't a colossal disaster! Also, I'm going to combat any silly fears I have about not releasing new episodes/music because life is all about inventing stuff and falling and getting back up and so on until the end of time, right? 

Episode 15 - Work-from-home Distancing Synth Jam

I spent the last few days of the 2010s making a video all about what I'm bringing with me into this new decade, and it sounds good enough for me to release as the first Meander episode of the 2020s. 

Episode 14 - Happy 2020! / Chaotic Harmony / Retrospect-acular!

This is how my brain would respond to the question "so how was your past month?"

Episode 13 - This Past Month Has Been Wild

I recorded this and instantly uploaded it without hearing any playback. Then I listened to it a few times. And I like it. I like it as an episode.

Episode 12 - Sunday

I made one chaotic piano track and then layered on a less chaotic one and then a less chaotic one over those two. The result is good enough for an episode. I think my favourite parts are blatant rip-offs of Wilco, John Cale, and David Bowie. Speaking of which, happy Father's day. My pop is maybe the biggest influence on my taste in music. Thanks for having great taste, Sr.

Episode 11 - 3 "Pianos" 6 Hands (Minus 4)

I figured Destiny's Child sped up "No No No No" and made it a hit, so why not take the better part of Episode 9 and do the same thing? People often say I'm my generation's Kelly Rowland of amateur abstract-synth-experimental-classical.

Episode 10 - The Last Part of Episode 9 But I Sped It Up And Added A Few Layers To It

I have a brand new set-up (thanks Meghan for my new piano!) and the same old hang-ups with making and releasing episodes. Product versus production and all that. I love playing but I still feel weird about presenting it to you. I feel like a magician, being all "behold, the magic that is ME" and all that. Presentations are smug. Everything leading up to the presentation, though, that's so interesting to me. But then again, maybe I'm saying all this as a buffer so that when failure happens I can land on a fluffy mattress of feathers. This is the journey I'm on. Anyway, this episode starts as chaotic and gets less chaotic as it goes on. 

Episode 9 - First episode playing with my new piano

Happy Mother's Day, Mom! I love you, thank you for encouraging me and my sisters to explore our creative sides, and I made this piece this morning, and I hope you dig it.

Episode 8 - Happy Mother's Day

Recorded on March 18th, back when I was wracking my brain for some verbal content to go with my wacky plinky plunky synth noises.

Episode 7 - Outside There, Part 1

Okay, now I think I need to bring this Mininova into the shop for repairs. I can do without my middle G, but without my third D?? Or whatever it's called?? That's like... my go-to D! Anyways, I made this song 10 minutes ago, 20 minutes after making a Genius.com lyric page for a song I made about my broken keyboard which was made 10 minutes before that. It's been a whirlwind hour of music, let me tell ya. So as you can probably guess, this song is messy as hell. And I love it like it was Wilbur to my Charlotte. Some Pig, indeed.

Episode 6 - "Some Pig"

This podcast is a chronicle of my mission to get better at music. It's called "Meander" because, while I'm currently not too shabby at music, I have no idea where I'm going or what I want to do with this passion. All I know is that I wanna have some fun, and I have a feeling I'm not the only one. Some episodes have commentary with the music, some have stories, some have off-the-cuff ramblings, some are sincere, some are absurd, and some will have no talking at all. Maybe one day I'll incorporate a true crime mystery and you have to piece together clues found in each episode. Maybe I've already started doing this.

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